Reach Out and Read - Promoting Early Childhood Literacy

No, David!

When author and artist David Shannon was five year more...2 points

When author and artist David Shannon was five years old, he wrote a semi-autobiographical story of a little kid who broke all his mother's rules. He chewed with his mouth open (and full of food), he jumped on the furniture, and he broke his mother's vase! As a result, all David ever heard his mother say was "No, David!" Here is his story.2 points

Madeline, Reissue of 1939 edition by Ludwig Bemelmans Author And Illustrator

Poor Miss Clavel! In "an old house in Paris t more...1 point

Poor Miss Clavel! In "an old house in Paris that was covered with vines," Miss Clavel oversees the education of 12 little girls, the littlest of whom is the mischievous Madeline. Despite her size, she fearlessly pooh-poohs the tiger in the zoo and frightens Miss Clavel with her adventurous antics. When she awakens the entire house with her plaintive cries in the middle of the night, Doctor Cohn whisks the appendicitis-stricken Madeline off to the hospital where, some two hours later, she awakens...1 point

Abiyoyo (Stories to Go!) Paperback by Pete Seeger

Once there was a little boy who played the ukelele more...1 point

Once there was a little boy who played the ukelele. Wherever he'd go he'd play,1 point

Abiyoyo Returns by Pete Seeger, Paul DuBois Jacobs

After Abiyoyo the giant left, the small town he ha more...1 point

After Abiyoyo the giant left, the small town he had bothered grew by leaps and bounds. The boy who helped his father make Abiyoyo disappear grew older and became a father, too. The people were filled with new life and spirit. But now there are new dangers: droughts and floods. The town needs a dam before it gets washed away. And sitting right where the dam would be is a boulder too big for anyone to move. Anyone, that is, except Abiyoyo.Father still has his courage. Grandfather still has his mag...1 point

Grateful: A Song of Giving Thanks (The Julie Andrews Collection) by John Bucchino

CD with an original recording by Art Garfunkel inc more...1 point

CD with an original recording by Art Garfunkel included1 point

Outside Over There (Caldecott Collection)

With Papa off to sea and Mama despondent, Ida must more...1 point

With Papa off to sea and Mama despondent, Ida must go outside over there to rescue her baby sister from goblins who steal her to be a goblin's bride.1 point

Butterflies for Kiri by Cathryn Falwell

Kiri is delighted with a birthday gift she receive more...1 point

Kiri is delighted with a birthday gift she receives: colorful origami papers and a special book of instructions. But when she can't seem to properly make a purple butterfly, she begins to feel frustrated. Things get worse when she thinks she's ruined one of the paintings she's working on. Then she remembers the origami papers. She fashions one into a flower to improve the picture, and soon she's cutting more shapes for it. As she begins to feel more confident with the delicate papers, she tries....1 point

What Planet Are You from, Clarice Bean?

Clarice Bean needs a science project or she's in B more...1 point

Clarice Bean needs a science project or she's in BIG trouble. Her brother Kurt just wants to save the planet. And now they're both up a tree.1 point

I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato (Charlie and Lola)

Lola is a fussy eater. A very fussy eater. She won more...1 point

Lola is a fussy eater. A very fussy eater. She won't eat her carrots (until her brother Charlie reveals that they're orange twiglets from Jupiter).1 point

I Feel Like Nobody When... I Feel Like Somebody When

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Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards)) by Mo Willems

Trixie, Daddy, and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to th more...0 points

Trixie, Daddy, and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood Laundromat. But the exciting adventure takes a dramatic turn when Trixie realizes somebunny was left behind . . . This 2005 Caldecott Honor book uses a combination of muted black-and-white photographs and expressive illustrations and tells a brilliantly true-to-life tale about what happens when Daddy's in charge and things go terribly, hilariously wrong.0 points