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Bridges, Margaret Park – Am I Big or Little?  A little girl talks with her mother about how she is big and little at the same time.

Ask your child to think of more ways to be big and little at the same time.  Try other opposites, like quiet/loud, awake/sleepy, happy/sad.

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Crumpacker, Bunny – Alexander’s Pretending Day.  When Alexander asks his mother questions, they use their imaginations to play together.

Try acting out some of Alexander’s suggestions.  Can you think of others?

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Dyer, Sarah – Clementine and Mungo. Clementine gives creative answers to the many questions that her younger brother Mungo asks.

Can you and your child each come up with different answers to Mungo’s questions?

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Damm, Antje – Ask Me.  A collection of questions, such as "Who is your best friend?" and "Which story can you tell?" that can serve as a conversation starter for parents and their children.

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Hall, Nancy Christensen – Mouse at Night.  After Miss Bumbly goes to bed, a house mouse has a very busy night.  This story has almost no text.

Ask your child to describe the action in the pictures.

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Jenkins, Steve and Robin Page – What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?  Illustrations of tails, noses, ears, feet and eyes invite readers to be amazed at the many ways animals use them.

Can your child guess the animals from the close-ups?  After you read the text, ask your child to act out the actions.

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Mizumura, Kazue – If I Were A Cricket. Twelve short poems describe what different insects and other small animals would do for the reader.

Use the repeating elements (an animal, a place and an action) and come up with your own “If I Were” verse.

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Shields, Carol Diggory – Day By Day A Week Goes Round.  Describes the activities families do each day of the week.

What do you do on a Monday?  A Tuesday?  The other days of the week?

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Prelutsky, Jack – Scranimals.  Short poems describe the strange beasts that live on Scranimal Island, like the Porcupinapple and Bananaconda.

Come up with your own plant/animal combinations.  Describe your Scranimals.

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Bright, Paul -- Under the Bed.  An expedition under the bed reveals a variety of creatures--hairy green, spiny red, warty and winged--that are not scary, but they are all afraid of the newest arrival.

What’s under your bed?

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Williams, Sue – I Went Walking.  During the course of a walk, a young boy identifies animals of different colors.

Use the repeating phrase from the book “I went walking and what did I see?”  and make up your own real or imaginary walk.

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Zotolow, Charlotte – Do You Know What I’ll Do?  A little girl delights her brother with a series of promises about all the wonderful things she'll do to make him happy as they both grow up.

Make up your own answers to the questions in the book.

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Miller, Margaret – Who Uses This? Brief text, in question and answer form, and accompanying photographs introduce a variety of objects, their purpose, and who uses them.

Ask your child to identify the objects, then describe how the kids and grownups use them.