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Read Take a Closer Look: Birds - Fly with amazing birds over deserts, seas, woodlands, and lush rainforests. From pink flamingos to chattering parrots and racing roadrunners, there are lots of feathered friends to meet. Try these activities at home:
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Read Tinga Tinga Tales: When the Sun Comes Up The start of each new day in Tinga Tinga Tales is very busy -- Hen welcomes her chicks, Elephant wakes up tortoise, and Tickbird makes sure Hippo is clean. And you can't miss the Tinga birds singing their loud dawn chorus! |
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Read See How They Grow: Frog Follow a tadpole on its journey to become a frog in this fun and informative picture book. See How They Grow is a photographic paperback series designed to introduce the fascinating world of animals and how they develop, step-by-step. Try these at home:
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Read Tale of a TadpoleThis book follows the life of a newborn tadpole as it grows up into a frog, facing the dangers of the pond along the way. |
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Read The Princess and the Frog - In this fairy tale with a twist, Tiana knows that her dreams will come true through hard work -- not by wishing on a star or kissing frogs. When she finds herself caught up in a magic-filled adventure, Tiana befriends a jazz-playing alligator, a lovesick firefly, and some other unexpected guests. As Tiana continues to work for her dream, she learns to understand the difference between what she wants and what she really needs. Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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Read Why Elephant Has a Trunk - Brilliantly colorful story of Elephant's transformation from a smelly, dirty beast with a short stubby nose into his glorious Tinga Tinga persona. Featuring the colorful cast of Tinga Tinga Tales animals, when Elephant's nose gets 'snapped' by grumpy Crocodile it is stretched and stretched until it is a very useful long wiggly nose indeed! TERRUMPETT! |
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Read Jungle Friends - Easy-to-read text introduces a number of Mowgli's friends from the animated Disney version of The Jungle Book. Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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Ladybug Girl and the Bug Squad - Lulu is so excited for the Bug Squad to come over for a
 playdate, and she has all kinds of things planned for them to do-right down to eating cupcakes. The cupcakes are special because each one has a candle that Lulu thinks everyone should blow out at exactly the same time. But when things don't go just the way Lulu planned, feelings are hurt and apologies are necessary. Sounds like a job for Ladybug Girl, who knows how to be brave and say she's sorry, even when it isn't easy. Try these activities at home:Printable: Ladybug Girl |
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A Bug's Life - Flik must retrieve the ants' food from the river and save it and himself from the hungry grasshoppers who are threatening to squish every ant in the colony. Try these activities at home:
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Super Catarina y los Super Insectos - Lulú está muy emocionada por la llegada del  Escuadrón de Insectos para jugar y tiene toda clase de cosas planeadas para comer los pastelitos con ellos. Los pastelitos son especiales porque cada uno tiene una vela y Lulú piensa que todos deben soplarlos exactamente al mismo tiempo. Pero cuando las cosas no salen tal y como Lulú lo planeó, los sentimientos se hieren y son necesarias las disculpas. Suena como un trabajo para la Mariquita, que sabe cómo ser valiente y decir que lo siente, aún cuando esto no sea fácil. |
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Read RepilesExplore a kingdom where the real dragons roam. Visit the many wonders of the reptile world, including flying snakes, underwater lizards, and rare dinosaur relatives. |
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Read The Snake Who Wants to Buy a Shoe Little Snake wants to buy a shoe, but he only has 100 riels. In his search for an affordable shoe, Little Snake consults his friends, all of whom have a different number of legs and have purchased shoes at various costs. Through Little Snake’s search, readers will learn everyday math concepts. This title is in Khmer and is published by Room to Read. |
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Read Snakes Slither and Hiss Look out! Snakes Slither and Hiss introduces young readers to some of the world's biggest, longest, and most dangerous snakes. Hissing snakes, spitting snakes, slithering snakes -- which ones do you like best? (DK Readers Pre-Level 1) |
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Alice learns the importance of saying "please" as well as that this magical word will not lead to everything she wants.
Please, Papa by Kate Banks, illustrated by Gabi Swiatokowska and Wait! Wait! By Hatsue Nakawaki , illustrated by Komako Sakai are two charming new picture books that celebrate imaginative play and playful interactions between young children and parents. Please , Papa even gently encourages good manners.
Both books have large text, and simple, evocative language that invites the most important feature of read aloud time – conversation about the stories. Children and adults will certainly want to talk about the slightly surreal, stylized illustrations in Please, Papa. The images of the little Alice and her parents look like paper dolls cut out from a turn of the century prints and on one page a small dog, a bat on what might be an owl, hang upside down from the top of the page. Alice is pretending to have a farm and is reminded to say “please” as she requests various animals. When Papa is tired of being her horse, a frowning Alice is convinced to give her horse a rest when he in turn, uses the magic word please.
Wait! Wait! follows a small child as he encounters various neighborhood animals on the sidewalk – a butterfly, a lizard, pigeons, cats – they all fly, wiggle or leap away. But when he is scooped up and placed on his father’s shoulders, the exploration of the park continues. “Here we go!”
Recommended by: Mary Sullivan, Decatur Branch
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Song-like rhyming text invites readers to guess what different components add up to. For example, a secret's part whisper, part keeping mum, and a certain kind of fruit is part peach and part plum (a nectarine).
A book that combines rhyme with reason, shapes with colors, and with great word play? That is hard to find. This picture book also has surprise fold-out parts! The description in the inner cover describes it this way: “Just like dancing is part step and part swing, when you put parts together you get a new thing!” This book also offers plenty of opportunities for an interactive storytime.
Recommended by: Joseph Fox, Wayne Branch Library
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Read M is for Monster - Hey, It's Me, Mike! Forget all those other alphabet books where A is for apple and B is for ball. This is the best ABC book ever--because it's written by me. Eye guarantee you'll love it. ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. See books below for more downloadable alphabet eBooks and Audiobooks. |
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Watch There's an Alligator Under My Bed - The alligator under his bed makes a boy's bedtime a hazardous operation, until he lures it out of the house and into the garage. |
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Read Monsters Get Scared of the Dark Too - Want to hear a secret? Monsters get scared of the dark, too. And believe it or not, they are afraid of the same things as human kids. The Monsters show you that it is okay to get scared, and they offer you simple advice on how to deal with your fears. Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. See books below for more downloadable eBooks and Audiobooks. |
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Watch The Polar Express - A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus. |
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Read Maisy Makes Gingerbread - Maisy the mouse makes gingerbread cookies and shares them with her friends Charley and Tallulah. |
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Read Ho Ho Ho Tucker - Oh, no! Tucker loves Christmas, with all the trimmings — making a snowman for Santa, marking just the right tree, getting into all the boxes of decorations — but somehow he manages to burn his nose while baking cookies on Christmas Eve. When you-know-who spies that bright red nose through the window, however, Tucker makes a very special friend and takes the sleigh ride of a lifetime. Now the tuckered-out terrier is already dreaming of next year! |
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Read Jingle All the Way Free Kindle Download: Jingle All the Way is the tale of a loveable, obedient pup who wants nothing more than a place to call home for the holidays. |
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Read Schnitzel's First Christmas - In this holiday frolic with a touching surprise ending, a rambunctious puppy laments that "no one has any time for me" as Christmas approaches; Santa does, however, as he provides the perfect present. |
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Read Llama Llama Holiday Drama - If there's one thing Llama Llama doesn't like, it's waiting. He and Mama Llama rush around, shopping for presents, baking cookies, decorating the tree . . . but how long is it until Christmas? Will it ever come? |
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Disney Digital Books - ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card
- Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card - no waiting. You will need your IndyPL Library Card and PIN to checkout. (What's my PIN?) If you don't live in Indianapolis - check with your library, they may have the Disney Collection too!
- iPad users - Disney Digital Books require Adobe Flash. Adobe Flash is not supported on iOS devices, including the iPad and iPad 2. If you want to view these eBooks on an iPad you will need an app web browser that does support Flash. Some of these browsers are Puffin, Skyfire, Photon, iSwifter & Cloud Browse. They are very inexpensive - from 2.99 to 7.99.
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