Read these books that encourage conversation and talking with your child to increase vocabulary and communication skills.

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Can You Growl Like a Bear?
John Butler

E BUTLER

In rhyming text, the reader is asked to mimic a variety of animal noises in preparation for a good night’s sleep.


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Shout! Shout It Out!
Denise Fleming

CONCEPT E FLEMING

Mouse invites the reader to shout out what he or she knows as they review numbers, letters, and easy words.


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I Spy With My Little Eye
Edward Gibbs

E GIBBS

Peeking through the pages, children will be able to spot a different colored animal every time, and guess what it is using a simple, factual clue. Bold illustrations and die-cut holes will absorb young readers as they learn about colors and animal names.


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Dot
Patricia Intriago

CONCEPT E INTRIAGO

Pairs of circular shapes convey opposite relationships in the arc of a day.


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Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow?
Susan A. Shea

E SHEA

Poses rhyming questions about what grows and what does not.


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Press Here
Herve Tullet

E TULLET

Instructs the reader on how to interact with the illustrations to create imaginative images.


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Red Sled
Lita Judge

E JUDGE

At night, a host of woodland creatures plays with a child’s red sled.


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Trainstop
Barbara Lehman

E LEHMAN

In this wordless picture book, a young girl takes a train and makes a stop at a most unusual place where she has an important task to perform.


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The Lion & the Mouse
Jerry Pinkney

CALDECOTT E PINKNEY

In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle.


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My Friend Rabbit
Eric Rohmann

CALDECOTT E ROHMANN

Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend.


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Chalk
Bill Thomson

E THOMSON

A wordless picture book about three children who go to a park on a rainy day, find some chalk, and draw pictures that come to life.


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Are You Awake?
Sophie Blackall

E BLACKALL

Persistent young Edward has many questions for his sleepy mother, many of which are answered, “Because it’s night time.”


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I Want My Hat Back
Jon Klassen

E KLASSEN

A bear almost gives up his search for his missing hat until he remembers something important.


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Interrupting Chicken
David Ezra Stein

E STEIN

Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.


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We Are in a Book! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)
Mo Willems

ER WILLEMS

Gerald and Piggie discover the joy of being read. But what will happen when the book ends?


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