Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

With an updated design, note to caregivers, word list, and activities to promote reading success, this book is a collection of poems which deals with topics of interest to children.

A poor woodcutter's two children, lost in the woods, come upon a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch.

Two kids and a dog find several kinds of balls with which to play.

A baby bunny is born and learns to eat and run. While running the bunny meets a grasshopper and turtle. When it meets a fox, it decides to run home. Beautifully re-illustrated with a fresh and appealing look, these Beginning-to-Read books foster independent reading and comprehension. Using high frequency words and repetition, readers gain confidence while enjoying stories about every day life and adventures. Educator resources include reading reinforcement...

A retelling of the Grimm fairy tale in which four animal friends, in search of a place to live, scare robbers from a house in the forest and decide to live together.

A boy and his pet dragon play in the autumn leaves, make a jack-o'-lantern, eat pumpkin pie, dress in costumes, go trick-or-treating, enter a costume contest, and fly together. Includes reading activities.

Retells in preprimer vocabulary the tale of the run-away gingerbread boy who eludes the hungry grasp of everyone until he meets a fox.

The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the bread she makes from it.

A collection of easy-to-read riddles with answers.

When a boy can not retrieve his goats from a neighboring field, a rabbit, fox, wolf, and bee come to his aid. Only one of them is successful.