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1000 Books Before Kindergarten March 2018
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-Tip- Play simple naming games with your child. You can ask, “What is This?” or “Where is he/she going?” when you go to the grocery store, go on a walk, or sit and look out the window. (GetReadytoRead.org)
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Explore the green of spring with these titles...
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When spring comes
by Kevin Henkes
The award-winning husband-and-wife team behind Birds presents a story that combines imagery, repetition and alliteration to introduce basic language concepts and the seasons as experienced by animals who observe the end of winter. 125,000 first printing.
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Quiet Bunny's many colors
by Lisa McCue
Quiet Bunny loves the bright colors of spring—the yellow ducks, green frogs and blue jays—everything but his own mousy-brown and wintry-white fur, and it takes the help of a wise old owl for Bunny to realize that it's the rainbow of colors, including his own, that makes the world so beautiful.
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Who's awake in springtime?
by Phillis Gershator
Describes, in rhymed cumulative text and illustrations, how various young animals and one small human prepare for sleep at the end of a spring day
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Katy Duck is a caterpillar
by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Initially disappointed that she has to play the role of a caterpillar in the spring dance recital, Katy has a change of heart and does her part the best she can--stealing the show by suddenly transforming herself from a caterpillar into a butterfly for all to see!
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Estamos en primavera
by Jackie Heckt
A girl introduces the characteristics of spring as she, her family, and her friends enjoy the seasonal changes and some of the things people do in the springtime
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Green
by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the many shades of the color green
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And then it's spring
by Julie Fogliano
Simple text reveals the anticipation of a boy who, having planted seeds while everything around is brown, fears that something has gone wrong until, at last, the world turns green. By the Caldecott-winning artist of A Sick Day for Amos McGee.
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St. Patrick's Day
by Anne F. Rockwell
Mrs. Madoff's students celebrate Saint Patrick's Day by making class presentations about the history of the holiday and Irish traditions and culture
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The leprechaun who lost his rainbow
by Sean Callahan
Fearing that her grandfather won't be able to play his bagpipes in the St. Patrick's Day parade because of the rain, Colleen becomes worried and sad, but when a leprechaun appears and makes her an offer that will bring out the sun, Colleen must consider the deal with great caution.
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