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Preschool Gift Recommendations: Give the Gift of Reading! Shopping just got easier! Share the joy of reading! We recommend the following books for preschool children on your "gift" lists!
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Title: American Babies
ISBN: 9781580892803
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: PreK.
Notes: “Celebrate the American spirit with babies from all across the country.”

 
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Title: Peek-A-Boo What?
Publisher: Begin Smart (2009)
ISBN: 9781934618509
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: PreK.
Notes: Babies are invited to play peek-a-boo by lifting flaps to reveal rhyming words. Includes note to parents about infant cognition.

 
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Title: LMNO Peas
Author: Baker, Keith
Publisher: Beach Lane Books (2010)
ISBN: 9781416991410
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: PreK.
Notes: Busy little peas introduce their favorite occupations, from astronaut to zoologist.

 
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Title: In the Wild
Author: Elliott, David
Publisher: Candlewick Press (2010)
ISBN: 9780763644970
Format: Paperback
Reading Level: PreK.
Notes: A woodcut-illustrated collection of poems that celebrates wild animals.

 
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Title: Ling & Ting : Not Exactly the Same!
Author: Lin, Grace
Publisher: Little, Brown (2010)
ISBN: 9780316024525
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: PreK.
Notes: Ling and Ting are identical twins that people think are exactly the same, but time and again they prove to be different.

 
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Title: Dinosaurs?!
Author: Prap, Lila
Publisher: North South Books (2010)
ISBN: 9780735822849
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: PreK.
Notes: Chickens consider the possibility that their ancestors were dinosaurs.

 
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Title: I Can Be Anything!
Author: Spinelli, Jerry
Publisher: Little, Brown books for Young Readers (2010)
ISBN: 9780316162265
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: PreK.
Notes: A little boy ponders the many possible jobs in his future, from paper-plane folder and puppy-dog holder to mixing-bowl licker and tin-can kicker

 
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Title: The Quiet Book
Author: Underwood, Deborah, and Renata Liwska
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (2010)
ISBN: 9780547215679
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: PreK.
Notes: From the quiet of being the first one awake in the morning to "sweet dreams quiet" when the last light is turned off, simple text explores the many kinds of quiet that can exist during the day.

 
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Title: Can I Play, Too?
Author: Willems, Mo
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children (2010)
ISBN: 9781423119913
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: PreK.
Notes: Elephant and Piggie learn to play catch with their new friend Snake.

 
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Title: Pecan Pie Baby
Author: Woodson, Jacqueline
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons (2010)
ISBN: 9780399239878
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: PreK.
Notes: When Mama's pregnancy draws attention away from Gia, she worries that the special bond they share will disappear forever once the baby is born.