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 **2011 Texas 2 x 2 Reading List**
 * Alter, Anna. //**Disappearing Desmond.**// Knopf Books for Young Readers. ISBN-13: 978-0-37-586684-5. $17.99. Ages 4-8. Desmond is so skilled at disappearing that sometimes even his teacher cannot find him, but when he meets Gloria, a new student at school, his attitude slowly changes.


 * Baker, Keith. //**LMNO Peas.**// Beach Lane Books. ISBN-13: 978-1-41-699141-0. $16.99. Ages 4-8. Busy little peas introduce their favorite occupations, from astronaut to zoologist.


 * Barry, Frances. //**Let’s Save the Animals: A Flip-the-Flap Book.**// Candlewick. ISBN-13: 978-0-76-364501-4. $12.99. Ages 4-8. Through large, colorful illustrations and flip-the-flap pages readers are introduced to ten endangered animals and how they can help protect and save them.


 * Barton, Chris. //**Shark vs. Train.**// Illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. ISBN-13: 978-0-31-600762-7. $16.99. Ages 4-8. A shark and a train compete in a series of contests on a seesaw, in hot air balloons, bowling, shooting baskets, playing hide-and-seek, and more.


 * Chall, Marsha Wilson. //**One Pup’s Up**//. Illustrated by Henry Cole. Margaret K. McElderry. ISBN-13: 978-1-41-697960-9. $16.99. Ages 4-8. Rhyming text counts off ten puppies as they awaken one by one, case and bounce around the house, eat kibble and get washed, then fall back to sleep.


 * Craig, Lindsey. //**Dancing Feet.**// Illustrated by Marc Brown. Knopf Books for Young Readers. ISBN-13: 978-0-37-586181-9. $16.99. Ages 2-5. Easy-to-read, rhyming text depicts different animals dancing.


 * Elliott, David. //**In the Wild**//**.** Illustrated by Holly Meade. Candlewick. ISBN-13: 978-0-76-364497-0. $16.99. Ages 4-8. In beautiful woodcut and watercolor illustrations poems of animals in the wild are brought to life.


 * ﻿﻿Elya, Susan Middleton. //**Rubia and the Three Osos.**// Illustrated by Melissa Sweet. Hyperion Books. ISBN-13: 978-1-42-311252-5. $15.99. Ages 4-8. A new twist on a classic tale mixing English and Spanish along with a surprise ending.


 * Graves, Keith. //**Chicken Big.**// Chronicle Books. ISBN-13: 978-0-81-187237-9. $16.99. Ages 4-8. This unique twist on the classic //Chicken Little//, will have you laughing out loud and cheering for the unlikely hero.


 * Hacohen, Dean. //**Tuck Me In!**// Illustrated by Sherry Scharschmidt. Candlewick. ISBN-13: 978-0-76-364728-5. $9.99. Ages 2-5. The reader helps tuck in baby animals at bedtime using pages with flaps to serve as blankets.


 * Isadora, Rachel. //**Say Hello.**// Putnam Juvenile. ISBN-13: 978-0-39-625230-3. $16.99. Ages 4-8. A little girl greets people in her neighborhood in many different languages.


 * LaRochelle, David. //**1+1=5: and Other Unlikely Additions.**// Illustrated by Brenda Sexton. Sterling. ISBN-13: 978-1-40-275995-6. $14.95. Ages 4-8. 1+1 does not always equal 2 in this playful approach to addition requiring readers to think outside the box.


 * ﻿﻿Lerch. //**Swim! Swim!**// Scholastic Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-54-509419-1. $16.99. Ages 4-8. Lerch the fish is lonely, and after trying to befriend some unreceptive - and inanimate – objects, he finally succeeds in finding a friend.


 * ﻿Lin, Grace. //**Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same!**// Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. ISBN-13: 978-0-31-602452-5. $14.99. Ages 4-8. Ling and Ting are identical twins that people think are exactly the same, but time and again they prove to be different.


 * ﻿Mayor, Salley. //**Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes.**// Houghton Mifflin Books for Children. ISBN-13: 978-0-61-873740-6. $21.99. Ages 4-8. An illustrated collection of sixty-four traditional nursery rhymes.


 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ruddell, Deborah. //**Who Said Coo?**// Illustrated by Robin Luebs. Beach Lane Books. ISBN-13: 978-1-416-98510-5. $16.99. Ages 4-8. Lulu is a sleepy pig whose friends try to keep her from sleeping.


 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thomson, Bill. //**Chalk**//. Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books. ISBN-13: 978-0-76-145526-4. $15.99. Ages 4-8. A wordless picture book about three children who go to a park on a rainy day, find some chalk, and draw pictures that come to life.


 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Underwood, Deborah. //**A Balloon for Isabel.**// Illustrated by Laura Rankin. Greenwillow Books. ISBN-13: 978-0-06-177987-9. $16.99. Ages 4-8. As graduation approaches, Isabel tries to convince her teacher that she and Walter, both porcupines, should receive balloons on the big day just like the other children.


 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Williams, Karen Lynn. //**A Beach Tail.**// Illustrated by Floyd Cooper. Boyds Mills Press. ISBN-13: 978-1-59-078712-0. $17.95. Ages 4-8. When his father tells him not to leave the lion he is drawing on the beach, a little boy starts making a very, very long tail – and a trail to follow back.


 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Willems, Mo. //**Cat the Cat Who is That?**// Balzer+Bray. ISBN-13: 978-0-06-172840-2. $10.99. Ages 4-8. An exuberant cat introduces readers to her friends.

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