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Welcome To Out Current Book Collection

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Newborn

A Red Train
Sterling
Sterling Publishing (978-1-906250-01-0)
Come take a ride with animals in a book that covers two concepts—colors and forms of transportation. A charming cat looks happily out the window of a red train, a bunny rides in a yellow rocket,…
Baby Faces Stroller Book
DK Publishing
Dorling Kindersley LTD (0-789466-58-9)
This small board book shaped like the smiling baby face on the cover features the faces and behaviors of many different babies.
Read To Your Bunny Very First Library Gift Set
Rosemary Wells
Scholastic Inc. (2006; 0-439871-90-5)
This box set includes three of Rosemary Wells's best-loved board books--The Itsy-Bitsy Spider, Old MacDonald, The Bear Went Over the Mountain, and Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. The set also includes…

2 months

Colors (Little Scholastic)
Scholastic Inc. (978-0-439021-45-6)
Bold and bright, this tactile board book features favorite animals of varying colors to name and touch.

4 months

Baby Faces
Margaret Miller
Simon & Schuster (2009; 978-1-416978-87-9)
This book presents photographs of babies with facial expressions that show a range of different emotions.

6 months

Rainbow Colors Peekaboo!
DK Publishing
Dorling Kindersley LTD (978-0-756637-60-6)
The lift-the-flap pages and touch-and-feel features of this bright board book invite readers to play peekaboo with the children on the page.

9 months

Peek-A-Boo WHO?
Simms Taback
Harriet Ziefert INC (0001593546580)
Simms Taback's bright, bold animals and simple, repetitive text make this the perfect board book for every young child who loves to play peekaboo.

12 months

Walk with Me!
Stella Blackstone
Barefoot Books (978-1-846861-79-6)
Join children from across the world as they explore how animals get around. The bright illustrations are enhanced by small windows that open to reveal other illustrations and text.

15 months

Jamberry
Bruce Degen
Harper Collins Publishers (2009; 978-0-061763-50-2)
(Distributed by Raising Readers at the 15 months visit from October 2009)
A little boy accompanies a bear to Berryland where they have fun picking blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, a…

18 months

Two At The Zoo
Dana Smith
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (978-0-547357-64-5)
From one black bear to ten hairy warthogs, the young narrator and his grandpa count their way through a colorful zoo, encountering a wide assortment of friendly animals along the way.

24 months

Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (978-0-152056-61-2)
When Blue, the pickup truck, gets stuck in the mud after helping to push a dump truck out, his farm animal friends do whatever it takes to get their pal back on the road.

3 years

Down by the Station
Will Hillenbrand
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (1999; 978-0-152018-04-7)
(Distributed by Raising Readers at the 3 Year visit from beginning September 2009)
In this version of a classic song, baby animals ride to the children's zoo on the zoo train. When the gro…

4 years

A Visitor for Bear
Bonnie Becker
Candlewick Press (978-0-763628-07-9)
An entertaining story follows Bear, who doesn't like visitors, as he matches wits with a very determined little mouse who keeps popping up in the most unexpected places!

5 years

Books from Maine: A Raising Readers Collection
Penguin USA (2010; 978-0-670012-49-7)
An anthology of five picture books by authors and illustrators who create books in Maine.
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