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E / ARNOLD
Green Wilma.
Ted Arnold.
Waking up with a frog-like appearance, Wilma proves disruptive at school as she searches for some tasty flies.
E / AYLESWORTH
Old black fly.
Jim Aylesworth.
Illustrated by Stephen Gammell.
Rhyming text and illustrations follow a mischievous old black fly through the alphabet as he has a very busy bad day landing where he should not be.
E / BANG
When Sophie gets angry-really, really angry.
Molly Bang.
A young girl is upset and doesn't know how to manage her anger but takes the time to cool off and regain her composure.
E / BEMELMANS
Madeline.
Ludwig Bemelmans.
Twelve little girls in two straight lines live in Paris.
The youngest is Madeline who leads Miss Clavel on a merry chase.
E / BROWN
Goodnight moon.
Margaret Wise Brown.
Illustrated by Clement Hurd.
Before going to sleep, a little rabbit says goodnight to many different things.
E / BURNINGHAM
Mr. Gumpy’s outing.
John Burningham.
Mr. Gumpy accepts more and more riders on his boat until the inevitable occurs.
E / CLERK
The wriggly, wriggly baby.
Jessica Clerk.
Illustrated by Laura Rankin.
A very active baby ventures from his home to the firehouse, the zoo, the circus, and the beach, eluding his parents, until he finds himself alone and discovers that he misses them.
E / CRONIN
Click, clack, moo: cows that type.
Doreen Cronin.
Illustrated by Betsy Lewin.
When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.
E / DUNREA
Gossie.
Oliver Dunrea.
Gossie is a gosling who likes to wear bright red boots every day. She is heartbroken the day her boots are missing and she can’t find them anywhere.
E / FALCONER
Olivia.
Ian Falconer.
Whether at home getting ready for the day, enjoying the beach, or at bedtime, Olivia is a feisty pig who has too much energy for her own good.
E / FLEMING
Muncha! muncha! muncha!
Candace Fleming.
Illustrated by G. Brian Karas.
After planting the garden he has dreamed of for years, Mr. McGreely tries to find a way to keep some persistent bunnies from eating all his vegetables.
E / FLEMING
Mama cat has three kittens.
Denise Fleming.
While two kittens copy everything their mother does, their brother naps.
E / HENKES
Kitten’s first full moon.
Kevin Henkes.
When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.
E / HENKES
Owen.
Kevin Henkes.
Fuzzy follows Owen wherever he goes. Is he Owen’s kitten?
No-Fuzzy is Owen’s fuzzy yellow blanket.
E / HOFFMAN
Amazing Grace.
Mary Hoffman.
Illustrated by Caroline Binch.
Grace discovers that she can become anything, even Peter Pan.
E / LEE
While we were out.
Ho Baek Lee.
When someone leaves the patio door unlocked it's just the opportunity the family's pet rabbit needs to go exploring.
E / MARTIN
Chicka chicka boom boom.
Bill Martin.
Illustrated by Suzanne Tanner Chitwood.
What do you see? Alphabet letters rollicking in the coconut tree!
E / NUMEROFF
If you give a mouse a cookie.
Laura Joffe Numeroff.
Illustrated by Felicia Bond.
Be careful when you give a mouse a cookie, because you don’t know what he’ll ask for next.
E / RILEY
Mouse mess.
Linnea Asplind.
A hungry mouse leaves a huge mess when it goes in search of a snack.
E / RATHMANN
Officer Buckle and Gloria.
Peggy Rathmann.
The children at Napville Elementary School always ignore Officer Buckle’s safety tips, until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him when he gives his safety speeches.
E / ROHMANN
My friend rabbit.
Eric Rohmann.
Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend
E / SENDAK
Where the wild things are.
Maurice Sendak.
When mischievous Max is banished to his room, he sails away to a magical land where the wild things are.
E / SHANNON
No, David!
David Shannon.
A young boy is depicted doing a variety of naughty things for which he is repeatedly admonished, but finally he gets a hug.
E / SIMMONS
Come along Daisy!
Jane Simmons.
Daisy the duckling becomes so engrossed in playing with dragonflies and lily pads that she temporarily loses her mother.
E / SLOBODKINA
Caps for sale.
Esphyr Slobodkina.
Mischievous monkeys refuse to return a poor peddler’s caps.
E / SMALL
Imogene’s antlers.
David Small.
One Thursday Imogene wakes up with a pair of antlers growing out of her head and causes a sensation wherever she goes.
E / STEIG
Doctor DeSoto.
William Steig.
A fox with a sore tooth tries to eat the mouse dentist who helps him.
E / TABACK
Joseph had a little overcoat.
Simms Taback.
A very old overcoat is recycled numerous times into a variety of garments.
E / WALSH
Mouse paint.
Ellen Stoll Walsh.
Three white mice experiment with pigment to produce a full spectrum of color.
E / WARING
Alberto the dancing alligator.
Richard Waring.
Illustrated by Holly Swain.
After Tina's pet alligator Alberto accidentally goes down the toilet, she has to find a way to save him from the city's alligator hunters.
E / WILLEMS
Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus.
Mo Willems.
A very determined pigeon begs and pleads to drive the bus.
E / WILLEMS
Knuffle bunny: a cautionary tale.
Mo Willems.
After Trixie and daddy leave the laundromat, something very important turns up missing.
E / WOOD
The napping house.
Audrey Wood.
Illustrated by Don Wood.
A wakeful flea causes havoc in a napping house where everyone is sleeping.
E / WOOD
Piggies.
Audrey Wood.
Illustrated by Don Wood.
Five little piggies on each hand illustrate the mood of the moment as they dance on a little child’s fingers.
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