Trade Books that Promote Language Learning

Children's Literature (clicking on the name of the book or graphic will provide you with AMAZON.com reviews)

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Animalia
                     by Graeme Base
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 32 pages (September 1987)
                     Harry N Abrams; ISBN: 0810918684
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Word Play ABC
                     by Heather Cahoon
                     Our Price: $16.85
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     School & Library Binding (March 1999)
                     Walker & Co Library; ISBN: 0802786847

A Is for Amos
                     by Deborah Chandra, Keiko Narahashi (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 32 pages 1 Ed edition (March 1999)
                     Farrar Straus & Giroux (Juv); ISBN: 0374300011

Rebus Riot
                     by Bonnie Christensen
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 32 pages (May 1997)
                     Penguin USA (Juv); ISBN: 0803719981

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Alligator Arrived With Apples : A Potluck Alphabet Feast
                     by Crescent Dragonwagon, Jose Aruego (Illustrator), Anane Dewey (Illustrator), Ariane Dewey
                     (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback - 1 pages Reprint edition (September 1992)
                     Aladdin Paperbacks; ISBN: 0689716133

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Dinorella Prehistoric Fairytale : A Prehistoric Fairy Tale
                        by Pamela Duncan Edwards, Henry Cole (Illustrator)
                        Reading level: Ages 4-8
                        Hardcover - 32 pages 1 Ed edition (September 1997)
                        Hyperion Press; ISBN: 0786803096

Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke
                     by Pamela Duncan Edwards, Henry Cole (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback - 32 pages Reprint edition (May 1997)
                     HarperTrophy; ISBN: 006443480X

Some Smug Slug
                     by Pamela Duncan Edwards, Henry Cole (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 32 pages 1 Ed edition (May 1996)
                     Harpercollins Juvenile Books; ISBN: 0060247894

Six Sandy Sheep
                     by Judith A. Enderle, Jeff O'Hare, Stephanie Gordon Tessler (Contributor), O'Brien, Judy Enderle,
                     John O'Brien (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     School & Library Binding - 24 pages (May 1997)
                     Boyds Mills Pr; ISBN: 1563975823
 

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Pigs from A to Z
                     by Arthur Geisert
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 62 pages (October 1986)
                     Houghton Mifflin Co (Juv); ISBN: 0395385091

The Absolutely Awful Alphabet
                     by Mordicai Gerstein
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 32 pages (March 1999)
                     Harcourt Brace; ISBN: 0152014942

The Accidental Zucchini : An Unexpected Alphabet
                     by Max Grover
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback - 36 pages Reprint edition (October 1997)
                     Harcourt Brace; ISBN: 0152015450

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A Cache of Jewels and Other Collective Nouns (World of Language)
                     by Ruth Heller
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback - 48 pages Reissue edition (February 1998)
                     Paper Star; ISBN: 0698113543

Behind the Mask : A Book About Prepositions
                     by Ruth Heller
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 48 pages (October 1995)
                     Grosset & Dunlap; ISBN: 0448411237

Fantastic! Wow! and Unreal! : A Book About Interjections and Conjunctions
                     by Ruth Heller (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 30 pages (October 1998)
                     Grosset & Dunlap; ISBN: 0448418622

Kites Sail High : A Book About Verbs (Heller, Ruth, Ruth Heller World of Language.)
                     by Ruth Heller
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback - 48 pages Reissue edition (February 1998)
                     Paper Star; ISBN: 0698113896

Many Luscious Lollipops : A Book About Adjectives (World of Language)
                     by Ruth Heller
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback - 48 pages Reissue edition (February 1998)
                     Paper Star; ISBN: 0698116410

Merry Go Round : A Book About Nouns (World of Language)
                     by Ruth Heller
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback - 48 pages Reissue edition (March 1998)
                     Paper Star; ISBN: 0698116429

Mine, All Mine : A Book About Pronouns
                     by Ruth Heller (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Library Binding - 48 pages (September 1997)
                     Grosset & Dunlap; ISBN: 0448416069

Up, Up and Away; A Book about Adverbs
                     by Ruth Heller
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback - 48 pages 1 edition (September 1993)
                     Sandcastle Books; ISBN: 0448401592
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  ABC Yummy
                     by Lisa Jahn-Clough
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback (March 1997)
                     Houghton Mifflin Co (Juv); ISBN: 0395845424

Alphabet City (Caldecott Honor Book, 1996, No 1)
                     by Stephen T. Johnson
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     School & Library Binding - 1 pages (February 1996)
                     Viking Childrens Books; ISBN: 0670856312

Watch William Walk
                     by Ann Jonas
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Library Binding - 24 pages 1 Ed edition (April 1997)
                     Greenwillow; ISBN: 0688141757
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From Acorn to Zoo and Everything in Between in Alphabetical Order
                     by Satoshi Kitamura
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback 1 edition (September 1995)
                     Sunburst; ISBN: 0374424837

Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut
                     by Maryann Kovalski (Illustrator), Margaret Eleanor Atwood
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 32 pages (September 1995)
                     Workman Publishing Company; ISBN: 0761101667

  A Hole Is to Dig : A First Book of First Definitions
                     by Ruth Krauss, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Baby-Preschool
                     Paperback Reprint edition (October 1989)
                     HarperTrophy; ISBN: 006443205X

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Alison's Zinnia
                     by Anita Lobel
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback 1 edition (April 1996)
                     Mulberry Books; ISBN: 0688147372

Book
                       by George Ella Lyon, Peter Catalanotto (Illustrator)
                       Reading level: Ages 4-8
                       Hardcover - 32 pages 1 Ed edition (February 1, 1999)
                       Dk Ink; ISBN: 0789425602

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Alphabatics
                     by Suse MacDonald
                     Reading level: Baby-Preschool
                     Hardcover (December 1986)
                     Simon & Schuster (Juv); ISBN: 0027615200
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Everything to Spend the Night
                     by Ann Whitford Paul, Maggie Smith (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 40 pages 1 Ed edition (February 1, 1999)
                     Dk Ink; ISBN: 0789425114

The Graphic Alphabet (Caldecott Honor Books, 1997, No 3)
                     by David Pelletier
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover (September 1996)
                     Orchard Books; ISBN: 0531360016

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Like Likes Like
                     by Chris Raschka, Christopher Raschka
                     Hardcover - 32 pages 1 Ed edition (February 1999)
                     Dk Ink; ISBN: 0789425645
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Autumn : An Alphabet Acrostic
                     by Steven Schnur, Leslie Evans (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 32 pages (August 1997)
                     Clarion Books; ISBN: 0395770432

Sheep in a Jeep
                     by Nancy Shaw, Margot Apple (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     School & Library Binding - 32 pages (September 1986)
                     Houghton Mifflin Co (Juv); ISBN: 039541105X

Sheep on a Ship
                     by Nancy Shaw, Margot Apple (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback Reprint edition (October 1992)
                     Houghton Mifflin Co (Juv); ISBN: 0395643767

Sheep in a Shop
                     by Nancy Shaw, Margot Apple (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Baby-Preschool
                     Hardcover Board edition (August 1997)
                     Houghton Mifflin Co (Juv); ISBN: 0395872766

Farmer Brown Goes Round and Round
                     by Teri Sloat, Nadine Bernard Westcott (Illustrator), Nadine Bernard Westcott (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 32 pages 1 Ed edition (February 1, 1999)
                     Dk Ink; ISBN: 0789425122
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 A World of Words : An ABC of Quotations
                     by Tobi Tobias, Peter Malone (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 40 pages (September 1998)
                     Lothrop Lee & Shepard; ISBN: 0688121292
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Alphabet from Z to A : (With Much Confusion on the Way)
                     by Judith Viorst, Richard Hull (Illustrator), Ellen Krieger (Editor)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback - 32 pages Reprint edition (September 1997)
                     Aladdin Paperbacks; ISBN: 068981545X

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Once There Was a Bull... : Frog
                     by Rick Walton, Grag Hally (Illustrator), Greg Hally (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback - 32 pages Reprint edition (April 1998)
                     Paper Star; ISBN: 0698116070

Pig, Pigger, Piggest
                     by Rick Walton, Jimmy Holder (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 32 pages 1 Ed edition (November 1997)
                     Gibbs Smith Publisher; ISBN: 0879058064

So Many Bunnies : A Bedtime ABC and Counting Book
                     by Rick Walton, Paige Blair (Illustrator), Paige Miglio (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 32 pages (March 1998)
                     Lothrop Lee & Shepard; ISBN: 0688136567
 
Why the Banana Split
                     by Rick Walton, Jimmy Holder (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 32 pages 1 Ed edition (August 1998)
                     Gibbs Smith Publisher; ISBN: 0879058536

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Baby Buggy, Buggy Baby
                     by Harriet Ziefert, Richard Brown (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 15 pages (March 1997)
                     Houghton Mifflin Co (Juv); ISBN: 0395851610

Night, Knight
                     by Harriet Ziefert, Richard Eric Brown (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 15 pages (April 1997)
                     Houghton Mifflin Co (Juv); ISBN: 0395851602



Using Picture Storybooks to Teach Literary Devices : Recommended Books
                     for Children and Young Adults
                     by Susan Hall, Sue Hall
                     Our Price: $35.50
                     Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours.
                     Paperback - 256 pages Vol 2 (November 1994)
                     Oryx Press; ISBN: 0897748492
 

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