Book List

Preschool and Kindergarten-Ages 3,4, and 5

1. My Very First Mother Goose - Opie

2. Time for Bed - Mem Fox

                    3. Where’s Spot - Eric Hill

4. Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown

5. I CAN - Helen Oxenbury

6. Millions of Cats - Wanda Gag

7. The Three Bears - Rockwell

8. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle

9. Wheels on the Bus - Raffi

Bunny Cakes - Rosemary Wells

A Baby Sister for Frances - Russell Hoban

No David! - David Shannon

The Snowy Day - Ezra Jack Keats

Eating the Alphabet - Lois Ehlert

The Little House - Virginia Lee Burton

16. When You Were a Baby - Anne Jonas

10 Minutes Till Bedtime - Peggy Rathman

18. May I Bring a Friend? - Beatrice DeRegniers

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt - Rosen

Corduroy - Freeman

The Runaway Bunny - Margaret Wise Brown

Little Bear - Else Minarik

Ten, Nine, Eight - Molly Bang

Three Billy Goats Gruff - Marcia Brown

25. The Little Red Hen-Barton

26. The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrice Potter

The Gingerbread Man - Jan Brett

Primary-Ages 6 and 7

Sylvester and the Magic Stone - William Steig

2. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom - Bill Martin, Jr.

3. The Stories Julian Tells - Anne Cameron

4. Mary on Horseback - Rosemary Wells

5. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do you See? - Bill Martin, Jr.

6. My Puppy is Born - Cole

7. How My Parents Learned to Eat - Friedman

8. The Grouchy Ladybug - Eric Carle

9. Ox-cart Man - Donald Hall

When I was Young in the Mountains - Cynthia Rylant

Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak

Tops and Bottoms - Stevens

I Know An Old Lady - Simms Taback

Too Many Tamales - Soto

The Seven Silly Eaters - Mary Ann Hoberman

One Morning in Maine - Robert McCloskey

Ira Sleeps Over - Bernard Waber

My Rows and Piles of Coins - Mollei

A Chair For My Mother - Vera Williams

When Sophie Gets Angry - Molly Bang

The Mitten - Jan Brett (1999)

Mr. Grumpy’s Outing - John Burningham

The Very Busy Spider - Eric Carle

The Very Clumsy Click Beetle - Eric Carle

The Very Lonely Firefly - Eric Carle

The Very Quiet Cricket - Eric Carle

Jesse Bear, What Will you Wear? - Nancy Carlstrom

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed - Christelow

Maisy Goes to Bed - Cousins

Good dog Carl - Alexandra Day

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf - Lois Ehlert

The Three Bears - Paul Galdone

Is Your Mama a Lama? - Guarino

Where’s Spot - Eric Hill

36. 26 Letters and 99 Cents - Tana Hoban

Let’s Count - Tana Hoban

Miss Mary Mack - Mary Ann Hoberman

The Doorbell Rang - Pat Hutchins

40. Color Dance - Ann Jonas

The Wheels on the Bus - Kovalski

Whose Mouse are you? - Kraus

The Carrot Seed - Krauss

Pat the Bunny - Kunhardt

Alison’s Zinnia - Anita Lobel

On Market Street - Anita Lobel

Picnic - McCully

A Kiss for Little Bear - Else Minarik

Bread, Bread, Bread - Morris

Houses and Homes - Morris

Loving - Morris

My Very First Mother Goose - Iona Opie

Pretty Brown Face - Jerry Pinkney

One Potato: A Counting book of Potato prints - Pomeroy

10 Minutes Till bedtime - Peggy Rathman

We’re going on a Bear Hunt - William Rosen

The Three Billy Goats Gruff - Glen Rounds

The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss

Sheep in a Jeep! - Nancy Shaw

Caps for Sale - Esphyr Slobodkina

Naoh’s Ark - Peter Spier

Joseph had a Little Overcoat - Simms Taback

Early Morning in the Barn - Nancy Tafuri

Deep in the Forest - Brinton Turkle

Cookie’s Week - Ward

67. Tuesday - David Wiesner

The Napping House - Don Wood and Audrey Wood

The Wheels on the Bus - Paul Zelinsky

The Jolly Postman - Ahlberg

The Ugly Duckling - illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing - Judi Barrett

Madeline - Ludwig Bemelmans

Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown

The Wednesday Surprise - Eve Bunting

A River Ran Wild - Lynne Cherry

Sadko and the Thousand Paper Cranes - Coerr

Miss Rumphius - Barbara Cooney

Snowballs-Ehlert

80. The Village of Round and Square Houses-Grifalconi

Snow White- Grifalconi

Evan’s Corner-Hill

Amazing Grace-Hoffman

My Great-Aunt Arizona-Houston

Round Trip-Jonas

Goggles-Keats

Peter’s Chair-Keats

Frederick-Lionni

89. Little Blue and Little Yellow-Lionni

The Little Island-MacDonald

All the Places to Love-MacLachlan

George and Martha-Marshall

93. Snowflake Bentley- Martin

94. Blueberries for Sal-McCloskey

Annie and the Old One-Miles

Moses Goes to a Concert-Miles

The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash-Noble

How to Make Apple Pie and see the World-Priceman

99. Officer Buckle and Gloria-Rathman

100. Tea with Milk-Russo

101. The true Story of the Three Little Pigs-Scieszka

Horton Hatches the Egg- Dr. Suess

The Polar Express- Van Allsburg

104. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day-Viorst

The House on East 88th Street-Waber

Our Granny-Wild

 

Middle Elementary-Ages 8 and 9

1. Ramona’s World-Cleary

2. Finding Out About Whales-Kelsey

3. Sarah, Plain, and Tall-MacLachlan

4. Owen Foote, Soccer Star- Greene

5. Molly’s Pilgrim-Cohen

6. Danny, the Champion of the World - Dahl

7. Stone Fox - Gardiner

8. Skinnybones - Barbara Park

9. Cam Jansen and the Catnapping Mystery - Adler

10. Ramona Forever - Beverly Cleary

Horrible Harry Moves up to Third Grade - Kline

The Magic Schoolbus - Joanna Cole

13. Destination Rainforest - Grupper

The Little Match Girl - Hans C. Andersen (illus. By Pinkney)

15. The Steadfast Tin Soldier - Anderson

Mr. Popper’s Penguins - Peggy Atwater

The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks

18. The Wizard of Oz - Frank Baum

19. A Bear Called Paddington - Michael Bond

20. The Enormous Egg - Butterworth

21. The Mouse and the Motorcycle - Beverly Clearly

22. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

23. The Twenty-one Balloons - William Pene DuBois

24. The Whipping Boy - Sid Fleischman

25. The Wind in the Willows - Grahame

26. Rumpelstilskin - Grimm Brothers

27. Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story - Mary Hahn

28. Martin the Warrior - Jacques

29. Redwall - Jacques

The Phantom Tollbooth - Juster

Rabbit Hill - Robert Lawson

33. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis

Pippi Goes on Board - Astrid Lindgren

35. The Giver - Lois Lowry

The House at Pooh Corner - A.A. Milne

37. I’ll meet you at the Cucumbers - Moore

38. The Borrowers - Mary Norton

39. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling

40. The Cricket in Times Square - William Selden

41. Many Moons - James Thurber

The Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

 

 

Later Elementary -Ages 10 and 11

1. Llama in the Library-Hurwitz

2. Heaven-Johnson

3. Dicey’s Song-Voigt

4. Our Only May Amelia-Holm

Hatchet- Paulson

6. Monkey Island-Fox

7. Shades of Grey-Reeder

8. Jip: His Story-Paterson

Shiloh-Naylor

10. Number of the Stars-Lowery

11. Tuck Everlasting-Babbitt