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Go Wild... Read! SRP 2005
Summer Reading Program 2005
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Echo's Booklists: Wild About Reading!

A statewide theme is selected each year for the Summer Reading Program. This year's theme focuses on movies, art, adventure, and culture.

picture books | early reader fiction | j fiction
y fiction | nonfiction | spanish | media | all

see also websites for pre-schoolers, elementary students and teens

Picture Books

Monkey Do!
Allan Ahlberg
E FIC Ahl

Who Is the Beast?
Keith Baker
E FIC Bak

The Bird, the Monkey, and the Snake in the Jungle
Kate Banks
E FIC Ban

Jungle Drums
Graeme Base
E FIC BAS

The Umbrella
Jan Brett
E FIC BRE

“Slowly, Slowly, Slowly,” said the Sloth
Eric Carle
E FIC Car

The Great Kapok Tree
Lynne Cherry
E FIC Che

The Elephant Tree
Penny Dale
E FIC Dal

Beast Feast
Douglas Florian
E FIC Flo

Splash!
Flora McDonald
E FIC Mac

Elmer
David McKee
E FIC Mac

Rain
Manya Stojic
E FIC Sto

Early Reader Fiction

Bears on Wheels
Stan Berenstain
E1 FIC Ber

Ups and Downs with Lion and Lamb
Barbara Brenner
E1 FIC Bre

Arthur's Loose Tooth
Lillian Hoban
E1 FIC Hob

Julius
Syd Hoff
E1 FIC Hof

Monkey Business
David Martin
E1 FIC Mar

Come Here, Tiger
Alex Moran
E1 FIC Mor

Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb
Al Perkins
E1 FIC Per

The Best Little Monkeys in the World
Natalie Standiford
E1 FIC Sta

Rhino and Mouse
Todd Starr Palmer
E1 FIC Pal

Jungle Friends
John Winskill
E1 FIC Win

J Fiction

Poppy
Avi
J FIC Avi

The Discovery of Dragons
Graeme Base
J FIC Bas

The tale of Despereaux : being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread
Kate DiCamillo. Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering.
J FIC Dic

The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
J SS Kip

The Enormous Crocodile
Roald Dahl
J FIC Dah

The Wolves in the Walls
Neil Gaiman
J FIC Gai

It Came from Beneath the Bed: Tales from the House of Bunnicula
James Howe
J FIC How

Hogsel and Gruntel and Other Animal Stories
Dick King-Smith
J SS Kin

Rabbit Hill
Robert Lawson
J FIC Law

My Chimp Friday: the Nana Banana Chronicles
Hester Mundis
J FIC Mun

Afternoon on the Amazon
Mary Pope Osborne. Illustrated by Sal Murdocca.
J FIC Osb

Gooseberry Park
Cynthia Rylant
J FIC Ryl

Christopher Mouse: the tale of a small traveler
William Wise
J FIC Wis

Nonfiction

There's a Frog in My Throat! 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me
Loreen Leedy
J 428.1 Le

Terrible Tyrannosaurs
Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld. Illustrated by Lucia Washburn.
E 567.912 Zo

Sea Critters
Sylvia A. Earle
E 591.77 Ea

Imani in the Belly
Deborah M. Newton Chocolate. Pictures by Alex Boies.
E 398.21 Ch

Tailypo: a Newfangled Tall Tale
Retold by Angela Shelf Medearis. Illustrated by Sterling Brown.
E 398.209 Me

Fearsome Hunters of the Wild
J 591.53 Fe

Youch! Real-life Monsters Up Close
Trevor Day
J 591.65 Da

Wild, Wet and Windy
Claire Llewellyn
J 551.Ll

Creepy Crawly Baby Bugs
Sandra Markle
E 595.7 Ma

The Hatseller and the Monkeys
West African folktale retold and illustrated by Baba Wagué Diakité
E 398.209 Di

Music CDs

Deep in the Jungle
Joe Scruggs
CD ZM SCRU 303

The Anaconda La Bamba
Lucas Miller
CD ZM MILL

There's a Chicken on my Head
Lucas Miller
CD ZM MILL

VHS/DVD

Owl Moon and other stories
VHS E SS Owl

The Adventures of Curious George
VHS E FIC Adv

Elephant (Eyewitness)
VHS J 599.67 EL

Jungle (Eyewitness)
VHS J 577.34 Ju

Reptile (Eyewitness)
VHS J 597.9 Re



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