There’s a Hole in This Picture Book!: Stories with Die-Cut PagesLike this list

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• You Are Light

  Becker, Aaron, 1974-

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  In this poetic book about the sun, each of the twelve holes in every page holds a circle of tinted plastic. Every turn of the page results in a new combination of sparkling color.

• Night Light

  Blechman, Nicholas,

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  Count the number of lights through the holes in the page, then find out which vehicle they belong to, from the single big headlight of a train to the ten lights of a tank truck on an airfield.

• Animalphabet

  Donaldson, Julia,

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  Clever comparisons, surprising die-cuts, and fold-out pages lead us through an alphabet of animals, from a small (but not fancy) Ant to a striped (but not small) Zebra.

• Color Zoo

  Ehlert, Lois,

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  Cut-out shapes and bright colors form zoo animals that change with each page turn. Take away the triangle and an ox becomes a monkey; remove an oval...now it’s a deer!

• Go Away, Big Green Monster!

  Emberley, Ed

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  Build a monster with each turn of the page, from its two big yellow eyes to a big green scary face! Then use more page-turns to make that monster go away, one piece at a time.

• Apples and Robins

  Félix, Lucie,

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  Different combinations of die-cut shapes change the pictures and tell a story about a robin, some apples, a ladder, a birdhouse, a storm...and finally a newborn baby bird.

• Mister Kitty Is Lost!

  Pizzoli, Greg,

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  Mister Kitty is hiding in the book. Find him by going through the holes in the page that show spots, paws, bells, eyes, and a nose. When they finally lead you to Mister Kitty, though, you might be surprised at what you find.

• Black? White! Day? Night!

  a Book of Opposites

  Seeger, Laura Vaccaro

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  Lift a die-cut page to see how one picture turns into its opposite. The black wings of a bat become the smile of a white ghost; and a “tiny” ladybug transforms into the eye of a “huge” elephant!

• Lemons Are Not Red

  Seeger, Laura Vaccaro,

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  A tricky color book. When you see a red lemon, just turn the die-cut page to see something that really should be red (an apple)...and also a new lemon, but this time it’s the right color (yellow).

• Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

  He Wore the Coat for a Long Time and Then Something Happened to It (and There's a Moral, Too!)

  Taback, Simms

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  In this Caldecott Medal winning picture book, the holes in the page show how a tailor turns his overcoat into a jacket, a vest, and increasingly smaller, but always useful articles of clothing.

• Moon

  a Peek-through Picture Book

  Teckentrup, Britta,

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  As animals from around the world look at the moon in the night sky, you can watch it change phases from crescent to full moon and back again by turning the die-cut pages.

• In My Heart

  a Book of Feelings

  Witek, Jo, 1968-

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  In this book about feelings, the big cut-out heart in the middle changes each time you turn the page and think about a different emotion.