
Library
Story Book Quilt
Book List
Asch,
Frank. Happy birthday,
moon.
1988, c1982. When a bear discovers that the moon shares
his
birthday,
he buys the moon a beautiful hat as a present.
Bemelmans,
Ludwig. Madeline.
c1939. Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the
twelve
little
charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an
attack
of appendicitis.
Brett, Jan. The hat.
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.
Bridwell,
Norman. Clifford, the
big red dog.
Scholastic,
c1985. Emily Elizabeth describes
the activities
she
enjoys with her very big, very red dog and how they take
care
of each other.
Brown, Marc Tolon. Arthur's eyes. 1st ed.
Brown, c1979. His friends tease Arthur when he gets
glasses,
but he soon learns to wear them with pride.
Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952. The runaway bunny.
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.
Brunhoff, Jean de, 1899-1937. The story of Babar,
the little
elephant.
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.
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.
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.
Freeman, Don. Corduroy.
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.
Joosse,
Barbara M. Mama, do you love me?
Chronicle Books, c1991. A child living in the
that a
mother's love is unconditional.
E LEA
Leaf, Munro. The story of Ferdinand.
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.
Lewis, Paul Owen. Davy's dream.
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.
HarperCollins Publishers, c1970. Five tales recounting the
adventures
of two best friends--Frog and Toad.
E MAR
Marshall, James, 1942-. George and Martha.
Houghton
Mifflin, 1972. Relates several
episodes in the
friendship
of two hippopotamuses.
McKee, David. Elmer.
1st ed.
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.
Munsch,
Robert N., 1945-. The
paper bag princess. [
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.
Numeroff,
Laura Joffe. If you give a mouse a cookie. 1st ed.
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.
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.
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.
Rey, H. A.
(Hans Augusto), 1898-. Curious George.
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. [
& 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.
Seuss, Dr. The cat in the hat.
c1957. When the Cat in the Hat arrives, the children's
gloomy
day is immediately brightened.
E VAN
Van Allsburg,
Chris. The Polar
Express.
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.
Waber,
Bernard. Lyle, Lyle, crocodile.
Mifflin,
1965. Lyle causes a neighborhood
feud as he tries
to make friends
with Mr. Grumps' cat, Loretta.
Zion, Gene. Harry, the dirty dog.
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.