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Arden, Carolyn.
Goose Moon. Illustrated by Jim Postier. Boyds Mills Press. Ages
5-8. ISBN 1-59078-040-X. $15.95.
A young
girl and her grandfather watch the seasons change and wait for geese to return
to signal the beginning of spring.
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Bajaj, Varsha.
How Many Kisses Do You Want Tonight? Illustrated by Ivan Bates. Little,
Brown and Company. Ages 2-5. ISBN 0-316-82381-3. $15.95. Animal babies
and children receive one to a million good-night kisses from their loving moms
and dads.
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Beaumont, Karen.
Baby Danced the Polka. Pictures by Jennifer Plecas. Dial Books for
Young Readers. Ages 2-4.
ISBN
0-8037-2587-6. $12.99. It’s naptime, but Baby wants to polka,
boogie-woogie, cha-cha, and shooby-dooby, so Mama and Papa join in for a
bedtime dance.
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Cooper, Elisha. Magic
Thinks Big. Greenwillow Books. Ages 4-6. Trade ISBN 0-06-058164-6. $14.99. Library Binding ISBN 0-06-058165-4.
$15.89.
An
enormous tabby cat spends all day wondering if he should go in or out or just
stay in the doorway and nap.
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Crews, Nina. The
Neighborhood Mother Goose. Greenwillow Books. Ages 3-6.
Trade ISBN 0-06-051573-2. $15.99. Library Binding ISBN 0-06-051574-0.
$16.89. Clever photo-collages of
modern day children illustrate this wonderful collection of forty-one favorite
Mother Goose rhymes.
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Dodds, Dayle Ann. Minnie’s Diner: A Multiplying Menu. Illustrated by John Manders. Candlewick Press. Ages 5-7. ISBN 0-76-361736-9.
$16.99.
Papa
McFay’s sons get in double trouble when they order multiple servings at
Minnie’s Diner.
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Fox, Mem.
Where Is the Green Sheep? Illustrated by Judy Horacek. Harcourt, Inc. Ages 2-5. ISBN 0-15-204907-X.
$15.00. Readers have fun with colors and
words while searching for the missing green sheep.
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Henkes, Kevin.
Kitten's First Full Moon. Greenwillow Books. Ages 3-5. Trade ISBN
0-06-058824-4. $15.99. Library Biding ISBN 0-06-058829-2. $16.89. Poor
kitten is sure the full moon is a bowl of milk and she tries her best to reach
it.
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Jenkins, Steve.
Actual Size. Houghton Mifflin Company. Ages 5-8. ISBN
0-618-37594-5. $16.00. Realistic
paper collages feature eighteen
animals in true-to-life size.
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Ketteman, Helen.
Armadilly Chili. Illustrated by Will Terry. Albert Whitman &
Company. Ages 5-8. ISBN 0-8075-0457-2. $16.95. Miss Billie Armadilly
puts a Texas twist on the Little Red Hen story.
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Kutner, Merrily.
Down on the Farm. Illustrated by Will Hillenbrand. Holiday House. Ages 2-5. ISBN 0-8234-1721-2.
$16.95.
Rhyming
text encourages children to join in on the animal sounds as a silly goat
explores the barnyard.
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Luján, Jorge.
Rooster=Gallo. Pictures by Manuel Monroy. Translated by Elisa Amado. Groundwood Books. Ages 3-5. ISBN 0-88899-558-X.
$14.95. This
beautifully illustrated three sentence bilingual poem explains how the rooster
opens his beak and brings forth each new day.
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Macken, JoAnn
Early. Sing-Along Song. Pictures by LeUyen Pham. Viking. Ages 3-5. ISBN 0-670-05890-4.
$15.99. A small boy moves through his day greeting
everyone he meets with a happy song.
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Pedersen, Janet.
Millie Wants to Play! Candlewick Press. Ages 2-5. ISBN
0-7636-1993-0. $15.99. A knock-kneed calf greets waking farmyard friends
while waiting for the loud rise-and-shine sound that means…time to play.
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Schaefer, Carole
Lexa. The Biggest Soap. Illustrated by Stacey Dressen-McQueen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Ages 6-8. ISBN 0-374-30690-7.
$16.00.
Kessy is on a
mission to buy the biggest soap for Mama, but a few detours along the way
cause him to bring home a smaller piece plus a good story to tell.
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Schlein, Miriam. Little
Raccoon’s Big Question. Pictures by Ian Schoenherr. Greenwillow Books. Ages 3-6. ISBN 0-06-052116-3.
$15.99. Little Raccoon wants to know when Mama loves him best of all, so he
asks her over and over again until she answers his big question.
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Wallace, Nancy
Elizabeth. Seeds! Seeds! Seeds! Marshall Cavendish. Ages 5-8. ISBN
0-7614-5159-5. $ 16.95. Buddy
receives a package from Gramps containing five colorful bags with a surprise
inside each one to teach him something wonderful about seeds.
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Wheeler, Lisa.
Te Amo, Bebé, Little One. Illustrated by Maribel Suárez. Little, Brown
and Company. Ages 2-5. ISBN 0-316-61410-6. $15.95. In rhyming text with
a Spanish refrain, a mother repeats how much she loves her child throughout
his first year.
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Willems, Mo.
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale. Hyperion. Ages 3-6. ISBN
0-7868-1870-0. $15.99. A mix of cartoon drawings and photographs tell the
story of a toddler’s near disastrous trip with Dad to the Laundromat.
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Wormell,
Christopher. Teeth, Tails & Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book. Running Press. Ages 3-8. ISBN 0-7624-2100-2.
$18.95.
Readers count
parts of familiar animals from one rhinoceros horn to twenty barnacles on one
humpback whale.
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