John and El's Favorite Books

The bears' picks for best books: May 2001
These titles should be available at your local library.

 

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Drawing Lessons From A Bear  by David McPhail

 Bear tells about his life as an artist, beginning with the time he was just a cub making claw marks on the floor, and reminds each of us that "You can't be a bear, you know, but you can be an artist."

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A to Z, do you ever feel like me? by Bonnie Hausman

See if you can figure out what's going on in this guessing alphabet of feelings, words, and other cool stuff.

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Mud! by Charnan Simon

Three boys enjoy a day digging and playing outside in this Real Kids Reader.

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I Like Bugs by Margaret Wise Brown

Discover all kinds of bugs in this Getting Started book in the Road to Reading series.


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All of our book reviews are written by respected children's librarian
Barbara Lintner of the Urbana Free Library in Urbana, IL.  AKA, Natalie's Mom.


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