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1. Bauer, Marion (2004). Clouds. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks.

Abstract:
A boy spends his day outside with his cat exploring different types of clouds and the different things that clouds do. He also explains in a colorful and easy way, what clouds are made of and how we interact with clouds on an everyday basis, using weather terminology.

Abstract provided by Douglas Matthews for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Animals] [Assertiveness] [Author's Note] [Cat] [Clothing] [Clouds] [Communication] [Critical Thinking] [Decision Making] [Dinosaur] [Environment] [Health] [Nonverbal Communication] [Rain] [Science] [Seasons] [Snow] [Spring] [Storm] [Summer] [Teaching] [Travel] [Verbal Communication] [Vocabulary] [Volcano] [Walking] [Weather] [Wind] [Winter]

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2. Bertrand, Diane Gonzales (2004). My pal, Victor. Green Bay, WI: Raven Tree Press.

Abstract:
Dominic and Victor have a special friendship in spite of Dominic’s disability. They laugh, tell jokes, and do many fun things together on the baseball field, at the amusement park, and during sleepovers.

Abstract provided by Lisa Adkins, 2006 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Animals] [Baseball] [Birds] [Disability] [Dog] [Duck] [Elephant] [Friendship] [Frog] [Language] [Multicultural] [Park] [Parrot] [Running] [Sleep] [Spanish] [Sports] [Storytelling] [Swimming] [Verbal Communication] [Vocabulary] [Walking]

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3. Blackstone, Stella (2004). Jump into January: A journey around the year.. Cambridge, MA: Barefoot Books, Inc.

Abstract:
The twelve months are packed with much action! Discover all twelve months and the four seasons while looking for the items and details in the illustrations. People demonstrate all of what makes the entire year so special, starting with January, of course!

Abstract provided by Andrew Morris, 2006 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Alliteration] [Boat] [Bus] [Fair] [Fun] [Garden] [Jumping] [Month] [Rain] [Sand] [School] [Sea] [Sequence] [Snow] [Transportation] [Tree] [Verbal Communication] [Vocabulary] [Weather] [Wind]

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4. Bronson, Linda (2001). The circus alphabet. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Abstract:
Come along on a circus adventure. Each illustration depicts a letter of the alphabet that relates to the overall circus theme.

Pamela Theurer, 2006 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Acrobat] [Alphabet] [Animals] [Balloon] [Circus] [Dog] [Elephant] [Giraffe] [Juggling] [Kangaroo] [Lion] [Monkey] [Sequence] [Toys] [Vocabulary] [Walrus] [Zebra]

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5. Carter, Don (2002). Heaven's all star jazz band. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Abstract:
A young boy's grandpa dies and he goes to heaven. In heaven his grandpa Jack is in a jazz band with all the great.

Abstract provided by Ashley Roberts, 2006 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [African American] [Angel] [Band] [Dancing] [Death] [Diversity] [Emotions] [Family] [Feelings] [Grandparents] [Happiness] [Instruments] [Multicultural] [Music] [Nonverbal Communication] [Vocabulary]

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6. Cherry, Lynne (2003). How groundhog's garden grew. New York: The Blue Sky Press.

Abstract:
Little Groundhog was hungry. His friend Squirrel reminds him that it would not be nice to eat from someone else's garden; he offers to teach Groundhog how to grow food in his own garden. Groundhog learns that cooperation with the birds and insects around him will help meet their needs and help his garden grow. After planting, tending, and harvesting his garden, Groundhog has a feast with his friends.

Pamela Theurer, 2006 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Amphibians] [Animals] [Author's Note] [Birds] [Bluebird] [Butterfly] [Cooperation] [Cycle] [Dragonfly] [Flowers] [Food] [Friendship] [Garden] [Goldfish] [Helping] [Hunger] [Insects] [Mole] [Nature] [Opossum] [Plants] [Praying Mantis] [Reptiles] [Robin] [Seed] [Skunk] [Snake] [Squirrel] [Toad] [Turtle] [Vocabulary] [Winter] [Wren]

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7. Daly, Niki (2004). Where's Jamela?. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Abstract:
A young girl named Jamela is upset on hearing the news from her mother that they will be moving to a new house. When it’s time to leave, everyone wonders where Jamela is and begin to search for her everywhere. Suddenly, she jumps out of a box from the back of the truck and agrees to go with her mother. On reaching her new house, she starts to like it and settles down in her room.

Abstract provided by Esha Bhatara, 2006 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [African] [African American] [Bedtime] [Beverage] [Books] [Cat] [Change] [Chicken] [Decision Making] [Dog] [Emotions] [Future] [Language] [Love] [Moving] [Multicultural] [Music] [Nonverbal Communication] [Refusal Skills] [Stars] [Stress Management] [Truck] [Verbal Communication] [Vocabulary]

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8. Erlbach, Arlene (1993). Hurricanes. Chicago: Childrens Press.

Abstract:
This informational text describes how tropical disturbances become a tropical storm, then a hurricane. Compares and contrasts hurricanes and tornadoes, including watches and warnings. Learn how storms are predicted and monitored. Photographs show the storm with an eye. Hurricanes have different names across the world.

Abstract provided by: Valerie A. Ubbes, 2006 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Central America] [Careers] [China] [Clouds] [Comparisons] [Cyclone] [Earth] [Gender] [Geography] [History] [Hurricane] [Index] [India] [Maps] [Month] [Multicultural] [Nonfiction] [Numbers] [Photograph] [Prediction] [Science] [Seasons] [Sequence] [Storm] [Technology] [Tornado] [Typhoon] [United States] [Vocabulary] [Weather] [Wind]

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9. Florian, Douglas (2002). Summersaults. New York: Greenwillow Books.

Abstract:
Through the use of many rhyming and descriptive words, each poem highlights good, bad, fun, and crazy times during the summer.

Abstract provided by Amanda Heinly, 2006 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Bee] [Colors] [Flowers] [Fly] [Insects] [Nonverbal Communication] [Poetry] [Rhyme] [Seasons] [Summer] [Swinging] [Tree] [Vocabulary]

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10. Freymann, Saxton (2003). Baby food. New York: Scholastic Press.

Abstract:
Can you imagine how to make people food into animal art? Photographs portray baby animals like chicks, pups, and cubs made from different fruits and vegetables.

Abstract provided by Michele Gillespie, 2005 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Animals] [Baby] [Body Parts] [Colors] [Elephant] [Family] [Food] [Giraffe] [Insects] [Seal] [Turtle] [Vocabulary]

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11. Haskins, Jim & Benson, Kathleen (1996). Count your way through Ireland. Minneapolis: Carolhoda Books, Inc..

Abstract:
Count your way through Ireland as you learn to count in their original language, Gaelic. Enjoy many sports, foods, and musical instruments of Ireland and handcrafted goods from lace to waterford crystal.

Allegra Ubbes, 2005 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Author's Note] [Colors] [Flag] [Geography] [History] [Ireland] [Island] [Language] [Maps] [Multicultural] [Numbers] [Poetry] [Religion] [Sequence] [Symbols] [Vocabulary]

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12. Kinerk, Robert (2005). Timothy Cox will not change his socks. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Abstract:
A young boy, Timothy Cox, decides to go without changing his socks for a month. As the smell from his socks begins to grow, the entire community gets involved in trying to get him to change his socks. Timothy creatively avoids getting caught for the whole month. He aviods the fire fighters with their hoses and even a scout troop! When the month has come to an end, he keeps the socks in a cabinet as a trophy in his determination to stick to his word and not change his socks.

Abstract provided by Pamela Theurer for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Animals] [Community] [Cooperation] [Decision Making] [Determination] [Doctor] [Dog] [Family] [Fantasy] [Fire Engine] [Five Senses] [Helicopter] [Month] [Neighbors] [Parents] [Peer Resistance] [Rabbit] [Rhyme] [School] [Skunk] [Sleep] [Smell] [Transportation] [Vocabulary]

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13. Krauss, Ruth (2005). Bears. : Harper Collins Publishers.

Abstract:
As a young boy drifts off to sleep with his teddy bear, out of jealousy, his dog jumps up, takes it and runs away. The boy follows the dog through a series of "beary" full scenes involving bears with simple rhyming text. At last the dog retrieved the bear. The boy, the bear, and the dog happily retreat to bed. Was it a dream or was it reality? Decide for yourself.

Absract provided by Pamela Theurer for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Adventures] [Bear] [Bedtime] [Dog] [Feelings] [Giving] [Rhyme] [Sleep] [Vocabulary]

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14. Lessem, Don (2005). The smartest dinosaurs. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company.

Abstract:
Learn how long ago specific dinosaurs lived, how smart they are and what they ate. A glossary and an index give other important information on dinosaurs.

Abstract provided by Adrienne Ferlet, 2006 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Animals] [Body Parts] [Bones] [Dinosaur] [Education] [Extinction] [Glossary] [Habitat] [Hunting] [Index] [Nonverbal Communication] [Survival] [Vocabulary]

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15. Lewis, J. Patrick (2005). Please bury me in the library. Orlando: Gulliver Books/ Harcourt, Inc..

Abstract:
This unique collection of prose utilizes a variety of poetry styles and play on word techniques. Learn about reading, words, and libraries as gardens with unsurpassed "growing excitement."

Pamela Theurer, 2006 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Books] [Imagination] [Library] [Poetry] [Reading] [Rhyme] [Vocabulary]

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16. Manning, Mick (1999). Wash, scrub, brush!. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman & Company.

Abstract:
There is a party tonight so the animals take time to clean up for good hygiene. We don't want anyone to get sick!

Melissa Benton, 2006 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Animals] [Appearance] [Bath] [Body Parts] [Cleanliness] [Five Senses] [Hygiene] [Illness] [Party] [Protection] [Responsibilities] [Smell] [Vocabulary]

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17. Marino, Gianna (2005). Zoopa, an animal alphabet. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, LLC.

Abstract:
Have you eer had alphabet soup? Take an inviting journey through the alphabet as various animals and insects appear with their corresponding letters in a bowl of soup. As the pages begin to fill, the challenge of finding the corresponding animals becomes more difficult in this wordless alphabet adventure

Pamela Theurer, 2006 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Alphabet] [Animals] [Ant] [Birds] [Butterfly] [Chipmunk] [Dog] [Elephant] [Food] [Frog] [Goat] [Grasshopper] [Hedgehog] [Iguana] [Insects] [Jellyfish] [Koala] [Ladybug] [Monkey] [Ostrich] [Pig] [Quail] [Rabbit] [Sequence] [Snake] [Turtle] [Unicorns] [Vocabulary] [Vulture] [Worm] [Yak] [Zebra]

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18. Murray, Peter (1996). Hurricanes. : The Child’s World.

Abstract:
This informational text describes the Hurricane Hunter planes that are designed to fly in the roughest weather. In 1958, scientists tried to slow down a hurricane by dropping silver iodide crystals into the clouds, but the experiment did not work. The best thing to do with a hurricane is to get out of its way! Explains the destruction of Hurricane Andrew in Florida and Louisiana. Contrasts the death rate of a 1900 hurricane in Texas with the 1992 Andrew due to better warning systems in place.

Abstract provided by: Valerie A. Ubbes, 2007 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Airplane] [Boat] [Car] [Careers] [Clouds] [Destruction] [Disasters] [History] [Hurricane] [Index] [Nonfiction] [Numbers] [Photograph] [Preparation] [Prevention] [Research] [Safety] [Science] [Sequence] [Storm] [Tornado] [Transportation] [Vocabulary] [Weather]

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19. Ringgold, Faith (2002). Cassie's word quilt. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Abstract:
Cassie, a young African American girl living in New York City, shares a few of her favorite things. She labels many things and gives words to the things she treasures most.

Abstract provided by Michele Gillespie, 2005 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Alphabet] [Bus] [Car] [Clothing] [Community] [Family] [Food] [School] [Sequence] [Subway] [Taxi] [Transportation] [Verbal Communication] [Vocabulary]

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20. Russell, Barbara Timberlake (2004). The remembering stone. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Abstract:
As Ana holds the speckled lava stone (the remembering stone) that her mother has given her, she falls asleep and dreams of being able to fly like the blackbirds in their garden to her mother's homeland of Costa Rica to see their family. She awakens in the morning and joins her mother as they greet the blackbirds in their garden. Ana can almost feel herself lifting off the ground as they take flight.

Pamela Theurer, 2006 for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Birds] [Blackbird] [Celebration] [Costa Rica] [Culture] [Dreams] [Family] [Feelings] [Food] [Friendship] [Grandparents] [Hispanic] [Hope] [Jewelry] [Language] [Multicultural] [Nutrition] [Parents] [Travel] [Vocabulary]

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21. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2005). Museum shapes. New York: Little, Brown and Company.

Abstract:
Children will love learning about shapes through works of art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Abstract provided by Christina Motz for the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University.

Keywords: [Art] [Colors] [Concepts] [Creativity] [Critical Thinking] [Discovery] [Images] [Museum] [Shapes] [Stars] [Symbols] [Vocabulary]

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