PPS Books for Relaxing Reading Grades K-2, Authors H-M

Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.

Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.

Using rhyme, rhythm and repetition, the scary text invites young children to read along with an adult. Together the adult's text and the child's responsive text create stories with a scary theme.

Learn what it's like to come face-to-face with some of the dinosaurs that once roamed the Earth through these "actual-size" illustrations.

Mimi and her little brother Joe escape from home and the city's summer heat to read and dream about princesses and dinosaurs in the cool, quiet library.

Olivia shares a secret with her best friend who then lets it slip to someone else, and soon everyone knows about Olivia's secret.

A little boy wishes so much he could whistle.

Ten poems appear twice, first in the body of the book in English, and then in the back in their original language.

Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.

Doug discovers that though being Harry's best friend in Miss Mackle's second grade class isn't always easy, as Harry likes to do horrible things, it is often a lot of fun.

Unhappy about how much homework they have to do, Arthur and his friends dare each other to skip school.

To get what they want, the larger jungle animals bully the smaller ones until Mama Monkey shows them all the benefits of sharing.

Ferdinand likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers, but one day he gets stung by a bee and his snorting and stomping convince everyone that he is the fiercest of bulls.

Follows the adventures of a little boy named Sam when he matches wits with several tigers that want to eat him.

Five tales recounting the adventures of two best friends - Frog and Toad.

A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.

Children see a variety of animals, each one a different color, and a mother looking at them.

An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree.

Little Sal and Little Bear both lose their mothers while eating blueberries and almost end up with the other's mother.

Mrs. Mallard leaves her home on an island in the Charles River and escorts her eight ducklings through hazardous Boston traffic to the Public Gardens where Mr. Mallard is waiting for his family to join him.

When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.

Ten instruments take their parts one by one in a musical performance.

When Stephanie comes to school with her hair in a ponytail, all the other students copy her, so she decides to change her hairstyle every day, with disastrous results.