More story stretchers: more activities to expand children's favorite books

I am me, I am special, look what I can do!. I like me! / Nancy Carlson

Tacky the penguin / Helen Lester, illustrated by Lynn Munsinger

Silly Fred / Karen Wagner, illustrated by Normand Chartier

Quick as a cricket / Audrey Wood, illustrated by Don Wood

Something to crow about / Megan Halsey Lane

Families. Arthur's baby / Marc Brown

Daddy makes the best spaghetti / Anna Grossnickle Hines

A walk in the rain / Ursel Scheffler, illustrated by Ulises Wensell, translated by Andrea Mernan

My great grandpa / Martin Waddell, illustrated by Dom Mansell

Loving / Ann Morris, photographs by Ken Heyman

Friends. Jessica / Kevin Henkes

We are best friends / Aliki

A home / Nola Langner Malone

My friend Leslie : the story of a handicapped child / Maxine B. Rosenberg, photographs by George Ancona

Ira sleeps over / Bernard Waber

Feelings. Feelings / Joanne Brisson Murphy, illustrated by Heather Collins

The temper tantrum book / Edna Mitchell Preston, illustrated by Rainey Bennett

Sloppy kisses / Elizabeth Winthrop, illustrated by Anne Burgess

Aaron's shirt / Deborah Gould, illustrated by Cheryl Harness

There's a nightmare in my closet / Mercer Mayer

Animals, real and fanciful. Big red barn / Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Felicia Bond

Animals born alive and well / Ruth Heller

Is your mama a llama? / Deborah Guarino, illustrated by Steven Kellogg

Pretend you're a cat / Jean Marzollo, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

Baby animals / Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Susan Jeffers.

Plants, I like growing things. This year's garden / Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Mary Szilagyi

Planting a rainbow / Lois Ehlert

Plants that never ever bloom / Ruth Heller

The empty pot / Demi

The mouse and the potato / retold by Thomas Berger, illustrated by Carla Grillis

Science and nature. Listen to the rain / Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, illustrated by James Endicott

Where butterflies grow / Joanne Ryder, illustrated by Lynne Cherry

The very quiet cricket / Eric Carle

Bugs / Nancy Winslow Parker, Joan Richards Wright, illustrated by Nancy Winslow Parker

A tree is nice / Janice May Udry, illustrated by Marc Simont

Seasons : focus on fall. Gilberto and the wind / Marie Hall Ets

Apples and pumpkins / Anne Rockwell, illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell

Arthur's Thanksgiving / Marc Brown

Over the river and through the wood / Lydia Maria Child, illustrated by Iris Van Rynbach

Squirrels / Brian Wildsmith

Seasons : focus on winter. The snowy day / Ezra Jack Keats

White snow, bright snow / Alvin Tresselt, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin

Caps, hats, socks, and mittens / Louise Borden, illustrated by Lillian Hoban

Own moon / Jane Yolen, illustrated by John Schoenherr

Keep looking! / Millicent Selsam, Joyce Hunt, illustrated by Normand Chartier.

Seasons : focus on spring. Will spring be early? Or will spring be late? / Crockett Johnson

That's what happens when it's spring! / Elaine W. Good, illustrated by Susie Shenk

My spring robin / Anne Rockwell, illustrated by Harlow Rockwell, Lizzy Rockwell

The story of the root-children / Sibylle von Olfers

Wild wild sunflower child Anna / Nancy White Carlstrom, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

Teddy bears and other bears. A pocket for Corduroy / Don Freeman

Lost! / David McPhail

My brown bear Barney / Dorothy Butler, illustrated by Elizabeth Fuller

Goldilocks and the three bears / retold and illustrated by Jan Brett

Little Bear's trousers / Jane Hissey

Classics. Blueberries for Sal / Robert McCloskey

Madeline / Ludwig Bemelmans

Make way for ducklings / Robert McCloskey

The tale of Peter Rabbit / Beatrix Potter

Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel / Virginia Lee Burton

Counting. The right number of elephants / Jeff Sheppard, illustrated by Felicia Bond

This old man / Carol Jones

One cow moo moo / David Bennett, illustrated by Andy Cooke

One hungry monster : a counting book in rhyme / Susan Heyboer O'Keefe, illustrated by Lynn Munsinger

Rooster's off to see the world / Eric Carle

Colors. Color dance / Ann Jonas

Mouse paint / Ellen Stoll Walsh

Alice's blue cloth / Deborah van der Beek

Harold and the purple crayon / Crockett Johnson

The mixed-up chameleon / Eric Carle.

Cats, dogs and other pets. Charlie Anderson / Barbara Abercrombie, illustrated by Mark Graham

Annie and the wild animals / Jan Brett

Herbie Hamster, where are you? / Terence Blacker, illustrated by Pippa Unwin

Clifford's birthday party / Norman Bridwell

Carl goes shopping / Alexandra Day

Transportation. The wheels on the bus / Maryann Kovalski

First flight / David McPhail

How many trucks can a tow truck tow? / Charlotte Pomerantz, illustrated by R.W. Alley

Dinosaurs travel : a guide for families on the go / Laura Krasny Brown, Marc Brown

Train song / Diane Siebert, illustrated by Mike Wimmer

Poems, chants, rhythms and rhymes. We're going on a bear hunt / retold by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury

The napping house / Audrey Wood, illustrated by Don Wood

Jump, frog, jump! / Robert Kalan, illustrated by Byron Barton

Chicka chicka boom! Boom! / Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, illustrated by Lois Ehlert

The cat's midsummer jamboree / David Kherdian, Nonny Hogrogian

Tall and funny tales. "Stand back," said the elephant, "I'm going to sneeze!" / Patricia Thomas, illustrated by Wallace Tripp

Are you my mother? / P.D. Eastman

A dark dark tale / Ruth Brown

The little mouse, the red ripe strawberry, and the big hungry bear / Don and Audrey Wood, illustrated by Don Wood

Here comes the cat! / Vladimir Vagin, Frank Asch.