Let's Count Goats!

Author	Nancy Tafuri
ISBN	1416928340

When Farmer Gray takes a trip, Blue Goose, Red Hen, Yellow Chick and White Duck decide to paint their black-and-white farm. Red Hen paints the barn red and White Duck paints the fence white. Then Blue Goose and Yellow Chick pour their paint together to make green for the grass and trees. By the time Farmer...

Author	Petr Horáček
ISBN	0763633437

Little ones will hover over this colorful look at insect critters as they peek through die-cuts and enjoy a final pop-up surprise.

Lucy sees a beautiful butterfly in the garden, along with a bright green beetle, a brilliant blue dragonfly, some red ladybugs, and many more flying and crawling...

Author	Lindsey Craig
ISBN	0375861815

Clickity! Clickity! Long green feet!
Who is dancing that clickity beat?

Lizard is dancing on clickity feet.
Clickity! Clickity! Happy feet!

Introducing a get-up-and-dance toddler book-so catchy and rhythmic, you'll almost want to sing it.

Lindsey Craig's...

Author	Marsha Wilson Chall
ISBN	1416979603

When one pup’s up, the other nine are sure to follow! Young readers will love counting along as ten pups gradually wake up to nuzzle, wiggle, dine, and play. Count back down as the puppies fall asleep again, all in a fuzzy doggy jumble. This fun and simple counting book combines Marsha Wilson Chall’s...

Author	Alison Murray
ISBN	1423143299

When a mischievous puppy runs off with his owner's shoe, it's a race from one to ten to get it back again! Over the teddy bears and out the door, readers can rollick along with the canine trickster and count the scenery along the way. ONE TWO THAT'S MY SHOE! is a twist on charming verse, brought to life by Alison...

Author	Denise Fleming
ISBN	0805092374

Kids are often told to sit still and be quiet. But Denise Fleming encourages them to shout, shout it out! By taking basic learning concepts like numbers, letters, and colors and putting them on display, she asks kids to shout out what they know--and her readers will be happy to oblige.

With bold...

Author	Doreen Cronin
ISBN	1416953418

Can you stretch to the ceiling? Can you stretch to the floor? You can stretch with a whisper, you can stretch with a roar! Doreen Cronin and Scott Menchin give new meaning to the yoga pose downward facing dog as publishing’s most energetic pooch explores the many, many ways a kid can get limber. More than...

Author

Laurie Krebs

Join a group of friends as they set out on a counting journey through the grasslands of Tanzania. Along the way, the children encounter all sorts of animals including elephants, lions and monkeys, while counting from one to ten in both English and Swahili. The lively, rhyming text is accompanied by an...

Author

Bill Martin Jr.

Ten little caterpillars are out and about in our big, wide world--come join them! You never know what you might find. . . . A butterfly, perhaps?

Readers of all ages have celebrated the work of Bill Martin Jr and Lois Ehlert ever since their first collaboration on Chicka Chicka Boom Boom more than...

Author	Mac Barnett
ISBN	1423160657

I CAN'T FRIGGIN' WAIT TO READ THIS AT STORYTIME! Kids three and up will absolutely fall in love with this book. Audience participation abounds in another winner (and new classic) from Mac Barnett. I know that every child I read this to will make me count every single one of the monkeys on the final endpapers...

Author	Robert Sabuda
ISBN	0689811918

Most people assume this is a Christmas book, it's not. It's just a general cookie book about mice baking lots of different tasty cookies! I never have any trouble with kids when I bring pop-up and other other novelty books to a story time. The promise of reading one gets me a chance to read other, "ordinary"...

Author	Anika Aldamuy Denise
ISBN	0399240365

One pig wants potatoes . . . then so does his brother . . . his sister makes it three pigs, and Papa makes four. Then there are the neighbors! Now all the piggies want potatoes, and soon it's one big potato party! Anika and Christopher Denise have teamed up to create this most charming, classic counting book,...

Author	David LaRochelle
ISBN	1402759959

How much is 1+1? Think the answer is 2? Not always, as this playful approach to addition proves! David LaRochelle takes children on a joyful mathematical journey that will engage their minds and teach them to think about numbers in a creative, outside-the-box way.
Brenda Sexton's wild and wacky...

Author	Cathryn Falwell
ISBN	0060294620

Ten painted turtles on a log in the pond are disturbed by various forest creatures and one by one they return to the pond. Lovely blues and aqua colores in these illustrations. Added information includes details about each of the ten pond and forest creatures who disturb the turtles. The one very short...

Author

Katie Davis

This book is awesome for children who are learning about animals and simple forms of what they do. Each page has an animal that hops and then will have one page that has an animal that doesn't hop but on the next page explains why it doesn't hop and what it does. I also love this book because of its vibrant colors....

Author	Craig Frazier
ISBN	0811877159

Whimsical dots, dots for licking, dots for snacking and even dots on shirts. In every color and size dots make up many of the things in the world around us. There are dots everywhere, if only you know where to look.

In the recent past there have been numerous books based on how we interact with common...

Author

Phyllis Root

An ear-tickling, eye-teasing romp for little listeners, led by an award-winning author and illustrator

Do you really, really want to see a moose — a long-leggy moose — a branchy-antler, dinner-diving, bulgy-nose moose? Spurred by Phyllis Root's sing-songy text and Randy Cecil's buoyant...

Author	Fiona Roberton
ISBN	0670073563

This was a wonderful sweet book until I noticed something that was just not right. The boy writes a list of why a Duck is a good pet and on that list is "Spare feathers can be used to build indian headdresses..." Why did this have to be included on the list? It's culturally insensitive and reinforces a bad outdated...

Author	Scott M. Fischer
ISBN	1416978844

When a bug sleeping on a jug is chased by a frog, he has to jump to get away. But then that frog (who’s sleeping on a log) is in for a similar surprise! He’s attacked by a cat…who needs to jump away from a dog…and on it goes, until not even a shark is free from getting a little fright! Building on repetition...

Author	Andy Rash
ISBN	0439724171

For young cowboys and little scientists, an ARE YOU MY MOTHER? for the 21st century!

For his birthday, Roy's freinds give him a saddle and some very specific instructions:
1. Find a horse.
2. Enjoy the ride!

But there's a problem; Roy doesn't know what a horse IS! So he sets off...

Author	Judy Sierra
ISBN	0152163565

This is a delightful and humorous children’s picture book that would engage children and adults alike. I was so drawn to the text and counting the crocodiles that I did not even notice some of the illustrations where the fox and the monkey were stealing bananas until the very end—I had to go back and...

Author	Jan Thomas
ISBN	1442423641

Is Everyone Ready for FUN? Then RUN to the library to check out this book! I can't even explain how AMAZING it is. But then again, if you love Jan Thomas the way that I do...then you won't be surprised!

Three cows decide that they are ready for fun. They head for Chicken's small sofa and start jumping....

Author	Suzanne Williams
ISBN	0060599049

Ten little monkeys jumping on the bed . . . and tripping over teddy bears, slipping on banana peels, and falling off the dock!

Those naughty monkeys sure love to monkey around! But just WHO is causing all this monkey business? Try finding the naughtiest monkey in every scene—and watch as she...