Kimberly Wooley's Library
Pisgah Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780545106337 | Dear Deer | Gene Barretta | When clever Aunt Ant moves to the zoo, she describes the quirky animal behavior she observes by speaking in homophones, from the moose who loved mousse to the fox who blew blue bubbles. | |
| 9780439802888 | Duck and a Book | David Shannon | Duck just received a new book and after telling all of his friends on the farm about it, he sat down to read it to them. | |
| 9780316235976 | Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals | Ed Emberley | Explains how to use a few simple shapes, letters, numbers, and symbols to draw almost any animal. | Little Brown & Company |
| 9780689874512 | Eloise and the Snowman | Lisa McClatchy, Hilary Knight, Kay Thompson | When snow starts falling in New York City, Eloise skips breakfast to rush out to Central Park to build a snowman. | Simon and Schuster |
| 9780545102025 | First Day Jitters | Julie Danneberg | Sarah is afraid to start at a new school, but both she and the reader are in for a surprise when she gets to her class. | |
| 9780142412732 | First Grade, Here I Come! | Nancy Carlson | After the first day of first grade, Henry's not sure how he feels about it. The teacher isn't like his kindergarten teacher, and the fifth-graders hog the monkey bars. But as Henry tells his mother about a new friend who likes soccer and about how he'll learn to read books, he begins to realize that maybe first grade won't be so bad after all. | Penguin |
| 9780545349444 | Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl! | Tedd Arnold | When Fly Guy meets Fly Girl, he is amazed and smitten. | |
| 9780761450290 | Follow the Stars | A journey made across snowbound lands by animals in search of the missing Birds of Summer results in the return of the warm season. | Cavendish Square Publishing | |
| 9781885223579 | Frog Girl | Frogs have been stolen, an earthquake rumbles, a village is in peril. To restore calm to her land, a girl must delve beneath the surface of a lake, deep into a spirit world. What she finds will thrill readers and introduce them to a classic hero's journey. | Beyond Words Publishing | |
| 9780545264945 | Gilbert, the Surfer Dude | Diane De Groat | Gilbert the opossum imagines himself as Surfer Dude on a fun-filled day at the beach. | |
| 9780399234446 | Gingerbread Baby | Jan Brett | Jan Brett's Gingerbread Baby is not about to get eaten in this delicious twist on a favorite Christmastime tale! It all begins when Matti opens the oven too soon and out jumps a cheeky little Gingerbread Bay. He leads Matti's mother and father, the dog and the cat, and a whole colorful cast of characters on a rollicking chase through the village and into the forest, staying just out of reach, daring them to catch him along the way. But Matti's not with them. He's at home in the borders making what turns out to be a gingerbread house into which the Gingerbread Baby runs. Only Matti knows he is safely inside. And readers will too when they look under the lift-the-flap gingerbread house at the end of the story, and there he is! | Penguin |
| 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. | |
| 9780439539470 | Giraffes Can't Dance | Giles Andreae | Gerald the giraffe is too clumsy to dance with all the other animals at the Jungle Dance, until he finds the right music. | |
| 9780439287197 | Giraffes Can't Dance | Giles Andreae | Gerald the giraffe is too clumsy to dance with all the other animals at the Jungle Dance, until he finds the right music. | Orchard Books (NY) |
| 9780064430173 | Goodnight Moon 60th Anniversary Edition | Margaret Wise Brown | In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room—to the picture of the three little bears sitting in chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to everything one by one—he says goodnight. In this classic of modern children's literature, beloved by generations of readers and listeners, the quiet poetry of the words and the gentle, lulling illustrations combine to make a perfect book for the end of the day. | Harper Collins |
| 9780439077668 | Hansel and Gretel | Rika Lesser | ||
| 9780399234774 | Hedgie's Surprise | Jan Brett | Jan Brett's beloved character Hedgie stars in this charming story about a little Tomten who gets tired of porridge for breakfast and starts stealing Henny's eggs. But Henny wants a brood of chicks and she needs her eggs. With the help of clever Hedgie, she substitutes an acorn, a strawberry, a mushroom and finally a potato in her nest. But nothing stops that Tomten until the little hedgehog hides in Henny's nest: when the Tomten reaches in to get his morning treat, all he gets is a handful of prickles. He runs home for porridge and never comes back again! Intricate needlepoint patterns of Scandinavian designs frame the characters reacting from the borders in this beautiful picture book set in Denmark. | Penguin |
| 9780590480253 | Hold Christmas in Your Heart | Cheryl Willis Hudson | An anthology of stories, poems, and songs, written and illustrated by such noted African-Americans as Langston Hughes and Lucille Clifton, celebrates the joys of Christmas. Reprint. | Cartwheel Books |
| 9781934019306 | Home Again | Dorinda Silver Williams | Mommies and daddies are coming home after military service. Different children react in different ways. | Zero to Three |
| 9780399256530 | Home for Christmas | Jan Brett | A warm, fun-loving Christmas picture book for families to share and love and laugh over together. A grumpy little troll runs away from home because he doesn't want to do his chores. Rollo tries living with various woodland animals, but he finds out that there is no place like home, and returns to his family just in time for "the best Christmas ever." Among the animals who take him in are an owl family, a mother bear and two rambunctious cubs, some playful river otters, a hungry lynx and a friendly moose family. Jan Brett creates an irresistible, mischievous character that kids will recognize in themselves. Jan transports us to a glorious Scandinavian landscape where a beautiful fall turns into a magnificent snowy winter. Her signature borders depict the troll family missing Rollo, and animals as appealing as those found in The Mitten. | National Geographic Books |