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Borrowing Information: Materials may be borrowed only by MHLS member libraries for library programs. To order, click here to send an e-mail to the Youth Services Department listing what you would like to borrow (title and book number for Big Books), what date you need to have it for and to which MHLS member library you would like it sent. These materials cannot be ordered through Request-a-Title.
Shipping Procedure
All YS materials that cannot fit in the delivery bins must have this completed form attached to the outside. Items will not be picked up without the form.
Number and Title
Author
99: All About Me
 Debbie MacKinnon and Anthea Sieveking
103: Anancy and Mr. Dry-Bone
 Fiona French
38: Angus Thought He Was Big 
 A. Graham
27: Animal Clues    
 David Drew
6: Anno’s Counting Book 
 Mitsumasa Anno
43: Aunt Flossie’s Hats ( and Crab Cakes Later)
 Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
73: Big Book Magazine: Whales  
 Scholastic
15: Big Red Barn  
 Margaret Wise Brown
110: Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones
 Byron Barton
42: Bread and Jam for Frances 
 Russell Hoban
62: Bread, Bread, Bread 
 Ann Morris
59: Bunches & Bunches of Bunnies
 Louise Mathews
85: Caps for Sale   (2)   
 Esphyr Slobodkina
13: Caps, Hats, Socks, and Mittens    
 Louise Borden
28: Caterpillar Diary 
 David Drew
94: A Chair for My Mother  
 Vera B. Williams
81: Chicken Soup With Rice    
 Maurice Sendak
20: Clap Your Hands
 Lorinda Bryan Cauley
78: Curious George
 H. A. Rey
82: Dance Away  
 George Shannon
17: A Dark, Dark Tale   
 Ruth Brown
67: The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash
 Trinka Hakes Noble
11: Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs 
 Byron Barton
47: Don’t Forget the Bacon! 
 Pat Hutchins
48: The Doorbell Rang 
 Pat Hutchins
107: Down by the Station
 Jess Stockham ( Illus.)
36: Each Orange Had 8 Slices   
 Paul Giganti, Jr.
2: Each Peach, Pear, Plum 
 Janet and Allan Ahlberg
61: Eating Fractions 
 Bruce McMillan
71: Eeny, Meeny, Miney Mouse 
 G. Pascoe
70: Enormous Watermelon  
 Brenda Parkes and Judith Smith
89: Farmer Duck   
 Martin Waddell
109: Flashing Fire Engines
 Tony Mitton & Ant Parker
14: Franklin in the Dark    
 Paulette Bourgeois
26: Freight Train 
 Donald Crews
32: Frogs & Toads & Tadpoles, Too   
 Allan Fowler
79: Giant Dinosaurs  
 Erna Rowe
31: Giant Jungle Pop-Up Book    
 Keith Faulkner
37: Good Morning, Chick    
 Mirra Ginsburg
16: Goodnight Moon  
 Margaret Wise Brown
49: Good-Night, Owl!   
 Pat Hutchins
41: The Great Invention    
 Maureen Halloran
100: Gregory Cool
 Caroline Binch
30: Growing Vegetable Soup 
 Lois Ehlert
104: Guess How Much I Love You
 Sam McBratney
63: Hats, Hats, Hats 
 Ann Morris
33: Hattie and the Fox  
 Mem Fox
93: Hazel’s Amazing Mother
 Rosemary Wells
97: Henny Penny
 H. Werner
80: How Much Is a Million?   
 David M. Schwartz
88: I Am Eyes    
 Leila Ward
68: If You Give a Moose a Muffin  
 Laura Joffe Numeroff
69: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie 
 Laura Joffe Numeroff
98: If You Give a Pig a Pancake  
 Laura Joffe Numeroff
108: I'm a Caterpillar
 Jean Marzollo
102: I is for India
 Prodeepta Das
40: Is Your Mama a Llama? (3)
 Deborah Guarino
83: It Looked Like Spilt Milk  
 Charles G. Shaw
77: The Itchy Witch    
 Janet Slater Redhead
86: Jack and the Beanstalk
Brenda Parkes and Judith Smith
66: The Jacket I Wear in the Snow 
 Shirley Neitzel
53: Johnny Appleseed
 Steven Kellogg
50: Jump, Frog, Jump! (2)  
 Robert Kalan
74: The Little Old Woman & the Hungry Cat  
 Nancy Polette
9: The Little Red Hen   
 Byron Barton
12: Madeline 
 Ludwig Bemelmans
23: Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System
 Joanna Cole
60: Make Way for Ducklings   
 Robert McCloskey
24: Mama Zooms  
 Jane Cowen-Fletcher
35: More Spaghetti, I Say   
 Rita Golden Gelman
90: Mouse Paint    
 Ellen Stoll Walsh
87: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters 
 John Steptoe
3: My Five Senses   
 Aliki
19: My Very Own Pet
 Bernice Wells Carlson
4: My Visit to the Dinosaurs  
 Aliki
54: The Mysterious Tadpole    
 Steven Kellogg
21: The New Baby Calf  
 Edith Newlin Chase
92: Noisy Nora  
 Rosemary Wells
56: On Market Street   
 Arnold Lobel
101: Out for the Count
 Kathryn Cave and Chris Riddell
105: Over in the Meadow A Counting Rhyme
 Louise Voce
22: Over the River and Through the Wood  
 Lydia Maria Child 
55: Paul Bunyan  
 Steven Kellogg
51: Peter’s Chair 
 Ezra Jack Keats
29: Planting a Rainbow  
 Lois Ehlert
58: Polar Bear, Polar Bear  
 Bill Martin Jr.
84: The Right Number of Elephants
 Jeff Sheppard
44: Rosie’s Walk  
 Pat Hutchins
95: Shoes
 Elizabeth Winthrop
91: Shy Charles      
 Rosemary Wells
96: Silly Sally  
 Audrey Wood
52: The Snowy Day    
 Ezra Jack Keats
45: The Surprise Party    
 Pat Hutchins
76: Ten Little Boats    
 Beverley Randell
8: Ten, Nine, Eight   
 Molly Bang
10: The Three Bears    
 Byron Barton
7: Thump, Thump, Rat-a-Tat-Tat  
 Gene Baer
64: Tikki Tikki Tembo    
 Arlene Mosel
34: Time for a Rhyme     
 Rigby Education
39: Tommy at the Grocery Store   
 Bill Grossman
25: Truck   
 Donald Crews
72: Two Feet    
 Gwen Pascoe
75: Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast    
 Jack Prelutsky
18: The Very Hungry Caterpillar 
 Eric Carle
65: What Next, Baby Bear   
 Jill Murphy
106: The Wheels on the Bus
Annie Kubler (Illus.)
5: Who Sank the Boat? 
 Pamela Allen
1: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears   
 Verna Aardema
46: You’ll Soon Grow Into Them, Titch
 Pat Hutchins

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