Karen Bradley's Library
Montgomery Central Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780688117016 | Freight Train: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner | Donald Crews | In simple, powerful words and vibrant illustrations, Donald Crews evokes the rolling wheels of that childhood favorite: a train.This Caldecott Honor Book features bright colors and bold shapes. Even a child not lucky enough to have counted freight cars will feel he or she has watched a freight train passing after reading Freight Train.Donald Crews used childhood memories of trains seen during his travels to his grandparents' farm in the American South as the inspiration for this timeless favorite.New York magazine's The Strategist chose Freight Train as one of the "Best (Nonobvious) Baby Books to Bring to a Shower." As The Strategist stated: "The Caldecott Honor Book is spare and minimal in both art and text and follows the journey of a freight train and all its cars until it rolls off the page and into the distance. It’s a good way to learn all the different names of train cars, too."Red caboose at the back, orange tank car, green cattle car, purple box car, black tender and a black steam engine . . . freight train. | Greenwillow Books |
| 9780064440592 | Frog and Toad All Year | Arnold Lobel | Friends all year. In winter, spring, summer, and fall, Frog and Toad are always together. Here is a wise and wonderful story for each seasonof the year-and one for Christmas, too. | Harper Collins |
| 9780064440219 | Frog and Toad Together | Arnold Lobel | Best Friends Frog and Toad are always together. Here are five wonderful stories about flowers, cookies, bravery, dreams, and, most of all, friendship. | HarperCollins |
| 9780545214582 | Gingerbread Friends | Jan Brett | Lonely Gingerbread Baby, having set out to find a friend, enters a bakery where he tries to talk to different cookies and other figures, but winds up leading a crowd back to his house on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale. Includes one fold-out illustration and a recipe for gingerbread cookies. | |
| 9780679867401 | Glasses for D.W. (Step-Into-Reading, Step 3) | Brown, Marc | Random House Books for Young Readers | |
| 9780763620523 | Growing Frogs: Read and Wonder | Vivian French | "Part picture book for pleasure reading. . . . and part practical how-to, this dramatic account is the next best thing to setting up a hatchery of your own." — Family FunWhen a mother brings her daughter to a pond to collect some frog spawn, the little girl isn’t sure what to expect. Day after day she checks on the jellylike bubbles until the black dots in their centers turn into slippery tadpoles, sprouting bumps that turn to stumps that become legs with webby feet. The engaging narrative and colorful illustrations accurately evoke each stage of a frog’s growth, in a story that will inspire children to roll up their sleeves and experience firsthand the wonders of the natural world.Back matter includes an index. | Candlewick |
| 9780525442011 | Hand Rhymes | Marc Tolon Brown | A collection of nursery rhymes with diagrams for accompanying finger plays. | Dutton Juvenile |
| 9781432936860 | Hearing | Books in this series introduce readers to the five senses through simple text and vivid photographs. Each book focuses on one sense and the associated sensory organs. In ÒHearing,Ó readers learn about different sounds they can hear, how to keep their ears safe, and how hearing aids can help some people to hear. | Capstone Classroom | |
| 9780439678964 | Hibernation | Melvin Berger | Some animals hibernate in fall. | |
| 9780328157037 | Hide, Clyde! | Russell Benfanti | Clyde is a small chameleon with a big predicament-he can't change the color of his skin to hide himself. His brothers seem to be able to change effortlessly. Clyde discovers, sometimes we learn suddenly and all at once. | |
| 9780778706168 | How and Why Do Animals Move? | Bobbie Kalman | Describes the different ways in which animals move, including the flight of birds, the climbing behavior of monkeys, and the migration of whales from cold to warm waters. | |
| 9781338284331 | How Do Dinosaurs Stay Safe? | Jane Yolen | Young dinosaurs take precautions in order to stay safe throughout the day, both at home and at play. | |
| 9781338862508 | How to Catch a Unicorn | Adam Wallace | "Can you catch the unicorn? You'll have to use your brain. So set your traps and prep your team to pet that rainbow mane!"-- | |
| 9781338607840 | I Am Enough | Grace Byers | Scholastic | |
| 9781591984498 | I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a One , Sing Along & Read Along with Dr. Jean | Jean Feldman | Twelve popular Dr. Jean songs have been hand selected and transformed into delightful readers. These fun and whimsical stories support early learning concepts by nurturing oral language, alphabet recognition, and print knowledge. These motivating stories are easy to act out and make learning fun! | Creative Teaching Press |
| 9780439800976 | I Like Myself! | Karen Beaumont | In rhyming text, a little girl expresses confidence and joy in her uniqueness, no matter her outward appearance. | |
| 9780545449656 | I Want a New Room | Karen Kaufman Orloff | Through a series of brief letters to his parents, Alex presents all the reasons why he should not have to share a room with his younger brother after their baby sister's arrival. | |
| 9781338266832 | If You Give a Mouse a Brownie | Laura Joffe Numeroff | ||
| 9780060278687 | If You Take a Mouse to the Movies (If You Give...) | Laura Numeroff | Mouse celebrates the holidays in this picture book in the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling If You Give... series!If you take a mouse to the movies, he'll ask you for some popcorn. If you give him the popcorn, he'll want to string it all together. Then he'll want to hang it on a Christmas tree.The famous little mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie that has delighted millions of readers is back in an irresistible tale full of holiday antics.Collect all the books in this giggle-inspiring classic series! | HarperCollins |
| 9781845066017 | I'm Special, I'm Me! | Ann Meek | Milo is fed up. He wants to play at being a pirate captain, but the other children say he's too short, he must be a deck-hand. He's too small to be a lion, and not handsome enough to be the prince. But Milo's mum makes him see that the other roles can be even more fun... |