Open Court
Grade 1
Being Afraid
152.4 Ali
Aliki. Feelings.
1st ed. New York : Greenwillow
Books, c1984.
Pictures, dialogs, poems, and stories portray various
emotions we all feel: jealousy, sadness, fear, anger, joy,
love,
and others.
398.2 Gal
Jack and
the beanstalk. New York : Clarion,
c1974. Jack climbs
the
great beanstalk that grows from the bean he bought and
confronts
a giant at the top.
398.2 Gri
Hansel and
Gretel. New York : Dial Press,
c1980. When they are
left
in the woods by their parents, two children find their
way
home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.
398.2 Les
Lesser,
Rika. Hansel and Gretel. New York : Dodd, Mead, c1984.
A poor
woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon
a
house made of bread, cakes, and candy, occupied by a
wicked
witch who likes to have children for dinner.
398.2 Nor
North,
Carol. Jack and the beanstalk. New York : Golden Press,
c1982. A boy climbs to the top of
a giant beanstalk where
he
uses his quick wits to outsmart an ogre and make his and
his
mother's fortune.
398.21 Kel
Kellogg,
Steven. Jack and the beanstalk. New York : Morrow
Junior
Books, c1991. A boy climbs to the top of
a giant
beanstalk, where he uses his quick wits to outsmart a giant
and
make his and his mother's fortune.
809 Kob
Kobrin,
Beverly. Eyeopeners II : children's
books to answer
children's questions about the world around them. New York
:
Scholastic Inc., c1995. AIDS --
Airplanes -- Alphabets --
Ancient Egypt -- Ancient Greece and Rome -- Animal popourri
-- Art
-- Authors and illustrators -- Bats -- Bears --
Biographies -- Bodies -- Bridges -- Buildings --Camouflage
--
Canada -- Cats : wild and domestic -- Chess -- Children
and
their families -- Columbus and his time -- Cookbooks --
Cowboys and cowgirls -- Dinosaurs -- Dogs -- Ecology --
Elephants -- Experiments -- Food -- Horses -- Insects --
Inventions and inventors -- Magnification -- Math and
counting -- Music makers -- Pilgrims -- Rocks and minerals
--
Sing songs-- Sleepy time -- Snakes -- Space and astronomy
--
Spiders -- States -- Tide pools -- Trees -- Trucks --
Volcanoes and earthquakes -- Weather -- Whales, dolphins,
and
porpoises -- Wolves, jackels, and foxes -- Words.
Provides an annotated list of 800 nonfiction books, arranged
topically,
for preschoolers through young adults, and
includes tips for book activities and reading programs.
AV Kit
Gruber,
Suzanne. The monster under my bed /book
and cass.
Mahwah,
N.J. : Troll Associates, c1985. At
bedtime, a
little
bear finds that there is a logical explanation for
those
monster noises coming from beneath his bed.
AV Kit
The little
old lady who was not afraid of anything/book &
cassette.
E Ber
Berenstain,
Stan, 1923-. The Berenstain Bears in the
dark. New
York :
Random House, c1982. When Brother Bear
brings a
spooky
book from the library, bedtime and the dark become
ominous and threatening to Sister Bear.
E Bon
Bonsall,
Crosby Newell, 1921-. Who's afraid of
the dark? 1st
ed.
New York : Harper & Row, c1980.
A small boy projects
his
fear of the dark onto his dog.
E Bow
Bowdish,
Lynea. Thunder doesn't scare me! New York : Children's
Press,
c2001. When thunder makes a young girl
and her dog
afraid, they decide to make as much noise as the storm.
E Bun
Bunting,
Eve, 1928-. Ghost's hour, spook's
hour. New York :
Clarion
Books, c1987. Scary incidents at
midnight give Biff
the
dog and his master a frightening time but all turn out
to
have good explanations.
E Chr
Christelow,
Eileen. Henry and the dragon. New York : Clarion
Books,
c1984. At bedtime Henry Rabbit is sure
he sees the
shadow
of a dragon on his bedroom wall even though his
parents can find no evidence of it.
E Cos
Cosgrove,
Stephen. Shadow chaser : from the land
of the barely
there. Portland, Ore. : Multnomah
Press, c1987. All the
animals are alarmed because Gabriel Groundhog, quivering in
fear
of shadows, refuses to come out of his burrow on
Groundhog Day to signal the end of winter.
E Emb
Emberley,
Ed. Go away, big green monster! 1st ed.
Boston :
Little, Brown, c1992. Die-cut
pages through which bits of a
monster are revealed are designed to help a child control
nighttime fears of monsters.
E Fre
Freschet,
Berniece. Furlie cat. 1st ed.
New York : Lothrop,
Lee
& Shepard Books, c1986. Afraid of
almost everything,
Furlie
Cat becomes a bully scaring everyone else until the
night
he is trapped in a tree.
E Gac
Gackenbach, Dick. Harry and the terrible whatzit. New York :
Scholastic, c1977. When his
mother goes to the cellar and
doesn't return right away, Harry goes down to search for her
and
confronts the terrible two-headed whatzit.
E Hei
Heide,
Florence Parry. Some things are
scary. 1st ed.
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2000. A list of scary
things
includes "roller skating down hill when you haven't
learned how to stop, getting hugged by somebody you don't
like,
and finding out your best friend has a best friend who
isn't
you.".
E Hen
Henkes,
Kevin. Sheila Rae, the brave. 1st ed.
New York :
Greenwillow Books, c1987. When
brave Sheila Rae, who
usually looks out for her sister Louise, becomes lost and
scared
one day, Louise comes to the rescue.
E Hil
Hillert,
Margaret. The magic beans. Cleveland : Modern
Curriculum, c1966. An
easy-to-read version of Jack and the
beanstalk, in which the boy's mother chops down the
beanstalk so he can escape from the giant.
E How
Howe,
James, 1946-. The fright before
Christmas. New York :
Mulberry Books, 1999, c1988.
Harold the dog and Chester the
cat
try to figure out why Howie the puppy dreads the arrival
of
Santa Claus.
E Mar
Martin,
Bill, 1916-. The ghost-eye tree. New York : H. Holt,
1985. Walking down a dark lonely road on an errand
one
night,
a brother and sister argue over who is afraid of the
dreaded Ghost-Eye tree.
E Pol
Polacco,
Patricia. Thunder cake. New York : Putnam & Grosset,
1997,
c1990. Grandma finds a way to dispel her
grandchild's
fear
of thunderstorms.
E Rie
Riecken,
Nancy. Andrew's own place. Boston : Houghton Mifflin,
1993. A young boy becomes worried when his daily
routine is
upset
by the family's trip to the woods.
E Ros
Rosen,
Michael, 1946-. We're going on a bear
hunt. 1st ed. New
York : Margaret K. McElderry Books,
c1989. Brave bear
hunters go through grass, a river, mud, and other obstacles
before
the inevitable encounter with the bear forces a
headlong retreat.
E Ryl
Rylant,
Cynthia. Henry and Mudge and the bedtime
thumps : the
ninth
book of their adventures. New York :
Aladdin
Paperbacks, 1996, c1991. Henry
worries about what will
happen
to Mudge during their visit to his grandmother's
house.
E Ste
Stevenson,
James, 1929-. What's under my bed? 1st ed.
New York
:
Greenwillow Books, c1983. Grandpa tells
his two young
houseguests a story about his own childhood when he was
scared
at bedtime.
E Tom
Tompert,
Ann. Will you come back for me? Niles, Ill. : A.
Whitman, 1988. Four-year-old Suki is worried about being
left
in day care for the first time until her mother
reassures her that she loves her and will always return for
her.
E Wab
Waber,
Bernard. Ira sleeps over. Boston : Littleton, Mass. :
Houghton Mifflin ; Sundance [distributor], 1972. A little
boy is
excited at the prospect of spending the night at his
friend's
house but worries how he'll get along without his
teddy
bear.
E Wad
Waddell,
Martin. Can't you sleep, Little
Bear? 2nd U.S. ed.
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 1992. When bedtime
comes
Little Bear is afraid of the dark, until Big Bear
brings
him lights and love.
E Wil
Williams,
Linda (Linda D.). The little old lady
who was not
afraid
of anything. 1st ed. New York : Crowell, c1986. A
little
old lady who is not afraid of anything must deal with
a
pumpkin head, a tall black hat, and other spooky objects
that
follow her through the dark woods trying to scare her.
F Dal
Dalgliesh,
Alice, 1893-. The bears on Hemlock
Mountain. 1st
Aladdin ed. New York : Macmillan,
1981, c1952. The
grownups did not believe there were bears on Hemlock
Mountain, but Jonathan did, and he had to fetch a pot from
the
other side of the mountain.
PB e
Martin,
Bill, 1916-. The ghost-eye tree. 1st Owlet pbk. ed.
New
York : H. Holt, 1988. Walking down a
dark lonely road
on an
errand one night, a brother and sister argue over who
is
afraid of the dreaded Ghost-Eye tree.
PB e
Hazen, Barbara Shook. The knight who was afraid of the dark.
1st
ed. New York : Dial Books for Young
Readers, c1989.
When
the castle bully discovers bold Sir Fred is secretly
terrified of the dark, he tries to stir up trouble between
that
brave Knight and his Lady Wendylyn.
PB e
Waddell,
Martin. Let's go home, Little Bear. 1st U.S. pbk. ed.
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 1995. When Little Bear
is
frightened by the noises he hears while walking in the
snowy
woods, his friend Big Bear reassures him.
PB e
Bourgeois,
Paulette. Franklin in the dark. New York :
Scholastic, 1987, c1986. A turtle
afraid of small dark
places, and therefore of crawling into his shell, asks a
variety of animals for advice, only to find out that each
has a
fear of its own.
PB e
Blegvad,
Lenore. Anna Banana and me. 1st ed.
New York :
Atheneum, 1985. Anna Banana's
fearlessness inspires a
playmate to face his own fears.
PB e
Hest,
Amy. Off to school, Baby Duck! 1st ed.
Cambridge, Mass.
:
Candlewick Press, 1999. Baby Duck
experiences the fear of
the
first day of school, but with a little help from Grampa,
everything turns out okay in the end.
PB e
Rylant,
Cynthia. Henry and Mudge under the
yellow moon : the
fourth
book of their adventures. New York :
Simon &
Schuster Books for Young Readers,
c1987. In the autumn,
Henry
and his big dog Mudge watch the leaves turn, meet with
some
Halloween spooks, and share Thanksgiving dinner.
VC
Jack and the beanstalk.