Footprints in the Snow

Author	Ruth Sawyer
ISBN	0140502750

This is such an interesting little story. I couldn’t find it in my library or ILL, but I did find someone reading it on youtube with the pictures. I didn’t watch it with the kids.

It looks like a family is living in a log home in the Appalachian Mountains of somewhere very poor. There clothes...

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

Wendy Cheyette Lewison

With inspiring and educational stories, Scholastic's Hello Reader series caters to the spectrum of reading abilities among beginning readers. My First Hello Readers use basic words to reinforce phonics and sight vocabulary. The books at this level offer punch-out flash cards plus six additional...

Author	Andrea Zimmerman
ISBN	0152167854

Dig up rock and dig up clay! Dig up dirt and dig all day!

Mr. Rally and his faithful dog, Lightning, have a busy day ahead of them, but they don't mind. What could be more fun than using a big yellow backhoe to build a pool at the school and a drain for the rain? Follow Mr. Rally through his day as he travels...

Author	Elsa Beskow
ISBN	0863150926

I decided to read Elsa Beskow's delightful Pelle's New Suit in French, as Paul et son habit neuf because our public library system happens to have only the French version (and I am actively trying not to purchase so many picture books, mostly due to an ever-increasing lack of shelf space), and I absolutely...

Author

Robert McCloskey

This is a longer story with beautiful artwork. Robert uses repetition well in this story. Each person or thing is associated with a sound or a color and whenever that thing is mentioned, he gives the sound or color with it. It makes for a fun and dynamic story when reading aloud. It was easy to get into the...

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	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	Marjorie Flack
ISBN	0374403848

In this third installment of his continuing adventures, Angus the Scottish terrier - whose story began in Angus and the Ducks , and continued in Angus and the Cat - finds his way onto the open road, and chasing another dog (a collie), is lead far from home. When night begins to fall, Angus discovers...

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	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	Liesel Moak Skorpen
ISBN	0399230165

Sometimes, living in a house can be tiresome. So these siblings pack a bag and take a hike, to find another place. From a treehouse to a raft, a cave to a sandcastle -- each place seems perfect to them. That is, until they tumble out of the treehouse, their raft sinks, they meet the bears who already live in...

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	Franklyn Mansfield Branley
ISBN	0064451666

Starts with the idea of water vapor being something that is in the air but that you can't see, or smell or feel it. It then explains evaporation by suggesting putting a teaspoon of water in a saucer in the morning and that it will have evaporated by later in the day or a boiling tea kettle. It explains that sometimes...

Author	Lola M. Schaefer
ISBN	0060546611

Mittens is a small kitten in a big, new house. Everything seems loud and unfamiliar and scary. The little kitten wants a special place all his own. Can a new friend help him find one?

The satisfying story of an adorable kitten's search for security and his discovery of a new friend is perfect for...

Author	Michael Frith
ISBN	0394826922

A lesson in vocabulary
18 November 2013

This story, structured in beautiful meter and excellent rhyme, is about how we set ourselves huge goals, and imagine huge success, only to put it off because we prefer to sit under a tree and pass our days catching the rays from the sun. The protagonist...

Author

Tasha Tudor

Every year I try to find one book and one CD of music to add to our Christmas collection. I try to find something we will want to read over and over again, or listen to every year. Unlike "The Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote (bleah!), which I found recommended in a children's catalog (see my review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/......

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	Mercer Mayer
ISBN	0803728808

There are no words so it's a cute little book that your children can read to themselves.

Ages: 3 - 7

Cleanliness: a boy is shown in only underwear for one picture as he's about to jump into the river.

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Author	Grace Maccarone
ISBN	0590449486

This contemporary realistic fiction book will surely have children laughing and relating along with the main character. This story is about a boy that sees red spots on his face, which makes him realize he has the chicken pox. The story continues as he looks all over his body and sees these red spots. They...

Author	David Catrow
ISBN	0545057477

Horn Book (Spring 2011)

In his second story, dog Max Spaniel becomes a "great chef," but when a tour bus driver orders "one hundred pizzas with everything," Max knows he's in over his head. The humorous text with numerous puns is easy to read. Zany, exuberant watercolor illustrations expand...

Author

Angela Shelf Medearis

This book is about the 100th day of school and the many activities the students do to celebrate it. The students have a calendar marked to know when the 100th day comes and they count up to it. The students count to 100, they learn 100 words for a spelling bee, they plant 100 seeds, put 100 newspapers in ten...

Author	Frank Asch
ISBN	0689835450

When I was in early elementary school, this was one of my favourite bedtime books and couldn't sleep unless my mother read it to me. I have seen lost my copy after moving houses several times, and will probably buy it when I have kids. Hopefully, they will be able to sleep without me reading this book to them...