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Some fun beginning readers to try out!
Updated June 28, 2024
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Big Dog and Little Dog
Pilkey, Dav
Paper Book
Big Dog and Little Dog are canine companions who stick together through thick and thin. In this, their first bilingual adventure, Big Dog and Little Dog are hungry! And as any good dog knows, friends who chow down together nap together. With deceptively simple text, graphic illustrations,...
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Don't throw it to Mo!
Adler, David A.
Paper Book
Winner of the 2016 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Mo is the youngest kid on the Robins, his football team. His classmates don't mind, but the kids on their rival team tease him for being a "butterfingers" who's too tiny to catch the ball. But Mo's coach has a plan to turn Mo's little...
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An Elephant & Piggie Biggie!
Willems, Mo
Paper Book
Read 5 Elephant & Piggie adventures in this special bind-up collection! Mo Willems, award-winning, New York Times best-selling creator of The Pigeon, Knuffle Bunny, and Unlimited Squirrels, presents best friends Elephant and Piggie. Gerald is...
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Fly high, fly guy!
Arnold, Tedd
Paper Book
When Dad and Mom prohibit Fly Guy from coming on the family vacation for fear he'll get lost, he accidentally gets shut in the car trunk and joins the ride anyway, and although he has his moments along the way, he ends up saving the day when Dad can't figure out how to get home.
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Fox has a problem
Tabor, Corey R.
Paper Book
A Geisel Award winner! In his next I Can Read adventure, Fox--the hilarious trickster character featured in previous Geisel Award winners Fox at Night and Fox the Tiger--learns to solve a problem in an unexpected way. Fox has a problem: His kite is stuck in a tree! But every...
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Gigi and Ojiji
Iwai, Melissa
Paper Book
"Gigi crafts her Japanese American identity in this enchanting early reader. The cuteness, inclusivity, and cross-cultural problem-solving represented will have young readers coming back again and again. A must-buy." --School Library Journal (starred review) "The text is well supported...
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Go, Otto, go!
Milgrim, David
Paper Book
Otto the robot builds a spaceship in this funny and poignant Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book. This Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read by New York Times bestselling author/illustrator David Milgrim is part of the award-winning, star-reviewed The Adventures of Otto series! See Otto...
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A pig, a fox, and a box
Fenske, Jonathan
Paper Book
In the style of Mo Willems, Jonathan Fenske tells three humorous stories of two friends, Pig and Fox, and their shenanigans with a cardboard box (all of which involved Pig accidentally crushing Fox in the box). With comic art and simple language, this Level 2 reader is sure to have kids rolling with...
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I see a cat
Meisel, Paul
Paper Book
A dog barks at everything he loves--a cat, a squirrel, and his favorite boy! This award-winning story is now a bilingual board book. I see a cat. Veo un Gato. I see a bird. Veo un pajaro Follow a dog through his happy day in English and Spanish!...
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We are growing!
Keller, Laurie
Paper Book
Walt and his friends are growing up fast! Everyone is the something-est. But... what about Walt? He is not the tallest, or the curliest, or the silliest. He is not the anything-est! As a BIG surprise inches closer, Walt discovers something special of his own!
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What this story needs is a pig in a wig
Virja n, Emma J.
Paper Book
"A story with the echoes of Seuss and Willems."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A boatload of giggles will keep the reader returning for more easy-to-read fun."-- Kirkus Reviews The first book in the vibrant and laugh-out-loud funny early reader What This Story Needs...
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