Picture+Books

HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY ** || **//Viorst, Judith //** || //Recounts the events of a day when everything goes wrong for Alexander. // || by Lulu Delacre //** || // In this cumulative Cuban folktale, a bossy rooster dirties his beak when he eats a kernel of corn and must find a way to clean it before his parrot uncle's wedding. // || // A young boy plants a carrot seed and, although the adults tell him that nothing will happen, he just knows it will come up //. || COWS THAT TYPE** || **//Cronin, Doreen //** || // When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want. // || // Daisy the duckling becomes so engrossed in playing with dragonflies and lily pads that she temporarily loses her mother // || // A teddy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but, when a little girl finally buys him, he finds what he has always wanted most of all. // ||
 * __ These are some of the picture books worth reading with your child. __**
 * **ABUELA** || **//Dorros, Arthur //** || //While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City // ||
 * **ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE,
 * **ANANSI AND THE MOSS-COVERED ROCK** || **//Eric A., Kimmel //** || // Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson // ||
 * **ANDY AND THE LION** || **//Daugherty, James //** || // The lion remembers Andy's kindness to him // ||
 * **BARK, GEORGE** || **//Feiffer, Jules //** || // A mother dog worries about the strange noises her puppy is making. // ||
 * **THE BOSSY GALLITO: A TRADITIONAL CUBAN FOLK TALE** || **//Gonzalez, Lucia M., retold by; illustrated
 * **BREAD AND JAM FOR FRANCES** || **//<span style="color: green; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Hoban, Russell; illustrated by Lillian Hoban //** || //<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Frances decides she likes to eat only bread and jam at every meal--until to her surprise--her parents grant her wish //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">.  ||
 * **<span style="color: green; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR, WHAT DO YOU SEE? ** || **//<span style="color: green; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Martin, Bill, Jr.; illustrated by Eric Carle //** || //<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Children see a variety of animals, each one a different color, and a teacher looking at them. // ||
 * <span style="color: green; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">**BRUNO MUNARI’S ABC** || **//<span style="color: green; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Munari, Bruno //** || //<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Beginning with an "Ant on an Apple," illustrations, simple text, and a pesky fly who will not stay on his page introduce the letters of the alphabet. // ||
 * <span style="color: green; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">**BUZ** || **//<span style="color: green; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Egielski, Richard //** || // When a little boy swallows a bug along with his cereal, pandemonium breaks out as the bug searches for an escape, the boy searches for an antidote, and Keystone Cops-like pills search for the bug // .  ||
 * <span style="color: green; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">**CAPS FOR SALE; A TALE OF A PEDDLER, SOME MONKEYS AND THEIR MONKEY BUSINESS** || **//<span style="color: green; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Slobodkina, Esphyr //** || // A band of mischievous monkeys steals every one of a peddler's caps while he takes a nap under a tree. // ||
 * <span style="color: green; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">**THE CARROT SEED** || **//<span style="color: green; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Krauss, Ruth; illustrated by Crockett Johnson //** ||
 * <span style="color: green; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">**CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM** || **//<span style="color: green; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Martin, Bill, Jr. and John Archambault; illustrated by Lois Ehlert //** || //<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree // ||
 * <span style="color: green; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">**CLICK, CLACK, MOO :
 * **<span style="color: green; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">COME ALONG, DAISY! ** || **//<span style="color: green; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Simmons, Jane //** ||
 * **<span style="color: green; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">CORDUROY ** || **//<span style="color: green; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> **//<span style="color: green; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Freeman, Don //** //** ||
 * <span style="color: green; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">**CURIOUS GEORGE** || **//<span style="color: green; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> **//<span style="color: green; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Rey, H. A. //**  //** || //<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The adventures of a curious monkey //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">.  ||