Learning New Things

Suggestions from Mt. Lebanon Public Library, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
www.mtlebanonlibrary.org


For preschool-aged children.

Fiction books are shelved by the author's last name.

Opposites
Tying Shoes
Telling Time
Days of the Week

Months

Counting Money
The Four Seasons
My Body

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OPPOSITES

 

To & Fro, Fast and Slow / Durga Bernhard (picture book)

 

How Big is a Pig? / Stella Blackstone (picture book)

 

First steps : letters, numbers, colors, opposites / John Burningham (picture book)

 

Bob paves the way! / BOB (toddler book)

 

Panda Big and Panda Small / Jane Cabrera (toddler book)

 

Mimi’s Book of Opposites / Emma Chichester Clark (toddler book)

 

Maisy big, Maisy small / Lucy Cousins (toddler book)

 

A high, low, near, far, loud, quiet story / Nina Crews (picture book)

 

My first book of opposites / Kim Deegan (toddler book)

 

My opposites = Mis opuestos / Rebecca Emberley (toddler book)

 

Olivia's opposites / Ian Falconer (toddler book)

 

What’s the Opposite, Piggy Wiggy? / Christyan Fox (toddler book)

 

Food for thought : the complete book of concepts for growing minds / Saxton Freymann (picture book)

 

Sam's opposites / Yves Got (toddler book)

 

What's up, Duck? : a book of opposites / Tad Hills (toddler book)

 

Exactly the opposite / Tana Hoban (picture book)

 

Build it up and knock it down / Tom Hunter (picture book)

 

Opposites / Rosalinda Kightley (picture book)

 

Opposites! / Kara McMahon (j T SESAME) (toddler book)

 

Becca backward, Becca frontward : a book of concept pairs / Bruce McMillan (picture book)

 

Big and little / Margaret Miller (picture book)

 

Too Big, Too Small, Just Right / Frances Minters (picture book)

 

The greatest gymnast of all / Stuart Murphy / j 516 MURPHY (non-fiction)

 

My first opposites board book / MY (toddler book)

 

Can a cherry pie wave goodbye? / Hap Palmer (music- j  CD PALMER)

 

Can a jumbo jet sing the alphabet? / Hap Palmer (music- j CD PALMER)

 

Baby happy baby sad / Leslie Patricelli (toddler book)

 

No no yes yes / Leslie Patricelli (toddler book)

 

Dog In, Cat Out / Gillian Rubinstein (picture book)

 

Big and little : a book of opposites / Richard Scarry / j E-pb S (easy paperback)

 

Black? white! day? night! / Laura Vaccaro Seeger (picture book)

 

What's what? a guessing game / Mary Serfozo  (picture book)

 

Fast-slow, high-low; a book of opposites / Peter Spier (picture book)

 

What’s Opposite / Stephen R. Swinburne (picture book)

 

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TYING SHOES 

 

Red Lace, Yellow Lace / Mike Casey (picture book)

 

What Eddie Can Do / Wilfried Gebhard (picture book)

 

Look!: I Can Tie My Shoes / Susan Hood (easy reader- j Er PRIMER HOOD)

 

TELLING TIME  

 

Tick-Tock / Lena Anderson  (picture book)

 

Bats Around the Clock / Kathi Appelt (picture book)

 

Rock 'n learn. Telling time / Melissa Caudle /  j DVD 529.7 

 

I. Q., It’s Time / Mary Ann Fraser (picture book)

 

Clocks and How they go / Gail Gibbons / j 681.1 Gib  (non-fiction)

 

Telling Time with Big Mama Cat / Dan Harper (picture book)

 

Big Hand, Little Hand / Judith Herbst (picture book)

 

Time to-- / Bruce McMillan (picture book)

 

Game Time / Stuart J. Murphy / j 512.211 Mur (non-fiction)

 

Telling time : how to tell time on digital and analog clocks! / Jules Older / j 529.7 Old (non-fiction)

 

It’s About Time Max / Kitty Richards / j 529.7 Ric (non-fiction)

 

A Bunny Day: telling time from breakfast to bedtime / Rick Walton (picture book)

 

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 DAYS OF THE WEEK

 

Rock 'n learn. Telling time / Melissa Caudle /  j DVD 529.7  

 

Diamond in the rough / Charlotte Diamond (music - audiocassette)

 

Busy Monday morning / Janina Domanska  (picture book)

 

Three two one day / Debbie Driscoll (picture book)

 

Kid tea / Elizabeth Ficocelli (picture book)

 

Chickens to the rescue / John Himmelman (picture book)

 

Seven spunky monkeys / Jackie French Koller  (picture book)

 

Come out and play, little mouse / Robert Kraus  (picture book)
 

 

One lighthouse, one moon / Anita Lobel  (picture book)

 

Cat and Dog and the mixed-up week / Elizabeth Miller  (picture book)

 

Can a cherry pie wave goodbye? / Hap Palmer  (music- j CD PALMER)

 

Can a jumbo jet sing the alphabet? / Hap Palmer (music- j CD PALMER)

 

All year long / Nancy Tafuri  (picture book)

 

Cookie's week / Cindy Ward  (toddler book)

 

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MONTHS

 

A red wagon year / Kathi Appelt (picture book)

 

Parade day : marching through the calendar year / Bob Barner (picture book)

 

Jump into January : a journey around the year / Stella Blackstone (picture book)

 

How do you say it today, Jesse Bear? / Nancy White Carlstrom (picture book)

 

A kitten's year / Nancy Raines Day (picture book)

 

Jump for joy : a book of months / Megan Halsey (picture book)

 

Pajamas anytime / Marsha Hayles (picture book)

 

Rabbit moon / Patricia Hubbell (picture book)

 

Twelve hats for Lena : a book of months / Karen Katz (picture book)

 

What a wonderful day to be a cow / Carolyn Lesser  (picture book)

 

When this box is full / Patricia Lillie  (picture book)

 

A busy year / Leo Lionni (picture book)

 

Mouse days : a book of seasons / Leo Lionni  (picture book)

 

One lighthouse, one moon / Anita Lobel (picture book)

 

The turning of the year / Bill Martin, Jr.  (picture book)

 

Happy birthday, Word Bird / Jane Belk Moncure (easy reader- j Er PRIMER MONCURE)

 

October smiled back / Lisa Westberg Peters (picture book)

 

My love for you all year round / Susan L. Roth (picture book)

 

Long Night Moon / Cynthia Rylant  (picture book)

 

Chicken soup with rice : a book of months / Maurice Sendak (picture book)

 

Month by month a year goes round / Carol Diggory Shields (picture book)

 

All year long / Nancy Tafuri (picture book)

 

Snowy flowy blowy : a twelve months rhyme / Nancy Tafuri (picture book)

 

Coco all year round / Sloane Tanen (picture book)

 

Around the year / Tasha Tudor (picture book)

 

A year for Kiko / Ferida Wolff (picture book) 

 

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COUNTING MONEY

 

If you made a million / David M. Schwartz / j 332.4 Sch (non-fiction)

 

Monster money / Grace Maccarone (counting books)

 

The penny pot / Stuart J. Murphy  / j 513.2 Mur   (non-fiction)

 

The coin counting book / Rozanne Lanczak Williams /   j 513.2 Wil   (non-fiction)  

 

THE FOUR SEASONS

 

Sun, snow, stars, sky / Catherine and Laurence Anholt (picture book)

 

Anno's Counting book / Mitsumasa Anno (j Eac ANNO - counting books)

 

Green eyes / A. Birnbaum (picture book)

 

Caps, hats, socks, and mittens / Louise Borden (picture book)

 

The watching game / Louise Borden (picture book)

 

The little island / Margaret Wise Brown  (picture book)

 

Meet Babar and his family / Laurent de Brunhoff (picture book)

 

Little farm by the sea / Kay Chorao (picture book)

 

Everett Anderson's year / Lucille Clifton (picture book)

 

Inspector Hopper's mystery year / Doug Cushman (easy reader)

 

Four stories for four seasons / Tomie dePaola (easy paperback)

 

My steps / Sally Derby (picture book)

 

Little Caribou / Sarah Fox-Davies (picture book)

 

A bear for all seasons / Diane Marcial Fuchs  (picture book)

 

Dear Rebecca, winter is here / Jean Craighead George  (picture book)

 

The seasons of Arnold's apple tree / Gail Gibbons (picture book)

 

The old man and his birds / Mirra Ginsburg  (picture book)

 

Gather up, gather in : a book of seasons / M.C. Helldorfer (picture book)

 

A year in the city / Kathy Henderson  (picture book)

 

Right outside my window / Mary Ann Hoberman (picture book)

 

I call it sky / Will C. Howell (picture book)

 

From dawn till dusk / Natalie Kinsey-Warnock (picture book)

 

The seasons and Someone / Virginia Kroll (picture book)

 

Mouse days : a book of seasons / Leo Lionni  (picture book)

 

Park beat : rhymin' through the seasons / Jonathan London  (picture book)

 

In the yard / Dana Meachen Rau  (easy reader- j Er PRIMER RAU)

 

I am a bunny / Ole Risom ; illustrated by Richard Scarry  (toddler book)

 

First comes spring / Anne Rockwell (picture book)

 

Mouse goes out / Phyllis Root  (easy reader- j Er PRIMER ROOT)

 

Run, jump, whiz, splash / Vera Rosenberry (picture book)

 

When the Earth wakes / Ani Rucki (picture book)

 

Long Night Moon / Cynthia Rylant  (picture book)

 

A bunny for all seasons / Janet Schulman (picture book)

 

Month by month a year goes round / Carol Diggory Shields  (picture book)

 

Snowy flowy blowy : a twelve months rhyme / Nancy Tafuri (picture book)

 

Hello, Arctic! / Theodore Taylor (picture book)

 

The delicious garden / Michael Teitelbaum (toddler book)

 

It's time now! / Alvin Tresselt (picture book)

 

Apple Valley year / Ann Turner (picture book)

 

Busy, busy moose / Nancy Van Laan (easy reader)

 

Leaves! Leaves! Leaves! / Nancy Elizabeth Wallace (picture book)

 

On a hot, hot day / Nicki Weiss (picture book)

 

A year of beasts / Ashley Wolff (picture book)

 

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MY BODY

 

Parts / Tedd Arnold (picture book)

 

Whose knees are these? / Jabari Asim (toddler book)

 

Nose to toes / Marilyn Baillie (picture book)

 

If you had a nose like an elephant's trunk / Marion Bauer  (picture book)

 

Goodness gracious! / Phil Cummings  (picture book)

 

Aleksandra, where are your toes? / Christine Salac Dubov  (toddler book)

 

Look at you! : a baby body book / Kathy Henderson (toddler book)

 

Eyes, nose, fingers and toes / Judy Hindley  (toddler book) 

 

We're different, we're the same : featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets / Bobbi Jane Kates ( j E-pb S) (easy paperback)

 

Head, shoulders, knees and toes ... / Annie Kubler  (toddler book)

 

Here are my hands / Bill Martin, Jr  (picture book)

 

My first body board book ( j T MY) (toddler book)

 

The body book / Shelley Rotner  (picture book)

 

Toddler two / Anastasia Suen  (toddler book)

 

Show me! / Tom Tracy  (toddler book)

 

Knock! knock! / Jan Wahl  (picture book)

 

What is a bellybutton? : first questions and answers about the human body / j 612 Wha (non-fiction)

 

(Look for more books about the human body under these call numbers: j 611—j 612) 

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*Alphabet & counting books are shelved separately at the end of the picture book section.

Books on colors and shapes are listed in separate booklists.

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