Asch, Frank. Happy Birthday Moon. (1999)
When a bear discovers that the moon shares his birthday, he buys the bear a beautiful hat for his birthday. (jPICTURE/ASC)

Aylesworth, Jim. The Tale of Tricky Fox. (2000) Tricky Fox uses his sack to trick everyone he meets into giving him more valuable items. (jPICTURE/AYL)

Borden, Louise. A. Lincoln and Me. (2000) With the help of his teacher, a young boy realizes that he not only shares his birthday and similar physical appearance with Abraham Lincoln, but that he is like him in other ways as well. (jPICTURE/BOR)

Bosschaert, Greet. Teenie Bird and How She Learned to Fly. (2001) Although her fearless brothers have learned to fly, a small, white bird is afraid. (jPICTURE/BOS)

Brett, Jan. Goldilocks and the Three Bears. (1996)
Lost in the woods, a tired and hungry girl finds the house of the three bears where she helps herself to food and goes to sleep. (jPICTURE/BRE)

Burningham, John. Would You Rather. (2002) A series of comical choices such as, "Would you rather eat spider stew or slug dumplings or mashed worms?" ends with an invitation to bedtime. (jPICTURE/BUR)

Cannon, Janell. Stellaluna. (1993)
After she falls into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother. (jPICTURE/CAN)

Cousins, Lucy. Jazzy in the Jungle. (2002) The jungle animals help Mama JoJo find her baby lemur Jazzy. (jPICTURE/COU)

Fleming, Candace. Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! (2001) After planting the garden he has dreamed of for years, Mr. McGreely tries to find a way to keep some persistent bunnies from eating all his vegetables. (jPICTURE/FLE)

Henkes, Kevin. Chester's Way. (1988) Chester and Wilson share the same exact way of doing things, until Lilly moves into the neighborhood and shows them that new ways can be just as good. (jPICTURE/HEN)

Hoberman, Mary. It's Simple, said Simon. (2001) After successfully meeting the challenges posed by a dog, a cat, and a horse, Simon meets a tiger that is much harder to satisfy, and that he must outwit before he become's the tiger's dinner. (jPICTURE/HOB)

Hurst, Carol. Rocks in His Head. (2001) A young man has a lifelong love of rock collecting that eventually leads him to work at a science museum. (jPICTURE/HUR)

Johnston, Tony. My Best Friend Bear. (2001) When a treasured teddy bear becomes so worn that it is mistaken for a monkey, a little girl and her mother decide to restore "Bear" to his "good old self." (jPICTURE/JOH)

Judes, Marie-Odile. Max, the Stubborn Little Wolf. (2001) Papa Max expects his son to become a hunter, like other wolves, but Max has different ideas about his future. (jPICTURE/JUD)

Joosse, Barbara M. Mama, Do You Love Me? (1991) A child living in the Arctic learns that a mother's love is unconditional. (jPICTURE/JOO)

L'Engle, Madeleine. The Other Dog. (2001) The family poodle protests at first when the master and mistress bring home a new dog to share the household. (jPICTURE/LEN)

Loomis, Christine. Across America, I Love You. (2000) Describes the various landscapes of America from the Rocky Mountains and Alaska's wild lands to the giant sequoias of California. (jPICTURE/LOO)

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Kurtz, Jane. Water Hole Waiting. (2002) A thirsty monkey waits as the larger animals drink from the water hole on the African savanna. (jPICTURE/KUR)

Olson, Mary W. An Alligator Ate My Brother. (2000) No one believes a young boy when he says an alligator is in the house. (jPICTURE/OLS)

Poole, Amy Lowry. The Ant and the Grasshopper. (2000) Retells the fable about a colony of industrious ants that busily prepares for the approaching winter while a grasshopper makes no plans for the cold weather to come. (jPICTURE/POO)

Rockwell, Anne. Growing Like Me. (2001) Explains how plants and animals of the meadow, woods, and pond grow and evolve, such as caterpillars changing into butterflies, eggs hatching into robins, and acorns becoming oaks. (jPICTURE/ROC)

Roosa, Karen. Beach Day. (2001) Describes a perfect day at the beach, complete with sandy knees, deviled eggs, and a castle with a moat. (jPICTURE/ROO)

Rounds, Glen. I Know an Old Lady. (1994) Retelling of: Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. A cumulative folk song in which the solution proves worse than the predicament when an old lady swallows a fly. (jPICTURE/ROU)

Samuels, Barbara. Aloha, Dolores. (2000) Certain that they will win a trip to Hawaii, Dolores enters her cat Duncan in the Meow Munchies contest and makes many preparations for their trip. (jPICTURE/SAM)

Sis, Peter. Madlenka's Dog. (2002) Madlenka pines for a dog of her own. Her parents say no. Using her imagination, Madlenka and her friends on the block play together, remembering the dogs of their childhood. (jPICTURE/SIS)

Ziefert, Harriet. Someday we'll have very Good Manners. (2001)Characters discuss what they know about good manners and how they will have them someday, but for now they are "just kids." (jPICTURE/ZIE)

Ziefert, Harriet. Squarehead. (2001) George only likes things that are square like himself until a dream reminds him of how nice round can be. (jPICTURE/ZIE)

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