Cockatoos

Author	Janet Morgan Stoeke
ISBN	0140556664

Before performing this book at a library pre-school story time gasp and ask the children what the white stuff pictured on the cover is. "SNOW!" they'll say. This provides an opportunity for a MUSIC WIGGLE BREAK. Sing "Snow is Falling All Around" (here is the tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63XaC......

Author	June Crebbin
ISBN	0763621293

"The simple, bouncing repetitive chant and animal noises will have everyone joining in." - BOOKLIST


While Tom Farmer naps in the haystack, his animals take over the farmhouse. There are cows in the kitchen, ducks in the cupboard, hens on the hat stand, pigs in the pantry, and even sheep...

Author	K.L. Going
ISBN	0803734791

Dog has been such a good boy that his humans leave him in charge of the cats when they go out to run errands. Of course, as soon as they leave, the cats find all sort of mischief to get into. They practically wreck the house and nothing that Dog says can stop them. But when he gets so tired from chasing after them...

Author	Kazuno Kohara
ISBN	1596434422

3.5 STARS

Here is the story of a little boy who meets Jack Frost. At first, Frost taunts him but the boy has his own skills to cope with all the wintery things Frost sends him and the two become friends; Frost will stay with the boy as long as the boy doesn't mention anything warm.

If found...

Author	Valerie Thomas
ISBN	0192790048

Winnie the Witch and Wilbur, her cat, are both tired of winter. The garden is covered in snow, the pond is covered in ice, icicles hang from the rooftop. Wilbur's feet are wet and his whiskers are frozen. So, Winnie casts a spell from her big book of spells and turns everything into summer. But that's her...

Author	Claudia Rueda
ISBN	0439823234

Rising star Claudia Rueda makes a sparkling debut as author and artist in this winsome story based on a traditional French and Spanish play song for the very young.

"Let's play in the forest while the wolf is not around," sing the animals in the forest. "Wolf, are you there?"

"I am putting...

Author	Diane Redfield Massie
ISBN	0060517840

There’s a new addition to the zoo: a baby beebee bird, who likes to stay awake at night when the rest of the zoo wants to sleep. The baby beebee bird keeps the other animals up with his incessant “beebeebobbibobbis”, before settling down to snooze when the sun comes up. The animals can’t take it!...

Author

Jonathan Emmett

Enchanted prince or just a plain old frog? Pucker up, princesses! Theres only one way to find out.

Fairy tales are just stories, or so Princess Martha believes. But when her sisters meet a talking frog, they're convinced that giving him the royal treatment will turn him into Prince Charming....

Author	Lola M. Schaefer
ISBN	0066239303

This is the story of the birth of an island, from the first red-hot glow of magma at the bottom of the ocean, to the flowing lava that hardens and builds up higher and higher until, finally, it breaks through the water′s surface.

And then, life comes to the island. First come the small plants and...

Author

Tony Ross

Tony Ross has a variety of books about a spoilt little Princess who is always demanding something. In 'I want my Potty' the little Princess eventually promises to ask for her potty when she needs to go to the toilet. The Princess demands for her potty when she realises she needs her potty rather urgently...

Author	Mary Ellen Jordan
ISBN	0807544000

Wow, I loved reading about how every animal on the farm does not do what it is generally expected to do. I liked how each animal was attributed with a specific and different demeanor than the others, and how well it rhymed the animals' names with their personalities. I also liked how the illustrator made...

Author	Alexis Deacon
ISBN	0763653608

Seven little junkyard critters venture out of their small, dark hole on a charmingly madcap quest for a new home, with laugh-out-loud results.

When a band of brothers outgrows the dim confines of their birthplace, there is no other choice but to set out into the world on a grand adventure. Timid...

Author	Jennifer Berne
ISBN	1402773234

Calvin is one unusual starling! While his siblings and cousins learn to fly, this rare bird lets his imagination soar while reading about pirates, dinosaurs, and other fascinating things. The other birds call him “geeky beaky,” but Calvin just ruffles his feathers and buries his beak in a book....

Author	William Bee
ISBN	0763628867

It takes extreme measures to get a response out of the stubbornly indifferent Billy in a wry little tale that readers of all ages will surely relate to.

Billy can be very difficult to please. Show him something very tall or very small, and he'll say, "whatever." Let him play inside the bounciest...

Author	Lauren Child
ISBN	0141342773

Lauren Child teams up with a debut illustrator to tell a cautionary tale about the surprising perils of craving constant attention.

Meet the Shrimpton family — so talented, so eccentric, so larger than life, you couldn’t miss them if you wanted to. Mrs. Shrimpton wears flamboyant hats,...

Author	Myron Uhlberg
ISBN	1561455911

How do we explain Hurricane Katrina to a child? The fear, tension, ugliness, and mistakes made in those days and weeks after Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans in 2005 is a hard lesson to teach and show young readers. Mother Nature’s power and fury is hard enough to understand and accept....

Author	Cornelia Funke
ISBN	0439828627

By day, Ben is one brave brother--but when night falls, even the wildest boy sometimes needs protecting by his big sis. The third hit picture book by the best-selling Funke and award-winning Meyer.

Brave as a lion, strong as an elephant, Ben is a fearless young boy. When it comes to protecting...

Author	Allen Say
ISBN	0547214103

There was a story that Mama read to Jiro:

Once, in old Japan, a young woodcutter lived
alone in a little cottage. One winter day he
found a crane struggling in a snare and set it
free.

When Jiro looks out the window into Mr. Ozu’s
garden, he sees a crane and remembers
that...

Author	Jeanne Willis
ISBN	0744596505

To me the greatest gift that can be given or received is the gift of time. Time with our children is the most precious thing on earth to mothers. Spending time with my little ones reading is a great joy to me, especially when it’s a book about moms, parenthood or love in general.

Never too Little...

Author	Rebecca Patterson
ISBN	0670014052

Readers will say, "Yes, yes, yes!"

From the moment Bella wakes up, her day goes wrong. She hates her breakfast egg, she won't share, she has a hurting foot, her supper is too hot, and her bath is too cold. And then it's no, no, no to bedtime. But at last a yawn, a story, and a kiss from mother end the day,...

Author	Janet Stevens
ISBN	0307102203

Family Storytime is a critically acclaimed line of hardcover read-along storybooks with jackets. Each title features eye-catching design, quality editorial content, and vivid illustrations -- all at a great price of $9.95!These terrific original stories by contemporary authors, along with...

Author	Audrey Wood
ISBN	0545220890

Bestselling award-winners Don and Audrey Wood present a day in the life of an adorable pug who loves to take naps--and helps children learn how to tell time!

Loving, playful, and outgoing, Duffy makes it clear why pug dogs are one of America's most popular and beloved pets. In addition, as we...

Author	Giles Andreae
ISBN	0385609299

Small children (and lots of adults!) love pants. They love talking about pants. They giggle whenever pants are mentioned. Let's face it - Pants are VERY FUNNY! PANTS is a picture book with a brilliant rhyming text by Giles Andreae and lots of hilarious pictures by Nick Sharratt. As we go through the book...

Author	Catherine Rayner
ISBN	1561485101

I loved this book. It could be used as a fantastic cross-curricular base for a topic, with links to PSHE, art, literacy, science (shadows, habitats), and PE (dance and movement). I would also use this book if there were problems in classroom relationships between the children, to open the discussion...

Author	Margaret Wise Brown
ISBN	0061288632

From A is for Aaaah when a small kitten sighs to Z is for Zipper now zip into bed . . . here are twenty-six ways to say goodnight.

Margaret Wise Brown wrote this book not long after she wrote Goodnight Moon. (She knew a thing or two about putting little ones to bed.)

Now Karen Katz has made it...