Eric Carle
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Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days.
6) Dream snow
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It's December 24th, and the old farmer settles down for a winter's nap, wondering how Christmas can come when there is no snow! In his dream he imagines a snowstorm covering him and his animals--named One, Two, Three, Four and Five--in a snowy blanket. But when the farmer awakens, he finds that it has really snowed outside, and now he remembers something! Putting on his red suit, he goes outside and places gifts under the tree for his animals, bringing...
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By cutting and grinding the wheat for flour, Jack starts from scratch to help make his breakfast pancake. Jack wants a giant pancake for breakfast, but his busy mother tells him to gather all the ingredients, so Jack gets flour from the mill, an egg from the hen, milk from a cow, and butter churned by his own hand. The barnyard rooster crows and Jack wakes up hungry, of course. What does he want for breakfast? A big pancake, but first, Jack's mother...
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A newly hatched cricket has a problem getting his wings to chirp. A very quiet cricket who wants to rub his wings together and make a sound as do so many other animals finally achieves his wish. The cricket's sound is reproduced at the end of the book. Annotation. A small cricket hatches "one warm day," and the other insects greet him. Though the little guy wants very much to respond, nothing happens when he rubs his wings together. Finally, as night...
12) Friends
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When his friend moves away, a boy sets out on a journey to find her.
16) Hello, red fox
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1998
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Guests at Little Frog's birthday party include the red fox, the purple butterfly, the orange cat, and other colorful animals. The illustrations are designed to demonstrate the concept of complementary colors.
17) Today is Monday
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Philomel Books
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[1993]
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Each day of the week brings a new food, until on Sunday all the world's children can come and eat it up.
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Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
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[2011]
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Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes biographical information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s.