April Book List

Baby Animals

From Tadpole to Frog – Wendy Pfeffer

Lamb (See How They Grow) – DK Publishing

Make Way for Ducklings – Robert McCloskey

Zoo Borns! Zoo Babies From Around the World – Andrew Bleiman & Chris Eastland

Eggs

An Egg is Quiet – Diana Hutts Aston

An Extraordinary Egg – Leo Lionni

Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones – Ruth Heller

Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg – Mia Posada

Poetry

A Child’s Garden of Verses – Robert Louis Stevenson

All the Small Poems and Fourteen More – Valerie Worth

Here’s a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry

Poetry Speaks to Children

Switching on the Moon: A Very First Book of Bedtime Poems

Seeds & Planting

A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds – Jean Richards

A Seed is Sleepy – Diana Hutts Aston

Flip, Float, Fly! Seeds on the Move – JoAnn Early Macken

Seeds – Ken Robbins

Earth Day (April 22)

Easy to Be Green – Ellie O’Ryan

Our Big Home – Linda Glaser

The Earth and I – Frank Asch

The Green Alphabet – A First Look at Ecology – Donna L. Hurst & Allison Wagner Taylor

William Shakespeare’s Birthday (April 23)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Kids – Lois Burdett

Bard of Avon – The Story of William Shakespeare – Diane Stanley & Peter Vennema

Stage Fright on a Summer Night (Magic Tree House) – Mary Pope Osborne

Arbor Day (April 29)

One Small Place in a Tree – Barbara Brenner

Tell Me, Tree: All About Trees for Kids – Gail Gibbons

Trees, Leaves & Bark – Diane Burns

What Tree is That? – Arbor Day Foundation

Easy Readers & Chapter Books

Poppleton in Spring – Cynthia Rylant

Rosalie, My Rosalie: The Tale of a Duckling – Jacquelyn Mitchard

The Cricket in Times Square – George Selden

The Frog and Toad Collection – Arnold Lobel