Pierre Pratt
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This heartwarming picture book tells the true story of João Pereira de Souza, who found a Magellanic penguin covered in oil and starving near his home on an island off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. João spent a week cleaning the creature's tarred feathers and feeding him a daily diet of fish before taking him back to the sea to let him go. But the penguin wouldn't leave! He stayed with João for eleven months until finally disappearing. Now, every...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Swanda first moves to Brooklyn from the country, she misses the wildlife she left behind. But not for long. Oh, look! What dear little birds! Swanda says to her dog when she notices all the pigeons outside her apartment. Come, Waldo, we ll get them a bird feeder all their own. It s fun to watch the pigeons flock to the feeder, at first. But then more arrive ... and more ... and more. And before she knows it, there are too many pigeons! Swanda...
5) The branch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a branch from her beloved tree snaps off in an icy storm, a plucky girl refuses to let it be hauled away. Her neighbor, Mr. Frank, says it's full of potential. So with imagination and spirit (and Mr. Frank's help), the girl creates something whole and new out of the broken branch, to be enjoyed again and again!"--Cover flap.
7) Stop, thief!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Max is out to catch the thief who is stealing all the produce from farmers fields.
Author
Series
Thinkcities volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
""Imagine a city draped in a blanket of green ... Is this the city you know?" This beautiful book of narrative non-fiction looks at the urban forest, starting with a bird's-eye view of the tree canopy, then swooping down to street level, digging deep into the ground, then moving up through a tree's trunk, back into the leaves and branches. It discusses the problems that city trees face such as the abundance of concrete, poor soil and challenging light...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Little Monkey decides to venture out into the jungle alone, beyond the gaze of his watchful Mama, he discovers that other animals are not as friendly and warm as his own family and that independence is not altogether a good thing.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"2 is a little. 0 is nothing. 1 is not enough. Right? But think again. One sun is a lot. One tree is a lot. One dog is a lot. Sometimes two is too much, and sometimes zero is just right. One Is a Lot is a unique and thoughtful picture book that introduces readers to a different way of appreciating numbers, asking them to reconsider their notions of the smallest numbers - 0, 1 and 2. A lyrical, philosophical book that shows readers how the value of...
11) Roar of a snore
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Disturbed by a deafening snore, Jack wakes up the family and animals one by one in search of the noisy culprit.
12) Skunkdog
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dumpling, a lonely dog with no sense of smell, moves with his family to the country and makes a new friend who takes some getting used to.
13) Where's Pup?
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A circus clown's search for his partner leads him to the top of an acrobatic pyramid, found by unfolding the book's final page.
15) Su's snowgirl
Author
Publisher
De Agostini Editions
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Su puts on her warmest clothes to play outside and with her friend Sandra builds a big snowgirl with noodle hair.
16) No, no Jack!
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A playful dog continually hides things in the closet, and his family makes him them return every time--except for one.
19) The ladder
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A ladder, long forgotten on a lonely lane, sets out to see the world, but finds that people and animals keep using it to climb into the sky and disappear.
20) Le loup de Noël
Author
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Livre enrichi musical — Collection « Je lis — Je chante »
Conte de Claude Aubry
Illustrations de Pierre Pratt
Lu par Michel Faubert avec la participation spéciale du groupe Bon Débarras
Maître Griboux, un vieux loup des Laurentides, maussade et solitaire, n'a plus rien à manger.
Affamé, il descend au village la veille de Noël o il est attiré par la chaleur et les lumières de l'église. Il entre durant la messe de minuit et voit un...