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Mealtime - (no author).
This book teaches young children easy vocabulary words such as bib, milk, bowl, mug, spoon, and apple.
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Norman Bridwell.
This book helps teach children basic/early vocabulary words, accompanied by memorable illustrations that may help
the vocabulary stick in the reader's memory.
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Harriet Ziefert (Illustrator - Carol Nicklaus).
This selection is about 3 young animals (Lewis, Steffy, and Angel) that go to the beach and make a sand castle.
They make a spectacular sand castle but then ruin it as they fight over who made it the best. In the end, they
decide to make a new "greatest sandcastle ever."
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Eric Hill.
This book is about a mother dog (Sally) looking for her son, Spot. She looks around the house and finds all other
kinds of animals, except her son - until a turtle tells her to look in the basket.
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Ju Zi (Illustrator - Lin Wancui).
This selection is about two children performing daily activities. It teaches children basic vocabulary words. The
interesting thing is that each phrase is accompanied by a translation in Chinese.
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Gyo Fujikawa.
This book shows children with all different types of animal friends. It teaches that many types of animals can be
pets. It also teaches basic animal vocabulary.
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(Vol. I) - selected by Helen Ferris (Illustrators - Kay Lovelace Smith & Leonard Weisgard).
This book is a collection of poems for young readers - organized by topic. As poetry is a more advanced form of
writing, the readers' comprehension will be challenged and expanded.
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(Vol. II) - selected by Helen Ferris (Illustrators - Kay Lovelace Smith & Leonard Weisgard).
This book is also a collection of poems for young readers - also organized by topic. It will also help expand the
non-literal comprehension of its readers.
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Paul Fleischman (Illustrator - Eric Beddows).
This book is a collection of poems all about insects. It is written from the perspective of various types of
insects - such as the grasshoppers, water striders, mayflies, fireflies, book lice, moths, water boatmen, digger
wasps, cicadas, honeybees, whirligig beetles, house crickets, and a butterfly. The illustrations are wonderfully
realistic, and at the same time, almost cartoonish. The poems are arranged into two columns on each page; the left
hand verses are to be read by one reader and the right-hand verses are to be read by another.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrator - Ted Rand).
This selection is the famous poem about how Paul Revere warned the colonists that the British army was coming. This
words are the same in this version as the other; only the illustrations are different.
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Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault (Illustrator - Lois Elhert).
This selection is about a bunch of numbers that climb up a tree and get hurt. It helps teach counting to young
children.
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The Pig's Picnic-Keiko Kasza.
This selection is about Mr. Pig, who was planning to go on a picnic with Miss Pig. On his way to her house, He runs
into some other animals, who let him borrow their tails, stripes, and manes. When Mr. Pig arrives at Miss Pig's
house, she thinks he is a monster. So Mr. Pig runs away to change and comes back to go on the picnic with Miss Pig.
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What's a Frank Frank?-Giulio Maestro.
This selection is a collection of homograph riddles. (Homographs are words that are spelled alike but have
different meanings).
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Eight Ate-Marvin Terban (Illustrator - Giulio Maestro). This is a collection os homophone riddles. (Homophones are words that are spelled differently but sound the same). |
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Alfred Noyes (Illustrator - Charles Mikolaycak).
This selection is a famous poem that has often been recited aloud. It is about a robber (highwayman) and his love,
the daughter of a landlord. The highwayman tells his love to wait for him by moonlight. That day, British soldiers
enter the landlord's inn and tie up the daughter. They leave her with a musket and she uses it to kill herself in
order to warn her love. The recoats find him, though, and kill him too. According to the poem, legend has it that
the highwayman still rides by moonlight to meet his love.
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