Jan Brett
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hoppi the bunny wants to win the egg-decorating contest so the Easter Bunny will choose him to help distribute Easter eggs, but instead, while everyone else is working on their decorations, he finds himself guarding an egg that has fallen from a robin's nest.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Lonely Gingerbread Baby, having set out to find a friend, enters a bakery where he tries to talk to different cookies and other figures, but winds up leading a crowd back to his house on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale. Includes one fold-out illustration and a recipe for gingerbread cookies.
5) The umbrella
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Carlos goes into the cloud forest to look for animals, but he manages to miss seeing them even though they have an adventure with his umbrella.
Author
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Berlioz the bear and his fellow musicians are due to play for the town ball when the mule pulling their bandwagon refuses to move. A strange buzzing in Berlioz's double bass turns into a surprise that saves the day.
10) Cozy
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
The coat of a huge wooly musk ox named Cozy is the winter home for a growing number of Alaskan animals who mostly get along.
11) Gingerbread baby
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven and leads a crowd on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale about a not-so-clever gingerbread man.
12) Armadillo rodeo
Author
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Looking for adventure, Bo the armadillo follows a girl in red cowboy boots to the rodeo where he rides a bronco, eats chili peppers, and tries the two-step.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...