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