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Ready for School

A Rainbow All Around Me

by Sandra Pinkney Year Published:

Multiethnic children celebrate the colors of the rainbow and their own diversity.

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Brown Rabbit's Shape Book

by Alan Baker Year Published:

Brown Rabbit opens a square gift box and finds balloons that take on all sorts of shapes.

Shapes Game

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Come Out and Play

by Maya Ajmera and John D. Ivanko Year Published:

Brief text and photos show children from all over the world engaged in different kinds of play.

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Friends at School
by Rochelle Bunnett Year Published:
A group of children share an activity-filled day at school.

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Friends at School
by Rochelle Bunnett Year Published:
A group of children share an activity-filled day at school.

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How Kind!
by Mary Murphy Year Published:
When Hen gives Pig an egg, it sets off a chain of kindnesses.

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I Like Books
by Anthony Browne Year Published:
A little monkey describes all the different kinds of books he likes.

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Otto Goes Schools

by Todd Parr Year Published:

Otto the dog learns many things at school including that sharing is important.

Author Website

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What Did You Do Today? The First Day of School

by Toby Forward Year Published:

Some of the things a boy does at school are the same things his mother does at work.

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My Family

Are You My Mother?

by P.D. Eastman Year Published:

A baby bird who falls out of his nest asks every animal he sees if they are his mother.

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Bear at Home

by Stella Blackstone Year Published:

Bear gives readers a guided tour of his home, from the kitchen to the bedroom.

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Bear's Busy Family

by Stella Blackstone Year Published:

Bear uses his five sensen to figure out what his family is busy preparing for.

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Feast for 10

by Cathryn Falwell Year Published:

An extended African American family shope for food, perpares a mean, and eats together.

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On Mother's Lap

by Ann Herbert Scott Year Published:

An Inuit boy discovers there's room for himself and his baby sister on their mother's lap.

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Our Community

Be My Neighbor
by Maya Ajmera Year Published:
Photos and text describe different neighborhoods all around the world.

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Everybody Works

by Shelly Rotner and Ken Kreisler Year Published:

Photos and simple text show the many ways in which work is accomplished.

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One Big Building

by Michael Dahl Year Published:

A building grows from a simple plan to a twelve-story structure in this construction counting book.

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Send It!
by Don Carter Year Published:
Readers follow a package from the time it is maild on Monday throught an entire week.

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Awesome Animals!

Babies on the Go

by Linda Ashman Year Published:

Babies are carried in all kinds of different ways...but always with love.

http://www.lindaashman.com/babies_on_the_go_2509.htm

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Clifford the Big Red Dog
by Norman Bridwell Year Published:

http://pbskids.org/clifford/index-brd-alt.html

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Do Pigs Have Stripes?
by Melanie Walsh Year Published:
Playful questions invite readers to answer questions about animals.

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Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too?

by Eric Carle Year Published:

Simple, repetative text and collage illustrations reveal that all kinds of animals have mothers.

www.eric-carle.com/home.html

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In the Small, Small, Pond

by Denise Fleming Year Published:

Animals and insects that live around a pond wiggle, waddle, hover and swoop through the seasons.

http://www.denisefleming.com

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Lunch

by Denise Fleming Year Published:

A hungry mouse nibbles and crunches his way through a feast of colorful fruites and vegetables.

Author's website

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Mice Squeak, We Speak

by Tomie dePaola Year Published:

Three children descirbe a menageria of animals and the sounds they make.

Author's website

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Mouse Paint

by Ellen Stoll Walsh Year Published:

Three white mice experiment with jars of red, yellow and blue paint.

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Ocean Babies

by Deborah Lee Rose Year Published:

This ocean tour introduces young sea animals and some surprising facts about them.

http://www.deborahleerose.com/Ocean%20Babies.htm

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Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?

by Bill Martin Jr. Year Published:

A series of zoo animals make their distincive sounds in this patterned story.

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The Mitten

by Jan Brett Year Published:

A rabbit, a bear and other animals take refuge from the cold in a boy's lost mitten.

http://www.janbrett.com

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Imagine It, Make It

Big Machines

by Melanie Davis Jones Year Published:

Brief, rhyming text introduces a variety of amchines and the work they do.

http://www.melaniedavisjones.com/

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Building with Shapes

by Rebecca Weber Year Published:

From oval stadium,s to concial teepees, photographs reveal the shapes that make up many different kinds of structures.

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Construction Countdown

by K. C. Olson Year Published:

In a countdown from 10 to 1, children in a sandbox play with dump trucks, bulldozers, and other construction vehicles.

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Construction Zone

by Tana Hoban Year Published:

Labeled photographs show thirteen different wehicles on a contruction site.

http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/16965/Tana_Hoban/index.aspx

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Dazzling Diggers

by Tony Mitton Year Published:

Animals operate digging machines that scoop, lift, and move rubble in this rhyming story.

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Hands

by Lois Ehlert Year Published:

As a child watches her mother and father work with their hands, she knows she want to build and sew and paint just like them.

http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/ehlert

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The Toolbox

by Anne Rockwell Year Published:

A boy discovers all kinds of interesting things in his bather's toolbox, including a wrench, sandpaper, screws and a hammer.

http://www.annerockwell.com/books/1-first-books/180-the-toolbox.html

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Watch Me Build a Sandcastle

by Jack Otten Year Published:

Photographs show a child building a sandscatle step-bystep. See others in the Making Things series.

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Nature All Around Us

Beach Day
by Karen Roosa Year Published:
A family spends a happy day at the beach in this rhyming story.

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Downhill Fun: A Counting Book About Winter

by Michael Dahl Year Published:

Readers count to 12 as a group of children share a fund daly of sledding.

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Fall Leaves Fall!

by Zoe Hall Year Published:

A brother and sister have fun in the fall collecting, raking, and making crafts with leaves.

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Four Seasons Make a Year

by Anne Rockwell Year Published:

A girls describes the changes that take place on her farm throughout the seasons.

http://www.annerockwell.com

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I'll Play with You

by Mary McKenna Year Published:

Four children invite the sun, wind, clouds, rain and stars to play with them.

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Katy and the Big Snow

by Virgina Lee Burton Year Published:

Katy the snowplow makes it possible for the townspeople to do their jobs after a blizzard.

http://www.virginialeeburton.com

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Splish, Slpash, Spring

by Jan Carr Year Published:

Four children pick daffodils, fly kites and splash through puddles in the spring.

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The Snowy Day

by Ezra Jack Keats Year Published:

Join Peter on his snowy adventures!

http://www.ezra-jack-keats.org/

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Growing Up Healthy

Curious George Rides a Bike

by H. A. Rey Year Published:

Curious George helps a boy with his paper route and gets into all kinds of trouble.

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Foods from the Farm
by Rebecca Weber Year Published:
This book explains how almost everything we eat comes from farms.

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From Here to There

by Nancy Laney Skultety Year Published:

Farmer Dibble decides he needs a road built to make his journey into town less bumpy.

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Leo the Late Bloomer

by Robert Kraus Year Published:

A tiger cub eventually catches up to his more accomplished friends in this reassuring story of growth and change.

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Ollie

by Ollivier Dunrea Year Published:

Goslings Gossie and Gertie wait and wait for Ollie to hatch, but independent Ollie comes out when he's good and ready.

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Three Feet Small

by Michael J. Rosen Year Published:

A bear finds it hard to be little, but just as he's losing hope that he'll never get bigger, he begins to grow.

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Tiny's Big Adventure

by Martin Waddell Year Published:

Katie Mouse guides her little brother on his first adventure-filled visit to a wheat field.

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Moving On

Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3

by Bill Martian Jr. and Michael Sampson Year Published:

One hundred and one numbers climb an apple tree in this companion to Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

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Curious George Learns to Count

by Jane Mason Year Published:

Curious George learns to count all the way to one hundred with help from the man in the yellow hat.

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I Can Do It Too!
by Karen Baicker Year Published:
A girl learns to do some of the same things that her family and friends do.

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Kipper's A to Z

by Mick Inkpen Year Published:

Kipper the dog and his friend Arnold look for objects for every letter of the alphabet.

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Look Out Kindergarten, Here I come!

by Nancy Carlson Year Published:

Henry's nervous about kindergarten, but he discovers that the only thing he wasn't ready for is all the fun he has there.

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Tiptoe into Kindergarten

by Jacqueline Rogers Year Published:

A curiou preschooler tiptoes into a kindergarten classroom and discovers all kinds of wonderful activities.

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My Booklist

Ready for School

My Family

Our Community

Awesome Animals!

Imagine It, Make It

Nature All Around Us

Growing Up Healthy

Moving On