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Circle Time Books: First Concepts

Good books for circle time, recommended by children's librarians at Burnaby Public Library. This list includes books about the alphabet, counting, colours and colour mixing, shapes, opposites, size and comparing, days of the week, and types of words. Do you have questions? Need more ideas? We can help! Call 604-436-5400, email kids@bpl.bc.ca or talk with us at the library

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77 items

  • Toddlers and 3 to 5 - Food and colours
    BookToronto, Ontario, Canada : Pajama Press, 2024. — j591.54 Whi
  • 3 to 5 — Alphabet
    BookHawthorn, VIC : Lake Press, 2024. — j421.1 Tay
  • 3 to 5 — Patterns
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2024] — je Snyd
  • 3 to 5 — Colour mixing
    BookTulsa, OK : Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Publishing, 2023. — je Dias
  • Ten Blocks to the Big Wok

    a Chinatown Counting Book = Man Bu Shi Tiao Jie Dao Dadingfu : Hua Ren Jie Shu Shu Tu Shu

    Hu, Ying-Hwa
    3 to 5 — Counting
    BookNew York : Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, [2022] — KIDS CHI PIC HuYi
  • 3 to 5 — Colours
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — je Elli
  • Black

    the Many Wonders of My World

    James, Nancy Johnson
    3 to 5 — Colours
    BookPetaluma, California : Cameron Kids, 2022. — je Jame
  • 3 to 5 — Position words, words that describe things (adjectives), and where we are in the world
    BookGreenbelt, Maryland : What on Earth Publishing, 2022. — je Rohd
  • Toddlers and 3 to 5 — Counting
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2021. — je Norm
  • 3 to 5 — Counting
    BookMission Viejo, CA : Happy Yak, an imprint of The Quarto Group, 2021. — je Lewi
  • Toddlers and 3 to 5 — Shapes, colours
    BookVictoria, Australia : Berbay Publishing, 2021. — j535.6 Can
  • 3 to 5 — Counting
    BookWest Concord, MA : Barefoot Books, 2021. — je YinK
  • Cat & Dog

    a Tale of Opposites

    Corda, Tullio
    3 to 5 — Opposites
    BookBrooklyn : Red Comet Press, 2021. — je Cord
  • Toddlers and 3 to 5 — Counting, shapes
    BookWatertown, MA : Charlesbridge Publishing, [2021] — je OBri
  • 3 to 5 — Position words
    Book[New York] : Hyperion Books for Children, 2021. — jer Tsur
  • 3 to 5 — Counting, adding
    BookConcord, MA : Barefoot Books, 2021. — 641.815 Sri