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Series

Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 1
Picture Puffins

Language

English

Formats

Book, CD Audiobook

Description

Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis.

2) Lentil

Author

McCloskey, Robert

Series

Language

English

Description

Weston Woods read-along CD
Caldecott Honor book
Picture Puffins

Lentil's harmonica playing saves the day when calamity threatens the homecoming celebration for the leading citizen of Alto, Ohio.

3) Blueberries for Sal

Author

McCloskey, Robert

Series

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book + Audio CD, Cassette Audiobook

Description

Little Sal and Little Bear both lose their mothers while eating blueberries and almost end up with the other's mother.

4) Madeline's rescue

Author

Series

Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 2
Weston Woods read-along CD
Picture Puffins
Literature for listening and reading

Language

English

Appears on list

Formats

Book, Book + Audio CD

Description

A hound rescues a schoolgirl from the Seine, becomes a beloved school pet, is chased away by the trustees, and returns with a surprise.

5) Crow Boy

Author

Yashima, Tarō

Series

Language

English

Formats

Book, CD Audiobook

Description

The story of a strange, shy little boy in a Japanese village school who was ignored by his classmates until suddenly, and almost too late, a new teacher showed them that Crow Boy has much to offer.

6) Madeline and the bad hat

Author

Series

Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 3
Picture Puffins

Language

English

Description

When the Spanish ambassador moves in next door, Madeline and the rest of the twelve little girls discover that his son is not the best neighbor.

7) Time of wonder

Author

McCloskey, Robert

Series

Picture Puffins
Caldecott medal book volume 1958

Language

English

Appears on list

Description

Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine. Describes the enchanting beauty of the island in rain, fog, sunshine, and hurricane.

8) Madeline and the gypsies

Author

Series

Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 5
Picture Puffins

Language

English

Description

Pepito, son of the Spanish ambassador, and Madeline, rescued by gypsies during a storm, travel and perform with their wandering friends until they again find Miss Clavel.

9) Madeline in London

Author

Series

Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 4
Picture Puffins

Language

English

Description

Picture Puffins
Penguin core concepts

When the Ambassador moves to London, the twelve little girls go to visit his son, Madeline has an adventure on a horse, and the horse returns to Paris with the girls.

10) The story about Ping

Author

Flack, Marjorie

Series

Language

English

Description

A little duck finds adventure on the Yangtze River when he is too late to board his master's houseboat one evening.

11) The snowy day

Author

Keats, Ezra Jack

Series

Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 1
Weston Woods read-along CD
Picture Puffins

Language

English

Appears on list

Book, Board Book, Book + Audio CD, CD Audiobook, eAudiobook, Read-Along Book

Formats

Description

Young Peter celebrated the magic and boundless possibilities of the very first snowfall.

12) Whistle for Willie

Author

Keats, Ezra Jack

Series

Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 2
Picture Puffins

Language

English

Formats

Book, Braille

Description

A little boy wishes so much that he could whistle.

13) A rainbow of my own

Author

Freeman, Don

Series

Language

English

Description

A small boy imagines what it would be like to have his own rainbow to play with.

14) Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs

Author

DePaola, Tomie

Series

Language

English

Description

A small boy enjoys his relationship with his grandmother and his great-grandmother, but he learns to face their inevitable death.

15) Gilberto and the wind

Author

Ets, Marie Hall

Series

Pub. Date

1978.

Physical Desc

32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Language

English

Description

A young boy finds in the wind a playmate of many moods: one that can sail boats, fly kites, blow dirt, and turn umbrellas inside out.

16) The stonecutter: a Japanese folk tale

Author

McDermott, Gerald

Series

Pub. Date

1978.

Physical Desc

unpaged : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Language

English

Description

Picture Puffins
An I-spy-book

Relates the consequences of a stonecutter's foolish longing for power.

17) Each peach pear plum

Author

Ahlberg, Janet

Series

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book + Audio CD

Description

Rhymed text and illustrations invite the reader to play "I Spy" with a variety of Mother Goose and other folklore characters.

18) Ox-cart man

Author

Hall, Donald

Series

Language

English

Appears on list

Description

Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth-century New England family throughout the changing seasons.

19) Umbrella

Author

Yashima, Tarō

Series

Pub. Date

[1979]

Physical Desc

1 sound disc (approximately 19 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (30 pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 23 cm).

Language

English

Description

Puffin pied piper
Picture Puffins

Momo eagerly waits for a rainy day so she can use the red boots and umbrella she received on her third birthday.

20) Who's in Rabbit's house?: a Masai tale

Author

Aardema, Verna

Series

Pub. Date

[1979]

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.

Language

English

Description