Jan Brett
21) The Easter egg
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
Hoppi the bunny wants to win the egg-decorating contest so the Easter Bunny will choose him to help distribute Easter eggs, but instead, while everyone else is working on their decorations, he finds himself guarding an egg that has fallen from a robin's nest.
23) The umbrella
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Carlos goes into the cloud forest to look for animals, but he manages to miss seeing them even though they have an adventure with his umbrella.
24) Gingerbread baby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven and leads a crowd on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale about a not-so-clever gingerbread man.
29) Armadillo rodeo
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Bo, an adventurous, near-sighted armadillo, leaves his mother and brothers to follow a girl heading to a rodeo wearing new red boots which Bo mistakes for another armadillo.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After working together to obtain honey, the African honey badger always shares it with his partner, the honeyguide bird, until one day when the honey badger becomes greedy and his feathered friend decides to teach him a lesson.
32) On Noah's ark
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Noah's granddaughter helps him bring the animals onto the ark, calm them down, and get them to sleep.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Lonely Gingerbread Baby, having set out to find a friend, enters a bakery where he tries to talk to different cookies and other figures, but winds up leading a crowd back to his house on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale.Sequel to Gingerbread Baby.
34) Christmas trolls
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Treva investigates the disappearance of her family's Christmas things, she finds two mischievous trolls who have never had a Christmas of their own.
35) Berlioz the bear
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Berlioz the bear and his fellow musicians are due to play for the town ball when the mule pulling their bandwagon refuses to move. A strange buzzing in Berlioz's double bass turns into a surprise that saves the day.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Jan Brett's beloved character the Gingerbread Baby returns in a fun-filled Christmas caper! Gingerbread Baby and his friend, Matti, take his gingerbread band to the Christmas Festival where they are a hit until the aroma of gingerbread reaches the children, signaling that it is time to run away. Clever Matti uses snow to disguise the gingerbread instruments while Gingerbread Baby leads the audience on a merry chase to the smartest hiding place ever--a...