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Nonfiction Storytime Favorites

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Non-Fiction Storytime Favorites
Listed by MCL YS staff on 7/25/07

 

A Mouse’s Life – John Himmelman
Actual Size – Steve Jenkins
An Egg is Quiet – Dianna Aston & Sylvia Long
Animal Babies in Ponds & Rivers – Carron Brown
Animals in Fall - Martha E. H. Rustad

Are You a Bee? (Allen/Humphries)

Are You a Butterfly?  (Allen/Humphries)

Are You A Spider? Judy Allen & Tudor Humphries

Backyard Bugs by Richard Ferguson. DK, 2007.

Beast Feast – Douglas Florian
Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant & other poetry – Jack Prelutsky & Carin Berger
Big Yellow Sunflower by Frances Barry. Candlewick, 2008.
Bugs for Lunch – Margery Facklam & Sylvia Long
Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! – Bob Barner
Buzz – Caroline Bingham, Ben Morgan, Matthew Robertson
Chameleon, Chameleon – Joy Cowley & Nic Bishop

City 1 2 3 (Milich) 

City Signs (Milich)

Cool Drink of Water – Barbara Kerley
Creepy, Crawly Baby Bugs – Sandra Markle
Elephants Can Paint Too – Katya Arnold
Exactly the Opposite – Tana Hoban
Fabulous Fishes by Susan Stockdale. Peachtree, 2008.
Farm Animals (DK) jbb – Nicola Tuxworth
Hello Ocean – Pam Munoz Ryan & Max Astrella
Hello, Hello! By Miriam Schlein & Daniel Kirk
I am America – Charles R. Smith Jr.
Ladybugs – Cari Meister
Lemons Are Not Red – Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Little Green Frogs by Frances Barry. Candlewick, 2008

Look! – Tana Hoban

Machines Go to Work by William Low. Henry Holt, 2009.

Northwest Animal Babies (Wolfe/Helman)
Ocean Babies (Rose)

On the Farm by David Elliott. Candlewick, 2008.

The Quicksand Book – Tomie de Paola)
Rabbits and Raindrops – Jim Arnosky
Red-Eyed Tree Frog – Joy Cowley & Nic Bishop
Snap! – Mick Manning

Snapshots: the Wonders of Monterey Bay (Mannis)

Some Babies Sleep - Cynthia Cotton
Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems – Joyce Sidman & Beckie Pra
Spots, Feathers and Curly Tails (Tafuri)
Traveling Babies – Kathryn O. Galbraith & Jane Dippold
What Do Wheels Do All Day? – April Jones Prince & Giles Laroche
What do you do with a tail like this? - Steve Jenkins
Where Does It Go? jbb – Margaret Miller
Where in the World is Henry? (Balian)
Whose Nose Is This? – Hall
Why? - Lila Prap
Why? – Nikolai Popov (or Lindsey Camp & Tony Ross) 

 

Non-fiction books in storytime (ALA Preschool Discussion Group, January 2008)  

 

Arnold, Katya

Elephants can Paint too!  Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005. 

Bishop, Nic.

                Spiders. Scholastic, 2007.

                Frogs. Scholastic, 2008. 

Cobb, Vicki

I Face the Wind. Harper Collins, 2003. 

Gregoire, Elizabeth.

Whose House is This? Picture Window Books, 2007.  

Jenkins, Steve

Actual Size.  Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Elephants swim.  Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

Living Color.  Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Move!  Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

What do you do with a Tail Like This?  Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 

Pearson, Susan

Horray for Feet!  Blue Apple Books, 2005. 

Prince, April Jones

What do wheels do all Day?  Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 

Salas, Laura Purdie.

Move It!   Work It! A Song About Simple Machines. Picture Window Books, 2009. 

Sarfatti, Esther

Colors: Yellow.  Rourke Pub., 2008.

Shapes: Circles.  Rourke Pub., 2008. 

Schlein, Miriam

Hello, Hello!  Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2002. 

Seeger, Laura Vaccaro

First the Egg.  Roaring Book Press, 2007.

Walter was Worried.  Roaring Book Press, 2005.  Add Song: Hip Hip Hooray It’s a Sunny Day 

Yarrow, Peter

Puff the Magic Dragon.  Sterling Pub., 2007.

 

 

 

Series of Books

SEE HOW THEY GROW series by Dorling Kindersley.

Series of Books by Ann Morris (i.e. Tools, Houses and Homes, Hats Hats Hats etc.) 

 

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