LibraryAware Early Literacy

Dog's first baby
by Natalie Nelson

Investigating the arrival of a new member of the family, Dog is determined to dig up some clues to discover the identity of this loud, silly creature. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.

Big Bear, Little Bear
by Marine Schneider

Featuring bold primary-colored art, this simple board book follows Big Bear and Little Bear as they compare big and little everyday objects that they use in their lives together as parent and child. 20,000 first printing. Illustrations.

Pet
by Matthew Van Fleet

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My Heart Grows
by Michael Arndt

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Wake up, farm!
by Melanie Joyce

Lift the flaps to reveal Rooster's farm friends

A hundred kisses before bedtime
by 1960- Mack

Chick encourages all the other animals to get some sleep by giving them all good-night kisses

Little Blue Truck's springtime : a lift-the-flap book
by Alice Schertle

Young children are invited to celebrate the beauty and renewal of spring with Little Blue Truck in a sturdy board book that features interactive lift-flaps that reveal a series of adorable baby animals. 500,000 first printing.

You're one!
by 1977- Unwin, Shelly

A gift-appropriate celebration of a baby’s first birthday incorporates a subtle math introduction throughout colorful spreads that feature babies and grownups celebrating with tummy tickles, a birthday cake and acknowledgements of a child’s unique individuality. Illustrations.

Moo : a feel-and-fit shapes book of animal noises
by Annie Simpson

A variety of animals demonstrate the sounds that they make, in a book that features raised illustrations that fit directly into recesses of the same shape on the opposite page

Step by step
by Guido van Genechten

"How do you take your first steps? The cute baby animals go from holding on to the sofa to being a little bit wobbly or holding hands"

Baby day
by 1964- Godwin, Jane

A baby's first birthday is celebrated with neighbors, including several baby friends who demonstrate how they can be shy, friendly, strong, sunny and more. Illustrated by the award-winning artist of Harry and Hopper. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook

Love you head to toe
by Ashley Barron

High-detail cut-paper collage art and creative rhymes compare a multicultural assortment of human babies to baby animals who also stretch their limbs, splash in the water, toddle around and fill their chubby cheeks like chipmunks throughout a day of first-year routines.

Everyone is yawning
by Anita Bijsterbosch

When bedtime arrives, a sequence of whimsical animals yawn in turn, in an interactive story that invites young children to lift flaps on each spread that help the animals to yawn. By the award-winning creator of Whose Hat Is That?

Good night like this
by 1961- Murphy, Mary

A latest animal story by the creator of A Kiss Like This combines rhythmic text and gentle illustrations of animals lulling their babies to sleep, in a volume complemented by cut-away pages, foil effects and other novelty accents.