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Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend

Melanie Watt · 30 pages

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If You Give a Pig a Pancake

Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond · 32 pages

One thing leads to another when you give a pig a pancake. Find out what happens to a little girl when she kindly offers her pig a pancake. She'll wish she hadn't!

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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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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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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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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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A Bear Called Paddington

Michael Bond · 160 pages

Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddington, a most endearing bear from Darkest Peru on a railway platform in London. A sign hanging around his neck said, "Please look after this bear. Thank you" So that is just what they did. From the very first night when he attempted his first bath and ended up nearly flooding the house, Paddington was seldom far from imminent disaster. Jonathan and Judy were de

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The Complete Adventures of Curious George

Margret Rey, H.A. Rey · 422 pages

The adventures of the ingenious little monkey who left the jungle to live with the man in the yellow hat.

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Olivia Forms A Band

Ian Falconer

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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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A to Z

Sandra Boynton

A variety of humorous animal characters introduce the letters of the alphabet.

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Frog and Toad Are Friends

Arnold Lobel · 64 pages

Frog and Toad Are Friends is an American children's picture book, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel and published by Harper & Row in 1970. It inaugurated the Frog and Toad series, whose four books completed by Lobel comprise five easy-to-read short stories each. It was a Caldecott Honor Book, or runner-up for the American Library Association Caldecott Medal, which recognizes the year's best

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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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Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

Doreen Cronin · 32 pages

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.

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You Will Be My Friend!

Peter Brown

This is a humorous children's book about making friends. Lucy is determined to make a new friend with one of the forest animals but struggles with how to make friends. Then, a flamingo stops by and Lucy finally makes a friend.

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It's Not Easy Being a Bunny

Marilyn Sadler · 40 pages

Unhappy being a bunny, P.J. Funnybunny tries living with bears, birds, beavers, pigs, moose, possums, and skunks.

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Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

Dr. Seuss · 64 pages

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Silly Sally

Audrey Wood · 31 pages

A rhyming story of Silly Sally, who makes many friends as she travels to town--backwards and upside down.

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The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Beverly Cleary · 158 pages

The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary and published in 1965. It is the first in a trilogy featuring Ralph S. Mouse, a house mouse who can speak to humans (though typically only children), goes on adventures riding his miniature motorcycle, and who longs for excitement and independence while living with his family in a run-down hotel. The book was released

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It's a Book

Lane Smith · 32 pages

Can it text? Blog? Scroll? Wi-fi? Tweet? No, it's a book. A donkey with a laptop computer and a gorilla with a printed book discuss the merits of their preferred formats. Playful and lighthearted with a subversive twist that is signature Lane Smith, It's a Book is a delightful manifesto on behalf of print in the digital age. This satisfying, perfectly executed picture book has something to say to

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Piggies

Audrey Wood, Don Wood · 32 pages

Ten little piggies dance on a young child's fingers and toes before finally going to sleep.

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