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Age: Infant-Preschool

A perfectly metered song book that depicts several baby animals climbing aboard a wagon train as their parents say goodbye. We finally find out where these babies are going when they reach their destination just as a school bus is unloading a class to play with them. A simple, yet much appreciated, all-inclusive class including a girl in a wheelchair and a boy with a high top haircut.

Age: Toddler-Preschool

Simplistic language and robotic sounds accompany this delightful guessing game as a little alien explores earth (make sure to start on the inside jacket!) with his identifying gizmo. This is a great guessing game as readers are given a part of the object, then a full silhouette of the object, then the object with its name in big, bold letters. So simple yet so successful!

Age: Baby-Toddler
Art: Photography

Melodic read filled with obvious emotions and actions with little text.

Age: Infant-Toddler
Familiar Experience: First Word

Henry knows his parents want him to say his first word but he can't seem to find it anywhere until the time comes when he really needs one. I am so excited to get to read this to my 0-14 month lapsit storytime group!

Age: Toddler-Kindergarten
Early Reader: 1st grade
Fantasy: Dragons
Clothing: Underwear! and other things, I guess.

Silly and sweet in the cadence of "If you give a mouse a cookie," our narrator walks us through the steps needed to get a dragon dressed, including tips and tricks to please this rather large animal.

Age: Toddler-Kindergarten

Gaiman succeeds fabulously in defying expectations while playing with words. The illustrations are absolutely fantastic oil pastels with a perfect use of white space for the younger listeners.

Age: 1-years - 1st grade
Animals: Pug dog, various animals around the world

A pug imagines everyone else sleeping except himself. The rhyme scheme saves this book from boredom. I also like that the sleepless pug makes appearances in the pictures as he imagines and sometimes imitates the other sleeping animals.

Age: infant-preschool

What vehicle has this many lights? Let's find out! Although the number of lights is not distinctive for every vehicle (especially when it starts getting in the higher numbers) it's still fun to count the peep holes on each page before turning the page and seeing the big picture. Simple story but will reveal a lot of smiles.

Age: Infant-1st grade
Animal: Pet cat

McClure exemplifies the use of the nearly wordless picture book style in this tale about a mother cat and her kitten. The book's title provides an essential introduction to the story line of "How to Be a Cat." The story line moves along as mother cat shows her kitten the world, a daily routine, and different cat behaviors. Even though there are no words to help "shy" readers, there is a lot of familiar action scenes which are easy to describe and it is easy to connect the scenes as the book moves along.

Age: Toddler-Preschool
Animal: Duck

This would make a nice Dr. Seuss bridge for younger children. The poetic meter is the same that Seuss uses, including repeating phrases and expressions of surprise, but this story is shorter.