Duck Activities

Deborah Blumenthal.  Aunt Claire's Yellow Beehive Hair

A girl, seeking her connection to family past and present, creates a special book in tribute and remembrance, leaving blank pages for future memories.

Margaret & H. A. Rey.  The Complete Adventures of Curious

George   The adventures of the ingenious little monkey who left the jungle to live with the man in the yellow hat.

Chris D'Lacey.  Dexter's Journey

When a crate full of yellow plastic ducks is washed overboard on its journey to America, the ducks are rescued a few at a time until only Dexter remains, waiting to be found.

Eve Bunting.  Ducky

A yellow plastic duck makes a long perilous journey when he is washed overboard with a crate full of bathtub toys during a storm.

Bruce McMillan.  Growing Colors

Photographs of green peas, yellow corn, red potatoes, purple beans, and other fruits and vegetables illustrate the many colors of nature.

Cynthia Rylant.  Henry and Mudge Under the Yellow Moon

In the autumn Henry and his big dog Mudge watch the leaves turn, meet with some Halloween spooks, and share Thanksgiving dinner.

Eileen Spinelli.  In My New Yellow Shirt

A boy wears his new yellow shirt and is transformed in his imagination into a duck, a lion, a daffodil, a trumpet, and other things.

Tana Hoban.  Is It Red?  Is It Yellow?  Is It Blue?

Illustrations and brief text introduce colors and the concepts of shape and size.

Leo Lionni.  Little Blue and Little Yellow

A little blue spot and a little yellow spot are best friends, and when they hug each other they become green.

Carrie Weston.  Lucky Socks

Knowing that terrible things happen to him when he does not wear his lucky yellow socks , Kevin despairs when he cannot find them, but then he is surprised by what happens.

Ellen Stoll Walsh.  Mouse Paint

Three white mice discover jars of red, blue, and yellow paint and explore the world of color.

Robert N. Munsch.  Purple, Green and Yellow

Beny's mom buys her hundreds of colored markers but Beny gets bored with coloring on paper and colors her fingernails and then her entire body with "super-indelible, never-come-off-until you're dead colored markers.

Christopher Awdry & Ken Stott.  Thomas the Tank Engine's Big

Yellow Treasury   Three complete stories featuring trains as our friends and helpers.

William Steig.  Yellow and Pink

Two painted wooden figures argue about where they came from, whether they just happened by accident or were created by some other being.

Candace Whitman.  Yellow and You

Points out how the color yellow can be found all around us, in clothing, food, and lights in windows.

Kelly Asbury.  Yolanda's Yellow School

Young Yolanda enjoys show and tell, reading, finger painting, playing after lunch, and watching a video during a day in first grade. Illustrations feature the color yellow.

Mary Thompson.  Andy and the Yellow Frisbee

The new girl at school tries to befriend Andy, an autistic boy who spends every recess by himself, spinning a yellow frisbee under the watchful eye of his older sister.

Lucy Jane Bledsoe.  The Big Bike Race

Ernest Peterson's hopes of winning the Washington, D.C., Citywide Cup bicycle race are shattered when his grandmother gives him a huge, clunky, yellow bike for his tenth birthday.

Mervyn Laurence Peake.  Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor

On a fantastic island populated by unusual animals, a pirate captain finds a trustworthy companion in the little "Yellow Creature."

Debbie Dadey.  Dracula Doesn't Drink Lemonade

There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new guidance counselor really be Count Dracula? The Bailey School kids are going to find out!

Eleanor Estes.  Ginger Pye

The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.

Polly Horvath.  The Happy Yellow Car

During the Depression, Gunther Grunt buys a new car with the money his wife has been saving to send their bright twelve-year-old daughter to college, beginning a chain of events that teaches the Grunts the value of their family.

Virginia Euwer Wolff.  Make Lemonade

In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.

Eleanor Estes.  The Moffats

Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.

Johanna Hurwitz.  Yellow Blue Jay

Happy to spend his summer vacation at home in the city, eight-year-old Jay is horrified by his parents' plan to spend two weeks in the Vermont woods sharing a house with another family.

Franklin W. Dixon.  The Yellow Feather Mystery

In trying to trace a missing will, detectives Frank and Joe Hardy trap a dangerous criminal who is willing to risk all--including murder--for money.

Gertrude Chandler Warner.  The Yellow House Mystery

The Boxcar Children are determined to solve the mystery that surrounds an old yellow house on their grandfather's property. Strange things have happened in that house where long ago a man disappeared.

Carmen Agra Deedy.  The Yellow Star:  the Legend of King

Christian X of Denmark   Retells the story of King Christian X and the Danish resistance to the Nazis during World War II.

Jim Murphy.  American Plague:  the True and Terrifying Story of the

Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793   It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name--yellow fever--but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown, and there is no cure.

Ella Fitzgerald.  A-Tisket A-Tasket

A boy in New York City drops his green and yellow basket and later sees a little girl carrying it around.

Elaine Landau.  Bananas

Examines the history, cultivation, and uses of bananas.

Larry Dane Brimner.  Bees

Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of bees.

Lisa Magloff.  Duckling

Shows the duck as it grows up in its natural environment.

Francisco X. Alarcon.  From the Bellybutton of the Moon and Other

Summer Poems   A bilingual collection of poems in which the renowned Mexican American poet revisits and celebrates his childhood memories of summers, Mexico, and nature.

Kathi Appelt.  I See the Moon

In this Christian retelling of a traditional rhyme, children travel along in her dream of a dangerous journey. They learn with the little girl to see signs that God is always near, watching over them and taking care of them.

Gerald McDermott.  Musicans of the Sun

In this retelling of an Aztec myth, Lord of the Night sends Wind to free the four musicians that the Sun is holding prisoner so they can bring joy to the world.

Judy Hindley.  A Song of Colors

An illustrated collection of poems describing all sorts of items that represent shades of colors from red, yellow, and green to pink, brown, and white.

Steve Tomecek.  Sun

Discusses the big, bright ball of gas shining in the sky.

James Stevenson.  Sweet Corn:  Poems

A collection of short poems with titles such as "Screen Door," "Bike Rental," and "Photo Album."

Hidenori Kusaka.  Yellow Caballero:  Making Waves

Read and enjoy Pokémon's adventures through this series of comics.

Susan Goldman Rubin.  The Yellow House:  Vincent Van Gogh &

Paul Gaugin Side by Side   Living alone in the south of France, Vincent van Gogh missed the company of other painters. Van Gogh invited Paul Gauguin to come live with him in his Yellow House. For two months, in the fall of 1888, the two men painted side by side.

Daniel Cohen.  Yellow Journalism

The love-hate relationship between the American public and tabloid-style media is an important part of America's journalistic history. Dan Cohen "tells it all" from William Randolph Hearst to Walter Winchell to today's internet gossip columnists.