Picture books for children in  preschool—second grade.
Unless otherwise noted, all books are located in the picture book section arranged by the author's last name.

Manners / Aliki 

This little piggy's book of manners  / Kathryn Madeline Allen  

The Berenstain Bears forget their manners / Stan & Jan Berenstain -  j E-pb B paperback 

Are you going to be good? / Cari Best  

Piggy Monday : a tale about manners / Suzanne Bloom 

Clifford's manners / Norman Bridwell  /  j E-pb B  paperback 

D.W.'s guide to perfect manners / Marc Brown 

Perfect pigs : an introduction to manners / Marc Brown  

It's a spoon, not a shovel / Caralyn Buehner  

Goops and how to be them; a manual of manners for polite infants inculcating many juvenile virtues both by precept and example  / Gelett Burgess   

Kitty Princess and the newspaper dress / Emma Carlow  

The bad good manners book / Babette Cole   

Lady Lupin's book of etiquette / Babette Cole 

Mary Louise loses her manners / Diane Cuneo  

Please say please! : Penguin's guide to manners  / Margery Cuyler  

Dora's book of manners /  Christine Ricci   (j Ea DORA ;  also paperback—j E-pb D) 

Nobunny's perfect / Anna Dewdney 

Dear Miss Perfect : a beast's guide to proper behavior /  Sandra Dutton (j DUTTON– older fiction) 

Rude mule / Pamela Duncan Edwards  

Don't forget your etiquette! : the essential guide to misbehavior / Dave Greenberg   (j 811 Gre) 

Bessie's bed /  Terry Webb Harshman (j Er HARSHMAN –beginning reader) 

Dinner at Alberta's / Russell Hoban  

Please is a good word to say / Barbara Joosse  

What do you do, dear? Proper conduct for all occasions/ Sesyle Joslin. (j E-pb J - paperback) 

What do you say, dear? / Sesyle Joslin 

Do unto otters : (a book about manners) /  Laurie Keller

Excuse me!  / Lisa Kopelke 

Tissue, please! /  Lisa Kopelke 

Rules of the wild : an unruly book of manners / Bridget Levin  

When Elephant goes to a party  / Sonia Levitin  

When Kangaroo Goes to School / Sonia Levitin 

The Scallywags / David Melling 

Table manners : the edifying story of two friends whose discovery of good manners promises them a glorious future / Vladimir Radunsky & Chris Raschka  

I want my dinner / Tony Ross 

Richard Scarry's please and thank you book / Richard Scarry (also paperback j E-pb S) 

Emily's sharing and caring book /  Cindy Post Senning  

Mind your manners, B.B. Wolf  /  Judy Sierra  

Excuse me! Certainly! / Louis Slobodkin 

Ahoyty-toyty / Helen Stephens 

Patsy says / Leslie Tryon 

Words are not for hurting / Elizabeth Verdick   j T VERDICK - Toddler Book 

What a good lunch! / Shigeo Watanabe j T WATANABE - Toddler book

Yes, please! : No, thank you! / Valerie Wheeler  

Time to say "please"! /  Mo Willems 

Big Black Bear / Wong Herbert Yee 

How do dinosaurs eat their food? / Jane Yolen 

Someday we'll have very good manners / Harriet Ziefert  

Do I have to say hello? : Aunt Delia's manners quiz for kids and their grownups
/ Delia Ephron  /  j 817 Eph

Videocassettes:

 It's just good manners     j VC 395 Its  

Look mom! I have good manners     j VC 395 Loo  

Table manners for kids: tots to teens       j VC 395 Ste 

 *Look for non-fiction books about etiquette under this call number 
in the juvenile non-fiction collection: j 395.

Selected titles: 

365 manners kids should know : games, activities, and other fun ways to help children learn etiquette /  Sheryl Eberly  / j 395 Ebe 

Mind your manners! / Diane Goode / j 395 Goo 

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