Carole Lexa Schaefer
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Monkey and Elephant are very good friends, very good friends who look too nice to just stay at home. So they decide to go gadding. "Gadding?" said Elephant. "What's that?" "Gadding," said Monkey, "is walking along, looking around, finding something fun, stopping awhile, then moving on." Along the way, Monkey and Elephant meet up with some old friends, and three new ones, too. You never know what fun surprises you'll discover when you decide to go...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Monkey's cousin MeeMee tells Monkey and Elephant she needs someone to watch her three babies for an afternoon, the two friends volunteer. But Monkey and Elephant don't quite know what to expect. Will babysitting be hard? Will they need some rules? Will they be any good at it?
7) Someone says
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A day at preschool has leaping frogs, dancing ponies, flapping wings, eating like tigers, and all the things that children can dream.
8) Kids like us
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
On a gray drizzly day, school children imagine themselves as many different things, from firefighters to dinosaurs to kings and queens.
Author
Publisher
Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
All around the world, children on their grandmothers' farms listen to the chickens cluck in their own languages. Explore world languages and different cultures as you meet grandmothers' chickens in the United States, Mexico, Kenya, Japan, India, and France in this book that celebrates cultural diversity.
10) Who's there?
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A child, already tucked in for the night, is frightened by strange noises that grow ever closer.
11) The squiggle
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
As she walks to the park with her school class, a young girl finds a piece of string which her imagination turns into a dragon's tail, an acrobat, fireworks, a storm cloud, and more.
12) Dragon dancing
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
A group of children pretend that they are a dragon to celebrate their classmate's birthday.