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• Pop! Goes the Nursery Rhyme

  Bird, Betsy,

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  Nursery rhymes are a terrific way to build vocabulary. Pop! Goes the Nursery Rhyme explores classic nursery rhymes in a silly, interactive way.

• Life on Mars

  Agee, Jon,

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  A sci-fi picture book where the pictures tell us more than the words. It's so fun to be in on the secret.

• Stack the Cats

  Ghahremani, Susie,

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  Lots of counting and adding, with a sneaky helping of dividing and multiplying. Stack the Cats is a great way to introduce young readers to mathematical concepts.

• Whose Bones Are Those?

  Takeuchi, Chihiro, 1971-

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  A conceptual picture book in which different animals' skeletons are scattered across the page. Readers are invited to ponder the shape of the bones and figure out whose skeleton is whose. Think like an animal detective and learn about decoding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is Not My Lunch Box!

  Dupuis, Jennifer,

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  This Is Not My Lunch Box! is full of the expressive, repetitive text that preschoolers love. Look inside the colorful lunchboxes of forest animals and learn about their diets.

• Lola at the Library

  McQuinn, Anna

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  Picture books about day-to-day activities offer young readers a way to make sense of their own lives. This series by Anna McQuinn follows Lola and her brother Leo's routines, like visiting the public library!

• Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons

  Litwin, Eric

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  Pete the Cat is a classic for a reason. This book about counting and going with the flow never misses.

• Towed by Toad

  Awan, Jashar,

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  Everybody needs help sometimes! Towed By Toad using a simple sentence structure and expressive faces that appeal to preschoolers of all kinds.

• Berry Song

  Goade, Michaela,

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  Berry Song is a truly gorgeous celebration of nature and the knowledge of elders. Musical interludes and a repeating call-and-response give preschoolers a chance to play with language and orient themselves to the natural world.

• Wait, Rest, Pause

  Dormancy in Nature

  Atkins, Marcie Flinchum,

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  A great example of preschool nonfiction! This one uses simple text with big, colorful photographs to introduce new concepts of dormancy and hibernation.

• Very Good Hats

  Straub, Emma,

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  Put on your thinking cap and ponder all the ways to cover your head. Bright and cheerful pictures show many different kinds of people wearing many different kinds of hats.

• Amara's Farm

  Brown-Wood, JaNay,

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  Amara's hosting a potluck and needs to harvest pumpkins from her family's farm. Readers compare and contrast different vegetables and will have a blast answering the question "Is that a pumpkin?"

• They All Saw a Cat

  Wenzel, Brendan,

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  They All Saw a Cat explores what a cat might look like from the perspectives of different animals. It's sure to inspire some interesting conversations about how what we see teaches us about what we believe.

• Everybody in the Red Brick Building

  Wynter, Anne,

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  Onomatopoeia is a fun way for preschoolers to learn about unique sounds and how they correspond to text. A chain reaction of sounds shows how a whole apartment building wakes up and drifts back off to sleep. The repeating wake-up noises are super…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ten Dragon Eggs

  a Book About Counting Down

  Graham-Barber, Lynda,

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  The colorful illustrations in Ten Dragon Eggs offer plenty of opportunities to practice counting and compare and contrast all of the dragon babies.