Reading is a calm evening ritual that helps get kids ready to sleep. Most of all, it builds an emotional connection and allows an opportunity to end the day with some parental affection and cuddle time.
Bella’s Fall Coat by Lynn Plourde
“A picture book about the fall season, centering on Bella, a little girl who has outgrown but does not want to give up her favorite coat made by her grandmother, and how she deals with the inevitable change to something new”
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Bone Dog : A Picture Book by Eric Rohmann
Although devastated when his pet dog dies, a young boy goes trick-or-treating and receives a timely visit from an old friend during a scary encounter with graveyard skeletons. By the Caldecott Medal-winning creator of My Friend Rabb.
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Motor Mouse by Cynthia Rylant
Follows a busy mouse as he drives a delivery car, enjoys Cake Day with friends, goes for a cab ride around town, and shares popcorn with his brother at the movies
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The Good Little Bad Little Pig! by Margaret Wise Brown
Peter’s wish comes true when he gets a little pet pig who is sometimes good and sometimes bad
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Vroom! by Barbara McClintock
Follows a young girl’s imaginary journey as she zooms in a race car past fields and forests to faraway lands before returning home to her own safe bed
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Goodbye, Friend! Hello, Friend! by Cori Doerrfeld
A gentle story about the difficulties and promises of change follows two friends who say goodbye and hello to the transitioning seasons before facing the harder challenge of separation when one of them has to move away. By the creator of The Rabbit Listened. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations
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Just a duck! by Carin Bramsen
It’s playtime for Duck and Cat, but climbing trees and swatting at leaves isn’t as easy for flat-footed Duck as it is for his best friend Cat, prompting the pair to consider what they should do so they can still have fun together.
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Tractor Mac, Harvest Time by Billy Steers
Tractor Mac is too big to harvest apples in the orchard, and Small Fred is too small to pull all of the people who want a hayride, but working together they figure out a way to perform their chores and enjoy the autumn festival fun
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Shh! Bears Sleeping by David Martin
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow a family of bears from one spring to the next. Includes facts about bears
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Cat and Mouse in the Snow by Tomasz Bogacki
A curious little cat and a curious little mouse set out to look for the green meadow one morning because the world around them looks very different
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