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Classics: All Aboard for Kindergarten

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  • A turtle afraid of small dark places, and therefore of crawling into his shell, asks a variety of animals for advice, only to find out that each has a fear of its own. Also available as an eBook.
    Book, 2011Toronto : Kids Can Press, ©2011. — BOURGEO
  • Eric Carle's classic story begins when the caterpillar hatches out of a tiny egg. He is very hungry. He ates through an apple, three plums, and still he is hungry. Strikingly bold, colorful pictures and a simple text in large, clear type tell the…
    Book, 1987New York : Philomel Books, c1987. — CARLE
  • From acclaimed author-illustrator Jules Feiffer, Bark, George is a hilarious, subversive story about a dog who can't . . . bark! When George's mother tells her son to bark, George goes "Meow," which definitely isn't right because George is a dog.…
    Book, 1999[New York] : HarperCollins, ©1999. — FEIFFER
  • Stella and her little brother are spending the day at the sea. Stella has been to the sea before and knows all its secrets, but Sam has many questions: "Does a catfish purr? Does a seahorse gallop?" Stella has an answer for them all. The only thing…
    Book, 1999Toronto : Douglas & McIntyre. c1999. — GAY
  • When Jillian Jiggs finally cleans up her room, she discovers a jar of buttons and decides they look just like pig's noses. So she comes up with a fantastic idea - she'll make pigs and sell them! She makes pirate pigs and princess pigs, striped pigs…
    Book, 1988Richmond Hill, Ont. : North Winds Press, [1988] — GILMAN
  • One evening Harold decides to go for a walk in the moonlight. Armed only with an oversize purple crayon, young Harold draws himself a landscape full of wonder and excitement. Harold and his trusty crayon travel through woods and across seas and…
    Book, 1955New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, 1955. — JOHNSON
  • The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. Ezra Jack Keats's classic The Snowy Day, winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal, pays homage to the wonder and pure pleasure a child experiences when the world is blanketed in snow.
    Book, 1962New York : Viking Press, ©1962. — KEATS
  • Elizabeth is a lovely princess living in a lovely castle wearing lovely princess dresses, and she is going to marry the handsome Prince Ronald. Everything is wonderful until a dragon comes along and smashes Elizabeth's castle and burns up all of her…
    Book, 1980Toronto : Annick Press, ©1980. — MUNSCH
  • It's a rainy day at home and siblings Dick and Sally have nothing to do, but all of that changes when The Cat and his messy sidekicks, Thing One and Thing Two, burst onto the scene, bringing with them adventure and chaos much to the dismay of a…
    Book, 1985New York : Random House, [1985] — SEUSS
  • On January's coldest day of the year in a small community in the Northwest Territories, a stranger to horses searches among family and friends for answers to an important question: "What's the most beautiful thing you know about horses?" The answers…
    Book, 1998New York : Children's Book Press, ©1998. — VANCAMP