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Archive 1 - Fall 2007

Beetle Bop
Fleming, Denise

Beetles are everywhere in this brightly illustrated book. Beetles crawl up walls, they hide in cracks, they flip, they fly and sometimes they crash. The text is in lively rhyme that makes Beetle Bop a fun read-aloud. Preschoolers will enjoy this book over and over again.

Dogku
Clements, Andrew

This is a cute little story about a stray dog that is looking for a home. He goes to a door one morning and sees a woman in a bathrobe standing by the stove with a pot in her hand and wonders will she shut the door? She lets him in and so the story begins. What makes this book standout from other books of the same genre is that it is written in haiku. The illustrations will steal your heart as this puppy finds a home.

Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See
Martin, Bill

This is the final collaboration from this bestselling author-illustrator team. Young readers will enjoy Baby Bears quest to find Mama, and they’ll revel in identifying each of the native North American animals that appear along the way.

Thank You Bear
Foley Greg

When a little Bear finds a little box he thinks that “it’s the greatest thing ever! Mouse will love this.” As he goes off to find mouse he meets many animal critics who don’t think that it’s so great. Soon Bear begins to wonder if it is so great after all. Then mouse comes along and asks Bear what he has. After inspecting the box and crawling inside mouse says “It’s the greatest thing ever!”, and thanks Bear. Simple pictures and text are perfect for this book about friendship.

Peanut
Alsenas, Linas

Mildred is a lonely old lady who has trouble seeing. On one of her visits to the park, she finds a stray animal. She thinks it’s a dog. It’s really an elephant that ran away from the circus. Mildred calls her dog “peanut” because her dog loves peanuts. The circus ringmaster claims the elephant and Mildred is lonely again. She finds another stray at the park that she thinks is a kitty—it’s really a camel. Readers of all ages will be delighted with this book.

Big Chickens
Helakoski, Leslie

When four chickens see a wolf in the farm yard, they head to the woods for safety. The four frightened chickens find danger everywhere. They stumble into a cave and find a wolf. They shriek, squeak and freak until the wolf ran out of the cave. Now they have Chicken Power and strut all the way home. This book was chosen for the 2007 Michigan Read’s One State, One Book award.

The Princess and the Pea
Andersen, Hans Christian
Illustrated by Rachel Isadora

Rachel Isadora’s exquisitely illustrated retelling of this classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale takes readers to a beautiful African setting, a first for the “true story” of a tiny pea that changed everything.