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👶 Age Group
📖 Book Name
✍️ Author
🖼️ Original Cover
🎯 Theme/Focus
📝 Summary
⏱️ Reading Time
✅ Read Status
AgeGroupText
SortOrder
🐝 3-4 years
17
🦄 Not Quite Narwhal
Jessie Sima
[Insert Cover Image]
Identity, Belonging
A unicorn raised by narwhals discovers who he really is.
~7 mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🐻 We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Michael Rosen
[Insert Cover Image]
Adventure, Nature
A family goes on a fun and rhythmic bear hunt adventure.
~7 mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🐞 The Grouchy Ladybug
Eric Carle
[Insert Cover Image]
Emotions, Social Skills
A ladybug learns about sharing and being kind through encounters with other animals.
~6 mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🐉 Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin
[Insert Cover Image]
Humor, Food
Dragons love tacos but hate spicy salsa, leading to hilarious mishaps.
~6 mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🖍️ The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt
[Insert Cover Image]
Creativity, Humor
Crayons write letters complaining about how they are used and ask for change.
~7 mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🐇 The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
[Insert Cover Image]
Classic, Mischief
Peter Rabbit gets into trouble in Mr. McGregor's garden and learns a lesson.
~8 mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🐸 Froggy Gets Dressed
Jonathan London
[Insert Cover Image]
Routine, Humor
Froggy tries to get dressed for a snowy day but faces funny challenges.
~6 mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🐁 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Laura Numeroff
[Insert Cover Image]
Cause & Effect, Humor
A mouse’s request for a cookie sets off a chain of funny events.
~6 mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🐄 Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
Doreen Cronin
[Insert Cover Image]
Animals, Humor
Cows go on strike by typing demands to the farmer, leading to funny negotiations.
~7 mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🐇 The Rabbit Listened
Cori Doerrfeld
[Insert Cover Image]
Emotions, Empathy
A story about a child learning to cope with feelings after disappointment with the help of a rabbit.
~7 mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🦁 The Lion Inside
Rachel Bright
[Insert Cover Image]
Courage, Kindness
A small mouse finds courage with the help of a lion inside him.
~7 mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🎨 Mix It Up!
Hervé Tullet
[Insert Cover Image]
Colors, Creativity
A fun introduction to mixing colors and art for young children.
~6 mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🌙 How Do You Go to Sleep?
Kate McMullan
[Insert Cover Image]
Bedtime, Routine
Explains bedtime routines and ways to relax before sleep.
~5 mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🌟 The Wonderful Things You Will Be
Emily Winfield Martin
[Insert Cover Image]
Inspiration, Dreams
Encourages children to dream big and be anything they want to be.
~6 mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🟡 Press Here
Hervé Tullet
Interactive, Tap, Press and Shake
Children press, shake, and tilt the book to make dots move and multiply.
~5mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🦖 Crunch the Shy Dinosaur
Cirocco Dunlap
Verbal Prompts, Empathy Play
A shy dinosaur learns to come out of his shell with encouragement.
~5mins
📘 To Read
3-4
3
🥞 Pancakes!
Lotta Nieminen
Pretend play, Food
Interactive book where kids pour, mix, and flip pancakes with tabs and flaps.
~5mins
3-4
3
🐛 1-2 years
12
🐻 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Eric Carle
[Insert Cover Image]
Colors, Animals
A rhythmic story introducing animals and colors with repetitive phrases.
~5 mins
📘 To Read
1-2
1
🦁 Dear Zoo
Rod Campbell
[Insert Cover Image]
Animals, Lift-the-flap
A child writes to the zoo requesting a pet, and animals are sent one by one.
~4 mins
📘 To Read
1-2
1
🌙 Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown
[Insert Cover Image]
Bedtime, Calm
A soothing bedtime story saying goodnight to everything in the “great green room.”
~4 mins
📘 To Read
1-2
1
🐑 Sheep in a Jeep
Nancy Shaw
[Insert Cover Image]
Animals, Adventure
A fun story about sheep who drive a jeep and get into silly trouble.
~5 mins
📘 To Read
1-2
1
🦊 Fox’s Socks
Kate Banks
[Insert Cover Image]
Animals, Family
A fox searches for his missing socks with a sweet family theme.
~5 mins
📘 To Read
1-2
1
🐠 Fish Eyes
Lois Ehlert
[Insert Cover Image]
Animals, Counting
A colorful book about different fish with cutouts and textures.
~5 mins
📘 To Read
1-2
1
🐷 Where Is Baby’s Belly Button?
Karen Katz
[Insert Cover Image]
Body Parts, Lift-the-flap
A lift-the-flap book teaching body parts by asking questions to the baby.
~4 mins
📘 To Read
1-2
1
🐰 Bunny’s Noisy Book
Margaret Wise Brown
[Insert Cover Image]
Animals, Sounds
A noisy book encouraging children to make animal sounds and have fun.
~5 mins
📘 To Read
1-2
1
🐥 Little Owl’s Night
Divya Srinivasan
[Insert Cover Image]
Nighttime, Family
A baby owl explores the night and learns to appreciate the dark with the help of family.
~6 mins
📘 To Read
1-2
1
🐷 Moo, Baa, La La La!
Sandra Boynton
[Insert Cover Image]
Animal Sounds, Rhythm
A silly, fun book full of animal sounds and playful rhymes that invite interaction.
~5 mins
📘 To Read
1-2
1
🐸 The Going-To-Bed Book
Sandra Boynton
[Insert Cover Image]
Bedtime Routine, Humor
Animals get ready for bed in a funny, rhythmic story with repetitive lines for toddlers.
~5 mins
📘 To Read
1-2
1
☀️ Peekaboo Sun
Camilla Reid
Lift-the-flap, Weather
Little ones lift felt flaps to find the sun and friends.
1-2 mins
📘 To Read
1-2
1
🦋 2-3 years
11
🦆 Duck & Goose
Tad Hills
[Insert Cover Image]
Friendship, Play
Duck and Goose try to find a place to play and learn about sharing.
~6 mins
📘 To Read
2-3
2
🦉 Owl Babies
Martin Waddell
[Insert Cover Image]
Family, Comfort
Three baby owls wonder where their mother has gone and learn about reassurance.
~5 mins
📘 To Read
2-3
2
🕷️The Very Busy Spider
Eric Carle
[Insert Cover Image]
Animals, Sounds
A spider spins her web while other animals make sounds around her.
~5 mins
📘 To Read
2-3
2
🐟 The Pout-Pout Fish
Deborah Diesen
[Insert Cover Image]
Emotions, Friendship
A fish learns to change his frown into a smile through friendship.
~5 mins
📘 To Read
2-3
2
🐒 Grumpy Monkey
Suzanne Lang
[Insert Cover Image]
Emotions, Self-awareness
Jim Panzee is having a grumpy day and learns it’s okay to feel that way.
~5 mins
📘 To Read
2-3
2
🚚 Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle
[Insert Cover Image]
Friendship, Helping
A friendly truck helps his animal friends and gets help in return.
~6 mins
📘 To Read
2-3
2
🐑 Llama Llama Red Pajama
Anna Dewdney
[Insert Cover Image]
Bedtime, Family
Llama Llama feels anxious when his mama leaves at bedtime.
~5 mins
📘 To Read
2-3
2
🧢 I Want My Hat Back
Jon Klassen
[Insert Cover Image]
Humor, Problem Solving
A bear searches for his missing hat and encounters forest friends.
~5 mins
📘 To Read
2-3
2
🛏️ Time for Bed
Mem Fox
[Insert Cover Image]
Bedtime, Animals
Various animals get ready to go to sleep in this soothing bedtime book.
~4 mins
📘 To Read
2-3
2
📦 Not a Box
Antoinette Portis
[Insert Cover Image]
Imagination, Creativity
A rabbit uses a simple box to imagine and create many adventures.
~5 mins
📘 To Read
2-3
2
🌳 Tap the Magic Tree
Christie Matheson
Interactive, Nature
A magical tree changes through the seasons as kids tap and shake the pages.
2–3 mins
📘 To Read
2-3
2
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