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Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

Dr. Seuss · 64 pages

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The Kissing Hand

Audrey Penn · 32 pages

When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.

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Little Bear

Else Holmelund Minarik · 63 pages

Celebrate the timeless warmth of a mother's love with the very first ever I Can Read book! Meet Little Bear, a friend to millions of children. And meet Mother Bear, who is there whenever Little Bear needs her. When it is cold and snowy outside, she finds just the right outfit for Little Bear to play in. When he goes to the moon, she has a hot lunch waiting for him on his return. And, of course

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The Berenstain Bears' Trouble at School

Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain · 32 pages

When Brother Bear returns to school after being out sick, he gets into a mess that gets worse and worse until Gramps gives him some advice.

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Frog and Toad All Year

Arnold Lobel · 64 pages

Frog and Toad All Year is an American picture book written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel, published by Harper & Row in 1976. It is the third book in the Frog and Toad series, whose four books completed by Lobel comprise five easy-to-read short stories each. ---------- Also contained in: [The Frog and Toad Treasury](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1973505W)

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Thunder Cake

Patricia Polacco · 32 pages

Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.

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Chu's Day

Neil Gaiman · 30 pages

Chu is a little panda with a big sneeze. When Chu sneezes, bad things happen. But as Chu and his parents visit the library, the diner, and the circus, will anyone hear Chu when he starts to feel a familiar tickle in his nose?

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Corduroy

Don Freeman · 32 pages

A toy 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.

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A Visitor for Bear

Bonny Becker · 56 pages

En este libro ilustrado para niños todo lo que Oso quiere es tomar su desayuno tranquilo, pero el ratón, que se aparece en los lugares más insospechados, no piensa dejarle en paz. Bear's efforts to keep out visitors to his house are undermined by a very persistent mouse.

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Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride

Kate DiCamillo · 76 pages

Mr. Watson's usual Saturday drive in his Cadillac with his favorite pig, Mercy, turns into an adventure when an unexpected passenger shows up in the back seat and Mercy finds herself behind the wheel.

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If You Give a Moose a Muffin

Laura Joffe Numeroff · 32 pages

Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests.

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Guess How Much I Love You

Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram · 32 pages

Welcome the family classic with an elegant, refreshed cover — the quintessential picture book, just waiting to be shared. Sometimes, when you love someone very, very much, you want to find a way of describing how much you treasure them. But, as Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare discover, love is not an easy thing to measure! For two decades, Sam McBratney’s timelessly endearing story,

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Froggy Goes to School

Jonathan London · 32 pages

**Froggy is nervous about his first day of school, but, even though it's hard to sit still, he has a wonderful time.** **Froggy's mother knows that everyone's nervous on the first day of school. "Not me!" says Froggy** to his friends, & together they leapfrog to the bus stop -- flop flop flop. Froggy's exuberant antics will delight his many fans and reassure them that school can be fun."This is

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Curious George

H.A. Rey · 55 pages

George is an African monkey who has come to America with his friend The Man in The Yellow Hat. They get into all sort of trouble in this 1946 Childrens' novel.

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Clifford the Big Red Dog

Norman Bridwell · 39 pages

Emily Elizabeth describes the activities she enjoys with her very big, very red dog and how they take care of each other.

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Olivia Forms A Band

Ian Falconer

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Mirette on the High Wire

Emily Arnold McCully · 32 pages

Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.

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Tootle

Gertrude Crampton

Tootle, a young train in training, begins leaving the tracks to cavort in the meadow until engineer Bill figures out a way to lure him back.

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Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever

Richard Scarry · 71 pages

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The Wide-Mouthed Frog: A Pop-Up Book

Keith Faulkner

A wide-mouthed frog is interested in what other animals eat--until he meets a creature that eats only wide-mouthed frogs!

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