• Wolf! by Becky Bloom. Pictures by Pascal Biet. (1999) Ages 4-8
• A wolf learns to read (by attending school, going to the library, and going to the bookstore) in order to impress a group of farmyard animals he has met.
• A Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanne Bloom. (2005) Ages 2-4
• Using large, easy-to-see type and bright pictures, this book shows how a studious polar bear and an inquisitive goose learn to be friends.
• A Bedtime Story by Mem Fox. (1996) Ages 4-8
• A young girl repeatedly asks her parents to interrupt their own reading long enough to read a bedtime story to her.
• A Story for Bear by Dennis Haseley. Pictures by Jim LaMarche. (2002) Ages 4-8
• A young bear who is fascinated by the mysterious marks he sees on paper finds a friend when a kind women reads to him.
• The Red Book by Barbara Lehman. (2004) Ages 4-8
• This wordless book, which received a Caldecott Honor in 2005, follows an urban girl and an island boy as they travel through the pictures in a very special book, finally meeting each other.
• The Alphabet Tree by Leo Lionni. (1968) Ages 2-4
• After a storm, all the letters on the alphabet tree are huddled together. The word-bug comes along and teaches them to form words, then a purple caterpillar teaches them to form sentences.
• Tom and Pippo Read a Story by Helen Oxenbury. (1998) Ages 2-4
• Tom likes his father to read to him and his toy monkey, Pippo, but when his father gets tired, Tom "reads" to Pippo himself.
• Wild About Books by Judy Sierra. Pictures by Marc Brown. (2004) Ages 4-8
• In this rhyming book, a librarian named Molly McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.
• Carlo Likes Reading by Jessica Spanyol. (2001) Ages 2-4
• Labeled scenes from a young giraffe's life-at home, at the market, in the park, and at the library-offer opportunities to learn new words.

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