Books for Children
Chapter 6: Amazing Creatures
(August 2 thru August 8)
Pre-School
Fiction
- BR21080 Skunk by Mac Barnett
- BR22802 Beware of the Crocodile by Martin Jenkins and Satoshi Kitamura (print/braille)
- BR21074 Flight School by Lita Judge (print/braille)
- BR17246 Great Big Guinea Pigs by Susan L. Roth (print/braille)
- DBC16370 and BR22390 We Don’t Eat our Classmates! by Ryan T. Higgins (print/braille)
- DB79890 and DBC09095 Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae
- DBC16641 Huggy the Python Hugs Too Hard by Ame Dyckman
- DB84880 Flying Frogs and Walking Fish: Leaping Lemurs, Tumbling Toads, Jet-Propelled Jellyfish, and More Surprising Ways that Animals Move by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
- DB83014 Hippos are Huge! by Jonathan London
- DB80421 What Do You Do with a Kangaroo? by Mercer Mayer
- DBC06032 The Very Boastful Kangaroo by Bernard Most
- DBC16325 Crash, Splash, or Moo! by Bob Shea
- DB89667 Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great by Bob Shea
- DBC14959 Polar Bear, Arctic Hare: Poems of the Frozen North by Eileen Spinelli
- DBC16313 Dogosaurus Rex by Anna Staniszewski
- DBC07088 Three Bears of the Pacific Northwest by Marcia K. Vaughan
Early Readers
Fiction
- BR22016 The Catawampus Cat by Jason Carter Eaton (print/braille)
- DB22910 and BR05923 Pamela Camel by Bill Peet
Non-Fiction
- BR19010 Never Smile at a Monkey: and Seventeen other Important Things to Remember by Steve Jenkins
- BR18027 Sisters and Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World by Steve Jenkins
- BR19382 Deadliest Animals by Melissa Stewart
- DB58859 Aliens from Earth: When Animals and Plants Invade other Ecosystems by Mary Batten
- DB94751 Superlative Birds by Leslie Bulion
- DB87523 Lesser Spotted Animals: the Coolest Creatures You’ve Never Heard of by Martin Brown
- DB56278 They Call Me Woolly: What Animal Names Can Tell Us by Keith Du Quette
- DB87387 Giant Squid by Candace Fleming
- DB62663 Owen and Mzee: the True Story of a Remarkable Friendship by Isabella Hatkoff
- DB65106 Owen and Mzee: the Language of Friendship by Isabella Hatkoff
- DB88279 Apex Predators: World’s Deadliest Hunters, Past and Present by Steve Jenkins
- DB84880 Flying Frogs and Walking Fish: Leaping Lemurs, Tumbling Toads, Jet-Propelled Jellyfish, and More Surprising Ways that Animals Move by Steve Jenkins
- DB92847 Cute as an Axolotl: Discovering the World’s Most Adorable Animals by Jess Keating
- DB71773 Stories from the Billabong by James Vance Marshall
- DB65611 Monsters and Water Beasts: Creatures of Fact or Fiction? by Karen Miller
Middle Grades
Non-Fiction
- BR13242 Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs: a Photobiography of Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews by Ann Bausum
- BR20094 Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature’s Undead by Rebecca L. Johnson
- BR12642 Exploding Ants: Amazing Facts about how Animals Adapt by Joanne Settel
- DB83088 Smart and Spineless: Exploring the Invertebrate Intelligence by Ann Downer
- DB89502 Unstoppable: True Stories of Amazing Bionic Animals by Nancy Furstinger
- DB86034 Masters of Disguise: Amazing Animal Tricksters by Rebecca L. Johnson
- DB98381 Nature’s Ninja: Animals with Spectacular Skills by Rebecca L. Johnson
- DB83888 When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses by Rebecca L. Johnson
- DB63741 Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: an Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea by Sy Montgomery
- DB67844 The Puzzle of the Platypus: and other Explorations of Science in Action by Jack Myers
- DB72615 Here There Be Monsters: the Legendary Kracken and the Giant Squid by H.P. Newquist
- DB66472 Letters from Wolfie by Patti Sherlock
- DB28924 Nature’s Living Lights: Fireflies and Other Bioluminescent Creatures by Alvin Silverstein
- DB51603 Life without Light: a Journey to Earth’s Dark Ecosystems by Melissa Stewart