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Books and Music for Preschoolers

Family & Friends

Ada
I Love Saturdays y Domingos
Agee
Milo's Hat Trick
Alborough
My Friend Bear
Appelt
Bubba and Beau, Best Friends
Bottner
Bootsie Barker Bites
Cannon
Stellaluna
Cutler
Darcy and Gran Don't Like Babies
Dorros
Abuela
Falwell
Feast for 10
Fisher
My Big Brother
Fox
Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild!
Gorbachev
Chicken Chickens
Guest
Iris and Walter, the Sleepover
Harper
Lizzy's Do's and Don'ts
Henkes
Julius, the Baby of the World
Hest
In the Rain With Baby Duck
Hutchins
My Best Friend
Jahn-Clough
My Friend and I
Keller
Farfallina and Marcel
Ringgold
Tar Beach
Simont
The Stray Dog
Voake
Ginger
Waddell
Owl Babies
Wilson
Bear Snores On

Just For Fun

Avi
Things That Sometimes Happen
Boynton
Philadelphia Chickens: A Too-Illogical Zoological Musical Revue
Brett
The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale
Brown
Give Yourself to the Rain: Poems for the Very Young
Christelow
Don't Wake Up Mama!: Another Five Little Monkeys Story
Edwards
Warthogs in the Kitchen: A Sloppy Counting Book
Falconer
Olivia
Feiffer
Bark, George
Galdone
The Gingerbread Boy
Hort
Seals on the Bus
Kimmel
Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock
Lum
What! Cried Granny: An Almost Bedtime Story
Martin
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Numeroff
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Perkins
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb
Ratham
Officer Buckle and Gloria
Root
Rattletrap Car
Salley
Epossumondas
Schneider
Chewy Louie
Shannon
Duck on a Bike
Sharratt
Shark in the Park
Steig
Pete's a Pizza
Sturges
The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza)
Williams
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
Wilson
April Wilson's Magpie Magic: A Tale of Colorful Mischief
Wood
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear

Things To Do & Discover

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Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young
Aruego
Weird Friends: Unlikely Allies in the Animal Kingdom
Clements
Workshop
Cowley
Red-Eyed Tree Frog
Du Quette
They Call Me Woolly: What Animal Names Can Tell Us
Ehlert
Waiting for Wings
Hoberman
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together
Jordon
Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream
Katzen
Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up
Kuffner
The Preschooler's Busy Book
Kuklin
Hoops With Swoopes
McMullan
I Stink!
Mannis
One Leaf Rides the Wind: Counting in a Japanese Garden
Rankin
The Handmade Alphabet
Simon
Let's Try It Out in the Water: Hands-on Early-Learning Science Activities
Swanson
Animals Can Be So Sleepy
Wick
Can You See What I See?: Picture Puzzles to Search and Solve
Wolfe
Northwest Animal Babies

Lullabies

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A Child's Celebration of Lullaby
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The Classical Child Dreams
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Classical Child Early to Bed
Louchard
G'night Wolfgang: Classical Piano Solos for Bedtime

Classical

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A Child's Celebration of Classical Music
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Classical Princess Music for Dress-Up
Boston Pops Orchestra
Classics for Children
Mozart
Moving With Mozart

Fun & Games

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Animal Crackers in My Soup & Other Songs Made Popular by Shirley Temple
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A Child's Celebration of Silliest Songs
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A Child's Celebration of the World
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Brown Girl in the Ring: A World Music Collection
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Children's Favorites
Boynton
Rhinoceros Tap and 14 Other Seriously Silly Songs
Coffey
My Mama Was a Train
Covert
Ralph's World at the Bottom of the Sea
Dural
Choo Choo Boogaloo
Fink
All Wound Up: A Family Music Party
Garfunkel
Songs From a Parent to a Child
Guthrie
This Land is Your Land
Ives
Burl Ives Sings Little White Duck
Jenkins
Songs Children Love to Sing
Lithgow
Farkle and Friends
McCutcheon
Mail Myself to You
McDermott
Great Big World
Orozco
Diez Deditos,Ten Little Fingers: And Other Play Rhymes & Action Songs From Latin America
Palmer
We're On Our Way
Papillion
Cajun for Kids!
Paxton
Your Shoes, My Shoes
Raffi
Let's Play
Roberts
Yellow Bus
Rosenthal
Turkey in the Straw: Bluegrass Songs for Children
Salidor
Shiny New Shoes
Seeger
American Folk, Game & Activity Songs for Children

Concepts

Jenkins
Counting Games and Rhythms for the Little Ones
Little
The Alphabet Operetta
Little
My Favorite Musical Numbers
Ronno
On the Farm with Ronno
Thompson
25 Fun Learning Songs
Thompson
Colors & Shapes