Packer Collegiate Institute Hart Library Books Mentioned at the Kindergarten to First Grade Transition Breakfast April 11, 2016 363.7288 P Paul, Miranda. One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia. Isatou Ceesay finds a way to recycle discarded plastic bags that have accumulated in dirty heaps in her Gambian village. 398.2 G Galdone, Paul. Little Red Riding Hood: Adapted From the Retelling by the Brothers Grimm. A retelling of the folk tale about a little girl who finds a wolf in her grandmother's clothing. 551.48 P Paul, Miranda. Water is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle. "A spare, poetic picture book exploring the different phases of the water cycle in surprising and engaging ways"--. 591.468 J Jenkins, Steve. Egg: Nature s Perfect Package. Explore how a simple, often colorful, sometimes surprisingly shaped package, reveals nature's life cycle, unusual animal defensive strategies, parenting behavior, evolution, and more, in this illustrated non-fiction picture book. 591.56 A Aston, Dianna Hutts. A Nest is Noisy. Text and illustrations look at different animal nests.
792.802 S Snyder, Laurel. Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova. Tells how Anna Pavlova began her journey of becoming a famous prima ballerina. 811 R Rosen, Michael J. The Maine Coon's Haiku and Other Poems for Cat Lovers. An illustrated collection of haiku in which the author describes the characteristics of twenty popular cat breeds. E AGEE Agee, Jon. It's Only Stanley. Very strange noises that keep awakening the Wimbledon family one night have an even stranger source. E APPLEGATE Applegate, Katherine. Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla. The true story of Ivan, known as the Shopping Mall Gorilla, who lived alone in a small cage for almost 30 years before being relocated to the gorilla habitat at ZooAtlanta. E BURLEIGH Burleigh, Robert. Trapped! : A Whale's Rescue. Text and illustrations look at the rescue of a humpback whale that got trapped in a fishing net. E DAYWALT Daywalt, Drew. The Day the Crayons Came Home. One day, Duncan is happily coloring with his crayons when a stack of postcards arrives in the mail from his former crayons, each of which has run away or been left behind, and all of which want to come home.
E DE LA PENA de la Peña, Matt. Last Stop on Market Street. A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things. E DIPUCCHIO DiPucchio, Kelly. Gaston. A proper bulldog raised in a poodle family and a tough poodle raised in a bulldog family meet one day in the park. E FAULCONER Faulconer, Maria Fasal. A Mom for Umande. Because his own mother is too young to take care of him, Umande, a newborn gorilla, is fed and cuddled by human zookeepers until a surrogate mother is found. E HATKE Hatke, Ben. Julia's House for Lost Creatures. Julie welcomes all lost and homeless creatures into her house, whether they be cats or trolls, ghosts or dragons, but soon realizes that each must have a chore in order for the arrangement to work. E HENKES Henkes, Kevin. Waiting. An owl, puppy, bear, bunny, and pig wait for marvelous things to happen.
E MEDINA Medina, Meg. Mango, Abuela, and Me. Mia's Abuela has left her sunny house with parrots and palm trees to live with Mia and her parents in the city. The night she arrives, Mia tries to share her favorite book with Abuela before they go to sleep and discovers that Abuela can't read the words inside. E RUBIN Rubin, Adam. Those Darn Squirrels and the Cat Next Door. Old man Fookwire finds his yard's tranquility deeply disturbed after his new neighbor's cat, Muffins, begins to terrorize the squirrels, but the squirrels have a plan to put a stop to Muffins. E STEAD Stead, Philip Christian. Lenny & Lucy. A story about moving to a new house and making new friends. ER ADLER Adler, David A. Don't Throw it to Mo! Mo is the youngest kid on the Robins football team. The kids on the rival team tease him for being a 'butterfingers' who's too tiny to catch the ball. But Mo's coach has a plan up his sleeve to turn Mo's little size into a big win for the Robins. F BARROWS Barrows, Annie. Ivy + Bean. When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected. F DAHL Dahl, Roald. The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me. A little boy becomes friends with a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey who wash windows for a living. While working for the Duke of Hampshire, they catch a famous jewel thief and are each granted a wish.
F JENKINS F PINKWATER Jenkins, Emily. Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic. In the backpack, where it is very dark -- The serious problem of Plastic-ness -- The terrifying bigness of the washing machine -- The possible shark -- How Lumphy got on the big high bed and lost something rather good-looking -- It is difficult to find the right birthday present. Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys. Pinkwater, Daniel. Mrs. Noodlekugel. Nick and Maxine have a new babysitter--the eccentric Mrs. Noodlekugel who lives in the funny little house behind their drab high-rise apartment building along with her feline butler, Mr. Fuzzface, and three myopic mice.