These books are examples of stories that make use of familiar sequences, such as days of the weeks, months of the year, and sequences of numbers.
"Predictable books are those which, by virtue of the book's pattern, children can successfully anticipate the next word or next sentence. Their predictability encourages participation and engages children's minds. Often, these books make heavy use of rhyme or repetition." - Ready for Reading (Juvenile Parent/Teacher Resource Room - J 372.58 Bi)
A kitten peeks at January, toys with February, stalks March, and eventually sniffs November and dreams December as it grows into a cat through the course of a year.
Each month of the year brings different activities for a young girl, including catching snowflakes in January, planting a seed in May, and calling to geese in September.
January to December, anytime is the right time to eat chicken soup with rice.
Little Mouse is busy helping his family five days of the week, but he gets to play with them on weekends.
Cookie the cat gets into a different kind of mischief every day of the week.
A short verse for each month of the year encourages the reader to find objects hidden in the pictures that depict that month's activities, such as ear muffs and pine trees in January, or scooters and a picnic bench in June.
A rhyming countdown of the days of the week as a father and child find ways to spend time together while waiting for the weekend.
Rhymes personify the months such as shy November, lazy February, frisky March, and silly May.
Clocks play a prominent role in the busy day that a hedgehog, duck, elephant, and pig spend with Uncle John.
Each day of the week brings a new food, until on Sunday all the world's children can come and eat it up.
Lena Katz creates hats appropriate for each month of the year.
Invites the reader to count the inhabitants of a garden, from one to ten, such as four bunnies and nine inchworms.
Ten hungry mice set out on a mission to find some food, facing hazards and dangers along the way.
A counting story in which a boy visits his farmyard friends, from one brown foal to six yellow puppies.
Readers learn about numbers and colors as a lively kitten visits the barnyard asking mother animals about their babies.
Mother animals instruct their little ones to stretch, scratch, or snuggle as the reader counts the babies while wandering through farm, forest, and fields.
One frog, two owls, three geese are joined by increasingly larger numbers of different animals that keep ten campers from falling asleep in their tent.
A young girl and her dog find many things to count on a rainy day, both as they play outside and after they come home to a warm, dry house.
Ten birds are trying to figure out how to get to the other side of the river. Will the simplest solution be the best?
A counting book which shows what can be done with ten black dots--one can make a sun, two a fox's eyes, or eight the wheels of a train.
One by one, ten little monsters appear and then disappear from the page.
Numbers from ten to one are part of this lullaby which observes the room of a little girl going to bed.
Ten instruments take their parts one by one in a musical performance.
