Tumble Bumble

Author	Cressida Cowell
ISBN	0333984773

Genius. Utterly genius.
It's perfect for reading to little ones, because it has all of the different animal noises for you to make to entertain them.
It's perfect for parents - particularly parents of very young babies - because it reminds you of all the different things to check when you're...

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	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	Marjorie Flack
ISBN	0020430906

A sweet picture book where Danny teams up with the animals to find his mother the perfect gift.

Trying to find the perfect birthday present for his mother isn’t easy for Danny. The hen offers eggs, the goose feathers, and the sheep wool. But mother already has those things. Then the cow suggests...

Author	Walt Whippo
ISBN	0316032271

Recorded by everyone from Burl Ives to Raffi, this simple song has been entertaining fans for fifty years. Now, for the first time, it is brought to life in picture book form by artist Joan Paley, whose collages were described by School Library Journal as "quite impressive ... a cross between the works...

Author	Charles Fuge
ISBN	1402708610

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These are my friends
I know them, you see.
I know them quite well...
because they live with me!



Charles Fuge's delightful rhyming text and absolutely adorable images bring to life a little girl and her charming animals as they play...

Author	Meg Rosoff
ISBN	0805075232

THE BOARS ARE BACK! But watch out, because this time they're not only bossy, selfish, and stinky, they're hungry, too! If you thought Boris, Morris, Horace, and Doris already had bad manners, wait until you see them concoct a Massive Pudding. And if this pudding sounds horrible, the ingredients will...

Author	Mélanie Watt
ISBN	1553378857

Moving all the way from the South Pole to the North Pole isn't easy for the young penguin Augustine. Uprooted from her home, she misses her friends, her grandma and grandpa and her old bedroom. There are all kinds of unfamiliar faces at the North Pole, and everything looks strange and different. When it's...

Author	Pat Hutchins
ISBN	0689713711

Owl can’t get to sleep in Pat Hutchins’s beloved Good-Night, Owl!

How is Owl supposed to sleep the day away with the bees buzzing, the woodpecker pecking, the doves cooing, and the squirrels crunching? But when night falls and everything is finally quiet, suddenly there’s a new sound—and...

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	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	Laura Hulbert
ISBN	0805089071

To my taste, this book would cover the whole Animalia kingdom. It is such an amazing educational tool, perfect to teach about basic zoology. It covers basic animal groups such as: mammals, amphibians, birds, invertebrates and reptiles. Super appropriate for your small amateur naturalist. This is...

Author	Ruth Lercher Bornstein
ISBN	0618051589

Little Gorilla is a perfect book for approximate ages one to three years. It succeeds in many ways. Physically, it is a good size for small hands, it is a sturdy board book, and it is the right length for this age. The illustrations are simple and engaging and characters and their expressions are easily...

Author	Isobel Finn
ISBN	1589257146

A good book for early years and maybe year 3 too. I enjoyed the book due the exciting colourful images, assorted fonts and sizes and extremely interesting content. The story is based on a lazy ladybird who is looking for a place to sleep. She travels from one animal to another in order to find a suitable place...

Author	Sandra Boynton
ISBN	0761130667

The amazing Bob! The amazing Boynton! Because who else but Sandra Boynton could imagine 15 Bobs in one book? Actually, that's 14 Bobs, and one Simon James Alexander Ragsdale the Third (he's a turtle), which gives Fifteen Animals! the added dimension of being a unique counting book—count the Bobs,...

Author	Sarah Weeks
ISBN	0060004797

A giggle-producing beginning reader from New York Times bestselling author Sarah Weeks

Each Monday at dawn, Mrs. Nelly McNosh brings out a barrel and does a big wash.

Mrs. McNosh's wash is certainly big—and definitely wacky. You'll be surprised to see what is hanging on her clothesline...

Author	Iza Trapani
ISBN	1580890148

Board book edition. The spirited and irresistible itsy bitsy spider has captured the hearts of generations of children by climbing up that water spout. Now she's back—on a new magical journey!

This all-new itsy bitsy spider has exciting encounters with a fan, a mouse, a rocking chair, a...

Author	Byron Barton
ISBN	0694011665

The Turkeybird Speaks: "Now this is the part where I tell you to pull up a chair and your favorite snack so you can settle into a great book. Does it really get any better than trucks, planes, and trains? I would say not! They move, they have wheels, they go fast and they do all sorts of fun things. I especially...

Author	Fiona Watt
ISBN	0746037821

We are treated to an identity parade of teddy bears, each displaying a distinctive characteristic that helps us confirm that this particular teddy isn't ours. The best teddy is reserved for the final page, where it is revealed that the teddy with the most luxurious fur is the one we have been looking for....

Author	Carolyn Curtis
ISBN	1841486116

Our summer school theme is NASA and space this year. So, I am teaching fiction and non-fiction about the moon, stars, and aliens. We have lots and lots of cool plans. For example, we are designing our own life-sized aliens, having spaceship races (decorated Frisbee), writing poems about what the moon...

Author	Nadine Bernard Westcott
ISBN	0316931284

Have you ever swallowed a fly? I know an old lady who swallowed a fly. ... She swallowed a spider to catch the fly!

But that is only the beginning, for the old lady soon abandons herself to more extraordinary measures, with the hilarious result that each new cure begets an ailment more preposterous...

Author	Mary Murphy
ISBN	0152056491

I love this book because it is so simple and yet so bright and positive.
I Like It When... portrays a young penguin and an adult penguin and explores their loving relationship.
The book makes no mention of age, gender or race. It does not even label the relationship between the two penguins, instead...