PreSchool-Grade 3-- Oliver wishes he had a totally different life after receiving a gentle reprimand from his adoptive father. Sent to his room, the young lizardlike creature is convinced that his birth parents would have cut him a much better deal. A little later his mother and father share their own childhood fantasies with him. Most children, explains his father, imagine the lives they could be having, especially when they are angry with their parents. Thus enlightened, Oliver decides to stay put. Whimsical black-and-white ink drawings somewhat temper the earnest message of this book. Oliver is not ``a story about adoption'' as the subtitle would have it; it would work just as well if the boy were a biological child. --Anna Biagioni Hart, Martha Washington Library, Alexandria, VA

Oliver, A Story About Adoption

Wickstrom, Lois J.

Parenting & Relationships

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Loretta finds a caterpillar egg on a milkweed plant. She breaks off the leaf and brings it home. Mom won't let Loretta keep it in the house, so she tapes the leaf back on the plant, and watches over the egg. It hatches. It eats the leaf, and more leaves. As the caterpillar grows and molts, Loretta shoos away a bird that wants to eat it. Then a wasp, and even a ladybug. The caterpillar survives. When it forms a chrysalis, a lizard bites it. It heals and eventually a monarch butterfly emerges. In a mixture of pride and sadness, Loretta watches her friend fly away. Plus information on migration, obtaining milkweed seeds for your area, and how to recognize male and female monarch butterflies.

Loretta's Pet Caterpillar (Loretta's Insects)

Mion, Francie

Children's Books

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Carrie's Flight

Animals

Look Under Rocks

Jacqueline goes to market to get food for food for her family. Instead, finds herself trading family cow for a magic bean. When she climbs the stalk, a hungry giant has his oven ready. Can she use the magic of the beans to feed two families?

Fee, Fi, Fo, Grow! The Real Magic of the Beans (Science Folktales)

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Goldilocks and the Six Simple Machines

Huff... Puff... Grind! The 3 Little Pigs Get Smart

The wolf huffed and he puffed. But the pigs had built wolf-proof houses. The pigs couldn't go out. The wolf-couldn't get in. They were all hungry. The pigs knew that a problem can be a solution out-of-place. Could they make good use of all that huffing and puffing?

The wolf huffed and he puffed. But the pigs had built wolf-proof houses. The pigs couldn't go out. The wolf couldn't get in. They were all hungry. The pigs knew that a problem can be a solution out-of-place. Could they make good use of all that huffing and puffing?

Chicken Little discovers gravity and saves herself and her friends from Foxy Woxy.

Chicken Little Investigates

The Know-It-All Pencil (Invisible Magic Wand)

It's Caspian's UnBirthday again. This year, Grandpa gives him a pencil and a small pad of paper. When Caspian picks up the pencil, it starts writing by itself. What does a pencil know?

Humor

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Oliver, A Story About Adoption

Loretta's Pet Caterpillar (Loretta's Insects)

Carrie's Flight

Fee, Fi, Fo, Grow! The Real Magic of the Beans (Science Folktales)

Goldilocks and the Six Simple Machines

Huff... Puff... Grind! The 3 Little Pigs Get Smart

Huff... Puff... Grind! The 3 Little Pigs Get Smart

Chicken Little Investigates

Chicken Little Investigates

The Know-It-All Pencil (Invisible Magic Wand)