Eric Carle
1) Little cloud
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A little cloud becomes all sorts of things--a sheep, an airplane, trees, a hat--before joining other clouds and raining.
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How to Bring a Book to Life - 2023
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Spiders!
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Spiders!
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The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness. The pictures may be felt as well as seen.
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Books to Act Out With Your Story Bag!
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Children's Picture Book Classics
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Bugs
Children's Picture Book Classics
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days.
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Exuberantly coloured artwork and favourite animals make this rhythmic story the perfect introduction to looking and learning about colours. Another classic by Eric Carle. "The gentle rhyming and gorgeous, tissue paper collage illustrations in this classic picture book make it a dog eared favourite on many children's bookshelves. One thing readers cannot predict is just what kinds of funny characters will make an appearance at the denouement." Amazon...
13) Walter the baker
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By order of the Duke, Walter the baker must invent a tasty roll through which the rising sun can shine three times.
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"Ducks growing out of bananas? A mouse catching a cat? What's wrong with this book? Yes, there's something strange, something funny, and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But it's not a mistake--it's nonsense! And it's also surrealism"--
15) Draw me a star
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An artist's drawing of a star begins the creation of an entire universe around him as each successive pictured object requests that he draw more.
17) Hello, red fox
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Guests at Little Frog's birthday party include the red fox, the purple butterfly, the orange cat, and other colorful animals, in a story with illustrations designed to demonstrate the concept of complementary colors.