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From Story Time: The Letter "C"

Read in Book Babies

By Sergio Ruzzier
Chronicle Books, 2016.  Picture Book.

"A book with no pictures?!  What good is a book with no pictures?!  What's that, you say?  Words can make fantastic pictures in your imagination?  Well, okay.  I'll give it a try."  Duck finds a book and is surprised to discover that there are books with words and no pictures--and that even without pictures a book can interest and excite you.




Read in Toddler Time

By Morag Hood
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.  Picture Book.

Colin is tall.  He's orange.  He's nothing like Lee.  He can't do any of the things Lee and his pals can do.  How can they ever be friends?




Read in Preschool Time

By John Himmelman
Henry Holt and Company, 2011.  Picture Book.

The Greenstalks are going to the county fair!  Three-legged races, a Handsomest Duck Contest, the Ferris wheel--what could be more fun?  But the Greenstalks' car won't start, so they'll need some help getting there....  




Read in Preschool Time

Written by Sue Fliess
Illustrated by Edwardian Taylor
Little Bee Books, 2017.  Picture Book.

All the cars are lining up for the race, but one car is smaller than the rest.  As it squeezes in between all of them, the cars rev their engines...and they're off!  Down mountains and by waterfalls, through tunnels and past landslides, the cars race through places that somehow look oddly familiar....  Will the small car be able to take the Winner's Cup?




Read in Monday Cuentos

By John Segal
Lectorum Publications, 2006.  Spanish Picture Book.

Llega la primavera y con ella…¡la oportunidad de tomar una deliciosa sopa de zanahoria!  Pero la cosecha de Conejo ha desaparecido misteriosamente.  ¿Qué hará Conejo para preparer su plato favorito sin el ingrediente principal?




Read in Friday Cuentos

By David McPhail
Puffin Unicorn, 1996.  Spanish Picture Book.

Un momento antes, el narrador de esta ingeniosa travesura rimada se encuentra tranquilamente leyendo.  Un momento después cerdos descienden sobre su casa en todos los atavíos imaginables, por todos los medios disponibles, de todos los lugares posibles—incluso “Cerdos de francia” y “Cerdos en tan sólo sus interiors”.  Lo que resulta de todo esto es una simpática confusión porcina y un banquete de piza.


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