Barking ballad : a bark-along, meow-along book by Paschkis, Julie 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2021)


Publication Date: 09/21/2021

BTSB #: 702471 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 550 AD

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Stories in rhyme Dogs - Fiction Cats - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Animal sounds - Fiction

Summary: A rhyming 'bark-along' and 'meow-along' picture book about dogs, cats, and the sounds they make, following a cat and dog who become fast friends in a town of many dogs - both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, and curs of low degree!

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In the quiet, noisy woods by Rosen, Michael J. 

BTSB Prebound(Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 2019)


Publication Date: 02/12/2019

BTSB #: 764352 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-7   
Lexile:  NP F&P: O

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Animal sounds - Fiction Forest animals - Fiction Forests and forestry - Fiction Wolves - Fiction Animal babies - Fiction

Summary: A forest's quiet chorus of chirps, clicks, and chits change to loud scree-scree-screeches and other noises as two rambunctious wolf pups, separated from their pack, scamper and chase.

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Little ghost who lost her boo! by Bickell, Elaine 

BTSB Prebound(Philomel Books, 2020)


Publication Date: 05/05/2020

BTSB #: 119511 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 2.5 LG F&P: N

Genres: Humorous Fiction Animals

Subjects: Stories in rhyme Ghosts - Fiction Animal sounds - Fiction Lost and found possessions - Fiction

Summary: As Little Ghost searches the night for her lost "boo," her animal friends offer to lend their sounds but she will need the reader's help to find her special sound.

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Lost and found ducklings by Gorbachev, Valeri 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2019)


Publication Date: 02/12/2019

BTSB #: 386604 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-7   


Genres: Animals

Subjects: Lost children - Fiction Ducks - Fiction Forest animals - Fiction Animal sounds - Fiction Animal babies - Fiction

Summary: Sister Duck and Brother Duck are lost, so all of the animals use their biggest hoots, bellows, howls, and growls to summon Mama and Papa.

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Meow by Raschka, Christopher 

BTSB Prebound(Greenwillow Books, 2022)


Publication Date: 05/31/2022

BTSB #: 739783 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-5   


Genres: Animals

Subjects: Cats - Fiction Animal sounds - Fiction

Summary: In this story--told almost entirely in the cat's meows--a young girl steps on her cat Marigold's tail, the hurt cat runs for cover, and after an apology, all is forgiven.

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Polar bear, polar bear, what do you hear? by Martin, Bill 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2011)

BTSB #: 607800 Available

Dewey: EAges: 2-4   
AR: 2.1 LG RC: 1.7 K-2 Lexile: 670 AD

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Animal sounds - Fiction Zoo animals - Fiction Stories in rhyme

Summary: Zoo animals from polar bear to walrus make their distinctive sounds for each other, while children imitate the sounds for the zookeeper.

Rum pum pum by Harrison, David L. 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2020)


Publication Date: 08/04/2020

BTSB #: 422712 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   


Genres: Animals

Subjects: Tigers - Fiction Jungle animals - Fiction Drums - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Animal communication - Fiction Animal sounds - Fiction

Summary: 'Rrrrh!' means 'Let's be friends' in tiger talk, but the other animals don't understand him and run away! Maybe the gentle 'rum-pum-pum' of the drum can help him find a friend.

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What the ladybug heard next [What The Ladybug Heard]by Donaldson, Julia 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2018)


Publication Date: 04/15/2018

BTSB #: 285908 Available

Dewey: EAges: 2-6   


Genres: Animals

Subjects: Stories in rhyme Ladybugs - Fiction Domestic animals - Fiction Animal sounds - Fiction Thieves - Fiction

Summary: When Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len return to the farm hoping to steal the fat red hen, the little spotty ladybug enlists the other animals to stop them.

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What's your sound, Hound the Hound? by Willems, Mo 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins, 2010)


Publication Date: 05/15/2010

BTSB #: 949601 Available

Dewey: EAges: 1-5   


Genres: Humorous Fiction Animals

Subjects: Animal sounds - Fiction

Summary: Cat the Cat's animal friends make many different sounds.

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