Puffin storytime | SWAN Consortium

Author

McCloskey, Robert, 1914-2003

Earliest Publication Date

1977

Description

Little Bear and Sal both go berrying with their mothers, but after sitting down to rest, they each end up following the other one's mother. Includes second track featuring play-along games, songs, and rhymes.

2) Corduroy

Author

Freeman, Don, 1908-1978

Earliest Publication Date

1982

Description

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A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him he finds what he has always wanted most of all.

3) Froggy gets dressed

Author

London, Jonathan, 1947-

Earliest Publication Date

1997

Description

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Rambunctious Froggy hops out into the snow for a winter frolic but is called back by his mother to put on some necessary articles of clothing.

4) Madeline

Author

Bemelmans, Ludwig, 1898-1962

Earliest Publication Date

1960

Description

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The smallest and bravest one is Madeline, whose adventurous spirit and outrageous antics have delighted boys and girls for over seventy years. Now even the youngest readers can enjoy this timeless favorite in a sturdy board book format.

5) Make way for ducklings

Author

McCloskey, Robert, 1914-2003

Earliest Publication Date

1941

Description

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Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring.

6) Miss Rumphius

Author

Cooney, Barbara, 1917-2000

Earliest Publication Date

2009

Description

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As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.

7) Skippyjon Jones

Author

Schachner, Judith Byron

Earliest Publication Date

2004

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Skippyjon Jones is a Siamese cat with an overactive imagination who would rather be El Skippito, his Zorro-like alter ego.

8) The story of Ferdinand

Author

Leaf, Munro, 1905-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1936

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All the other bulls run, jump, and butt their heads together in fights. Ferdinand, on the other hand, would rather sit and smell the flowers. So what will happen when Ferdinand is picked for the bullfights in Madrid? --Publisher.