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• A Squiggly Story

  Larsen, Andrew, 1960-

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  A young boy wants to write a story, but while he knows his letters, he doesn't know how to spell many words. Soon he discovers that all of us, including him, have what we need to write our own perfect story.

• Little Plane Learns to Write

  Savage, Stephen, 1965-

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  Little Plane learns to write by practicing his skywriting.

• Lines, Squiggles, Letters, Words

  Rocha, Ruth,

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  A child who has not yet learned how to read looks out at the world and sees language as such a child would: as lines and squiggles that don't exactly make pictures but don't seem to make anything else either. Then, when the child starts to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Perfect

  Amato, Max,

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  A fussy eraser tries to keep the pages perfectly clean despite the scribbles of a mischievous pencil.

• Linus the Little Yellow Pencil

  Magoon, Scott,

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  Linus hopes to win the family art show but his eraser, Ernie, obliterates his work, his self-confidence, and his joy until a word from Smudge inspires Linus to try again.

• Press Here

  Tullet, Hervé,

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  Instructs the reader on how to interact with the illustrations to create imaginative images.

• Follow the Line

  Ljungkvist, Laura

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  Follow the line to visit a wide variety of places and count different objects found in each, from fire hydrants in a big city in the morning, through starfish in the ocean during the day, to babies sleeping in a country village at night.

• The Book With No Pictures

  Novak, B. J., 1979-

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  In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every silly word, no matter what.

• The Day the Crayons Quit

  Daywalt, Drew

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  When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them.

• City Shapes

  Murray, Diana

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  A young girl walks through the bustling city, while a pigeon flies above, both spotting hidden shapes at every turn.

• Color Zoo

  Ehlert, Lois,

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  Shapes and colors in your zoo, lots of things that you can do. Heads and ears, beaks and snouts, that's what animals are all about. I know animals and you do too; make some new ones for your zoo.

• Alphabet City

  Johnson, Stephen, 1964-

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  Photographs of objects in an urban setting present the letters of the alphabet.

• LMNO Peas

  Baker, Keith, 1953-

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  Busy little peas introduce their favorite occupations, from astronaut to zoologist.