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Level B Units
Level B Units are most suitable for students ages 4-8.
Abuela's Weave
Author: Omar Castañeda
Illustrator: Enrique O. Sanchez
ISBN: 1880000202
Alejandro's
Gift
Author: Richard E. Albert
Illustrator: Sylvia Long
ISBN: 0-8118-1342 (pb), 0-8118-0436-4 (hb)
Summary: Lonely in his house beside a road in a desert, Alejandro
builds an oasis to attract the many animals around him.
All the
Places to Love
Author:
Patricia MacLachlan
Illustrator: Mike Wimmer
ISBN: 0-06-021098-2
Summary: A beautiful look at rural life with a family who loves the
place they live, each one loving a different place on or near their
farm the
most. Told in the voice of a baby who is born at the very beginning of the
book, the narrative language is calming and
brings
feelings of true peace and joy. The illustrations are breathtaking. One summary
says,“Patricia MacLachlan and Mike Wimmer
have crafted
a moving homage to the American farm, re-creating all the glory and sweet
simplicity of one family’s connection to the land.”
I would
have to agree!
Alvah
and Arvilla
Author:
Mary Lyn Ray
Illustrator: Barry Root
ISBN: 0-15-202655-X
Summary: Alvah and Arvilla have never been able to see the Pacific
Ocean because of having to care for their farm animals, until they
build a
voiture that will enable them all to travel west to see it.
Angel Child, Dragon Child
Author: Michele Maria Surat
Illustrator: Vo-Dinh Mai
ISBN:0-590-42271-5
Summary: Ut has just come to the United States from Vietnam, and she does not
like her new American school. The children all laugh when she
speaks in Vietnamese. And there’s that awful red-haired boy, named Raymond, who picks on
her almost every day. Most of all, Ut misses her
mother who had to stay behind
in Vietnam. But to Ut’s surprise, it is Raymond who thinks of the perfect way to
help her.
Annika's Secret Wish
Author: Beverly Lewis
Illustrator: Pamela Queri
Summary:
A Christmas story about a little Swedish girl who, in the midst of an ancient
tradition, learns the importance of giving and
the power of
Christ's sacrificial love.
ISBN: 0764229400
Apples to Oregon
Author:
Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrator: Nancy Carpenter
ISBN: 0-6898476-9-6
Summary: A pioneer father transports his beloved fruit trees and
his family to Oregon by covered wagon in the mid-nineteenth century.
Based loosely
on the life of Henderson Luelling.
Atlantic
Author: G. Brian Karas
ISBN: 0142400270
Aunt
Flossie's Hats and Crab Cakes Later
Author: Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
Illustrator: James Ransome
ISBN: 039572077X
Summary: On Sunday afternoon, two little girls visit their
Great-great-aunt Flossie, whose house is full of books, pictures, and
"boxes and
boxes and
boxes of HATS," each of which has a story to go along with it.
Baby in a
Basket
Author: Gloria Rand
Illustrator: by Ted Rand
ISBN: 0-525-65233-7
Summary: In 1917, Marie and her children Betty and baby Ann are
leaving Alaska for the winter by sleigh, when disaster strikes during
snowstorm.
Billy and Blaze
Author: C.W. Anderson
ISBN: 0689716087
Summary:
Billy and his pony Blaze get
lost in the woods with a storm approaching. Can Blaze find the trail and get
them safely home
again?
Boxes for
Katje
Author:
Candace Fleming
Illustrator: Stacey Dressen-McQueen
ISBN:
0-374-30922-1
Summary: After a young Dutch girl writes to her new American friend
in thanks for the care package sent after World War II, she begins to
receive
increasingly larger boxes.
Cocoa Ice
Author:
Diana Karter Appelbaum
Illustrator:
Holly Meade
Summary: A parallel tale of two girls who both love to eat cocoa ice and the
trading process that makes it possible.
ISBN: 0531300404
Cranberry
Christmas
Author/Illustrator:
Wende and Harry Devlin
ISBN: 0-8193-0845-5
Summary:
Mr. Whiskers faces a gloomy Christmas until Maggie and her grandmother help him
straighten out his house and find the
answer to his
problems in the process.
Cranberry
Valentine
Author/Illustrator:
Wende and Harry Devlin
ISBN:
0027292002
Summary:
Mr. Whiskers has never been the recipient of a valentine before, and he is scared and bewildered. His young friend Maggie and
her grandmother help him to discover the identity of his secret admirer and enjoy a happy Valentine's Day after all.
Crawdad Creek
Author: Scott Russell Sanders
Illustrator: Robert Hynes
Summary: Two children find fossils, salamanders, dragonflies, frogs,
deer tracks, and many other "treasures" when they visit the
creek near
their home.
ISBN: 0-7922-7097-5
Crow Boy
Author:
Taro Yashima
ISBN: 014050172X
Summary: In a small Japanese village, Chibi is an outcast at school because he
is different from the other children. However, at the beginning of
his
sixth grade year, he has Mr. Isobe for a teacher. Mr. Isobe saw something
special in Chibi, and he helped him show that gift to others.
Daisy
Comes Home
Author:
Jan Brett
Summary:
Set in China, the story is about a little girl who carefully tends to her six
hens. Then, one day one of the hens gets lost. When Mei Mei
brings the eggs to
market, a friend helps reunite her with Daisy her lost hen.
ISBN: 039923618X
Dancing in the Wings
Author: Debbie Allen
Illustrator: Kadir Nelson
ISBN: 0142501417
Summary: Sassy tries out for a summer dance festival in Washington
DC despite the other girls’ taunts that she is much too tall.
Day
of Ahmed's Secret, The
Author: Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide
Gililand
Illustrator: Ted Lewin
Summary: This story takes place on the busy streets of Cairo, where
Ahmed is completing his daily duty of delivering cooking gas to
customers.
On this particular day,Ahmed is patiently waiting for his workday to end so that he can share a
secret with his family -- namely
that he has learned to write his name.
ISBN: 0688140238
Day's Work, A
Author:
Eve Bunting
Illustrator:
Ronald Himler
ISBN:0395845181
Summary:
When his grandfather arrives from Mexico, Francisco helps him find work as a
gardener even though he is really a carpenter.
When they
mistakenly pull all the plants but leave the weeds, Abuelo, upset at Francisco's
lie, refuses to accept payment until the
job is done
correctly.
Faraway Home
Author: Jane Kurtz
Illustrator: E.B. Lewis
ISBN: 0152000364
Summary: Little Desta has never seen her father’s homeland of
Ethiopia, but she learns more about it as she confronts her fears that her
father
will never return from there
when he visits Desta’s ill grandmother.
Fatuma's
New Cloth
Author: Leslie Bulion
Illustrator: Nicole Tadgell
ISBN: 0-9677929-7-5
Summary: In East Africa, a young girl learns that one cannot
always judge by appearances as she and her mother visit a market in search of
kanga cloth and meet
merchants who all claim they have the secret to good Chai (tea).
Firekeeper's Son, The
Author:
Linda Sue Parks
Illustrator: Julie
Downing
ISBN:
0-618-13337-2 (audio=1-4193-1761-X)
Summary: In
early 19th-century Korea, after Sang-hee's father injures his ankle, Sang- hee
attempts to take over the task of lighting the evening
fire, which signals to the palace
that all is well.
Fish in the
Air
Author/Illustrator: Kurt Wiese
ISBN: 0670316504
Summary: A boy’s father takes him to purchase a kite for his
birthday. After selecting the biggest kite he could find, the little boy finds
out it was
more than he bargained
for!
Flat
Stanley
Author: Jeff Brown
Illustrator: Scott Nash
Summary: When Stanley Lambchop wakes up one morning, his brother,
Arthur, is yelling. A bulletin board fell on Stanley during the
night, and
now he is only half an inch thick! Amazing things begin
happening to him. Stanley gets rolled up, mailed, and flown like a
kite. He even gets to
help catch two dangerous art thieves. He may
be flat, but he’s a hero!
Fly Homer
Fly
Author:
Bill Peet
Summary: This
story is about a pigeon that learns the value of friendship and that the grass
is not always greener on the other side.
Frog
Went A-Courtin'
Author John Langstaff
Illustrator: Feodor Rojankovsky
ISBN: 015230214X
Summary: Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the
courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse.
Fritz and the Beautiful Horses
Author:
Jan Brett
Summary: Fritz, a pony excluded from the group of beautiful horses
within the walled city, becomes a hero when he rescues the children
ISBN:
0395453569
Gift Stone, The
Author: Robyn Eversole
Illustrator: Allen Garns
Summary:
Jean, who lives underground in an Australian opal mining town, finds a precious
stone large enough to allow her to move into a proper
house with her grandparents.
ISBN:
0-679-88684-2 and 0-679-98684-7
Gabriella's
Song
Author:
Candace Fleming
Illustrator:
Giselle Potter
Summary: A
young girl finds music all around her as she walks about the city of Venice,
Italy, and she shares her song with everyone she
meets.
ISBN:
0-689-80973-5 ; 0-689-84175-2
Gardener, The
Author:
Sarah Stewart
Illustrator: David Small
Summary: Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the
big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous
baker. There she initiates a
gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing
smiles to customers' faces with the flowers she
grows. But it is in a secret
place that Lydia
Grace works on her masterpiece -- an ambitious rooftop garden -- which she
hopes will make even
Uncle Jim smile.
ISBN: 0374325170
Gauchada
Author: C. Drew Lamm
Illustrated by: Fabian Negrin
Summary: A
necklace is lovingly passed from one person to another, traveling much farther
than the Argentine gaucho who made it will ever go.
Goody O' Grumpity
Author:
Carol Ryrie Brinks
Illustrator: Ashley Wolff
ISBN: 1558586148
Summary: Goody, a Pilgrim, bakes a spice cake and the children come running,
first to lick the bowl and then, best of all, to sample the cake.
Giant Jam Sandwich
Author: John Vernon Lord
ISBN: 0330303546
Summary: The people of Itching
Down combat an invasion of wasps by trapping them in a large strawberry-jam
sandwich, in this nonsense
tale.
Grandmother's Pigeon
Written by: Louise Erdrich
Illustrated by Jim LaMarche
ISBN: 0-7868-0165-4
Summary: Passenger pigeons hatchlings, thought to be extinct, are
discovered in Grandmother's room after she departs on a voyage to
Greenland.
Great Kapok
Tree, The
Author/Illustrator: Lynne Cherry
Summary: The many different animals that
live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rain forest try to convince a
man with an ax of the importance
of not cutting down their
home.
ISBN: 0-15-200520-X
Harmonica,
The
Author: Tony Johnston
Illustrator: Ron Mazellan
Summary: Torn from his home and parents in Poland during World War
II, a young Jewish boy starving in a concentration camp finds hope in
playing Shubert on his
harmonica, even when the commandant orders him to play.
ISBN: 1-57091-547-4 (library binding)
Hawk, I'm
Your Brother
Author
Byrd Baylor
Illustrator Peter Parnell
Summary: Determined to learn to fly, Rudy adopts a hawk hoping that their
kinship will bring him closer to his goal.
Hiawatha
Author:
Marion E. Gridley
Illustrator: Irma Wilde
Hill of Fire
Author:
Thomas P. Lewis
Illustrator: Joan Sandin
ISBN: 0064440400
Summary: "Every day is the same for Pablo's
father. Then one afternoon the ground
growls, hisses smoke, and swallows up his plow. A
volcano is erupting in the middle of
his cornfield!"
Hog Music
Author: M.C. Helldorfer
Illustrator: S.D. Schindler
Summary: Nineteenth century travelers
along the National Road help make sure that the birthday gift that Lucy’s great
aunt has sent makes it all
the way from Maryland to her family’s farm in
Illinois.
ISBN: 0-670-87182-6
Humphrey the Lost Whale
Author: Richard Hall and Wendy Tokuda
Illustrator: Hanako Wakiyama
ISBN: 0893463469
Summary: Describes how a migrating humpback whale mistakenly entered
the San Francisco Bay in 1985 and swam sixty-four miles inland
before being led back to the sea by
people concerned for his welfare
Hurricane
Music
Author: Barbara Bottner
Illustrator: Paul Yalowitz
ISBN: 0399225447
Summary: Aunt Margaret’s discovery of an
old clarinet in the basement sets off a musical lifestyle for her and her
family that includes jamming
with hurricanes.
Island Below the Star, The
Author
& Illustrator: James Rumford
Summary: Five brothers, each with a special skill, sail across the
vast Pacific Ocean to the islands now known as Hawaii.
ISBN: 0-395-85159-9
John Phillip Duck
Author: Patricia Polacco
ISBN #0399242627
Just Like Mama
Author: Beverly Lewis
Illustrator: Cheri Bladholm
Summary: A young Amish girl tries very hard to be just like her
mama, but her mama gently reminds her that who she really needs to be more
like
is Jesus.
ISBN: 0764225073
Lake of the Big Snake: An
African Rain Forest Adventure
Author: Isaac Olaleye
Illustrator: Claudia Shepard
ISBN: 0-7587-2951-0
Summary: Two boys outwit a hungry snake in an African rain forest
village.
Leah's Pony
Author: Elizabeth Friedrich
Illustrator:
Michael Garland
Editorial
Review from School Library Journal: Leah's parents are farmers in the Great
Plains of the 1930s. Amid locusts and drought, their bank
forecloses on its loan,
ordering a farm auction. Leah sells her beloved pony and uses the money to bid
one dollar for her father's tractor. No one
has the heart to outbid her. Her action
inspires others at the auction to buy the rest of the goods for ridiculously low
bids and return everything to
Leah's family.
ISBN:
0-590-39645-5, 1-56397-189-5, 1-56397-828-8, 0613789016, 0590635573
Legend of the Candy Cane, The
Author: Lori Walburg
Illustrator: James Bernardin
ISBN:0310212472
Legend of the
Indian Paint Brush, The
Author/Illustrator: Tomie de Paola
Summary: Little Gopher was smaller than the other young Indian boys
of his Plains tribe, and although he tried hard, he could not do what the
others
did. The tribe's wise
shaman assures him, however, that he has a different gift.
ISBN: 0698113608
Legend of
Lightning Larry, The
Author: Aaron Shephard
Illustrator: by Toni Goffe
ISBN 0-938497-27-8
Summary: This is a cute book about a nice Cowboy-who is constantly
provoked to fights by outlaws. In the gunfights,-his pistol shoots lightning
bolts of love that
hit the bad
guys hearts. Once struck they come to the side of good and help Larry fight
against evil.
Lorax, The.
Author/Illustrator: Dr. Seuss
ISBN: 0394823370
Summary: Long before saving the earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss,
speaking through his character the Lorax, warned against mindless progress and
the danger it posed to the earth's natural beauty.
Little House,
The
Author/Illustrator:
Virginia Lee Burton
ISBN: 0395181569
Summary: The little house was built in the beautiful country, but then the city
moved closer and closer until, thanks to 'progress', it wasn't a pretty
country
house any more.
Can it survive at all? Fortunately, it is saved by those who love her. Winner of
the 1943 Caldecott Medal.
Little Oh
Author: Laura Krauss Milmed
Summary: A mother tells her son the story of Little Oh, a girl made of paper who
becomes separated from her human mother.
ISBN: 0-688-14208-7 and 0-688-14209-5
Little Toot
on the Mississippi
Author/illustrator: Hardie Gramatky
Summary: Little Toot
finally finds the old steamboats just in time to urge them out of retirement to
save the bayou animals from the flooding
Mississippi.
Long Night Moon
Author: Cynthia Rylant
Illustrator: Mark Siegel
ISBN: 0689854269
Summary: A lilting text with wispy pictures of how the moon changes
throughout the year. Poetic descriptions of the seasons and the Native
American
names of each month’s
moon are described.
Masai
and I
Author:
Virginia Kroll
Illustrator: Nancy Carpenter
ISBN:
0689804547
Summary: A
young African-American student uses her imagination to compare her life with
what it would be if she were a Masai
Meeting Trees
Author: Scott Russell Sanders
ISBN: 0-7922-4140-1
Summary: As a boy and his father walk in the woods near their home,
they share what they know about the bark, leaves, and fruit of the different
species they see.
Miss
Twiggley's Tree
Author:
Dorothea Warren Fox
Summary: Two shy
tree dwellers come to the aid of a town in need during a hurricane.
ISBN: 1930900171
My Great
Great Great...Grandfather Was a Warrior
Author: Riccardo Francaviglia
Illustrator:
Margherita Sgarlata
ISBN
1-894222-81-4
Summary:
While Mark nonchalantly brushes his teeth one morning, a huge warrior suddenly
appears in the mirror. It turns out to be Mark's
very own
great- great-great-great-great-grandfather. "I've come to meet you," says the
warrior, "because I want to see if my descendants are at
all like me." Mark can't help
thinking that his ancestor will be disappointed - after all, what can a warrior
and a modern schoolboy have in
common? As it turns out, more than he could have
imagined. Illustrated with bold drawings, this story introduces
children to the idea of family
ancestry and encourages personal connections to
the past.
My Mountain Song
Author:
Shutta Crum
Illustrator: Ted Rand
ISBN: 0618159703
My Rows and
Piles of Coins
Author:
Tololwa M. Mollel
Illustrator: E.B. Lewis
ISBN: 0395751861
Summary: A Tanzanian boy saves his coins to buy a bicycle so that he
can help his parents carry goods to market, but then he discovers that in spite
of all he
has saved, he
still does not have enough money.
Night Before Christmas,
The
Author: Clement Clark Moore
Illustrator: Robert Sabuda
ISBN: 0689838999
Once A Mouse
Author: Marcia Brown
ISBN: 0689713436
Summary: A hermit knows the magic to change a small mouse into a
cat, a dog, and a majestic tiger -- and Marcia Brown's magical woodcuts bring
this Indian
fable to life
with the mastery that won her her second Caldecott Medal.
Orange
for Frankie, An
Author/Illustrator: Patricia Polacco
ISBN: 039924302X
Ox Cart Man,
The
Author:
Donald Hall
Illustrator:
Barbara Cooney
Summary:
Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth-century New England
family throughout the changing seasons
ISBN: 0140504419
Patrick,
Patron Saint of Ireland
Author: Tomie DePaola
Summary:
Relates the life and legends of Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
ISBN: 0823409244
Penny in the
Road
Author:
Katharine Wilson Precek
Illustrator: Patricia Cullen-Clark
ISBN: 0027749703
Summary: In the year
1913, a boy finds an old penny (from 1793) on a country road and imagines who
might have dropped it. As an adult he recalls the story
and shares it with his
children and grandchildren.
Perfect
Spot, The
Author:
Robert J. Blake
ISBN: 0698114310
Summary: Big, green trees and smooth, inviting shadows – surely, a little boy
thinks, this is the perfect spot. Or this spot here by the red salamander? Or
maybe this spot by the footbridge? But the boy’s artist father keeps wanting to
move on; none of the boy’s choices is right for him. Finally, in the middle of
the
woods, an unexpected turn of events leads both father and son to the spot
they’ve been looking for all along, and a happy discovery about themselves as
well.
Petunia
Author/Illustrator:
Roger Duvoisin
Summary:
Petunia, the goose, learns that possessing knowledge involves more than just
carrying a book around under her wing.
ISBN: 0394808657
Pirates
in the Park
Author: Thom Roberts
Illustrator: Harrold Berson
Summary:
When boys at a pond won't let her play along with their toy pirate ship, Jenny
makes a ship out of a walnut shells and sails off into an imaginary
adventure in
a great ship of her own
Plant Sitter, The
Author:
Gene Zion
Illustrator: Margaret Graham
ISBN: 0370007549
Summary: A little boy's adventures in plant sitting for his
neighbors.
Pocketful of Cricket, A
Author: Rebecca
Caudill
Illustrator:
Evaline Ness
Summary: A boy
takes his pet cricket to school where it first disturbs the class with its
chirping, but then becomes the show-and-tell attraction.
ISBN:
0-8050-7524-0
Popcorn at the Palace
by
Emily Arnold McCully
ISBN – 0152776990
Summary:
In the mid
1800’s Maisie Ferris and her father travel to England to introduce the American
phenomenon of popcorn.
Quiltmaker's
Gift, The
Author:
Jeff Brumbeau
Illustrator: Gail De Marcken
Summary: A generous quiltmaker finally agrees to make a quilt for a
greedy king but only under certain conditions (which will change his heart).
ISBN: 0439309107
Raising
Yoder's Barn
Author: Jane Yolen
Illustrator: Bernie Fuchs
ISBN: 0-316-07593-0
Summary: Eight-year-old Matthew Yoder tells the story of when fire
destroys his family's barn and Amish friends come to help build a new one.
Rechenka's Eggs
Author:
Patricia Polacco
Illustrator: Patricia Polacco
Summary: Babushka loves miracles, painting eggs, and animals; She
nurses a goose back to good health and the goose gives back to Babushka.
ISBN: 0698113853
Sailing Home
Author: Gloria Rand
Illustrator: Ted Rand
Summary: Captain Madsen's four children fondly recall their
exciting experiences sailing with their father and mother on the bark John Ena
at the turn of the
twentieth
century
ISBN: 0-7358-1539-9 and 0-7358-1540-2
Silver
Packages
Author:
Cynthia Rylant
Illustrator:
Chris K. Soentpiet
ISBN:
053130051X
Summary:
In Appalachia each Christmas, a boy named Frankie waits beside the tracks for
the Christmas Train, which will bring presents to the children who
live in coal towns
and hollows. Year after year, Frankie hopes that one particular gift a
very special gift will be tossed to him from that train. It is this enduring
hope that will
guide him to the true meaning of the season.
Sing to the Stars
Author:
Mary Brigid Barrett
Illustrator: Sandra Speid
ISBN: 0316082244
Summary: A boy and
his friend Mr. Washington share a love for music but don’t know it until making
the decision whether or not to perform at a benefit concert.
Sophie's
Masterpiece: A Spider's Tale
Author: Eileen Spinelli
Illustrator:
Jane Dyer
Summary: Sophie the spider makes wondrous webs, but the residents of Beekman’s
Boardinghouse do not appreciate her until at last, old and tired, she
weaves her final
masterpiece.
ISBN:
0-689-80112-2
Song and
Dance Man
Author: Karen Ackerman
Illustrator: Stephen Gammell
ISBN: 0394893301
Summary: When the
grandkids come to visit, Grandpa takes them to the attic, opens his trunk and
performs his song and dance from “the good old days”.
Song for
Lena, A
Author:
Hilary Horder Hippely
Illustrator:
Leslie Baker (also illustrated All Those Secrets of the World
ISBN: 0-689-80763-5
Summary:
Lena’s grandmother tells about the time her mother in Hungary shared some
freshly made strudel with a beggar who repaid
her
hospitality with a beautiful song.
Song of the
Swallows
Author/Illustrator: Leo Politi
ISBN: 0684188317
Summary:
Sad when the swallows leave for the winter, young Juan
prepares to
welcome them back to the old California Mission at Capistrano on St. Joseph's
Day the next spring.
Song of the Waterboatman
Author: Joyce Sidman
Illustrator: Beckie Prange
ISBN: 0618135472
Summary: Science facts combine with vivid poems about pond life
through the seasons
Story of Little Babaji, The
Author: Helen
Bannerman
Illustrator: Fred Marcellino
Library of congress card
number 96-84139
Sylvester and
the Magic Pebble
Author: William Steig
Summary: In a moment of fright, Sylvester the donkey asks his magic
pebble to turn him into a rock but then can not hold the pebble to wish
himself back to
normal again.
ISBN: 067166154X
St. Patrick's
Day in the Morning
Author: Eve Bunting
Illustrator: Jan Brett
ISBN: 0899191622
Summary: Jamie seeks a way to prove he is not too young to march in
the big St. Patrick's Day parade.
Stellaluna
Author: Janell Cannon
ISBN: 0152802177
Summary: After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a
baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.
Stone Soup
Author: Marcia
Brown
ISBN: 0689878362
Summary: Three hungry soldiers outwit the greedy inhabitants of a village into
providing them a feast.
Taro and the
Tofu
Author: Masako Matsuno
Illustrator: Kazue Mizumura
ASIN: B0007I8EJE
Summary: After receiving too much change from
is family's long time tofu vendor, Taro must decide to either return the found
money or keep it for
himself. The decision is
made quickly, but the lesson is felt long after his quandary.
Thanksgiving
Wish, The
Author:
Michael Rosen
Illustrator: John Thompson
ISBN: 0-590-25563-0
Summary: A young Jewish girl copes with her first Thanksgiving after
the death of her beloved grandmother
Three
Snow Bears, The
Author:
Jan Brett
Illustrator:
Jan Brett
ISBN:
0399247920
Summary:
A retelling of Goldilocks and the
Three Bears set in the Arctic tundra.
Thundercake
Author/Illustrator:
Patricia Polacco
ISBN: 0698115813
Summary: Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's
fear of thunderstorms
Time of Wonder
Author: Robert McCloskey
ISBN: 0670715123
Summary: Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation
on an island off the coast of Maine
Tonight is
Carnaval
Author: Arthur Dorros
ISBN: 014055467X
Summary: “A story about what life is like for many people in the Andes Mountains
during the time of Carnaval each year.”
Trees of the Dancing Goats
Author/Illustrator: Patricia Polacco
ISBN: 0689838573
Summary: During a scarlet-fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family
helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by
making their own Hanukkah miracle.
Turtle Bay
Author: Saviour Pirotta
Illustrator: Nilesh Mistry
Summary: Taro is fascinated by the strange actions of Jiro-San, who sweeps the
sand on the beach while waiting for the arrival of Japanese sea
turtles ready to
lay their eggs.
ISBN: 0374378886
Umbrella, The
Author/Illustrator:
Jan Brett
ISBN: 0399242155
Summary:
Carlos goes into the cloud forest to look for animals, but he manages to miss
seeing them even though they have an adventure with
his umbrella.
Valentine Bears, The
Author: Eve Bunting
Illustrator: Jan Brett
ISBN: 0899193137
Summary: Mrs. Bear has a surprise in store for Mr. Bear. She's gotten up during
hibernation just so they can celebrate a special Valentine's Day.
Her preparations show the love she has for Mr. Bear. Mr. Bear, as it turns out, has
some surprises of his own. Together they share a special day
before once again settling down for a long sleep.
Whales Passing
Author: Eve Bunting
Illustrator:
Lambert Davis
Summary: A
boy and his father observes a pod of orca whales....and the whales observe the
boy.
ISBN:
0-590-60358-2
When
Africa was Home
Author: Karen Lynn Williams
Illustrator: Floyd
Cooper
ISBN: 0531059251
Summary:
After
returning to the United States, Peter’s whole family misses the warmth and
friendliness of their life in Africa; so Peter’s father looks for another
job
there.
When Agnes Caws
Author:
Candace Fleming
Illustrator: Giselle Potter
ISBN: 0689814712
Summary: When eight-year-old Agnes Peregrine, an accomplished birdcaller,
travels with her parents to the Himalayas in search of the elusive pink-headed
duck, she
encounters a dastardly foe.
When the Frost is on the Punkin
Author:
James Whitcomb Riley
Illustrator: Glenna Lang
ISBN: 0879239123
Summary: Riley's poem is a celebration of fall captured by Lang's
illustrations.
Wild
Christmas Reindeer, The
Author/Illustrator: Jan Brett
ISBN:
0399221921
Summary:
Little Teeka's attempts to
train Santa's reindeer for their Christmas ride meet with disaster until she
realizes that she needs to work with the animals
in a new way. "Tomorrow," she
says, "no yelling, no screaming, and no bossing, I promise," and with her
patient teaching, on Christmas Eve the "wild reindeer
rise up together and carry
the sleigh off into the night."
Wilma Unlimited
Author: Kathleen Krull
Illustrator: David Diaz
ISBN: 0152020985
Summary: The story of Wilma Rudolph, the prematurely born black
child who, despite suffering from polio, became the first woman to win three
Olympic gold
medals
Winnie the
Pooh and Some Bees
Author:
A. A. Milne
Illustrator: Ernest H. Shepard
ISBN: 0525450335
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