ANIMALS - Library Resources
BOOKS (see below for videos, CD ROMs, websites)
Title
animals: Look Again
(camouflage)
Animals in alpha order
Chameleons and other
animals with amazing
skin
Hard-to-see Animals
Hamsters
Kittens
Girl who loved wild
horses
Miss Spider’s ABC
Miss Spider’s Sunny
Patch Kids
Miss Spider’s tea party
Little Miss Spider at
Sunnypatch School
Author
Call number
590s and
600s
Labella, Susan
573.5
Fowler, Allan
Murray, Julie
Vrbova, Zuza
Goble, Paul
591.472
636.9 MUR
636.8 VRB
E GOB
Kirk
Kirk
E KIR
E KIR
Kirk
Kirk
E KIR
E KIR
Miss Spider’s new car
House Spider's Life, A
Seahorses and sea
dragons
Spiders dance, The
Raccoons
Hermit Crab
Animals in Camouflage
If you give a moose a
muffin
Kirk
Himmelman
Rhodes and
Hall
Ryder
Kite
E KIR
595.4 Him
597
Tildes
591.47 Til
If you take a mouse to school
Numeroff
E NUM
If you take a mouse to the
movies
If you give a mouse a cookie
Numeroff
E NUM
Numeroff
Ryan
E NUM
E RYA
Florian
811 FLO
Mice and Beans
CYRM nominee 2003
Mammalabilia
595.44 Ryd
599.76 Kit
Summary
590s – wild animals
600s – domestic animals
A spider's first day at school is
not easy, but she discovers
kindness is important too
Brief text & drawings
This mouse demands a snack,
notebook and pencils before
climbing into the boy's backpack.
Once at school, the mouse
happily bounds from one activity
to the next: he spells "a word or
two"...
Mice live in a house where
a party is being planned
21 original poems &paintings,
laugh out loud at the sheer
silliness of his animal
observations. Mammals ranging
from the howling coyote, woodchopping beaver, daring ibex, to
the speedy tiger...
Includes book,bear mask, 2
plastic berries, padlock&key,
mouse finger puppet, cookie,
Groucho glasses&nose, guide
The little mouse, the red
ripe strawberry, and the
big hungry bear
Wood
TR kit bag
The mouse who stole a
zoo
Shoreline
Wild
E WIL
Taylor
574.92 Tay
pg 12-13 hermit crab
Be nice to spiders
Backyard Animals
Little Raccoon and
poems from the woods
Big white thing, The
Play Ball, Joey Kangaroo
Tale of Peter Rabbit
Graham
Acker
Moore
E Gra
591.75 Ack
811 Moo
A pet spider is left at the zoo
insects, birds, animals...
One page poems
Pape
Pape
Potter
E Pap
E Pap
E POT
Raccoons discover a tub
Videos
Title
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Animal Appetites
Animal Helpers
Animal Hunters
Animal Senses
Animal Talk
Poisonous Animals
Animal Journeys
Animal Pets
Potter, Beatrix
30 min
30 min
30 min.
30 min
30 min
30 min.
30 min
30 min.
CD ROMs:
The Princess and the crab – Magic Tales story
Web sites – hold ctrl and click on the underlined web addresses
Photos of different animals at the Smithsonian National Zoo, Washington, D.C
Animal Pictures (http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/PhotoGallery/)
Animals on live camera (http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/WebCams/)
Ranger Rick/Yahooligans – http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/animals/
Click on the animal group picture (mammal, fish, insect, bird, amphibian, or reptile),
then on the name of the animal in the list 50 birds of town and city - http://www.yankeegardener.com/birds/index.htm
Night animals - http://library.thinkquest.org/5135/animals.htm
Animal tracks - http://www.bear-tracker.com/speciesintheden.html