IB Attitudes
Appreciation
Chrysanthemum, Kevin Henkes
Frederick, Leo Lionni
A Friend Like Ed, Karen Wagner
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse,
Leo Lionni
Frog and Toad Are Friends, Arnold
Lobel
The Ant and the Dove, Aesop
George and Martha, James Marshall
Arthur’s Birthday, Marc Brown
The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein
Best Friends for Frances, Russell
Hoban
Ira Sleeps Over, Bernard Waber
A Boy, a Dog, a Frog and a Friend,
Mercer Mayer
Chicken Sunday, Patricia Polacco
The Mountain That Loved a Bird, Alice
McLerran
The Cloud Over Clarence, Marc Brown
Nicholas, Where Have You Been?, Leo
Lionni
Corduroy, Don Freeman
Peter’s Chair, Ezra Jack Keats
Do You Want to Be My Friend?, Eric
Carle
Picnic at Mudsock Meadow, Patricia
Polacco
The Doorbell Rang, Pat Hutchins
Three by the Sea, Edward Marshall
Fair is Fair, Leon Garfield
We Are Best Friends, Aliki
Feelings, Aliki
Friends, Helme Heine
The Goat in the Rug, Charles Blood
Commitment
Little Engine That Could, Watty Piper
The Wednesday Surprise, Eve Bunting
The Hole in the Dike, Norma Green
Aldo Peanut Butter, Johanna Hurwitz
A Light in the Attic (poetry selections:
“Homework Machine,” “Overdues,” and
“Somebody Has To,”) Shel Silverstein
All Alone, Claire Bishop
Arrow Book of Poetry (poetry selection:
“I Meant to Do My Work Today,”)
Richard Le Gallienne
Little Toot, Hardie Gramatky
More Bunny Trouble, Hans Wilhelm
Arthur Mitchell, Tobi Tobias
My Buddy, Audrey Osofsky
Arthur’s Pet Business, Marc Brown
Nannabah’s Friend, Mary Perrine
Awful Alexander, Judith Choate
Peppe the Lamplighter, Elisa Bartone
Brave Irene, William Steig
The Plant Sitter, Gene Zion
The Case of the Stolen Bagels, Hila
Colman
Salt Boy, Mary Perrine
Fritz and the Mess Fairy, Rosemary
Wells
Shoeshine Girl, Clyde Bulla
Henry and the Paper Route, Beverly
Cleary
Skateboard Four, Eve Bunting
Katy and the Big Snow, Virginia Burton
The Sunflower Garden, Janice Udry
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, Peter
Roop
When the New Baby Comes, I’m
Moving Out, Martha Alexander
Kid Power, Susan Pfeffer
The Goat in the Rug, Charles Blood
Confidence
Thundercake
Sheila Rae, The Brave, Kevin Henkes
Once When I Was Scared, Helena
Pittman
Amazing Grace, Mary Hoffman
Katy and the Big Snow, Virginia Lee
Burton
The Boy Who Held Back the Sea,
Thomas Locker
The Little Engine That Could, Watty
Piper
Brave Irene, William Steig
The Miller, His Son and Her Donkey,
Aesop
The Call of the Wolves, Jim Murphy
Mirette on the High Wire, Emily
McCully
The Carrot Seed, Ruth Krauss
Move Over, Twerp, Martha Alexander
El Chino, Allen Say
Rosa Too Little, Sue Felt
Hooray for Henry, Jean Bethell
The Sunflower Garden, Janice Udry
I Can Build a House!, Shigeo
Watanabe
The Three Magic Gifts, James Riordan
I Can Ride It!, Shigeo Watanabe
Wagon Wheels, Barbara Brenner
If at First…, Sandra Boynton
We Never Get to Do Anything, Martha
Alexander
I’ll Try, Karen Erickson
A Weed Is A Flower, Aliki
John Henry, Julius Lester
Whistle for Willie, Ezra Jack Keats
Just the Thing for Geraldine, Ellen
Conford
Cooperation
Officer Buckle and Gloria, Peggy
Rathmann
Plantpet, Elise Primavera
Roxaboxen, Alice McLerran
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the
Ashanti, Gerald McDermott
Learn the Value of Cooperation, Elaine
Goley
A Light in the Attic (poetry selections:
“Anchored” and “Ations,”) Shel
Silverstein
The Best Trainset Ever, Patricia
Hutchins
Beware! Beware! A Witch Won’t Share,
Ida DeLage
The Little Red Hen, Paul Galdone
Big Pumpkin, Erica Silverman
Mine, Yours, Ours, Burton Albert
Bravo Ernest and Celestine!, Gabrielle
Vincent
Miss Nelson is Missing, Harry Allard
Bullfrog Builds a House, Rosamond
Dauer
Mr. McGill Goes to Town, Jim
Aylesworth
Edward in the Jungle, David McPhail
A Chair for My Mother, Vera Williams
Perfect Pigs: An Introduction to
Manners, Marc Brown and Stephen
Krensky
The Doorbell Rang, Pat Hutchins
The Quilting Deal, Tobi Tobias
The Enormous Turnip, Kathy
Parkinson
The Seven Chinese Brothers, Margaret
Mahy
Ernest and Celestine’s Patchwork
Quilt, Gabrielle Vincent
Sometimes I Hate School, Carol Barkin
Frederick, Leo Lionni
Swimmy, Leo Lionni
It’s Your Turn, Roger, Susanna Gretz
Three Good Blankets, Ida Luttrell
Blackberry Booties, Tricia Gardella
It Takes a Village, Jane CowenFletcher
A Cloak for the Dreamer, Aileen
Friedman
Pitch In!, Pamela Hill Nettleton
Creativity
Emma’s Rug, Allen Say
Ben’s Trumpet, Rachel Isadora
John Patrick Norman McHennessy:
The Boy Who was Always Late, John
Burningham
The Art Lesson, Tomie DePaola
From Pictures to Words, Janet Stevens
The Gift of the Magi, O Henry
Hanimals, Mario Mariotti
Purple Cow to the Rescue, Ann Cole
Blackberry Booties, Tricia Gardella
A Cloak for the Dreamer, Aileen
Friedman
The Great Trash Bash, Loreen Leedy
Curiosity
Why Is the Sky Blue?, Sally Grindley
Small Green Snake, Libba Moore Gray
Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Sam
McBratney
Ulaq and the Northern Lights, Harriet
Taylor
The Fossil Girl, Catherine Brighton
The Problem Solvers, Nathan Aaseng
Deep in the Forest, Brinton Turkle
The King, the Princess and the Tinker,
Ellen McKenzie
Professor Curious and the Mystery of
the Hiking Dinosaur, Yvonne Gil
Henry the Sailor Cat, Mary Calhoun
A Story for Bear, Dennis Haseley
Empathy
Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale,
Marcus Pfister
Grandfather’s Journey, Allen Say
Oliver Button is a Sissy, Tomie
DePaola
Alfie Gives a Hand, Shirley Hughes
A Snake in the House, Faith McNulty
The Bear’s Toothache, David McPhail
Teddy Bears Cure a Cold, Susanna
Gretz
Beauty and the Beast, Nancy Willard
Through Grandpa’s Eyes, Patricia
MacLachlan
Caring for My Kitty, Jane B. Moncure
Timothy Goes to School, Rosemary
Wells
Dance of the Sacred Circle: A Native
American Tale, Kristina Rodanas
The Tiny Patient, Judy Pedersen
Two Orphan Cubs, Barbara Brenner
Happy Birthday, Grampie, Susan
Pearson
Harald and the Great Stag
, Donald
Carrick
Understanding, Sandra Ziegler
Here Comes Tagalong, Anne Mallett
Very Shy, Barbara Hazen
Miss Maggie, Cynthia Rylant
We Love Them, Martin Waddell
The Mountain That Loved a Bird
,
Alice McLerran
A Welcome for Annie, Helen Craig
Now One Foot, Now the Other, Tomie
DePaola
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge,
Mem Fox
Pierre, Maurice Sendak
The Wimp, Kathy Caple
Sam and the Lucky Money, Karen
Chinn
Enthusiasm
Emma, Wendy Kesselman
Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney
Amazing Grace, Mary Hoffman
The Animal, David Kherdian
I Love Fishing, Bonnie Dobkin
Thank You, Jackie Robinson, Barbara
Cohen
Dogteam, Gary Paulsen
Market Day, Lois Ehlert
Frogs’ Legs For Dinner, George E.
Stanley
Angelina Ballerina, Katharine Holabird
Independence
Tacky the Penguin, Helen Lester
Purple Cow to the Rescue, Ann Cole
Tsugele’s Broom, Valerie Carey
Paper Bag Princess, Robert Munsch
All by Myself, Aliki
Alex’s Bed, Mary Dickinson
Keeping Clean, Vicki Cobb
Attila the Angry, Marjorie Sharmat
A Little Touch of Monster, Emily
Lampert
Caring for My Things, Jane B. Moncure
Loudmouth George and the Big Race,
Nancy Carlson
Dinner at Alberta’s, Russell Hoban
Messy Bessey, Patricia McKissack and
Fredrick McKissack
Don’t Throw Another One, Dover,
Beverly Keller
Millicent Maybe, Ellen Weiss
Hank and Dogie, Nick (Nicki?) Weiss
No Fighting, No Biting!, Else
Holmelund Minarik
Harry Hates Shopping, Ronda
Armitage
Pass the Peas, Please: A Book of
Manners, Dina Anastasio
Gretchen, the Bicycle Dog, Anita
Heyman
Home Alone, Eleanor Schick
Joey On His Own, Eleanor Schick
I Can Do It by Myself, Lessie Jones
Little and Eloise Greenfield
Pigsty, Mark Teague
Ready, Alice?, Margo Mason
I Never Win!, Judy Delton
Spinky Sulks, William Steig
I Was So Mad!, Norma Simon
My Great-Aunt Arizona, Gloria Houston
Wings, Christopher Myers
Goin’ Someplace Special, Patricia
McKissack
Integrity
Jamaica’s Find, Juanita Havill
The Young Artist, Thomas Locker
A Pair of Red Clogs, Matsuno
Annabelle’s Un-birthday, Steven Kroll
Ivan the Great, Isabel Langis Cusack
Anteater on the Stairs, Peter Cottrill
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!, Miriam Cohen
Awful Thursday, Ron Roy
The Lie, Ann Helena
The Berenstain Bears and the Truth,
Stan Berenstain
Molly’s Lies, Kay Chorao
Once, Said Darlene, William Sleator
A Big Fat Enormous Lie, Marjorie
Weinman Sharmat
Pedro and the Padre, Verna Aardema
A Day’s Work, Eve Bunting
Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi
Ernie’s Little Lie, Dan Elliott
Rabbit Rambles On, Susanna Gretz
Freya’s Fantastic Surprise, Elizabeth
Hathorn
The Stinky Sneakers Contest, Julie
Anne Peters
Harriet and the Garden, Nancy L.
Carlson
The Thief’s Daughter, Alan Marks
Honest Andrew, Gloria Skurzynski
The Three Friends, Susanne Kubler
Honest Ape, Bob Reese
Juan Verdades: The Man Who
Couldn’t Tell a Lie, Joe Hayes
The True Francine, Marc Tolon Brown
Honestly, Myron, Dean Hughes
Tyrone, the Double Dirty Rotten
Cheater, Hans Wilhelm
I Know You Cheated, Valjean
McLenighan
The Children’s Book of Virtues, William
Bennett
The Principal’s New Clothes,
Stephanie Calmenson
Just the Two of Us, Will Smith
Learning About Integrity From the Life
of Eleanor Roosevelt, Nancy Ellwood
Respect
Hey, Little Ant, Philip M. Hoose
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge,
Mem Fox
Crow Boy, Taro Yashima
All the Cats in the World, Sonia Levitin
Little Gorilla, Ruth Bornstein
Arthur’s Nose, Marc Brown
Loop the Loop, Barbara Dugan
Big Al, Andrew Elborn
Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney
The Biggest Bear, Lynd Ward
Sidney, Susan Jeschke
Antelope Woman: An Apache Folktale,
Michael Lacapa
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, Chief Seattle
The House of Wings, Betsy Byars
Moonstruck: The True Story of the Cow
Who Jumped Over the Moon, Gennifer
Choldenko
Respect, Beverly Fiday
Tolerance
The Metropolitan Cow, Tim Egan
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop, Margaree
Mitchell
All in a Day, Mitsumasa Anno
My Sister’s Silent World, Catherine
Arthur
The Araboolies of Liberty Street, Sam
Swope
Nick Joins In, Joe Lasker
Arnie and the New Kid, Nancy Carlson
No One Is Perfect, Karen Erickson and
Maureen Roffey
The Berenstain Bears’ New Neighbors,
Stan Berenstain
Black Is Brown Is Tan, Arnold Adoff
Soccer Sam, Jean Marzollo
But Martin!, June Councel (?)
Someone Special, Just Like You, Tricia
Brown
Discovering Friendship, Sharon Kadish
Steffie and Me, Phyllis Hoffman
Free to Be…You and Me, Marlo
Thomas
Uglypuss, Caroline Gregoire
Funny Feet!, Leatie Weiss
Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in Your
Soup, Tomie DePaola
How My Parents Learned to Eat, Ina R.
Friedman
Mr. Lincoln’s Way, Patricia Polacco
What Is The Sign for Friend?, Judith
E. Greenberg
I’m Terrific, Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Why Am I Different?, Norma Simon
It Happened in Pinsk, Arthur Yorinks
Why Does That Man Have Such a Big
Nose?, Mary Beth Quinsey
My Hands, My World, Catherine
Brighton
Wings, Christopher Myers
The Brand New Kid, Katie Couric
Goin’ Someplace Special, Patricia
McKissack
Pinduli, Janell Cannon
Let’s Get Along!, Pamela Hill Nettleton
Let’s Talk About Race, Julius Lester