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Classroom Read Aloud - picture books
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Search the Library Catalog for this title Agee, Jon
Terrific
"Terrific!," says Eugene when he wins an all-expenses-paid cruise to Bermuda. But Eugene's luck is not so terrific. His ship sinks, and he ends up stranded on a tiny island, and that's where Eugene's adventure begins.
32 p. 2005
Search the Library Catalog for this title Ahlberg, Allan
The Pencil
A lonely pencil timidly draws a boy, a dog, and other items but soon faces a problem as his creations begin demanding changes, and when he draws an eraser to make them happy, the real trouble begins.
32 p. 2008
Search the Library Catalog for this title Amato, Mary
The Chicken of the Family
When her older sisters tease her into believing that she is actually a chicken, Henrietta runs off to a farm to be among her own kind.
32 p. 2008
Search the Library Catalog for this title Atwood, Margaret,
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes
In this story told mainly with words that begin with the letter r, Rude Ramsay goes on an adventure with his friend Ralph the red-nosed rat.
2004
Search the Library Catalog for this title Barrett, Judi
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.
32 p. 1978
Search the Library Catalog for this title Child, Lauren
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato
Charlie finds a clever way of dealing with his sister's fussy eating habits.
32 p. 2000
Search the Library Catalog for this title Claflin, Willy
The Uglified Ducky
Resets Hans Christian Andersen's tale, The ugly duckling, in the Northern Piney Woods of Alaska, where a baby moose is raised by a family of ducks who try to teach him to waddle, quack, and fly but cannot see his true beauty.
32 p. 2008
Search the Library Catalog for this title Clements, Andrew
Double Trouble in Walla Walla
It's an ordinary morning in Walla Walla until Lulu, her teacher, the school nurse, and the principal are infected by a word warp which makes them reduplicate everything they say.
32 p. 1997
Search the Library Catalog for this title Cox, Judy
Don't be Silly Mrs. Millie!
A teacher makes her students laugh when she mixes up words, saying goats instead of coats and poodles when she means puddles.
32 p. 2005
Search the Library Catalog for this title Cronin, Doreen
Click Clack Moo : Cows That Type
When Farmer Brown's cows learn to type, they send him a note demanding electric blankets.
32 p. 2000
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Search the Library Catalog for this title Cutbill, Andy
The Cow That Laid an Egg
Aware that she lacks many of the skills her fellow barnyard cows possess, Marjorie is left feeling sad until a group of caring chickens with a plan comes up with the perfect solution to make her realize just how special she is.
32 p. 2008
Search the Library Catalog for this title Fern, Tracey E.
Buffalo Music
After hunters kill off the buffalo around her Texas ranch, a woman begins raising orphan buffalo calves and eventually ships four members of her small herd to Yellowstone National Park, where they form the beginnings of newly thriving buffalo herds. Based on the true story of Mary Ann Goodnight and her husband Charles; includes author's note about her work, with websites and a bibliography.
31 p. 2008
Search the Library Catalog for this title Friend, Catherine
The Perfect Nest
Jack the cat gets much more than he bargained for when he decides to build the perfect nest to attract the perfect chicken.
32 p. 2007
Search the Library Catalog for this title Graves, Keith
The Unexpectedly Bad Hair of Barcelona Smith
Barcelona Smith is too cautious to even smile for fear of getting a bug in his teeth, until the day his usually perfectly coiffed locks rebel and teach him to let his hair down.
32 p. 2006
Search the Library Catalog for this title Grossman, Bill
My Little Sister Ate One Hare
Little sister has no problem eating one hare, two snakes, and three ants, but when she gets to ten peas, she throws up quite a mess.
32 p. 1996
Search the Library Catalog for this title Harrington, Janice N.
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
Meet one smart chicken chaser. She can catch any chicken on her grandmother's farm except one - the elusive Miss Hen.
32 p. 2007
Search the Library Catalog for this title Hatkoff, Isabella
Owen and Mzee : the True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
Owen, a baby hippo, was separated from his family in the 2004 tsunami. Owen's story is truly remarkable from baby from his dramatic rescue to his unexpected friendship with 130 year-old tortoise named Mzee.
32 p. 2006
Search the Library Catalog for this title Helakoski, Leslie
Big Chickens
While trying to escape from a wolf, four frightened chickens keep getting themselves into the very predicaments they are trying to avoid.
32 p. 2006
Search the Library Catalog for this title Hopkinson, Deborah
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek : a Tall Thin Tale
In Knob Creek, Kentucky, in 1816, seven-year-old Abe Lincoln falls into a creek and is rescued by his best friend, Austin Gollaher.
32 p. 2008
Search the Library Catalog for this title Jackson, Alison
Thea's Tree
Thea Teawinkle plants an odd, purple, bean-shaped seed in her backyard for her class science project, with astonishing results that even the experts she writes to--including a botanist, an arborist, a museum curator, and a symphony conductor--cannot offer any explanations for.
32 p. 2008
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