Theme Kit Descriptions
Theme based literacy kits provide the resources parents, child-care providers, and early childhood educators need to help preschool children develop early literacy skills while learning about the world around them.
Each kit contains 10 books around a popular preschool theme, a related manipulative, one music CD or DVD, and a set of laminated cards with a number of activities.
For more information about the Theme Kits contact the Youth Services Department at #859.342.2665 x8193.
*Please limit 1 Theme Kit per family or child care center at a time.
Active Kids 10 Books: 18 Dancing Scarves Can You Make a Scary Face? 1 Music CD: Jan Thomas Jim Gill Presents Music Play For Folks Farmyard Beat Lindsey Craig of All Stripes Jim Gill Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Eileen Christelow From Head to Toe Eric Carle Giraffes Can’t Dance Giles Andreae Hop, Hop, Jump! Lauren Thompson Llama Llama Hoppity-Hop! Anna Dewdney Monkey and Me Emily Gravett Super Simple Throw and Catch Nancy Tuminelly You Are a Lion! And Other Fun Yoga Poses
Around Town 10 Books 1 Community Helper Fun-to-Know Puzzle Albert the Fix-It Man Janet Lord 20 puzzles/40 pieces Apple Farmer Annie Monica Wellington 1 Music CD Froggy Goes to the Doctor Sesame Street: Platinum All Time Jonathan London Favorites Larabee Kevin Luthardt 1 Magnetic Board Activity Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for “I’m a Veterinarian” Kindergarten Joseph Slate 17 pieces Shhhhh! Everybody’s Sleeping! 1 Tools Matching Game Julie Markes 31 pieces Tools Taro Miura 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Trashy Town Andrea Zimmerman We Work at the Fire Station Angela Aylmore Backyard Animals 10 Books: 1 Set of Animal Tracks Rubbing Plates At the Edge of the Woods 16 plates Cynthia Cotten 1 Music CD The Busy Little Squirrel Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes: Little Nancy Tafuri & Big Animal Folk Songs Don’t Laugh, Joe! Keiko Kasza Pete Seeger Frog (Watch Me Grow—DK) 1 Magnetic Board Activity Lisa Magloff “Three Little Possums” Growing Like Me Anne Rockwell 4 pieces Move Over, Rover! Karen Beaumont 1 Animals & Homes Matching Game Quiet in the Garden Aliki 20 pieces Rabbits and Their Burrows Linda Tagliaferro What a Treasure! Jane Hillenbrand Whooo’s There? Mary Serfozo
Bedtime 10 Books: 1 Listening Lotto Nursery Rhymes Game Animals Asleep Sneed B. Collard III 12 Game Boards Daddies Lila Prap 120 Game Tokens Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! 1 Audio CD Mo Willems 1 Music CD Hide and Squeak Waddaya Think of That? Heather Vogel Frederick Laurie Berkner Hurry Up and Slow Down Layn Marlow 1 Magnetic Board Activity It’s Bedtime, Wibbly Pig! Mick Inkpen “What! Cried Granny“ Llama Llama Red Pajama Anna Dewdney 11 pieces Maybe a Bear Ate It! Robie H. Harris 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Piggies Audrey Wood What! Cried Granny: An Almost Bedtime Story Kate Lum
Character Counts 10 Books: 1 Music CD A Splendid Friend Indeed Suzanne Bloom Victor Vito by Laurie Berkner Duck and Goose How Are You Feeling? Tad Hills 1 My Soft World Farm Block Set Happy Mies Van Hout 29 pieces I Like Myself Karen Beaumont I’m Busy Clare Hibbert 1 Felt Board Activity Llama Llama Mad at Mama Anna Dewdney “Making Faces” Our Tree Named Steve Alan Zweibel 14 pieces (including answer key) Pigeon Has Feelings, Too! Mo Willems Scaredy Squirrel Melanie Watts 9 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Too Many Frogs Sandy Asher
Colors Butterfly, Butterfly Petr Horáček 1 Candy Game: Deep Blue Sea Audrey Wood 41 wooden pieces Harold and the Purple Crayon 1 DVD: Crockett Johnson Signing Time! Volume 6, Mouse Paint Ellen Stoll Walsh My Favorite Things My Box of Color Lorianne Siomades 2 Magnet Boards: Patrick Paints a Picture “I Know the Colors for Painting Fun” Saviour Pirotta 11 pieces Planting a Rainbow Lois Ehlert “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Red is a Dragon: A Book of Colors Roseanne What Do You See?” Thong 12 pieces What Color is Nature? 9 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Stephen R. Swinburne White is for Blueberry George Shannon
Creepy Crawlers 10 books 1 Bugs! Card Game Bug Safari Bob Barner 52 Cards (50 Bug Cards) The Crunching Munching Caterpillar 1 Music CD Sheridan Cain Bugs, Bugs, Bugs! Pam Schiller Inch by Inch Leo Lionni 2 Magnet Boards I Love Bugs Philemon Sturges “Ladybug Life Cycle” Ladybugs: Red, Fiery and Bright 4 pieces Mia Posada “Butterfly Life Cycle” Monarch Butterflies Up Close 4 pieces Carmen Bredeson 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Old Black Fly Jim Aylesworth The Very Greedy Bee Steve Smallman The Very Lazy Ladybug Isobel Finn The Very Quiet Cricket Eric Carle
Curious Kids 11 Books 1 Shape Sequence Blocks Set 5 Busy Ducklings Rookie Toddler 21 pieces Animal 1 2 3 Britta Teckentrup 20 shapes Around the Park Christianne C. Jones 1 base Bathing Liesbet Slegers 1 Music CD Eggs and Legs: Counting by Twos Songs for Wiggleworms Michael Dahl Old Town School of Folk Music Kitchen: Fun Experiments for Budding 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Scientists Lisa Burke The Little Red Hen Byron Barton Numbers Say & Play Rain Manya Stojic Same and Different National Geographic Little Kids Spotty, Stripy, Swirly: What are Patterns? Jane Brocket Dinosaurs 10 Books: 12 Plastic Dinosaurs Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones 1 Music CD: Byron Barton Whaddaya Think of That? Danny and the Dinosaur Sid Hoff Laurie Berkner Dino-pets Lynn Plourde 1 Magnet Board: Dinosaur Bones Bob Barner “If You’re a Tyrannosaurus” Dinosaur Train John Steven Gurney 6 pieces Dinosaurumpus! Tony Mitton 20 Laminated Bone Cards How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? 9 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Jane Yolen If Dinosaurs Came Back Bernard Most Meet the Dinosaurs DK publishing When Dinosaurs Came With Everything Elise Broach
Down on the Farm 10 Books: 1 Sounds on the Farm Listening Lotto Clip-Clop Nicola Smee Game The Cow Who Clucked Denise Fleming 12 Game Boards Duck on a Bike David Shannon 120 Game Tokens Farm Flu Teresa Bateman 1 Audio CD Hurry, Hurry Eve Bunting 1 Music CD: Old MacDonald Had a Farm Disney’s Dance Along Jane Cabrera 1 Magnet Boards On the Farm David Elliott “Colorful Chicks” Russell the Sheep Rob Scotton 9 pieces Spots, Feather and Curly Tails 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Nancy Tafuri Where is the Green Sheep? Mem Fox
Fabulous Food 10 Books: 1 Small World Toys Pretend Food Set The Baker’s Dozen Dan Andreasen 13 Pieces Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables 1 Music CD with Book from A to Z Fabulous Food Pamela Schiller Lois Ehlert 22 Magnetic Board Activity Pieces Growing Vegetable Soup Lois Ehlert “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” If You Give a Mouse a Cookie 1 Laminated Very Hungry Caterpillar Laura Numeroff Coloring Sheet Little Pea Amy Rosenthal 9 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring The Little Red Hen Byron Barton The Milk Group Mari C. Schuh Mouse Mess Linnea Riley The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! Mo Willems The Very Hungry Caterpillar (pop-up book) Eric Carle Feathered Friends 10 Books: 3 Audubon Bird Stuffed Animals Birds Kevin Henkes 1 Music CD The Baby Beebee Bird Wiggly Safari The Wiggles Diane Redfield Massie 2 Magnet Boards DK Eye Know Bird Penelope Arlon “Stuck in the Mud” Feathers for Lunch Lois Ehlert 11 pieces If You Were a Penguin “Birds of a Feather” Florence Minor 10 pieces I’m Not Scared! Jonathan Allen 7 Character Necklaces The Pebble First Guide to Songbirds 1 Laminated Pigeon Picture Katy R. Kudela 9 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring The Pigeon Wants a Puppy Mo Willems Run, Turkey, Run! Diane Mayr Stuck in the Mud Jane Clarke
Feelings 10 Books: When Sophie Gets Angry...Really, Don’t Worry Bear Greg E. Foley Really Angry... Molly Bang Grumpy Bird Jeremy Tankard Wow! School! Robert Neubecker Leonardo the Terrible Monster 1 Deck of The Feelings Flash Cards Mo Willems 56 Pieces On Monday When It Rained 1 Music CD Cherryl Kachenmeister Literacy In Motion The Learning Station Say Hello Jack and Michael Foreman 1 Magnet Board The Story of My Feelings “Five Little Babies” Lori Berkner 5 pieces Today I Feel Silly Jamie Lee Curtis 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Walter Was Worried Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Friends and Family 10 Books 1 Family Puzzle A Mother for Choco Keiko Kasza 20 pieces Be a Good Friend! Jennifer Waters 1 Music CD with Book Families in Many Cultures Me, My Family and Friends: 26 Heather Adamson Songs and Over 300 Activities for The Family Book Todd Parr Young Children Pam Schiller Good Morning, Sunshine! A Grandpa Story 1 Mothers and Babies Laminated Sharon McKenna Matching Card Game Help!: A Story of Friendship 26 pieces Holly Keller 9 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring My Daddy is a Giant Carl Norac Owl Babies Martin Waddell Piglet and Papa Margaret Wild What Grandmas Do Best/What Grandpas Do Best Laura Numeroff Go to Sleep 10 Books 1 Music CD Bedtime in the Jungle John Butler My Box of Dreams: Songs for Bedtime Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed David Kisor Eileen Christelow 1 Magnetic Board Activity Good Night, Sleep Tight: A Book About “Tuck Me In” Bedtime (Hello, Friends!) Emma Quay 14 pieces total Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown 7 animals Race You to Bed Bob Shea 7 blankets The Sleepy Little Alphabet: A Bedtime 1 Set Five Little Monkeys Finger Puppets Story from Alphabet Town Judy Sierra 5 monkey puppets Switching on the Moon Jane Yolen and 9 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Andrew Fusek Peters Time for Bed Mem Fox Tuck Me In! Dean Hacohen Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Jane Cabrera
The Great Outdoors 10 Books: 1 Outside Sounds Listening Lotto Game Duck Tents Lynne Berry 12 Game Boards Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree 120 Tokens Eileen Christelow 1 Audio CD I Went Walking Sue Williams 1 Music CD Let’s Ride Bikes! Carol K. Lindeen All Around Ralph’s World Let’s Swim Carol K. Lindeen Ralph’s World Looking for a Moose Phyllis Root 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring One-Dog Canoe Mary Casanova Over in the Meadow Jill MacDonald Swim, Little Wombat, Swim! Charles Fuge We’re Going on a Lion Hunt Margaret Cuyler
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes 10 Books: 1 5 Senses Lotto Game From Head to Toe Eric Carle 4 Game Boards Hands Can Cheryl Willis Hudson 24 Cards I Like Myself Karen Beaumont 1 Music CD with Book If You Had a Nose Like an Elephant’s Trunk Music & Movement in the Marion Dane Bauer Classroom Greg and Steve No! That’s Wrong! Zhaohua Ji 9 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Nosy Rosie Holly Keller Rain Manya Stojic Tasting Rebecca Olien This Jazz Man Karen Ehrhardt Touching Rebecca Olien
Healtyh Kids 10 Books 1 Basket of Food Set An Astronaut Cookbook 10 pieces Sarah L. Schuette 9 food items Brush, Brush, Brush! Rookie Toddler 1 basket Feast for 10 Cathryn Falwell 1 Music CD The Gingerbread Boy Paul Galdone Singable Songs for the Very Young Go, Go, Grapes! April Pulley Sayre Raffi I Can Eat a Rainbow Annabel Karmel 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring I Like Vegetables Lorena Siminovich Maisy, Charley, and the Wobbly Tooth Lucy Cousins Orange Pear Apple Bear Emily Gravett Whose Gadgets are These? Amanda Doering Tourville
Houses and Homes 10 Books: 1 Set of Three Little Pigs Storytelling Bear Snores On Karma Wilson Hand Puppets Bears and Their Dens Linda Tagliaferro 7 pieces The Busy Tree Jennifer Ward 1 Music CD with Book Castles, Caves and Honeycombs Bountiful Earth Pam Schiller Linda Ashman 1 Felt Board Activity Foxes and Their Dens Martha Rustad “There’s a Mouse in the House” Houses and Homes Ann Morris 7 pieces Inside Mouse, Outside Mouse 1 Laminated Three Little Pigs Story Lindsay Barrett George 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring The Little Crooked House Margaret Wild The Three Bears Byron Barton The Napping House Audrey Wood
The Jungle 10 Books: What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? Steve The Animal Boogie Debbie Harter Jenkins and Robin Page Includes 1 CD Who is the Beast? Keith Baker The Giraffe Who Cock-a-Doodle 11 Plastic Jungle Animals Doo’d Keith Faulkner 1 Music CD: The Jungle Book Walt Disney Giraffe: The World’s Tallest Mammal 20 Laminated Safari Photos Meish Goldish 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Hippo Goes Bananas! Marjorie Murray If You’re Happy and You Know It: Jungle Edition James Worhola Rumble in the Jungle Giles Andreae “Slowly, Slowly, Slowly,” said the Sloth Eric Carle Starry Safari Linda Ashman Making Money Count 10 Books: 1 Music CD Apple Farmer Annie Monica Wellington The Count Counts Bunny Money Rosemary Wells Sesame Street Fancy Nancy and the Fabulous Fashion 1 Sort and Snap Color Match game Boutique Jane O’Connor 74 pieces Five Little Monkeys Go Shopping 64 snap caps; 10 reversible picture cards Eileen Christelow 2 Magnet Board Piece Sets I Can Name Bills and Coins Annie’s Apples (10 pieces) Rebecca Wingard-Nelson Mouse Count (12 pieces) Llama Llama Mad at Mama Anna Dewdney 1 Shape Sorting Activity Money, Money, Honey Bunny Marilyn Sadler 30 pieces Mouse Mouse Count Ellen Stoll Walsh 6 Tales’ money worksheets (with dry-erase Sorting at the Market Tracey Steffora marker) What Can You Do with Money? 9 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Jennifer Larson
Music and Movement 10 Books: 18 Dancing Scarves Boing Nick Bruel 1 Music CD: Going on a Bear Hunt Michael Rosen Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Hickory Dickory Dock Keith Baker Contagious Tunes Jim Gill Hush, Little Baby Brian Pinkney Laminated Butterflies I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More! 20 pieces Karen Beaumont Laminated Letters I Got Two Dogs John Lithgow 26 pieces Knick Knack Paddy Whack 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Christiane Engel Move! Steve Jenkins and Robin Page On Top of Spaghetti Paul Brett Johnson The Seals on the Bus Lenny Hort
Numbers and Counting 10 Books: 1 Counting Cookies Game At the Edge of the Woods: 12 pieces A Counting Book Cynthia Cotten 1 cookie jar Big Fat Hen Keith Baker 1 cookie jar lid Museum 123 The Metropolitan 10 cookies Museum of Art 1 Music CD One Big Building: A Counting Book about Favorite ABCs & Counting Songs Construction Michael Dahl Baby Genius Raindrop, Plop! Wendy Lewison 1 Magnetic Birthday Cake Counting Ten in the Bed Jane Cabrera Game Ten Little Fish Audrey Wood 21 pieces Ten Little Sleepyheads 9 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Elizabeth Provost Two at the Zoo Danna Smith Zoo Animals 123 Rebecca Davis Pets 10 Books 1 Melissa and Doug Pet Cube Puzzle The Best Pet of All David LaRochelle 1 Music CD The Birthday Fish Dan Yaccarino Hap Palmer’s Early Childhood Classics DK Watch Me Grow Kitten Lisa Magloff 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Do You Still Love Me? Charlotte Middleton Ring Kitten’s First Full Moon Kevin Henkes Little Dog Poems Kristine O’Connell George Pets at the Vet Alyse Sweeny Unlovable Dan Yaccarino What Pet to Get? Emma Dodd Widget Lyn McFarland
Shapes and ABCs 10 Books: 1 Set of Alphabet Fish Around the Park: A Book about 54 foam pieces Circles Christianne C. Jones 2 lacing strings Chicka Chicka Boom Boom 1 Music CD Bill Martin Jr. Sesame Street Platinum All-Time Comparing Shapes: Spot the Shape Favorites Charlotte Guillain 9 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Creature ABC Andrew Zuckerman K Is for Kissing a Cool Kangaroo Giles Andreae LMNO Peas Keith Baker My Heart is Like a Zoo Michael Hall Shape by Shape Suse MacDonald Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC June Sobel Sleepy ABC Margaret Wise Brown
Silly Stories 10 Books: Underwear Do’s and Don’ts Bark, George Jules Feiffer Todd Parr Chickens to the Rescue Wide-Mouthed Frog John Himmelman Keith Faulkner Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That 1 Melissa & Doug Make Your Own Type Doreen Cronin Monster Puppet Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay up 30 pieces Late Mo Willems 1 Music CD Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song Mo Willems and Other Contagious Tunes No, David! David Shannon 1 Laminated Clown Craft Template No Such Thing 9 Laminated Activity Cards Jackie French Koller Silly Sally Audrey Wood Transportation 10 Books: 1 Fire Truck Floor Puzzle Carry Me! Animal Babies on the Move 1 Music CD Susan Stockdale Songs for Wiggleworms Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! 20 Laminated Shapes Mo Willems 20 Laminated “Tickets” I Love Trains! Philemon Sturges 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Mr. Gumpy’s Outing John Burningham Poetry in Motion Dee Lillegard Red Light, Green Light Anastasia Suen Sheep in a Jeep Nancy Shaw This Truck Paul Collicutt We All Go Traveling By Sheena Roberts The Wheels on the Bus Paul O. Zelinsky
Under Construction 10 Books: 1 My Workshop Tool Box B is for Bulldozer June Sobel 15 pieces Big Dig: A Pop-up Construction 1 Music CD Paul Stickland Here Comes the Big Red Car Building a House Byron Barton The Wiggles Digger Man Andrea Zimmerman 12 Laminated Tool Pictures Hush Little Digger Ellen Olson-Brown 1 Laminated Page of Tool Patterns I Want to Be a Builder Dan Liebman 6 Laminated Construction Vehicles Jack’s House Karen Magnuson Beil 9 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring One Big Building Michael Dahl Roadwork Sally Sutton Tip Tip Dig Dig Emma Garcia
Under the Sea 10 Books: 18 Wristband Streamers Dolphins Carol Lindeen 1 Music CD Hooray for Fish Lucy Cousins Wiggle Bay The Wiggles I’m the Biggest Thing in the Ocean 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Kevin Sherry Into the A B Sea Deborah Lee Rose The Ocean Is … Kathy Kranking Senses at the Seashore Shelley Rotner Shamoo A Whale of a Cow Ros Hil The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark Ken Geist Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea Jan Peck What the Sea Saw Stephanie St. Pierre Weather 10 Books: 1 Rain Stick If Frogs Made Weather 1 Music CD Marion Dane Bauer Weather-Twin Sisters It Looked Like Spilt Milk 1 Magnet Board: Charles Shaw “It Looked Like Spilt Milk” Raindrop Plop! 15 pieces Wendy Cheyette Lewison 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring Rainy Day! Patricia Lakin Snowballs Lois Ehlert The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats The Sun is My Favorite Star Frank Asch Who Likes Rain? Wong Herbert Yee Who Likes the Sun? Etta Kaner Who Likes the Wind? Etta Kaner
Zoo Animals 10 Books: Who Works at the Zoo? A Children’s Zoo Tana Hoban Alyse Sweeney Dear Zoo Rod Campbell Zoo Animals 1 2 3 Do Kangaroos Wear Seat Belts? Rebecca Fjelland Davis Jane Jurtz Zoo Animals ABC set Giant Pandas Up Close 26 Pieces with pop-out letters Carmen Bredeson 1 Music CD Giraffes Catherine Ipcizade Yummy Yummy The Wiggles Hello, Hello! Miriam Schlein 1 Magnet Board Monkey and Me Emily Gravett “There Was an Animal in the Zoo” Watch me Grow Ape Lisa Magloff 5 pieces 8 Laminated Activity Cards on a Ring
Salud y Nutricion 11 Libros: 34 Piezas magnéticas Dentista (My 1st adventures) Katie Kawa 1 CD (Música) Habitos saludables / Healthy Habits Muevete: Learn Spanish through Song (Pebble Plus Bilingual) Rebecca Weber and movement. Spanish Playtime Hola! Jalapeno Amy Wilson Sange 8 Tarjetas de actividades con aro Las Frutas Nancy Dickman Let’s Eat / A comer! Pat mora Mi cesta de comida / My food basket Libsa Mi cuerpo sano Bobbie Kalman Mi libro-puzle de comida Priddy Books My first trip to the Dentist / Mi primera visita al Dentista (My 1st adventures) Katie Kawa Nos gustan nuestros dientes Marcus Allsop Que sabroso arcoiris (Libro de comidas de colores) Maria Fiol So easy comida para ninos pequenos: Sugerencias y recetas sencillas Joan Ahlers
¡Tu Carácter Cuenta! 10 Libros: 12 KIMOCHIS Esta es mi familia Bobbie Kalman 1 CD (Música) Hacer amigos Cassie Mayer Un Mundo One World. David Kisor How Do I Feel / ¿Cómo me siento? 9 Tarjetas de actividades con aro American Heritage Dictionaries I’m just like my mom / Me parezco tanto a mi mama Jorge Ramos Mi familia y yo: Mi album personal Inc. Susaeta Publishing Muchas veces yo Barbara J. Neasi My family and I / Mi familia y yo Gladys Rosa-Mendoza Sentimientos Felicia Law ¡Sentimientos! (Coco y Tula) Patricia Geis Un amigo de veras maravilloso Suzanne Bloom