ELC Book Collections
Board Books
Title: Baby Max and Ruby Counting Peas
Author: Rosemary Wells
Summary: A big sneeze scatters Max’s peas in every direction.
Title: Construction Zone
Author: Tana Hoban
Summary: Photographs illustrate the kinds of equipment and earthmovers found at construction sites.
Title: Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling
Author: Tracey Campbell Pearson
Summary: Nursery rhymes with a contemporary twist.
Title: Look Baby Books – What’s on my Head?
Author: Margaret Miller
Summary: Presents color photographs of different objects on children’s heads.
Title: A Lift-the-Flap Book – Where Is Baby’s Beach Ball?
Author: Karen Katz
Summary: It’s summertime, and Baby is looking for the beach ball—but where can it be? Little ones can lift the large, sturdy flaps in this board book to reveal pretty seashells, crawly crabs, and more! Babies will love this interactive adventure!
Title: Textured Book - Biscuit Visits the Petting Zoo
Author: Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Summary: Join Biscuit for fun at the petting zoo.
Concept Picture Books
Title: A Lift-the-Flap Book About Opposites – Opposnakes
Author: Salina Yoon
Summary: Pictures of snakes illustrate such opposite concepts as clean and dirty, skinny and fat, and quiet and loud.
Title: Roar
Author: Margaret Mayo
Summary: Text and pictures describe the things which different kinds of animals like to do.
Title: Click, Clack, Splish, Spash: A Counting Adventure
Author: Doreen Cronin
Summary: While Farmer Brown sleeps, some of the animals who live on the farm go on a fishing expedition.
Title: Mouse Shapes by
Author: Ellen Stoll Walsh
Summary: Three mice make a variety of things out of different shapes as they hide from a scary cat.
Title: Warthogs Paint: A Messy Color Book
Author: Pamela Duncan Edwards
Summary: As some warthogs spend a rainy day painting their kitchen, they make a mess and learn about mixing colors.
Title: Ship Shapes
Author: Stella Blackstone
Summary: See how many everyday shapes you can spot while sailing the open sea in search of jewels and treasure! Children will ride the waves to a faraway island in this lively, shape-filled ocean adventure, with appealing fabric art from Siobhan Bell.
Readers
Title: Not I, Not I – Beginning to Read Series
Author: Margaret Hillert
Summary: The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the bread she makes from it.
Title: Eat Your Peas, Louise
Author: Pegeen Snow – Rookie Reader
Summary: Louise is given all sorts of reasons for eating her peas.
Title: Biscuit
Author: Alyssa Satin Capucilli – My First I Can Read Book
Summary: A little yellow dog wants ever one more thing before he’ll go to sleep.
Title: Henry and Mudge and Annie’s Good Move
Author: Cynthia Rylant – Level 2 Reading Together
Summary: When Henry’s cousin Annie prepares to move in next door he and Mudge help calm her fears.
Title: Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber Brown
Author: Paula Danziger
Summary: Amber is nervous about starting second grade with a new teacher, but despite being in the same class as mean Hannah Burton, things turn out just fine.
Title: Fancy Nancy’s Favorite Fancy Words from Accessories to Zany
Author: Jane O’Connor
Summary: Fancy Nancy provides one or more of her favorite fancy words for each letter of the alphabet, defines them, and uses some in sentences that show what they mean to her, such as that she yearns—wants really badly—to visit Paris someday.
Non-Fiction
ELC N – Nature Books ELC S – Science Books
Title: Colors in Nature Series:Red
Author: Lisa Bruce
Summary: A simple introduction to red things found in nature.
Title: Big and Small: An Animal Opposites Book
Author: Lisa Bullard
Summary: Simple text introduces the concepts of big and small, comparing some of the world’s largest animals with animals that are small.
Title: Why Why Why Series: Why Why Why Do Dolphins Squeak?
Summary: Questions and answers about whales and dolphins.
Title: All Kinds of Gardens
Author: Mari Schuh
Summary: Introduces the many types of gardens, including flower gardens, vegetable gardens, and rock gardens.
Title: Rookie Read-About Science – Looking Through a Telescope
Author: Linda Bullock
Summary: Simple text and photographs describe and illustrate how to use atelescope.
Title: Sounds All Around
Author: Wendy Pfeffer
Summary: Explains how sounds are made and the purposes they serve for both humans and other animals.