Eve Bunting
42) Sunflower house
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A young boy creates a summer playhouse by planting sunflowers and saves the seeds to make another house the next year.
43) Going home
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Although a Mexican family comes to the United States to work as farm laborers so that their children will have opportunities, the parents still consider Mexico their home.
46) Tweak, tweak
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While out for a walk, Mama Elephant answers her child's questions about a monkey, a frog, a songbird, a butterfly, and a crocodile, all the while teaching about Little Elephant too.
47) Butterfly house
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With the help of her grandfather, a little girl makes a house for a larva and watches it develop before setting it free, and every summer after that butterflies come to visit her.
48) Dandelions
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Young Zoe searches for a way to make her mother happy after the family moves to its new home in the Nebraska Territory.
52) Gleam and Glow
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After his home is destroyed by war, eight-year-old Viktor finds hope in the survival of two very special fish.
53) Hurry! hurry!
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All the animals of the barnyard community hurry to greet their newest member, who is just pecking his way out of an egg.
58) Our library
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Celebrating Libraries and Reading
Picture Books about Books & Libraries
Prolific Children's Book Author Eve Bunting
Picture Books about Books & Libraries
Prolific Children's Book Author Eve Bunting
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A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.
60) Emma's turtle
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When Emma's box turtle digs his way out of his pen, he imagines that he is having adventures in Africa, India, and other faraway lands that Emma has described to him.