Looking for a book? Here you will find a great selection of books and links to their videos. These books have been selected by your very own Lohr teachers and staff. Have fun browsing the books. If you would like, list your favorites in the discussion box at the bottom of the page.
Miss Becky's Favorite
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Summary
Beginning with just five fish and continuing into flights of fancy. One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish celebrates how much fun imagination can be. From can-opening Zans to the boxing Gox to the winking Yink who drinks pink ink, the silly rhymes and colorful cast of characters create an entertaining approach to reading that will have every child giggling from morning to night.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Beginning with just five fish and continuing into flights of fancy. One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish celebrates how much fun imagination can be. From can-opening Zans to the boxing Gox to the winking Yink who drinks pink ink, the silly rhymes and colorful cast of characters create an entertaining approach to reading that will have every child giggling from morning to night.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish" by Dr. Seuss
http://youtu.be/0waeG_x2eow
Buns' Favorite
This book is a great first introduction to Mouse, the star of the If You Give series and a perennial favorite among children. And with its spare, rhythmic text and circular tale, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is perfect for beginning readers and story time!
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Joffe Numeroff
http://youtu.be/Gyk55GYnGl0#aid=P-g7COwscbA
Mrs. Rohr's Favorite
Alexander knew it was going to be a terrible day when he woke up with gum in his hair. And it got worse...His best friend deserted him. There was no dessert in his lunch bag. And, on top of all that, there were lima beans for dinner and kissing on TV!
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" by Judith Viorst
http://youtu.be/Ezbssw11724
Mrs. Burkholder's Favorite
Have you ever dreamed of being locked in a department store at night? The endearing story of Corduroy paints a picture of the adventures that might unfold in such a situation. When all the shoppers have gone home for the night, Corduroy climbs down from the shelf to look for his missing button. It's a brave new world!
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Corduroy" by Don Freeman
http://youtu.be/0hEHdFMexpc
http://youtu.be/JBi5FRx3ptM
Mrs. R's Favorite
A young robin eats until he gets so fat he cannot keep up with the southbound flock, gets lost, and is nearly eaten by a wolf.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Round Robin" by Jack Kent
http://youtu.be/jyq6WWH-uMQ
Mrs. Clements' Favorite
Late one Christmas Eve, a boy boards a mysterious train: The Polar Express bound for the North Pole. Once there, Santa offers the boy any gift he desires. The boy asks for one bell from the harness of a reindeer. The bell is lost. On Christmas morning, the boy finds the bell under the tree. The boy's mother admires the bell, but laments that it is broken- for you see, only believers can hear the sound of the bell.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click here to listen to "The Polar Express" by Chris Van Allsburg
http://youtu.be/Dfd8uoaSZ2M
Miss Shell's Favorite
A green baby caterpillar hatches from an egg, and from birth he experiences a perpetual craving for food. He eats though fruits on five days, one piece on the first, and so on up to five, then experiments with a wider variety of fruits. Soon enough he eats too much and nauseates himself. After recovering he spins a cocoon in which he remains for the following two weeks.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle
http://youtu.be/vkYmvxP0AJI
Mrs. Edgin's Favorite
So begins the story that has touched the hearts of millions worldwide.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Love You Forever" by Robert Munsch
http://youtu.be/TXcIjqyUYk0
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Let the wild rumpus with Max and all the wild things continue as this classic comes to life as never before with new reproductions of Maurice Sendak's artwork.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak
http://youtu.be/6cOEFnppm_A
Mrs. Deuble's Favorite
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Summary
Poor Dick and Sally. It's cold and wet and they're stuck in the house with nothing to do...until a giant cat in a hat shows up, transforming the dull day into a madcap adventure and almost wrecking the place in the process.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss
http://youtu.be/HQW8AfBdea4
Mrs. Brown's Favorite
Soon Little Acorn grew into Little Oak. But now what was he to do? He couldn't grow oranges like the orange tree or flowers like the rose bus. He just grew and grew until he became Big Oak, and his branches were big and strong-but still he didn't know what he was to do. The one day Big Oak found that his strong branches were just right for a very special purpose.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "The Oak Inside the Acorn" by Max Lucado
http://youtu.be/DK1yJr1n1us
Mrs. Frase's Favorite
This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein has created a moving parable for readers of all ages that offers an affecting interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: ****
Click below to listen to "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein
http://youtu.be/1TZCP6OqRlE
Mrs. Alm's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
Summary
Owen had a fuzzy yellow blanket. "Fuzzy goes where I go," said Owen. But Mrs. Tweezers disagreed. She thought Owen was too old for a blanket. Owen disagreed. No matter what Mrs. Tweezers came up with, Blanket Fairies or vinegar, Owen had the answer. But when school started, Owen's mother knew just what to do, and everyone, Owen, Fuzzy and even Mrs. Tweezers was happy.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Owen" by Kevin Henkes
http://youtu.be/NEHNbB-N2QQ
Mrs. Williamson's Favorite
Filled with wonderful detail and humor, children and their parents will love the expressions and antics of the eleven different dinosaur children depicted here, and each species is spelled out somewhere in the young dinosaur's bedroom.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight" by Jane Yolen
http://youtu.be/f4aHT9-3Sqo
Mrs. Brown's Favorite
Trixie, Daddy, and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood laundromat. But the exciting adventure takes a dramatic turn when Trixie realizes somebunny was left behind.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Knuffle Bunny" by Mo Williams
http://youtu.be/CFksmnUUUDg
Mrs. Noggle's Favorite
It's the first day of school, and Ruby is new. When her classmate Angela wears a red bow in her hair, Ruby comes back from lunch wearing a red bow, too. When Angela wears a flowered dress, suddenly Ruby's wearing one, too. Fortunately, Ruby's teacher knows a better way to help Ruby fit in, by showing how much fun it is to be herself!
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Ruby the Copycat" by Peggy Rathmann
http://youtu.be/_hwHCHOUwQc
Mrs. Cobb's Favorite
Marian called it Roxaboxen. There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill-- nothing but sand and rocks, some old wooden boxed, cactus and greasewood and thorny ocotillo-- but it was a special place: a sparkling world of jeweled homes, streets edged with the whitest stones, and two ice cream shops. Come with us there, where all you need to gallop fast and free is a long stick and a soaring imagination.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Roxaboxen" by Alice McLerran
http://www.schooltube.com/video/458e5d327aa910a1d4c8/Roxaboxen
Miss Brunner's Favorite
A unique monster-under-the-bed story with the perfect balance of giggles and shivers, this picture book relies on the power of humor over fear, appeals to a child's love for creatures both alarming and absurd, and glorifies the scope of a child's imagination.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: ******
Click below to listen to "I Need My Monster" by Amanda Noll
http://www.storylineonline.net/i-need-my-monster/
Mrs. Farber's Favorite
Deep, deep down in their underground town, the prairie dogs live in harmony, until a mysterious, fluorescent, very fuzzy thing (otherwise known as a tennis ball) rolls down their hole. When the prairie dogs discover that they can pluck and pull the fuzz into fabulous fashions, their fear quickly turns to curiosity, then delight, then pure greed. The frenzy that erupts threatens to tear apart the prairie dog town forever. But when mean ol' Big Bark is kidnapped after taking all the fuzz for himself, the prairie dogs come to the rescue and remember the true meaning of community.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating:*****
Click below to listen to "The Great Fuzz Frenzy" by Janet Stevens
http://vimeo.com/64719666
Mrs. Alterio's Favorite
Pete the Cat goes walking down the street wearing his brand new white shoes. Along the way, his shoes change from white to red to blue to brown to WET as he steps in piles of strawberries, blueberries, and other big messes! But no matter what color his shoes are, Pete keeps movin' and groovin' and singing his song....because it's all good.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Pete the Cat, I Love My White Shoes" by Eric Litwin
http://youtu.be/1II1oy2esjo
Mrs. Cain's Favorite
Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "The Patchwork Quilt" by Valerie Flournoy
http://vimeo.com/6275389
Mrs. Scaife's Favorite
School is starting in the forest, but Chester Raccoon does not want to go. To help ease Chester's fears, Mrs. Raccoon shares a family secret called the Kissing Hand to give him the reassurance of her love any time his world feels a little scary.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "The Kissing Hand" by Audrey Penn
http://youtu.be/kXT1ANWka4A
http://youtu.be/0waeG_x2eow
Buns' Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
SummaryThis book is a great first introduction to Mouse, the star of the If You Give series and a perennial favorite among children. And with its spare, rhythmic text and circular tale, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is perfect for beginning readers and story time!
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Joffe Numeroff
http://youtu.be/Gyk55GYnGl0#aid=P-g7COwscbA
Mrs. Rohr's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
Summary Alexander knew it was going to be a terrible day when he woke up with gum in his hair. And it got worse...His best friend deserted him. There was no dessert in his lunch bag. And, on top of all that, there were lima beans for dinner and kissing on TV!
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" by Judith Viorst
http://youtu.be/Ezbssw11724
Mrs. Burkholder's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
Summary Have you ever dreamed of being locked in a department store at night? The endearing story of Corduroy paints a picture of the adventures that might unfold in such a situation. When all the shoppers have gone home for the night, Corduroy climbs down from the shelf to look for his missing button. It's a brave new world!
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Corduroy" by Don Freeman
http://youtu.be/0hEHdFMexpc
Image credit to wikipedia.org
Summary
Dragons love tacos. They love chicken tacos, beef tacos, great big tacos, and teeny tiny tacos. So if you want to lure a bunch of dragons to your party, you should definitely serve tacos. Buckets and buckets of tacos. Unfortunately, where there are tacos, there is also salsa. And if a dragon accidentally eats spicy salsa...oh, boy. You're in red-hot trouble.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Dragons Love Tacos" by Adam Rubinhttp://youtu.be/JBi5FRx3ptM
Mrs. R's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
SummaryA young robin eats until he gets so fat he cannot keep up with the southbound flock, gets lost, and is nearly eaten by a wolf.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Round Robin" by Jack Kent
http://youtu.be/jyq6WWH-uMQ
Mrs. Clements' Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
SummaryLate one Christmas Eve, a boy boards a mysterious train: The Polar Express bound for the North Pole. Once there, Santa offers the boy any gift he desires. The boy asks for one bell from the harness of a reindeer. The bell is lost. On Christmas morning, the boy finds the bell under the tree. The boy's mother admires the bell, but laments that it is broken- for you see, only believers can hear the sound of the bell.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click here to listen to "The Polar Express" by Chris Van Allsburg
http://youtu.be/Dfd8uoaSZ2M
Miss Shell's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
SummaryA green baby caterpillar hatches from an egg, and from birth he experiences a perpetual craving for food. He eats though fruits on five days, one piece on the first, and so on up to five, then experiments with a wider variety of fruits. Soon enough he eats too much and nauseates himself. After recovering he spins a cocoon in which he remains for the following two weeks.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle
http://youtu.be/vkYmvxP0AJI
Mrs. Edgin's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
SummarySo begins the story that has touched the hearts of millions worldwide.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Love You Forever" by Robert Munsch
http://youtu.be/TXcIjqyUYk0
Image credit to wikipedia.org
Summary
Everyone's favorite dinosaurs are back and this time they are going to school. More fun dinosaur antics await. These prehistoric pupils are in a class of their own!
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: ****
Click below to listen to "How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?" by Jane Yolen & Mark Teague
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SummaryLet the wild rumpus with Max and all the wild things continue as this classic comes to life as never before with new reproductions of Maurice Sendak's artwork.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak
http://youtu.be/6cOEFnppm_A
Mrs. Deuble's Favorite
Summary
Poor Dick and Sally. It's cold and wet and they're stuck in the house with nothing to do...until a giant cat in a hat shows up, transforming the dull day into a madcap adventure and almost wrecking the place in the process.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss
http://youtu.be/HQW8AfBdea4
Mrs. Brown's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
SummarySoon Little Acorn grew into Little Oak. But now what was he to do? He couldn't grow oranges like the orange tree or flowers like the rose bus. He just grew and grew until he became Big Oak, and his branches were big and strong-but still he didn't know what he was to do. The one day Big Oak found that his strong branches were just right for a very special purpose.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "The Oak Inside the Acorn" by Max Lucado
http://youtu.be/DK1yJr1n1us
Mrs. Frase's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
SummaryThis is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein has created a moving parable for readers of all ages that offers an affecting interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: ****
Click below to listen to "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein
http://youtu.be/1TZCP6OqRlE
Mrs. Alm's Favorite
Summary
Owen had a fuzzy yellow blanket. "Fuzzy goes where I go," said Owen. But Mrs. Tweezers disagreed. She thought Owen was too old for a blanket. Owen disagreed. No matter what Mrs. Tweezers came up with, Blanket Fairies or vinegar, Owen had the answer. But when school started, Owen's mother knew just what to do, and everyone, Owen, Fuzzy and even Mrs. Tweezers was happy.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Owen" by Kevin Henkes
http://youtu.be/NEHNbB-N2QQ
Mrs. Williamson's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
SummaryFilled with wonderful detail and humor, children and their parents will love the expressions and antics of the eleven different dinosaur children depicted here, and each species is spelled out somewhere in the young dinosaur's bedroom.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight" by Jane Yolen
http://youtu.be/f4aHT9-3Sqo
Mrs. Brown's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
SummaryTrixie, Daddy, and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood laundromat. But the exciting adventure takes a dramatic turn when Trixie realizes somebunny was left behind.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Knuffle Bunny" by Mo Williams
http://youtu.be/CFksmnUUUDg
Mrs. Noggle's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
Summary It's the first day of school, and Ruby is new. When her classmate Angela wears a red bow in her hair, Ruby comes back from lunch wearing a red bow, too. When Angela wears a flowered dress, suddenly Ruby's wearing one, too. Fortunately, Ruby's teacher knows a better way to help Ruby fit in, by showing how much fun it is to be herself!
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Ruby the Copycat" by Peggy Rathmann
http://youtu.be/_hwHCHOUwQc
Mrs. Cobb's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
SummaryMarian called it Roxaboxen. There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill-- nothing but sand and rocks, some old wooden boxed, cactus and greasewood and thorny ocotillo-- but it was a special place: a sparkling world of jeweled homes, streets edged with the whitest stones, and two ice cream shops. Come with us there, where all you need to gallop fast and free is a long stick and a soaring imagination.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Roxaboxen" by Alice McLerran
http://www.schooltube.com/video/458e5d327aa910a1d4c8/Roxaboxen
Miss Brunner's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
Summary A unique monster-under-the-bed story with the perfect balance of giggles and shivers, this picture book relies on the power of humor over fear, appeals to a child's love for creatures both alarming and absurd, and glorifies the scope of a child's imagination.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: ******
Click below to listen to "I Need My Monster" by Amanda Noll
http://www.storylineonline.net/i-need-my-monster/
Mrs. Farber's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
SummaryDeep, deep down in their underground town, the prairie dogs live in harmony, until a mysterious, fluorescent, very fuzzy thing (otherwise known as a tennis ball) rolls down their hole. When the prairie dogs discover that they can pluck and pull the fuzz into fabulous fashions, their fear quickly turns to curiosity, then delight, then pure greed. The frenzy that erupts threatens to tear apart the prairie dog town forever. But when mean ol' Big Bark is kidnapped after taking all the fuzz for himself, the prairie dogs come to the rescue and remember the true meaning of community.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating:*****
Click below to listen to "The Great Fuzz Frenzy" by Janet Stevens
http://vimeo.com/64719666
Mrs. Alterio's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
SummaryPete the Cat goes walking down the street wearing his brand new white shoes. Along the way, his shoes change from white to red to blue to brown to WET as he steps in piles of strawberries, blueberries, and other big messes! But no matter what color his shoes are, Pete keeps movin' and groovin' and singing his song....because it's all good.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "Pete the Cat, I Love My White Shoes" by Eric Litwin
http://youtu.be/1II1oy2esjo
Mrs. Cain's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
SummaryTwenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "The Patchwork Quilt" by Valerie Flournoy
http://vimeo.com/6275389
Mrs. Scaife's Favorite
Image credit to wikipedia.org
SummarySchool is starting in the forest, but Chester Raccoon does not want to go. To help ease Chester's fears, Mrs. Raccoon shares a family secret called the Kissing Hand to give him the reassurance of her love any time his world feels a little scary.
Summary credit to amazon.com
Buns' Rating: *****
Click below to listen to "The Kissing Hand" by Audrey Penn
http://youtu.be/kXT1ANWka4A
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