Super Spring Stories

Celebrate the season with these refreshing read-alouds.

Bluebird's Nest

by Dorothea DePrisco

With a similar format to "What Makes a Rainbow?," "Bluebird's Nest" presents an educational concept about small-changes building.

Counting in the Garden

by Kim Parker

From talented textile designer Kim Parker comes a gorgeous counting book, brimming with vibrant insects, animals, and flowers.

Hurray for Spring!

by Patricia Hubbell

Hurray for Spring! is a whimsical welcome to a child's favorite season. Delightful, rhyming text with lots of fun words make this a wonderfully cadenced anthem to spring. Adorable illustrations...

In the Small, Small Pond

by Denise Fleming

Illustrations and rhyming text describe the activities of animals living in and near a small pond as spring progresses to autumn.

Inch by Inch

by Leo Lionni

To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.

It's Spring!

by Pamela Chanko Samantha Berger

With rhyming text, this book tells how a rabbit, a duck, and other animals give messages that spring has come.

Hello Reader! Level 2 series

Mouse's First Spring

by Lauren Thompson

One bright day, Mouse and Momma head outside to play. The wind blows in something feathery and plump a bird, and something wiggly and pink a worm, and something green that hops and leaps a frog. But...

Poppleton in Spring

by Cynthia Rylant

Poppleton loves everything about spring and makes grand plans for cleaning, bicycle shopping, and sleeping in a tent.

Poppleton series: book 5

Rabbit's Good News

by Ruth Lercher Bornstein

Rabbit leaves her warm dark burrow and discovers that spring has come.

Splish, Splash, Spring

by Jan Carr

What do you get when you combine three children, a dog, a wet spring day, flowers, insects, cartwheels, kites, and lots of catchy rhymes? "Splish, Splash, Spring!" And when the rain clears, readers...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

by Eric Carle

A hungry caterpillar eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep.

Waiting for Wings

by Lois Ehlert

From eggs to caterpillars, from caterpillars to butterflies, Lois Ehlert's rhyming text and vibrant color illustrations relate the life cycle of butterflies that travel to a blooming garden to sip sweet...

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