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Lois Ehlert

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1) Planting a rainbow

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Pub. Date

c1988

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A mother and child plant a rainbow of flowers in the family garden.

2) Waiting for wings

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Pub. Date

c2001

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Butterflies bloom as delicately as flowers in this visually magnificent story of beginnings, middles and ends: eggs, caterpillars and finally butterflies.

3) Red leaf, yellow leaf

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c1991

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A child describes the growth of a maple tree from seed to sapling.

4) Leaf Man

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Pub. Date

c2005

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Kids Books: Baby/Toddler Storytime Favorites
Kids Books: Fall

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A man made of leaves blows away, traveling wherever the wind may take him. On die-cut pages.

5) Pie in the sky

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2004

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A father and child watch the cherry tree in their back yard, waiting until there are ripe cherries to bake in a pie. Includes a recipe for cherry pie.

6) Nuts to you!

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Pub. Date

1993

7) Cuckoo : a Mexican folktale--Cucu: un cuento folklorico mexicano

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Pub. Date

c1997

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A traditional Mayan tale which reveals how the cuckoo lost her beautiful feathers.

8) Feathers for lunch

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Pub. Date

c1990

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An escaped housecat encounters twelve birds in the back yard but fails to catch any of them and has to eat feathers for lunch.

9) Snowballs

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Pub. Date

1999, c1995

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Some children create a family out of snow. Includes labeled pictures of all the items they use, as well as information about how snow is formed.

10) Market day

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Pub. Date

c. 2000

11) Red & Green

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20230912

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On a cold, snowy night, all is quiet throughout the house except for a small, michievous mouse.

12) Moon rope: a Peruvian folktale

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Pub. Date

1992

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An adaptation of the Peruvian folktale in which Fox and Mole try to climb to the moon on a rope woven of grass.

13) Growing vegetable soup

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2004, c1987

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A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.

14) Chicka chicka boom boom

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Pub. Date

c1989

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An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree.