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Babies on the Go, by Linda Ashman
Harcourt Children's Books, 2003
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Beautiful illustrations and simple rhyming text depict how differently animals carry their babies when they are on the move. (Nonfiction)
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Laura Geringer/HarperCollins, 2000
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If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to want a glass of milk. The consequences of your kindness will be stretched to the limits, but the tale will make you giggle! (Fiction)
Available in Spanish: Si le das una galletita a un ratón
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.
Henry Holt and Co., 1992
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On each page, we meet a new animal who nudges us onward to discover which creature will show up next: "Blue Horse, Blue Horse, What do you see? I see a green frog looking at me." This pattern is repeated over and over, inviting children to chime in, easily predicting the next rhyme. (Fiction)
Award-winning book, author, and illustrator
Available in Spanish: Oso pardo, oso pardo, ¿qué ves ahí?
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One Gorilla, by Atsuko Morozumi
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993
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A whimsical gorilla stands in for the narrator, journeying through home, fields, forests, the sea, and even snowy China, counting off a new collection of animals along the way. The pictures delightfully capture the personality of each animal. (Fiction)
Available in Spanish: Un gorila
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1, 2, 3 to the Zoo, by Eric Carle
Philomel, 1982
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Joyously colored animals, riding on a train to their new homes in the zoo, offer children an introduction to numbers and number sets, addition and counting. Each car on the train has one more zoo animal than the one before, from the first car with an elephant to the last with ten birds. Wordless. (Fiction)
Award-winning author/illustrator
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Good Morning, Chick, by Mirra Ginsburg
Greenwillow Books, 1989
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Tap, tap, crack. Chick comes out of the egg. No sooner does he learn to eat worms, seeds, and crumbs than his adventure begins. (Fiction)
Available in Spanish: Buenos dias, Pollito
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Dora's Eggs, by Julie Sykes
Tiger Tales, 2002
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When Dora the Hen lays her first eggs, she invites her barnyard friends to admire them. Each one, however, is preoccupied with her own offspring. But when the eggs hatch, the chicks are all Dora could wish for: fluffy as ducklings, wriggly as piglets, playful as lambs, and snuggly as a calf. (Fiction)
Available in Spanish: Los huevos de Dora
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Good Night, Gorilla, by Peggy Rathmann
Putnam, 1994
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An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo. (Fiction)
Available in Spanish: Buenas noches, Gorila
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My Big Animal Book, by Roger Priddy
Priddy Books, 2002
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This book, while excellent for showing different animals, is also excellent for language development. Animals are sorted into groups such as At the Zoo, or On the Farm. The photographs are clear and engaging, and the text is written in rhyming form, with simple riddles for children to figure out.
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Sleepy Bears, by
Mem Fox
Harcourt Brace, 1999
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Mother Bear's six cubs are not quite ready to go to sleep for the winter. She ingeniously invents a soothing rhyme for each of her adorable cubs to dream about as he or she falls fast asleep in their big bed under a gorgeous patchwork quilt. (Fiction)
Award-winning author
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Hattie and the Fox, by Mem Fox
Aladdin, 1992
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Hattie, the big black hen, tries again and again to warn her friends of the danger that lurks in the bushes, but no one is listening. That is, until they all realize that what Hattie is saying is true! (Fiction)
Award-winning author
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Have You Seen My Duckling? by Nancy Tafuri
Greenwillow, 1996
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Mother Duck paddles around the pond looking for her little lost duckling. The duckling is never really lost, just cleverly concealed in each picture. (Fiction)
Caldecott Honor winner
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Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino
Scholastic Paperbacks, 2004
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Lloyd the llama meets all kinds of animals as he asks the question, "Is your mama a llama?" until his friend Lyn leads him to the answer he longs for most. (Fiction)
Award-winning illustrator
Available in Spanish: ¿Tu mamá es una llama?
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Mouse Count, by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Red Wagon Books, 1995
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A hungry snake captures ten sleeping mice, counting them as he pops them into his jar, "one, two, three." But then the mice outsmart him, uncounting themselves as they make their escape. (Fiction)
Available in Spanish:
Cuenta ratones
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Are You a Snail? by
Judy Allen
Kingfisher, 2003
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The life cycle of a snail is introduced through pictures and simple text. Children explore the changes that the creature undergoes from an egg to an adult snail. (Nonfiction)
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What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
Houghton Mifflin, 2003
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Explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, noses, mouths, feet and tails. (Nonfiction)
Caldecott Honor winner
Available in Spanish: ¿Qué harías con una cola como ésta?
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Becoming Butterflies, by Anne Rockwell
Walker & Company, 2004
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A class observes the various stages caterpillars go through on their way to becoming butterflies. In the end, children wave goodbye as the butterflies fly away to Mexico. (Nonfiction)
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Cuckoo/Cucú: A Mexican Folktale/Un Cuento folklórico mexicano,
by Lois Ehlert
Harcourt Brace, 1997
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Cuckoo is beautiful, but the problem is, she's lazy. She never does her share of the work, at least not until a fire threatens the seed crop that provides food for all the birds. Cuckoo saves the day in this bilingual retelling of an old Mexican tale. (Fiction)
In English and Spanish
Award-winning book, author/illustrator
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The Perfect Pet, by Margie Palatini
Katherine Tegen Books, 200
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Elizabeth really, really, wants a pet, but her parents say "No" to all of her ideas. Instead, she ends up with a cactus called Carolyn. And after some very unsuccessful campaigning, to her wonderful surprise, Elizabeth encounters Doug; surely the most unusual and special pet of all. (Fiction)
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Owl Babies, by Martin Waddell
Candlewick, 1992
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Three owlets awaken one night to find that their mother has not returned from her night flight. Worried and scared, they wait for her to return. Mother owl assures her babies that she will always come back. (Fiction)
Available in Spanish: Las lechucitas
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The Flea's Sneeze, by Lynn Downey
Henry Holt and Co., 2000
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"On a dark, dark night / On an old, old farm / In a rickety, crickety / Tumbledown barn, / Everyone slept peacefully ..." This is the story of what happened when a teeny tiny flea let go of a hurly-burly sneeze...AH-CHOO! (Fiction)
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Dogs and Their Puppies, by Linda Tagliaferro
Capstone Press, 2004
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An easy to understand book traces the life of a dog from a little puppy to an adult and supports national life science standards. (Nonfiction)
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The Little Red Hen (Little Golden Book), by J.P. Miller
Golden Books, 2001
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In this classic story, the lazy duck, goose, pig, and cat refuse to help the resourceful hen to grow, cut, and grind wheat to make bread. But when the bread comes out of the oven, all are willing to help eat it. (Fiction)
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Who Is the Beast? by Keith Baker
Voyager Books, 1994
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When a tiger suspects that he is the beast the jungle animals are fleeing from, he returns to the jungle and points out ways in which they are similar. (Fiction)
Award-winning author/illustrator
Available in Spanish: ¿Quién es la bestia?
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff, by Stephen Carpenter
HarperFestival, 1998
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A classic tale of three billy goats who want to cross a bridge over a river to get to the grassy pastures on the other side. But under the bridge lives a mean and ugly troll. Are the goats brave enough to cross over the bridge? (Fiction)
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