Dig!

Author	Helen Oxenbury
ISBN	0763649708

What could be better than sharing a birthday cake with the friends who helped to bake it?

It's one lucky toddler's birthday, and of course there must be a cake. So the child asks some animal friends to gather ingredients, one by one: the chicken an egg, the bear some flour, the cat the butter and...

Author	Frank R. Stockton
ISBN	0763622397

Written at the turn of the 20th century, The Bee-Man of Orn shurgs off the didactic noose which threatened a lot of children's literature at the time and, instead, seems to honour the themes and ideas prevalent in the earlier traditional tales in which it feels like it has been based. Here we encounter...

Author	Cynthia Benjamin
ISBN	0590466631

I forget where we picked this up but I've been collecting different beginner level books because Julia's starting to learn to read. So far I'm reading them to her with her reading the few words she knows. She enjoys them but still isn't so into them that she gets to excited. She'd much rather either sit and...

Author	Henrietta Bancroft
ISBN	0060271574

What beautiful illustrations!. The story starts in autumn and discusses migration and traveling south for warmer weather. Then it transitions into staying in the cold north for the winter, but hibernating. I love the illustration of a woodchuck's burrow. That was new information for me. Lastly,...

Author	Arnold Lobel
ISBN	0060239328

Small Pig is about a pig who is small. He loves nothing more than to sink down in good, soft mud. But when the farmer's wife cleans up his mud puddle, the pig must go out into the world to find a place that is messy enough for him. Will he find his mud? What will the farmer and his wife do when they find that he's gone?

Small...

Author	Felicia Bond
ISBN	0064435857

Written and illustrated by Felicia Bond, the illustrator of the bestselling If You Give... series, Tumble Bumble is a fun-filled tale of a tiny bug who goes for a walk and meets all kinds of creatures!

When a tiny bug decides to go for a walk, anything can happen! He might meet a cat, a crocodile,...

Author	Helme Heine
ISBN	0689710836

Goods friends always stick together.

Charlie Rooster, Johnny Mouse, and Percy the pig are the best of friends. They do everything together. They ride their bike together, play games together, and even do their chores together. Because that's what good friends do. When night falls, though,...

Author	Eileen Spinelli
ISBN	0761452230

Five tiny kittens cry for their mama, as smoke begins to fill the abandoned warehouse that has been their home. But Mother Cat has left her cozy heap of kittens to go in search of food. Determined to save her babies, Mother Cat dashes into the burning building and follows the sounds of frightened mewing....

Author	David Macaulay
ISBN	0618168265

High above the rooftops of Rome, Angelo begins his work restoring the façade of a once glorious church. As with every project, he starts his final masterpiece by clearing away the years of debris left behind by the many pigeons who nest in the nooks and crannies of Rome’s great architecture. There,...

Author	Patricia Lauber
ISBN	0064451305

Informative and intriguing, this science book teaches children to think about the complex and interdependent web of life on Earth. Every link in a food chain is important because each living thing depends on others for survival, no matter how big or how small. Lively drawings from Holly Keller illustrate...

Author	Ruth Krauss
ISBN	0060233966

There are two kinds of winter: the nostalgic winter, in which Christmas lights twinkle in the snow and everyone drinks hot chocolate around a fireplace, and real winter, in which snow is yellow and brown, commutes to work are dangerous nightmares, and everyone's noses and toes freeze off. The Happy...

Author	Jeff Mack
ISBN	0399256172

Six slurpy stories, two comical combatants, and one laugh-out-loud picture book

Frog and Fly are constant companions. There is only one problem . . . Frog thinks Fly is delicious! This leads to a never-ending battle of wits with laugh-out- loud consequences. Told in six short comic stripstyle...

Author	Rebecca Caudill
ISBN	0805075240

" "Chee! Chee!" "
" Inside Jay's dark pocket Cricket began fiddling."
" The talking stopped. "
" Everybody listened."
A Caldecott Honor classic that celebrates friendship and
new experiences-back in print on its 40th anniversary
One afternoon late in August, before the...

Author	Brian Floca
ISBN	0689850913

A is for Automobiles, machines on wheels.
B is for Belts turning, fuel burning, the buzz and bark of engines.
C is for Curves and crowds and cars, of course --
A century of racecars, from bare beginnings to present-day marvels, from stock cars to Formula 1, from Ford to Ferrari, caught in crackling...

Author	Margaret Mayo
ISBN	0805068406

Busy machines for busy kids!

"Diggers are good at dig, dig, digging,
scooping up the earth and lifting and tipping.
They make huge holes with their dig, dig, digging.
They can work all day."

Trucks and tractors, fire engines and helicopters-they all like to work hard....

Author	Sally Sutton
ISBN	0763658308

What's even more exciting to preschoolers than seeing big machines that build things? Watching
the massive ones that tear them down!

Crush the stone. Crush the stone.
Chip and grind and munch.
Make new concrete from the old.
Whirr! Churr! Crunch!

From the huge crane...

Author	Rick Walton
ISBN	0688173640

A sweet, rhyming, bunny-led introduction to ABCs and 123s!

Little ones can count along with Mother Rabbit through her rambling house and garden as she tucks in a whole alphabet of baby bunnies, from Abel through Zed. This cozy bedtime book has the comforting familiarity of a lullaby combined...

Author	Betty Tatham
ISBN	0064452069

Penguin Chick is a great book It is written very clearly, and explains the meaning of new words, like rookery, krill, crèche, and tobagganing. It is a very thorough look at a penguin's life cycle, but is short and simple enough that a child could follow along enthusiastically all the way through. It may...

Author	David Ezra Stein
ISBN	0399250514

The delightful tale of a curious baby kangaroo, from the creator of Leaves When you're new to the world, every hop brings another surprise! Joey wants to go exploring, but everything he discovers is almost too exciting. Bees, rabbits, birds . . . other creatures can be scary! But Mama is never far away,...

Author	Byron Barton
ISBN	0694006009

This little "board book" introduces many kinds of boats. When I share this with children, either one-on-one or in a group, I like to have a conversation with them rather than simply reading aloud the text. For instance, the first double-page spread shows sky and waves and the text is--"on the water"....

Author	Deborah Hopkinson
ISBN	0375836101

This "Boston Globe Horn Book" Honor Book and ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book provides a riveting brick-by-brick account of how one of the most amazing accomplishments in American architecture came to be. It s 1930 and times are tough for Pop and his son. But look! On the corner of 34th Street and 5th...

Author	Hope Vestergaard
ISBN	0763650781

Each truck and big machine in these enticing rhyming poems is different — and little readers are invited to find a vehicle that’s like them.

Sixteen boisterous, rhyming poems — each one highlighting the job and personality of a different vehicle, from a backhoe to an ambulance to a snowplow...