PEP Fresh Ideas Book List
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list by either theme or skill.
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Theme |
Book |
Author |
Cognitive/Language Skill |
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Animals |
Clap Your Hands |
Cauley |
Actions |
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Animals |
I Love My Daddy Because |
Porter-Gaylord |
Answering "why?" |
|
Animals |
I Love My Mommy Because |
Porter-Gaylord |
Answering "why?" |
|
Animals |
I Went Walking |
Williams |
Sequencing |
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Back to school |
My Backpack |
Bunting |
|
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Beach |
Blue Sea |
Kalen |
Sequencing |
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Beach |
Blue Sea |
Kalen |
Size concepts |
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Bears |
We're Going on a Bear Hunt |
Oxenbury |
Actions |
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Bears |
We're Going on a Bear Hunt |
Oxenbury |
Sequencing |
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Bears |
We're Going on a Bear Hunt |
Oxenbury |
Sounds |
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Body parts |
Arthur's Boo-boo |
Brown |
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Body parts |
From Head to Toe |
Carle |
Actions |
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Body parts |
Go Away, Big Green Monster! |
Emberley |
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Body parts |
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb |
Dr .Seuss |
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Body parts |
Here Are My Hands |
Martin |
Rhyming |
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Body parts |
Mrs. Wishy Washy |
Conley |
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Clothes |
Not Afraid of Anything |
Williams |
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Fall, apples |
Ten Apples Up on Top |
LeSieg |
Counting |
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Fall, apples, pumpkins |
Apples and Pumpkins |
Rockwell |
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Families |
Do Like Kyla |
Johnson |
Actions |
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Families |
I Love My Daddy Because |
Porter-Gaylord |
Answering "why?" |
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Families |
I Love My Mommy Because |
Porter-Gaylord |
Answering "why?" |
|
Families |
Jonathan and His Mommy |
Smalls |
Actions |
|
Families |
Loving |
Morris |
|
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Farm |
Snappy Little Farmyard |
Steer |
Language |
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Farm, animals |
Barnyard Banter |
Fleming |
Animal sounds |
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Farm, spring |
Mary Had a Little Lamb |
McMillan |
Singing |
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Feelings |
How Are You Peeling? |
Freymann |
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Food |
Today is Monday |
Carle |
Sequencing |
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Friends |
My Friends |
Gomi |
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Friends |
Yo? Yes! |
Raschka |
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Halloween |
Go Away, Big Green Monster! |
Emberley |
|
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Halloween |
Pumpkin, Pumpkin |
Tetherington |
Sequencing |
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Halloween |
The Little Old |
Lady WhoWa |
Sequencing |
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Halloween |
What is Halloween |
Ziefert |
|
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Holidays |
The After-Christmas Tree |
Tyler |
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Nature |
I Love You Sun, I Love You Moon |
Pandell |
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Night & day |
Grandfather Twilight |
Berger |
Seriation |
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Night/Day |
Lisa Can't Sleep |
Beckman |
Sequencing |
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Night/day |
Pancakes for Breakfast |
dePaola |
Predicting |
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Night/day |
While You Were Sleeping |
Butler |
Actions |
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Nursery rhymes |
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes- a rebus book |
Geeson |
Rhyming |
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Nursery rhymes |
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes- a rebus book |
Geeson |
Visual |
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Pets |
Cookie's Week |
Ward |
Sequencing |
|
Planting |
Growing Colors |
McMillan |
Colors |
|
Planting |
The Surprise Garden |
Hall |
Predicting |
|
Senses |
Sense Suspense |
McMillan |
Predicting |
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Senses |
Mice Squeak, We Speak |
dePaola |
Language |
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Senses, bodies |
My Five Senses |
Aliki |
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Spring |
It Looked Like Spilt Milk |
Shaw |
Imagination |
|
Spring |
Little Cloud |
Carle |
Imagination |
|
Spring |
The Listening Walk |
Showers |
Sounds |
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Thanksgiving |
Feast for 10 |
Falwell |
Counting, numbers |
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Thanksgiving |
The Tasty Thanksgiving Feast |
Farmer |
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Valentine's Day |
I Love You Sun, I Love You Moon |
Pandell |
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Winter |
Snow |
Shulevitz |
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Big and Little |
Miller |
Opposites |
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Big and Little |
Miller |
Size concepts |
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Charlie Parker Played Be Bop |
Raschka |
chanting |
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Charlie Parker Played Be Bop |
Raschka |
phonemic awareness |
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Dry or Wet? |
McMillan |
Opposites |
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If You Give a Moose a Muffin |
Numeroff |
Predicting |
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If You Give a Moose a Muffin |
Numeroff |
Sequencing |
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie |
Numeroff |
Predicting |
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie |
Numeroff |
Sequencing |
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If You Give a Pig a Pancake |
Numeroff |
Predicting |
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If You Give a Pig a Pancake |
Numeroff |
Sequencing |
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Say the Magic Word |
Brown |
Predicting |
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Sector Seven |
Wiesner |
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Surprise, Surprise |
Rogers |
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