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1) The twelve days of kindergarten: a counting book

Author

Rose, Deborah Lee

Publisher

Abrams

Pub. Date

c2003.

Language

English

Description

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A cumulative counting verse in which a child enumerates items in the kindergarten classroom, from the whole alphabet, A to Z, to twelve eggs for hatching.

2) All join in

Author

Blake, Quentin

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

1991

Language

English

3) Because Amelia smiled

Author

Stein, David Ezra

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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A little girl's smile as she skips down the street in New York inspires a neighbor to send cookies to her grandson in Mexico, and the good will soon spreads around the world.

4) No jumping on the bed!

Author

Arnold, Tedd

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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Walter lives near the top floor of a tall apartment building, where one night his habit of jumping on his bed leads to a tumultous fall through floor after floor, collecting occupants all the way down.

5) The sandcastle that Lola built

Author

Maynor, Megan

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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As Lola builds a sandcastle, she is joined by Frisbee Dude, Little Guy, and Minnesota Girl in a story reminscent of "The House that Jack Built."

6) A hen, a chick, and a string guitar: inspired by a Chilean folk tale

Author

MacDonald, Margaret Read

Publisher

Barefoot

Pub. Date

c2005.

Language

English

Description

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A cumulative tale from Chile that begins with a hen and ends with sixteen different animals and a guitar.

7) Where is the apple pie?

Author

Gorbachev, Valeri

Publisher

Philomel

Pub. Date

c1999.

Language

English

Description

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A simple question leads to the description of a more and more outlandish situation, but never really gives an answer.

8) The bridge is up!

Author

Bell, Babs

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

c2004.

Language

English

Description

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In this cumulative story, a traffic jam is created when everyone has to wait for the bridge to come down.

9) Aunt Pitty Patty's piggy

Author

Aylesworth, Jim

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

c1999.

Language

English

Description

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A cumulative tale in which Aunt Pitty Patty's niece, Nelly, tries to get piggy to go through the gate.

10) If you give a mouse a cookie

Author

Numeroff, Laura Joffe

Series

If you give book

Language

English

Formats

Book, Noncirculating Item

Description

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Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young boy's day.

11) Little white dog

Author

Godwin, Laura

Publisher

Hyperion

Pub. Date

c1998.

Language

English

Description

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One by one, a series of animals disappears into the background, until, with the lights turned on, each animal searches for the next in line.

12) The magic pomegranate: a Jewish folktale

Author

Schram, Peninnah

Series

On my own folklore

Publisher

Millbrook

Pub. Date

c2008.

Language

English

Description

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Three handsome and clever brothers compete to find the world's most unusual gift. Includes a note on doing good deeds, or mitzvot, and discusses the symbolism of the pomegranate in Judaism.

13) Jump, frog, jump!

Author

Kalan, Robert

Language

English

Description

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A cumulative tale in which a frog tries to catch a fly without getting caught itself.

14) Drummer Hoff

Author

Emberley, Barbara

Language

English

Appears on list

Caldecott Medal

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

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A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.

15) In Enzo's splendid gardens

Author

Polacco, Patricia

Publisher

Philomel

Pub. Date

c1997.

Language

English

Description

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A cumulative rhyme describes the uproarious chain of events that ensue when a waiter trips over a book dropped by a boy watching a bee.

16) Isabella's garden

Author

Millard, Glenda

Publisher

Candlewick

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

Description

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In Isabella's garden, amazing things come from the tiniest of seeds as they bloom and flourish and make way for a whole new season of growth.

17) The enormous turnip

Author

Tolstoy, Alexei

Series

Green Light reader. Level 2

Publisher

Harcourt

Pub. Date

c2003.

Language

English

Description

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A cumulative tale in which the turnip planted by an old man grows so enormous that everyone must help to pull it up.

18) This is the farmer

Author

Tafuri, Nancy

Publisher

Greenwillow

Pub. Date

c1994.

Language

English

Description

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A farmer's kiss causes an amusing chain of events on the farm.

19) That's good! That's bad!

Author

Cuyler, Margery

Publisher

Holt

Pub. Date

c1991.

Language

English

Description

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A little boy has a series of adventures and misadventures with wild animals.

20) There was an old lady who swallowed a fly

Author

Taback, Simms

Publisher

Viking

Language

English

Appears on these lists

Picture Book Classics
Storytime 2023

Description

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Presents the traditional version of a famous American folk poem first heard in the U.S. in the 1940's with illustrations on die-cut pages that reveal all that the old lady swallows.

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1) The twelve days of kindergarten: a counting book

2) All join in

3) Because Amelia smiled

4) No jumping on the bed!

5) The sandcastle that Lola built

6) A hen, a chick, and a string guitar: inspired by a Chilean folk tale

7) Where is the apple pie?

8) The bridge is up!

9) Aunt Pitty Patty's piggy

10) If you give a mouse a cookie

11) Little white dog

12) The magic pomegranate: a Jewish folktale

13) Jump, frog, jump!

14) Drummer Hoff

15) In Enzo's splendid gardens

16) Isabella's garden

17) The enormous turnip

18) This is the farmer

19) That's good! That's bad!

20) There was an old lady who swallowed a fly

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