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A little mouse searches for its penguin, using textures to help identify the right one.

A book about getting dressed for different occasions, with fold-out pages and a die-cut magnetic closure.

Various disasters threaten to stop Poppa and the children from getting to the lake in their rattletrap car, but they manage to come up with an ingenious solution to each problem.

A scratch-and-sniff story in which a gingerbread family, including mom, dad, sister, and brother, live a very sweet life in their house near a gumdrop forest and a lollipop garden.

Shows how a week's worth of weather can be depicted in pictographs.

Provides general information about dinosaurs, and features illustrations and facts that look at the different sizes of dinosaurs of the land, air, and sea. Includes fold-out pages.

Describes the floors of a fire station, what firefighters do at the station, and how they fight fires, and discusses calling 911 to report a fire.

Uses an election for class president to show how to read bar graphs, presenting the number of votes each candidate received.

Simple text and photos ask students to identify which item in a group is different than the rest.

Simple text and photos of animals in a forest reinforce such concepts as above, under, in, on, in front of, and behind.