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The best American books published for beginning readers.
Tedd Arnold
ER ARNOLD
While playing hide-and-seek with Buzz, Fly Guy is taken away by a garbage man.
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Sarah C. Campbell
ANIMALS JNF CAM
A photo essay on a day in the life of a wolfsnail.
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Eleanor Davis
GRAPHIC JE DAVIS
Stinky is a monster who loves pickles and possums – but is terrified of people!
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Kate DiCamillo,Alison McGhee
JE DICAMILLO
Meet Bink and Gollie, two precocious little girls — one tiny, one tall, and both utterly irrepressible.
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Judyann Ackerman Grant
ER GRANT
Earl and Pearl do not want Chicken’s help in the garden, until a swarm of grasshoppers arrives and her true talent shines.
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Geoffrey Hayes
GRAPHIC ER BENNY
What will Benny and Penny find when they cross the line in The Big No-No? Benny’s favorite pail is missing, and there are mysterious muddy footprints. In this charming whodunit, Benny and his little sister Penny team-up to investigate, braving the dangers of the new neighbor’s yard, and finding something unexpected on the other side of the fence.
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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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Laura McGee Kvasnosky
ER KVASNOSKY
In three short stories, two fox sisters run away from home, bury a time capsule, and take advantage of some creative juice.
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Grace Lin
ER LIN
Ling and Ting are identical twins that people think are exactly the same, but time and again they prove to be different.
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Ethan Long
CONCEPT E LONG
Through illustrations and simple text, birds demonstrate the meanings of the words up, tall, and high.
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Darrin Lunde
ANIMALS MAMMALS BATS JNF LUN
Simple text and illustrations introduce the endangered bumblebee bat of Thailand.
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Paul Meisel
ER MEISEL
A dog has a fun-filled day at the dog park, in this easy-to-read story.
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Cynthia Rylant
ER RYLANT
Henry (and of course Mudge) loves to visit Great Grandpa Bill. He lives in a house with a lot of other granpas who like to play with a little boy and his dog. But when Henry discovers a swimming pond near the granpas’ house, he finds out how much fun the grandpas really can be.
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Josh Schneider
JE SCHNEIDER
A father tells outlandish stories while trying to get his young son, who is a very picky eater, to eat foods he thinks he will not like.
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Laura Vaccaro Seeger
E SEEGER
Using simple text and illustrations, shows how animals and objects change, including tadpoles to frogs and seeds to flowers, in a book with cutouts so that certain colors from the previous picture help create the next picture.
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Laura Vaccaro Seeger
CONCEPT E SEEGER
A boy creates ten paintings in this counting book that also explores the relationship of words within words.
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Jeff Smith
GRAPHIC ER SMITH
Little Mouse gets dressed to go to the barn with his mother, brothers, and sisters.
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Lisa Wheeler
E WHEELER
Baby and his family make some jazzy music.
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Mo Willems
ER WILLEMS
Friends Elephant and Piggie are playing outside when it starts to rain, and then they must decide what to do.
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Mo Willems
ER WILLEMS
Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.
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Mo Willems
ER WILLEMS
Gerald the elephant discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head—two birds on your head! Piggie will try to help her best friend.
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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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