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Harris, Trudy.
The Clock Struck One : A Time-Telling Tale
Rhyming text expands on the nursery rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock, as a cat chases the mouse up the clock, followed by other animals, until midnight arrives and the tired creatures fall asleep. Includes facts about clocks and basic information about telling time.
added Nov 18, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Print Motivation
Presentation Notes: Here’s a new twist on a familiar Mother Goose story filled with rhyming words and a funny narrative. Follow along from one o’clock when the mouse runs up the clock to twelve o’c... read more
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Gravett, Emily.
Spells
A small frog wants to kiss a princess, a desire that leads to a series of hilarious misadventures.
added Nov 13, 2009
Skills featured:
Phonological Sensitivity
Presentation Notes: A small green frog realizes a bit too late that the book of spells he shredded to make boats, castles and dancing ladies contained exactly what he needed to turn himself into a Handsome Prince. O... read more
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Chessa, Francesca
Holly's Red Boots
Holly wants to play in the snow and needs her red books, so she and her cat Jasper search the house for anything red.
added Nov 12, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: Vividly illustrated, Holly’s Red Boots gives you plenty of opportunities to identify colors and objects as you help Holly hunt for her raingear. You can heighten the drama by turning the page very S-... read more
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Smith, Lane
The Big Pets
A little girl explores the mysterious dreamworld where small children play with their big pets, which range from cats and dogs to snakes and crickets.
added Nov 6, 2009
Skills featured:
Print Motivation, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: In our dreams, anything is possible, and children love to enter that realm of make-believe. Fortunately for them, Lane Smith writes and illustrates unapologetically of the fantastical. This story... read more
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Kimpton, Diana
The Lamb-a-Roo
When motherless Lamb and childless Kangaroo find and adopt each other, they come to realize that their awkward differences are not nearly as important as their love for each other.
added Nov 6, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills
Presentation Notes: Little orphaned Lamb is thrilled to meet a joeyless kangaroo. The two form an instant attachment, but Lamb finds it's not easy being green, or in his case, furry and earthbound. Will his ma-a... read more
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Nobisso, Josephine
The Numbers Dance : A Counting Comedy
Numerals one through ten divide up by their respective dance styles of classical, boogie, and western line dancing, until their competition ends in tolerance.
added Nov 6, 2009
Skills featured:
Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: Numbers come alive in Josephine Nobisso's clever and entertaining book. The numbers 1 to 10 put on a show, each page boasting a different style of dance from waltz to line dance. Nobisso uses... read more
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Leuck, Laura.
For Just One Day
After guessing the identity of each animal before turning the page, the reader pretends to be a porcupine, bear, crocodile, and bumblebee.
Appears on the following book lists:
 New Picture Books
added Nov 5, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity
Presentation Notes: If you could be anything at all for just one day, what would you be? For one imaginative child, the world is full of possibilities from bear to bunny from crocodile to butterfly. Chil... read more
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Whitman, Candace
Lines That Wiggle
A variety of monsters and other creatures demonstrate some of the different things that lines can do, from curve and curl to zig-zag.
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books 2009 07-08
added Nov 5, 2009
Skills featured:
Print Awareness, Print Motivation
Presentation Notes: Have you ever noticed the myriad lines surrounding you? You will now! Check out Candace Whitman's wild new blue glitter line as it runs from the garden to the sea and up into... read more
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Haseley, Dennis
Photographer Mole
The work of Mole the photographer is cherished by his neighbors, but he decides that he must take a trip to discover the something that is missing in his photographs.
added Nov 5, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: When children look at old photographs, they almost always notice something: nobody's smiling! Author Dennis Haseley takes his audience back to the early 1900s to tell the story of a highly-sk... read more
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Hopgood, Tim
Wow! Said the Owl
A curious little owl decides to stay awake to find out how the things he sees at night look during the daytime.
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books
added Oct 31, 2009
Skills featured:
Print Awareness, Letter Knowledge
Presentation Notes: Little owl stays up all day to see the magnificent colors in the world around her. This beautiful book will illicit a “wow” from your child! Each picture features a color. Have your child ... read more
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Rylant, Cynthia
Long Night Moon
Text and illustrations depict the varied seasonal full moons that change and assume personalities of their own throughout the year.
added Oct 30, 2009
Skills featured:
Print Motivation, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: As with the seasons, the moon is ever-changing, continually bringing new life and meaning. In Cynthia Rylant's hauntingly poetic book, twelve moons are given names and crystallized with delic... read more
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Ditchfield, Christin.
Shwatsit! : No One Knows Just What it Means
As Baby points at everything in sight, she has just one thing to say: 'Shwatsit!' But what on earth does it mean? Finally, her older brother solves the mystery while watching her try to reach for her teddy bear--Publisher.
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books
added Oct 30, 2009
Skills featured:
Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: Have you ever known a baby to use one favorite word or sound that could mean anything and everything? That's exactly how Baby Sister seems to use the word "shwatsit." Isn't that... read more
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Berger, Joe, 1970-
Bridget Fidget and the Most Perfect Pet!
Bridget has always wanted a pet unicorn named Thunderhooves, so when a box is delivered to her door she is sure that is what is inside.
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books 2009 07-08
added Oct 22, 2009
Skills featured:
Print Awareness, Print Motivation
Presentation Notes: Bridget wants a pet, specifically a unicorn. When a surprise box arrives at her front door she guesses that her perfect pet has finally arrived. But has it? The box is awfully small for a unicorn... read more
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Lithgow, John
I Got Two Dogs
A song celebrating two dogs that are as different as they could be, and both well-loved by their owner.
added Oct 22, 2009
Skills featured:
Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: Looking for a book with a snappy rhythmic text and lots of opportunities for audience participation? Try I Got Two Dogs. Your listeners can watch the text for the letters OOOOOOOOOOOOOO and howl ... read more
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Anthony, Michelle
My First Signs
Each page focuses on one word, showing a photo of an adult to model the sign. Beside it is a photo of a baby making the sign to ease parents' identification of the sign as young hands might make it. Facing these photographs is an illustration of the object, as well as a touch-and-feel!
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books
added Oct 22, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: Narrative skills enable us to describe things and talk about events and tell stories. They are enhanced when children can apply a book to their lives. My First Signs teaches them the sign languag... read more
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Ellery, Amanda.
If I Were a Jungle Animal
While playing baseball, a boy wonders what it would be like to be different jungle animals.
Appears on the following book lists:
Librarian Favorites
New Picture Books 2009 05-06
added Oct 21, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Print Awareness
Presentation Notes: "Morton! Pay attention out there!" There isn't always a lot of action in right field during Little League baseball games, so it's hard for Morton not to let his mind wander. He ... read more
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Tafuri, Nancy.
The Big Storm : a Very Soggy Counting Book
Ten animals find shelter in a hill hollow one by one, but when the storm is over, a rumbling tells them there is still danger afoot.
Appears on the following book lists:
Concepts - 123 - Counting Books
added Oct 16, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: The animals of the forest flee to a dry cave during a rainstorm. Little do they know what else may be in this warm, dry cave! The text of this book has a nice, repetitive phrase that children will lat... read more
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Plourde, Lynn.
Grandpappy Snippy Snappies
When things go wrong around his farm Grandpappy sets them right with a snap of his suspenders, but Grandmammy is in trouble and the suspenders are all worn out.
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books 2009 05-06
added Oct 15, 2009
Skills featured:
Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: In a story that fairly pops off the page, Lynn Plourde takes children on a journey with Grandpappy, a man who snippy snappies his suspenders all the day. Such behavior releases cows stuck i... read more
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Hamilton, K. R. (Kersten R.)
Red Truck
When a school bus gets stuck in the mud, Red Truck the tow truck saves the day by pulling it out.
Appears on the following book lists:
Things That Go
added Oct 14, 2009
Skills featured:
Print Awareness, Print Motivation
Presentation Notes: What do you love to do in the winter? Make snowmen? Yay! Drink hot cocoa? Yay! Getting stuck in the melting snow while riding in a school bus? NO! But don't worry, help is on its way in the f... read more
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Bradley, MaryChris.
Knock! Knock!
Each door is a different color and each door hides a surprise.
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books 2009 07-08
added Oct 9, 2009
Skills featured:
Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation
Presentation Notes: Get children involved in the repeated “Knock! Knock!” in this story, for print motivation. Behind each of the different colored doors (great for reinforcing color vocabulary), a different surprise is... read more
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