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Read these books that encourage conversation and talking with your child to increase vocabulary and communication skills.
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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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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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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Patricia Intriago
CONCEPT E INTRIAGO
Pairs of circular shapes convey opposite relationships in the arc of a day.
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Susan A. Shea
E SHEA
Poses rhyming questions about what grows and what does not.
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Herve Tullet
E TULLET
Instructs the reader on how to interact with the illustrations to create imaginative images.
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Lita Judge
E JUDGE
At night, a host of woodland creatures plays with a child’s red sled.
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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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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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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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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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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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Jon Klassen
E KLASSEN
A bear almost gives up his search for his missing hat until he remembers something important.
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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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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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