Read Aloud America 2014 - Preschool and Kindergarten

While all the other animals on the farm enjoy eating their regular food, the cow chooses to eat the one thing that she loves best.

Elephant wants to go for a drive, but as Piggie thinks of one thing after another that they will have to take along, they come to realize that they lack the most important thing of all.

The pigeon gets very angry when he sees the duckling getting a cookie just by asking for it. The pigeon complains about how it's not fair, but will he get a cookie, too?

That Is Not a Good Idea! is a hilarious, interactive picture book from bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems, the creator of books like Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, the Knuffle Bunny series, the Elephant and Piggie series, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs, and many other new classics. Inspired by the evil villains and innocent damsels of silent movies, Willems tells the tale of a hungry fox who invites a plump goose to dinner. As with the beloved Pigeon books, kids will be calling out the signature refrain and begging for repeated readings. The funny details in the full-color illustrations by three-time Caldecott Honoree Mo Willems will bring nonstop laughter to story time.

Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.

Updated and revised...Tute Nene, Mother Goose Rhymes is back! Author Debra Ryll takes the traditional Mother Goose and turns her into Tutu Nene, telling classic rhymes with an island spin. This 2012 edition has updated rhymes.

Brave bear hunters go through grass, a river, mud, and other obstacles before the inevitable encounter with the bear forces a headlong retreat.

(Age 4-8 / Preschool-Gr.3) The exuberant dog who first appeared in If You Give a Pig a Party now stars in his very own book in the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling If You Give... series! **''Chaos might ensue if you were to give a dog a donut.''** **If you give a dog a donut, he’ll ask for some apple juice to go with it.** When you give him the juice, he’ll drink it all up. Then, before you can say “Woof” . . . Dog is off on a backyard adventure! **If You Give a Dog a Donut is another home run from the beloved team of Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond.** **"A snack of donuts and juice inspires this dog to head outside with his favorite friend to pick apples.** Apple-tossing reminds him of baseball-throwing, home runs turn into treasure hunts, and as one thing leads to another, he gets thirsty for juice and hungry for donuts! With effortless delight, these two friends romp from one imaginative game to another, letting inspiration take them on an unforgettable backyard journey. **The satisfaction of the conclusion, of course, is that one bite of a donut may set off another cascade of fun together."**

A hamster, with the help of a canine junkyard dealer and his mouse assistants, builds a hot rod and drives it in a race against some very large dogs.

In this book with rhyming text, the dream train pulls into the station and all the different cars are loaded by the animal workers, each with the appropriate cargo.

When a tiny fish shoots into view wearing a round blue topper (which happens to fit him perfectly), trouble could be following close behind. So it’s a good thing that enormous fish won’t wake up. And even if he does, it’s not like he’ll ever know what happened.... A picture-book morality play about rationalizing dishonesty.

A series of animals falls into a deep hole, only to be saved at last by a very large rescuer.

Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.

When a studious polar bear meets an inquisitive goose, they learn to be friends.

Moose, terribly eager to play his part in the alphabet book his friend Zebra is putting together, then awfully disappointed when his letter passes, behaves rather badly until Zebra finds a spot for him.

Rabbit is excited about the sleepover he has carefully planned for his friend Robot, but Robot has some different ideas about how things should go.

En este libro ilustrado para niños todo lo que Oso quiere es tomar su desayuno tranquilo, pero el ratón, que se aparece en los lugares más insospechados, no piensa dejarle en paz. Bear's efforts to keep out visitors to his house are undermined by a very persistent mouse.