Library Story Book Quilt

Book List

 

E ASC                        

           Asch, Frank.  Happy birthday, moon.  New York : Simon & Schuster,

                1988, c1982.  When a bear discovers that the moon shares his

                birthday, he buys the moon a beautiful hat as a present.

 

E BEM                        

           Bemelmans, Ludwig.  Madeline.  New York : Puffin Books, 1977,

                c1939.  Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve

                little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an

                attack of appendicitis.

 

E BRE                        

           Brett, Jan.  The hat.  New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1997.

                When Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them

                out for winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of other

                animals, ends up werin a stocking on his head.

 

E BRI                        

           Bridwell, Norman.  Clifford, the big red dog.  New York :

                Scholastic, c1985.  Emily Elizabeth describes the activities

                she enjoys with her very big, very red dog and how they take

                care of each other.

 

E BRO                         

           Brown, Marc Tolon.  Arthur's eyes.  1st ed.  Boston : Little,

                Brown, c1979.  His friends tease Arthur when he gets

                glasses, but he soon learns to wear them with pride.

 

E BRO                        

           Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952.  The runaway bunny.  New York :

                Harper & Row, [1972, c1942].  A little rabbit who wants to

                run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is

                always right behind him.

 

E BRU                        

 

           Brunhoff, Jean de, 1899-1937.  The story of Babar, the little

                elephant.  New York : Random House, 1984, c1933.  An

                orphaned baby elephant goes to live in the city with an old

                lady who gives him everything he wants, but eventually

                returns to the forest where he is crowned king of the

                elephants.

 

E CAN                        

           Cannon, Janell, 1957-.  Stellaluna.  San Diego : Harcourt Brace,

                c1993.  After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby

                bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her

                mother.

 

E CAR                        

           Carle, Eric.  The very hungry caterpillar.  New York : Philomel

                Books, 1987,c1969.  Follows the progress of a hungry little

                caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very

                large quantity of food. Die-cut pages illustrate what the

                caterpillar ate on successive days.

 

E FRE                        

           Freeman, Don.  Corduroy.  New York : Viking Press, [1968].  A toy

                bear in a department store wants a number of things, but

                when a little girl finally buys him he finds what he has

                always wanted most of all.

 

E JOO                        

           Joosse, Barbara M.  Mama, do you love me?  San Francisco :

                Chronicle Books, c1991.  A child living in the Arctic learns

                that a mother's love is unconditional.

 

E LEA                        

           Leaf, Munro.  The story of Ferdinand.  New York : Viking, c1964.

                Ferdinand likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers, but

                one day he gets stung by a bee and his snorting and stomping

                convince everyone that he is the fiercest of bulls.

 

E LEW                        

           Lewis, Paul Owen.  Davy's dream.  Hillsboro, Or. : Beyond Words

                Pub., c1988.  A young boy dreams of playing and singing with

                the wild killer whales of the sea.

 

E LOB                        

           Lobel, Arnold.  Frog and toad are friends.  New York :

                HarperCollins Publishers, c1970.  Five tales recounting the

                adventures of two best friends--Frog and Toad.

 

E MAR                        

           Marshall, James, 1942-.  George and Martha.  Boston, Mass. :

                Houghton Mifflin, 1972.  Relates several episodes in the

                friendship of two hippopotamuses.

 

E MCK                        

           McKee, David.  Elmer.  1st ed.  New York : Lothrop, 1989.  All

                the elephants of the jungle were gray except Elmer, who was

                a patchwork of brilliant colors until the day he got tired

                of being different and making the other elephants laugh.

 

E MUN                        

           Munsch, Robert N., 1945-.  The paper bag princess.  [Toronto] :

                Annick Press, 1981, c1980.  Princess Elizabeth outwits a

                dragon to save her prince. But her prince does not

                appreciate what she has done for him.

 

E NUM                        

           Numeroff, Laura Joffe.  If you give a mouse a cookie.  1st ed.

                New York : Harper & Row, c1985.  Relating the cycle of

                requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a

                cookie takes the reader through a young child's day.

 

E PEE                        

           Peet, Bill.  The caboose who got loose.  Boston : Houghton

                Mifflin, 1971.  Tired of being last on the smoky, noisy

                freight train, Katy Caboose wishes for some way to escape

                from the endless track.

 

E POL                        

           Polacco, Patricia.  Rechenka's eggs.  New York : Philomel Books,

                c1988.  Having broken the painted eggs intended for the

                Easter Festival in Moscva, an injured goose rescued by

                Babushka lays thirteen marvelously colored eggs to replace

                them, leaving behind one final miracle in egg form before

                returning to her own kind.

 

E REY                         

           Rey, H. A. (Hans Augusto), 1898-.  Curious George.  Boston :

                Houghton Mifflin, c1993.  The curiosity of a newly-captured

                monkey gets him into continuous trouble, but he is saved by

                his friend, the man in the yellow hat.

 

E SEN                        

           Sendak, Maurice.  Where the wild things are.  [New York] : Harper

                & Row, c1963.  A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his

                supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he

                becomes their king.

 

E SEU                        

           Seuss, Dr.  The cat in the hat.  New York : Random House, c1985,

                c1957.  When the Cat in the Hat arrives, the children's

                gloomy day is immediately brightened.

 

E VAN                        

           Van Allsburg, Chris.  The Polar Express.  Boston : Houghton

                Mifflin, 1985.  A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a young

       boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

 

E WAB                        

           Waber, Bernard.  Lyle, Lyle, crocodile.  Boston : Houghton

                Mifflin, 1965.  Lyle causes a neighborhood feud as he tries

                to make friends with Mr. Grumps' cat, Loretta.

 

E ZIO                        

           Zion, Gene.  Harry, the dirty dog.  New York : Harper, [1956].

                When a white dog with black spots runs away from home, he

                gets so dirty his family doesn't recognize him as a black

                dog with white spots.