Recommended Books for Preschool & The World Around Us
Animals . . .
Big Bugs by Keith Faulkner
The Caterpillar and the Polliwog by Jack Kent
If Frogs Made the Weather by Marion Dane Bauer
Snappy Little Bugs by Claire Neilson
Nuts to You! By Lois Ehlert
Quack by Phyllis Root
One Smart Goose by Caroline Jayne Church
Hooray for Fish by Lucy Cousins
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
A popup that asks children to guess the names of bugs.
A polliwog watches a caterpillar change and changes, too.
This child describes the favorite weather of 10 animals.
See the bugs jump, hop and crawl.
Watch and see what squirrel is digging up now.
A duck counting board book.
A goose who likes to wash is the mud is teased.
Little fish and fishy friends found in an underwater home.
Animals have a party in bear’s cave while he sleeps.
The Girl Who Wore Snakes by Angela Johnson
A Boy With A Bunny On His Head by Sean Bryan
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
Kittens First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
Puppies! Puppies! Puppies by Susan Meyers
Ali discovers someone else loves snakes like she does.
What can you do with a bunny on your head?
A boy writes the zoo and asks for a pet.
Kitten mistakes the moon for a bowl of milk
Follow pups as they are born and grow.
1,2 I Love You by Alice Schertle
Big & Little by Steve Jenkins
Cool Time Song by Carole Schaefer
Forest Tracks by Dee Dee Duffy
Here a Chick, Where a Chick? by Suse MacDonald
I Love The Alphabet by Dar Hosta
Lizard’s Song by David Shannon
The Mitten by Jan Brett
Moon Glowing by Elizabeth Partridge
Noisy Forest! by Harriet Ziefert and Simms Taback
Peek-A-Zoo by Marie Cimarusti
Teeth, Tails & Tentacles by Christopher Wormell
Wild about Books by Judy Sierra
Whose Baby? by Masayuki Yabuuchi
Counting rhymes and animals big and small.
Shows different animals and how they compare to each other.
A hot day on the savannah and the animals that live there.
Look! I see some animal tracks. Listen, who’s there?
A counting book to peek and find different barnyard animals.
Animals bring the alphabet to life in rhyming verse.
Lizard sings about his home and bear wants to join in.
Animals sleep in Nicki’s lost mitten until bear sneezes.
Forest animals are shown preparing for winter.
Different animals and the noises they make.
Guess what animal is hiding behind the flap.
An animal counting book.
Molly accidentally drives the bookmobile to the zoo.
An introduction to animal babies and their names.
Animals Can Be Hard To See by Diane Swanson
Chameleon, Chameleon by Joy Cowley
Fuzzy The Duckling by Gisela Buck
Breathtaking Noses by Hana Machotka
Facts about animals and their camouflage.
Simple, photographic introduction to chameleons.
Part of the Real Baby Animals series.
Examines animal noses and how they function.
Weather . . .
Bear Shadow by Frank Asch
Shadow Night by Kay Chorao
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs by Judy Barrett
Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw
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Bear tries everything he can to get rid of his shadow.
Shows shadow puppets made with hands at night.
A silly, mixed-up weather story.
A boy’s adventures on a snowy day.
Grandma dispels fear of thunderstorms.
How rain comes to relieve drought on the plains.
A game of imagination and what pictures might be.
http://www.lfpl.org reserve books or teacher’s collections, sign up for a library cards and get program info.
http://www.picturebookart.org/ The website for the Eric Carle Museum
http://www.janbrett.com/ This official Jan Brett website is full of ideas including free activity and project ideas.
http://www.popupbooks.com/ David Carter’s website with movies and patterns for how to make popup images.