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Color Your World...Green!
Play
Time | Craft Time | Reading
Time

Green is nature.
Green is the grass beneath our feet or the leaves in the trees
above our head. Green feeds us with healthy beans, peas, lettuce,
pears and grapes. Green hops like a frog and slithers like a snake.
Green is all around us so spend some time noticing the green in your
world.
Play Time
Craft Time
Reading Time
Picture
Books | Fiction | Nonfiction
Picture Books
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Stan and
Jan Berenstain. The
Berenstain Bears and the
Green-Eyed
Monster
Sister is overcome with jealousy when Brother gets
a shiny new ten-speed bike for his birthday.
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Brian Patten.
The
Blue & Green Ark: an Alphabet for Planet Earth
A tribute to planet
Earth in which each letter of the alphabet celebrates the many
wonders of the world, with illustrations by eleven award-winning
artists.
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DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan.
City
Green
Marcy and Miss Rosa
start a campaign to clean up an empty lot and turn it into a
community garden.
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Margaret Wise Brown.
The
Color Kittens
While the color kittens
are trying to make green paint, their mixing leads to pink,
orange, and purple.
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Pegeen Snow.
Eat
Your Peas, Louise
Louise is given all
sorts of reasons for eating her peas.
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Harriet Ziefert.
Egad,
Alligator
An innocent young
alligator tries to make friends with various people and animals,
but they all run away, shouting, " Egad alligator !"
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Alice Walker.
Finding
the Green Stone
After saying unkind
things to family and friends, Johnny loses both his green stone
and his interest in life, and he recovers them only when he
discovers love in his heart.
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Priscilla Burris.
Five
Green and Speckled Frogs
Five frogs eat bugs
as they sit on a log, but one by one they jump into the cool
pool until all are gone.
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Marion Dane Bauer.
Frog's
Best Friend
Frog learns how to
share his best friend, Turtle, with the other animals.
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Ed Emberley.
Go
Away, Big Green Monster!
Die-cut pages through
which bits of a monster are revealed are designed to help a
child control nighttime fears of monsters.
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Nicholas Heller.
Goblins
in Green
A succession of goblins,
from Annabelle in an amber blouse to Zelda in a zebra anorak,
presents the letters of the alphabet.
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Gabrielle Woolfitt.
Green
Text and photographs
describe common things that are green, including trees, fruit,
and parrots.
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Dayal Kaur Khalsa.
Green
Cat
A brother and sister
complain that sharing a room makes it so crowded, but a mysterious
green cat shows them what a really crowded room is.
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Melinda Luke.
The
Green Dog
While pet-sitting,
Teddy uses science to solve a mystery.
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Dr. Seuss. Green
Eggs and Ham
Sam-I-Am mounts a
determined campaign to convince another Seuss character to eat
a plate of green eggs and ham.
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Yumi Heo. The
Green Frogs: a Korean Folktale Retold
A folktale about
two green frogs who always disobey their mother, explaining
why green frogs cry out whenever it rains.
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Tedd Arnold.
Green
Wilma
Waking up with a
frog-like appearance, Wilma proves disruptive at school as she
searches for some tasty flies.
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Leo Lionni.
The Greentail Mouse
The field mice become
so involved in their Mardi Gras masquerade they forget it is
all in fun.
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Janet Reich.
Gus
and the Green Thing
Unhappy with his
gray existence in a gray city, Gus follows a green thing and
discovers a new world of life and growth.
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Cynthia Rylant.
Henry
and Mudge in the Green Time
For Henry and his
big dog Mudge , summer means going on a picnic in the park,
taking a bath under the garden hose, and going to the top of
the big green hill.
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W. Awdry.
Henry, the Green Engine
Henry the Green Engine
stars in his own shaped board book.
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Tony Johnston.
Iguana
Brothers: a Tale of Two Lizards
Dom and Tom, the
iguana brothers, eat flowers, pretend to be dinosaurs, and discover
that they can be best friends.
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Keith Baker.
Little
Green
A young boy paints
the flight of a hummingbird as it zips, loops, and zigzags around
his garden.
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Keith Baker.
Meet
Mr. and Mrs. Green
A loving alligator
couple enjoy going camping, eating pancakes, and visiting the
county fair.
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Judith Caseley.
Mr.
Green Peas
Norman is sad because
he's the only one in his nursery school class who doesn't have
a pet, until he gets the most outrageous pet in the world.
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Patricia Casey.
One
Day at Wood Green Animal Shelter
It is a very busy
day at Wood Green Animal Shelter, where the workers take care
of a variety of animals that need their help.
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Rachel Isodora. Over
the Green Hills
Zolani, who lives
in a rural black homeland in South Africa, goes with his mother
to visit his Grandma Zindzi.
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Margaret Read MacDonald.
Pickin'
Peas
Because a pesky rabbit
picks peas from her garden, a little girl catches it and puts
it in a box, but that doesn't solve the problem.
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Louise Gikow.
Red
Hat, Green Hat
As Leona wanders
around in her two-colored hat , she causes quite a commotion.
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Cari Best. Red
Light, Green Light, Mama and Me
After taking the
train downtown, Lizzie spends the day at the public library,
helping her mother who is a children's librarian.
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Laura McGee Kvasnosky.
See
You Later, Alligator!
A new school can
be scary, but the kids at River Bottom School make it easier
to say good-bye to Mom and Dad.
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Libba Moore Gray.
Small Green Snake
Despite his mother's
warning not to wander, Small Green Snake wiggles away to investigate
the new sound from across the garden wall.
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Linda Glaser.
Tanya's
Big Green Dream
After Tanya decides
to plant a tree for her Earth Day project, her only problems
are getting the money to buy it and finding a place to put it.
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C. Z. Guest.
Tiny
Green Thumbs
Tiny Bun and his
grandmother plan, plant, and grow a vegetable garden. Includes
step-by-step instructions for planting carrots, beans, cucumbers,
corn, and sunflowers.
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Fiction
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Paula Danziger.
Amber
Brown is Green With Envy
Fourth-grader Amber
Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and
Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together,
while her father makes some bad choices of his own.
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L. M. Montgomery.
Anne
of Green Gables
Anne , an eleven-year-old
orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged
brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds
to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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Betsy Byars.
The
Blossoms and the Green Phantom
Disasters befall
the Blossom family as Pap falls into a dumpster and can't get
out, Junior tries desperately to make a success of his secret
invention, and Vern dreads letting a new friend meet his unusual
family.
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Carol Ellis.
The
Case of the Green Ghost
Called in to investigate
a case of stolen popsicle sticks, Mary-Kate and Ashley follow
up on a few cold leads. Then, the twins discover a trail leading
right to a haunted house.
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L. M. Boston.
The
Children of Green Knowe
Tolly comes to live
with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe
and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the
seventeenth century.
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Henry Winkler and Lin
Oliver. Day
of the Iguana
When Hank takes apart
the television cable box, he thinks he's found the perfect science
fair project--until his sister's pet iguana lays 18 eggs in
the disassembled cable box.
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Jon Buller. Felix
and the Four Hundred Frogs
Felix, who has a
gift for mental communication, is enlisted by the Frog Princess
to help recover her magic moonstone from a mean neighbor's garden.
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Amy Hest.
The Great Green Notebook of Katie Roberts: Who Just
Turned 12 on Monday In a series of
journal entries, letters, pictures, and drawings, Katie relates
her feelings about her mother, baby brothers, new friends, school,
boys, the Italian immigrant she tutors, and growing up.
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Jill Paton Walsh. The
Green Book
As their small stock
of essential supplies dwindles, a group of refugees from earth
struggle to make their strange new planet provide life's necessities.
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Susan Cooper.
Green
Boy
Twelve-year-old Trey
and his seven-year-old brother Lou, who does not speak, cross
the barrier between two worlds, that of their island in the
Bahamas, and a land called Pangaia, and play a mysterious role
in restoring the natural environment in both places.
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Suzanne Fisher Staples.
The
Green Dog: a Mostly True Story
During the summer
before fifth grade, Suzanne, a daydreaming loner who likes to
fish and walk through the woods, acquires a canine companion.
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Marjorie Weinman Sharmat.
The Green Toenails Gang
Wealthy Olivia Sharp,
agent for secrets, uncovers several secrets on a trip to Carmel,
California to help a friend become a member of an exclusive
club.
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Odo Hirsch. Hazel
Green
Enterprising Hazel
Green tries to convince the city to allow children to march
in the annual Frogg Day parade.
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Suzy Kline. Horrible
Harry and the Green Slime
Follows the school
activities of second-graders, Harry and Doug, as they participate
in a secret mission to celebrate "Charlotte's Web," learn how
to make green slime, and put on a skit warning about the dangers
of smoking.
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
Jade
Green: a Ghost Story
While living with
her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman,
recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression
causes mysterious happenings.
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Judy Cox. Mean,
Mean Maureen Green
With help from Adam,
a boy in her third grade class, Lilley gains enough confidence
to stand up to the school bus bully, Mean Maureen Green.
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Cynthia Rylant.
Old
Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls
Wilder's Lost Little House Years After
grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year- old Laura Ingalls and
her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where
they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.
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Judy Blume. The
One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo
Freddy hates being
the middle one in the family until he gets a part in the school
play.
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George Edward Stanley.
The
Secret of the Green Skin
With the help of
their third-grade teacher and classmates, Noelle and Todd why
people are getting sick after eating at the new restaurant in
town.
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Nonfiction
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Kate McDonald.
The
Anne of Green Gables Cookbook
Inspired by L.M.
Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, this cookbook combines easy
step-by-step recipes with charming watercolors of Anne and her
friends and quotations from three of the popular Anne books.
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Bill Gutman.
Becoming
Best Friends with Your Iguana, Snake, or
Turtle Part of the Pet Friends series,
this book is a practical way for children and their parents
to learn about all types of pets, what makes them special, and
what you'd rather know about their care before you bring them
home.
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Joni Phelps Hunt.
A
Chorus of Frogs
A close up look at
frogs.
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Ed Emberley.
Ed
Emberley's Big Green Drawing Book
Step-by-step instructions
for drawing people and animals using a minimum of line and circle
combinations.
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R. Conrad Stein.
Ethan
Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
Discusses the facts
and tall tales about Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen, who,
along with Benedict Arnold, led the Green Mountain Boys in capturing
Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775.
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Dorothy Hinshaw Patent.
Flashy Fantastic Rain Forest Frogs
Describes the physical
characteristics, behavior, reproduction, and habitat of frogs
that live in the rain forest.
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Diane L. Burns.
Frogs,
Toads and Turtles
Describes the physical
characteristics and habitats of a variety of different frogs,
toads, and turtles. Includes related activities and scrapbook
pages.
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Jan Goldberg.
Green
Berets: the U. S. Army Special Forces
A look at the Special
Forces, better known as the Green Berets , including their purpose,
history, missions, requirements, training, and equipment.
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Marcia Sewall.
The
Green Mist
A retelling of a
Lincolnshire, England, tale, probably eighteenth-century, in
which a dying child is made well by the spring rituals intended
to placate the mischievous beings hiding in the earth.
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Jenny E. Tesar.
Green
Plants
Covers the metabolism,
reproduction, and growth of green plants.
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Laurie M. Carlson.
Green
Thumbs: a Kid's Activity Guide to Indoor
and Outdoor Gardening Teach budding
gardeners what it takes to make things grow with fun activities
that require only readily available materials.
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Vivian French.
Growing
Frogs
A mother and child
watch as tadpoles develop and grow into frogs.
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W. P. Mara. Iguanas
Describes the physical
characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the iguana lizard.
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Gail Gibbons.
Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests
Describes the climatic
conditions of the rain forest as well as the different layers
of plants and animals that comprise the ecosystem.
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Trudi Strain Trueit.
Turtles
Timeless turtles
-- Home in a shell -- A turtle's senses -- Family life -- Turtle
rescue.
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Jane Yolen. Welcome
to the Green House
Describes the tropical
rainforest and the life found there.
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Elaine Landau.
Your
Pet Iguana
The green iguana
-- Picking out an iguana -- Your iguana 's home -- Feeding --
A healthy iguana -- You and your iguana.
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