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TE 511: Advanced Studies in Children's Literature: Picture books

Picture Book Readings Lists

Each book on these lists includes the reading level, location, call number and a short summary.

Picture ebooks

​Abracadabra! It's spring by Anne Sibley O'Brien

The Alamo cat by Rita Kerr

Albert doubles the fun: adding doubles by Eleanor May

Albert starts school by Eleanor May

Around the Passover table by Tracy Newman

Before morning by Joyce Sidman

A bowl full of peace: a true story by Caren Stelson

A boy like you by Frank Murphy

The busy life of Ernestine Buckmeister by Linda Ravin Lodding

Can U save the day? by Shannon Stocker

Cat spies mouse by Rina A. Foti and Dave Atze

The Christmas snowman by Margery Cutler

Do super heroes have teddy bears? by Carmela LaVigna Coyle

Don't call me special: a first look at disability by Pat Thomas

Fall in the country: taking a walk by Sue Tarsy

The festival of bones: the little-bitty book for the Day of the Dead by Luis Van Vicente

Flowers are calling  by Rita Gray

The gift of Ramadan by Rabia York Lumbard

Good night dinosaur by Mark Jasper and Adam Gamble 

Good night, sleep tight by Luana K. Mitten

Grandpa's third drawer: unlocking Holocaust memories by Judy Tal Kopelman

Hickory Dickory Dock by Keith Baker

How to be friends with a dragon by Valeri Gorbachev

How to build an insect by Roberta Gibson

Humpfree the humpless camel by Julia Dweck

I'm a librarian by Brian Biggs

In Flanders fields by Norman Jorgensen 

In the garden with Dr. Carver by Susan Grigsby

The legend of Michigan by Trinka Noble

Luna's red hat: an illustrated storybook to help children cope with loss and suicide by Emmi Smid

Making shapes with Monkey by Kara Kenna

Mango moon by Diane de Anda

Muddle and Mo by Nikki Slade Robinson

My cancer days by Courtney Filigenzi

Niko Draws a Feeling by Robert Raczka and Simone Shin

One more dino on the floor by Kelly Starling Lyons

Par-tay! Dance of the veggies and their friends by Eloise Greenfield

Pick a circle, gather squares: a Fall harvest of shapes by Felicia Sanzari Chernesky

Play with shapes by Joyce Markovics

The princess and the warrior: a tale of two volcanoes by Duncan Tonatiuh

Ready, set, kindergarten! by Paula Ayer

Santa's secret  by Denise Brennan-Nelson

Separate is never equal:: Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh 

The St. Patrick's Day shillelagh by Janet Nolan

Shubh Diwali by Chitra Soundar

The sock thief by Ana Crespo

Stepping stones: a refugee family's journey by Margriet Ruurs

A trip into space: an adventure tot he International Space Station by Lori Haskins Houran

Tuke and Moka: a tale of two tamarins by Judy Young

Whose tracks are these?: a clue book of familiar forest animals by Jim Nail 

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