PICTURE BOOKS FOR KIDS 4-6
(excerpts from posts)
(If you want to retell any of the stories listed below, be sure to obtain permission from the copyright holder if the material is not in the public domain)

1) Big Brown Dog's Bad Remembering Day by Mike Gibbie.

2) The Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb by Shirley Climo.

3) The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear by Don
and Audrey Wood.

4) Raven and Coyote, both by Gerald McDermott.

5) Go to http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ and type in *I Can Read series.* Check out the 987 books that appear! Children love to have them read and quickly learn to read them alone. You can probably check them out at the local library if you want to see them

6) Margaret Read MacDonald has a new book out called Fat Cat.

7) Bill Harley's children's book Bear's All-Night Party.

8) The Grouchy LadyBug by Eric Caryl

9) The Lion and the Little Red Bird by Kleven.

10) All about Alfie by Shirley Hughes
Dogger by Shirley Hughes
You Be Good & I'll Be Night : Jump-On-The-Bed Poems by Eve Merriam
GRANDAD'S PRAYERS OF THE EARTH by Douglas Wood
Who Is the World For? by Tom Pow
The Bear That Heard Crying by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
The Worry Stone by Marianna Dengler
HENRY HIKES TO FITCHBURG D.B. Johnson
All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka
Quiltmaker's Gift by Jeff Brumbeau
Momma, Where Are You From? by Marie Bradby
Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco
Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair by Patricia Polacco
Babushka Baba Yaga by Patricia Polacco
The Mitten : A Ukrainian Folktale by Jan Brett
Trouble With Trolls by Jan Brett
TELL ME SOMETHING HAPPY BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP by Joyce Dunbar
The Legend of Old Befana : An Italian Christmas Story by Tomie De Paola
Oliver Button Is a Sissy by Tomie De Paola
Talking Walls by Margy Burns Knight
Talking Walls : The Stories Continue by Margy Burns Knight
Who Belongs Here? : An American Story by Margy Burns Knight
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman
The Table Where Rich People Sit by Byrd Baylor
CATKIN by Antonia Barber
The Girl in the Golden Bower by Jane Yolen
The Ring of Truth by Teresa Bateman
THE SNAIL HOUSE by Allan Ahlberg
Bye Bye, Baby : A Sad Story With a Happy Ending by Janet Ahlberg, Allan Ahlberg
We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen, Helen Oxenbury
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Prince Cinders by Babette Cole
Princess Smartypants by Babette Cole
The Way Meat Loves Salt : A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition by Nina Jaffe

11) Jim May's picture book of The Boo Baby Girl.

12) Query: Do you know of any suitable book versions of the following stories:
The Awongalema Tree - the African folktale about the animals in a drought who forget the name of the mnagic tree. Various animals go aup the mountain to ask the mountain sprit, but they all torget except the little tortoise who saves the day. If this isn't a pictre book yet it should be.

The Story of Coyote and the Bird. My story is developed out of bare bones given to me by Richard Martin for which I will be forever grateful as it has been such a useful story for teaching storytelling. Basically a bird hurts its wing starts to cry. Coyote hears threwtenbs buird until she treaches him "songs" Coyote keeps making her teach him as he forgets song. Eventually bird gets her revenge.

Oh yes I also need to know which of Shel Silverstein's books Boa Constrictor is in. I learnt it too long ago to remember.
Response: The coyote and bird story is in Margaret Read McDonald's Twenty Tellable Tales under the title "Coyote's Crying Song." Hers is not a picture book, but it's a marvelous collection for telling or reading aloud and might be something the book store would like to stock.
Response: The Awongalema Tree is in a collection of stories published by/for UN (UNICEF) when Danny Kaye was theri ambasador (early 60's). He also did a redording of the story. I know there's a single-title children's picture book--same story, different title, as I've seen it on the shelves of my library. Can't recall the title for the life of me. I do know ther have been sevral tree threads that have probably ended up on Jackie's site. That might be another source for the title and publisher info.
Response: The poem "Boa Constrictor" is in "Where the Sidewalk Ends."
Response: There is a picture book of the Awongellema tree story: The Name of the Tree by Celia Barker Lottridge, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1989

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