Books! Books! Books!

These are just a few of the many thousands of wonderful books written for children.
They are grouped by genre (categories of books).

Please note: Check websites like www.cbcbooks.org , www.reading.org/resources/tools/parent.html, and your local library for many more suggestions of excellent books to read to your child. There are also many booklists within the website section of this document. Many are also grouped by age/grade level. When you visit the library, be sure to let your child select books that interest him/her and have one or two that you choose to read for a specific purpose such as to extend learning in the classroom, an important event in your lives like a new baby, a family reunion, vacation destination, lost tooth. . .

Books! Books! Books! sections include: (click to view the section)

ABC and Rhyming Books

Picture Books

Informational Books/ Non-fiction

Circular

Fairy Tales

Poetry

ABC and Rhyming Books

Boynton, S. Rhinoceros Tap and 14 Other Seriously Silly Songs

Cleary, B. Hullabaloo ABC

Clements, A. Double-Trouble in Walla-Walla

Dealey, E. Goldie Locks has Chicken Pox

DeRolf, S. The Crayon Box That Talked

Ehlert, L. Nuts to You !

Fox, M. Boo to a Goose !

Greene, R. Barnyard Song

Grossman, B. My Sister Ate One Hare

Guarino, D. Is Your Mama A Llama ?

Hague, K. Ten Little Bears

Hoberman, M.A. Miss Mary Mack

Hoberman, M.A. Eency-Weency Spider

Hutchins, P. Don't Forget the Bacon

Jackson , A. If the Shoe Fits

Jackson , A. I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie

Katz, A. take me out of the bathtub and other silly dilly songs

Kirk, D. Miss Spider's ABC

Kuon, V. Humpty Dumpty After the Fall (for older children)

Laidlaw, K. The Amazing I Spy ABC

Lass, B. Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar ?

Martin, B. The Happy Hippopotami

Martin, B. & Carle, E. Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear ?

Miranda, A. Pignic: An Alphabet Book in Rhyme

Most, B. Cock-a-Doodle Moo !

Nikola-Lisa, W. Shake Dem Halloween Bones

Parks, B. Who's in the Shed ? (Rigby)

Philpot, L. & G. Amazing Anthony Ant

Pilkey, D. Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving

Raffi Down by the Bay

Riley, L. Mouse Mess

Root, P. One Duck Stuck

Sathre, V. Three Kind Mice

Seeley, L. The Book of Shadow Boxes

Seuss, Dr. Dr. Seuss's ABC

Seuss (Most Seuss titles)

Shields, C. Lunch Money and Other Poems About School

Slate, J. Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten

Showers, P. The Listening Walk

Simmonds, P. F-Freezing ABC

Stevens, J. And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon

Stickland, P. Ten Terrible Dinosaurs

Trussell-Cullen, A. Little Puppy Rap (Wright Group-Sunshine)

Vaughan , M. We're Going on a Ghost Hunt

Wattenberg, J. Henny-Penny

Weeks, S. Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash

Wood, A. Alphabet Adventure

Yolen, J. Off We Go !

Ziefert, H. & Brown, H. What Rhymes with Eel ?

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Picture Books

Abercrombie, B. Charlie Anderson

Baylor, B. I'm in Charge of Celebrations

Brett, Jan The Mitten

Brown, M. W. The Important Book

Brown, M. Arthur Writes a Story

Brumbeau, Jeff The Quiltmaker's Gift

Bruss, Deborah Book ! Book ! Book !

Bunting, Eve I Don't Want to Go to Camp

Carle, Eric The Very Hungry Caterpillar

All titles by Eric Carle

Cherry, L. The River Ran Wild

Child, Lauren I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed

Christian, P. If You Find a Rock

Cooney, B. Miss Rumphius

Cortes & Leathers My Annoying Little Brother

Crews, D. Bigmama's

All titles by Donald Crews

Dealey, Erin Goldie Locks Has Chicken Pox

DePaola, T. The Art Lesson

Eastman, P.D. Are You My Mother?

Falconer, Ian Olivia

Fleming, Denise Lunch

Fox, Mem Koala Lou

Fox, M. Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

Gray, L. M. My Mama Had a Dancing Heart

Greenfield , E. Honey, I Love

Harper, Jo Outrageous, Bodacious Boliver Boggs

Hazen, B. S. Tight Times

Henkes, Kevin Julius, The Baby of the World

Henkes, K. Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

Hesse, K. Come on Rain!

Hoffman, M. Amazing Grace

Hoose, Phillip and Hannah Hey, Little Ant

Houston, G. My Great Aunt Arizona

Johnson, Angela Do Like Kyla

All titles by Angela Johnson

Kellogg, Steven A-Hunting We Will Go

Kraus, Robert Leo the Late Bloomer

Kroll, Steven Patches Lost and Found

Lesser, C. The Goodnight Circle

Lester, H. Author: A True Story

London , Jonathan Dream Weaver

London , Jonathan Wiggle Waggle

Lovell, Patty Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

MacLachlan, P. All the Places to Love

MacLachlan, P. Through Grandpa's Eyes

MacLachlan, P. Sarah, Plain and Tall

Markes, Julie Good Thing You're Not An Octopus

Martin, B. Knots on a Counting Rope

Martin, Bill & Carle, E. Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear ?

Mayer, Mercer There's a Nightmare in my Closet

McKissack, P. Flossie and the Fox

Medearis, A. S. Poppa's New Pants

Mitton, Tony Down By the Cool of the Pool

Moss, T. I Want To Be

Nixon, J. L. If I Were a Writer

Park, B. Junie B. Jones series

Paulsen, G. The Tortilla Factory

Pilkey, G. The Paperboy

Polacco, Patricia The Bee Tree

Polacco, Patricia Chicken Sunday

Polacco, Patricia Mrs. Katz and Tush

Polacco, Patricia My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother

Rathman, Peggy Good Night Gorilla

Ringgold, F. Tar Beach

Rylant, Cynthia The Relatives Came

Rylant, Cynthia The Old Woman Who Named Things

Rylant, Cynthia The Wonderful Happens

Rylant, Cynthia When I was Young in the Mountains

Rylant, Cynthia Scarecrow

Rylant, Cynthia In November

Rylant, Cynthia Night in the Country

Say, A. Grandfather's Journey

Schulevitz, U. Snow

Showers, P. The Listening Walk

Spier, Peter Oh Were They Ever Happy

Steig, W. Amos and Boris

Stevens, Janet Tops and Bottoms

Tafuri, Nancy I Love You Little One

Tarpley, Natasha I Love My Hair !

Tirabosco, T. At the Same Time

Tobias, T. Serendipity

Tusa, Tricia Bunnies In My Head

Viorst, Judith Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Viorst, Judith I'll Fix Anthony

Wood, R. Quick as A Cricket

Waddell, Martin Owl Babies

Wild, Margaret Our Granny

Wood, Audrey The Napping House

Yashima, T. Crow Boy

Yolen, Jane Miz Berlin Walks

Yolen, Jane Owl Moon

Yolen, Jane Off We Go !

Ziefert, H. 39 Uses for a Friend

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Informational Books/ Non-fiction

Barner, Bob Dem Bones

Bustard, Anne T is for Texas

Cole, Henry Jack's Garden

Cowley, Joy Red- Eyed Tree Frog

Ehlert, Lois Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf

Marshall, Janet A Honey of a Day

Miller, Margaret Who Uses This ?

Ryder, Joann Each Living Thing

Sweeney, Joan Me on the Map

Tafuri, Nancy What the Sun Sees

Willis, Jeanne What Did I Look Like When I Was A Baby ?

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Circular (the story ends where it began)

Numeroff, Laura If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

If You Give a Pig a Pancake

If You Take a Mouse to the Movies

If You Take a Mouse to School

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Fairy Tales (Look for different versions)

Barton, Byron The Little Red Hen

Brett, J. Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Sturges, Philemon The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza)

Barton, Byron The Three Bears

Marshall , James Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Stanley, Diane Goldie and the Three Bears

Scieszka, J. The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

Tolhurst, Marilyn Somebody and the Three Blairs

MacDonald, Alan Beware of the Bears

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Poetry

Hoberman, Mary Ann You Read to Me and I'll Read to You

de Regniers, Beatrice Schenk (selected by) Sing a Song of Popcorn

Shields, Carol Lunch Money

Yolen, Jane Dinosaur Dances

Katx, Alan take me out of the bathtub (and other silly dilly songs)

Hopkins, Lee Bennett

Prelutsky, Jack

Silverstein, Shel

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