Open Court

Grade 1

Keep Trying

E Bro

Brouwer, Sigmund, 1959-. Annie Ant, don't cry. Nashville : T.

Nelson, c2001. Annie Ant discovers that she should never,

never quit and that each day she will get better.

E Hes

Hest, Amy. The purple coat. 1st American ed. New York : Four

Winds Press, c1986. Despite her mother's reminder that

"navy blue is what you always get," Gabby begs her tailor

grandfather to make her a beautiful purple fall coat.

E Lio

Lionni, Leo, 1910-. Inch by inch. 1st Mulberry ed. New York,

N.Y. : Mulberry Books, 1995, c1960. To keep from being

eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's

neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's

song.

E Low

Low, Joseph. Mice twice.

E Sil

Silverman, Erica. Big pumpkin. 1st ed. New York : Macmillan.

A witch trying to pick a big pumpkin on Halloween discovers

the value of cooperation when she gets help from a series of

monsters.

E Ten

Tennyson, Noel. The lady's chair and the ottoman. 1st ed. New

York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, c1987. An ottoman has

spent as long as he can remember trying to get close to a

lady's chair; and though fortune separates them and they

seem to come to unhappy ends, a marvelous coincidence

reunites them in a very happy way.

E Woo

Wood, Audrey. King Bidgood's in the bathtub. San Diego :

Harcourt Brace Jovaovich., c1985. Despite pleas from his

court, a fun-loving king refuses to get out of his bathtub

to rule his kingdom.

PB e

Brett, Jan. Comet's nine lives.

PB e

Brett, Jan, 1949-. Comet's nine lives. New York : G.P.

Putnam's, c1996. Comet the cat uses up eight of his nine

lives trying to find the right place to live on Nantucket

Island.

PB e

London, Jonathan, 1947-. Froggy bakes a cake. New York :

Grosset & Dunlap, c2000. As he helps his father prepare to

celebrate his mother's birthday, Froggy makes a big mess

trying to do things his own way.

PB f

Roop, Peter. Keep the lights burning, Abbie. Minneapolis, Minn.

: Carolrhoda Books, c1985. In the winter of 1856, a storm

delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the

coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights

burning by herself.