Recommended Reading List

Level 7A
Barnyard Banter – Denise Fleming
Each Peach Pear Plum – Janet and Allen Ahlberg
Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
Here Are My Hands – Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
I Heard a Little Baa – Elizabeth MacLeod
Playtime Rhymes – Priscilla Lamont
Quick as a Cricket – Audrey Wood
Three Little Kittens – retold by Pail Galdone
Where’s My Teddy? – Jez Alborough
Whose Mouse Are You? – Robert Kraus
All the colors of the Earth – Sheila Hamanaka
Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing – Judi Barrett
Have You Seen My Duckling? – Nancy Tafuri
Lunch – Denise Fleming
The Carrot Seed – Ruth Krauss
The Napping House – Audrey Wood
On Market Street – Arnold Lobel
Ten Black Dots – Donald Crews
Ten Terrible Dinosaurs – Paul Stickland
Level 6A
Hop on Pop – Dr. Seuss
Jessie Bear, What Will You Wear? – Nancy White Carlstrom
Eating the Alphabet, Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z – Lois Ehlert
Bears in Pairs – Niki Yekai
Big Red Barn – Margaret Wise Brown
Noisy Nora – Rosemary Wells
Sheep in a Jeep – Nancy Shaw
Silly Sally – Audrey Wood
What’s What?: a guessing game – Mary Serfozo
Angus and the Cat – Marjorie Flack
Chili-Chili-Chin-Chin – Belle Yang
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – Laura Numeroff
Alligators All-Around – Maurice Sendak
Feast for 10 – Cathryn Falwell
One Was Johnny: A Counting Book – Maurice Sendak
Ten Nine Eight – Molly Bang
Harold and the Purple Crayon – Crockett Johnson
A Beautiful Feast for a Big King Cat – John Archambault and Bill Martin Jr.
Mr. Grumpy’s Outing – John Burningham
Guess How Much I Love You – Sam McBratney
Level 5A
Mean Soup – Betsy Everitt
The Doorbell Rang – Pat Hutchins
What do you do with a Kangaroo? – Mercer Mayer
Yoko – Rosemary Wells
My Very First Mother Goose – Edited by Iona Opie
A Rainbow of My Own – Don Freeman
The Listening Walk – Paul Showers
The Little Red Hen – retold by Paul Galdone
The Runaway Bunny – Margaret Wise Brown
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – Michael Rosen
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom – Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
Old Black Fly – Jim Aylesworth
One Hundred is a Family – Pam Munoz Ryan
So Many Bunnies: A Bedtime ABC and Counting Book – Rick Walton
Harry the Dirty Dog – Gene Zion
The Gigantic Turnip – Aleksei Tolstoy
Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss
Smiss Spider’s Tea Party – David Kirk
Ask Mr. Bear – Marjorie Flack
The Treasure – Uri Shulevitz
Level 4A
Henny Penny – retold by Paul Galdone
Alphabears an ABC Book – Kathleen Hague
Bat Jamboree – Kathi Appelt
Curious George – H.A. Rey
Make Way for Ducklings – Robert McCloskey
Millions of Cats – Wanda Gag
Stone Soup – Marcia Brown
The Three Billy Goats Gruff – P.C. Asbjornsen and J.E. Moe
Tikki Tikki Tembo – retold by Arlene Mosel
A House is a House for Me – Mary ann Hoberman
Chicken Soup with Rice – Maurice Sendak
Fireman Small – Wong Herbert Yee
Mother Goose Math – selected by Harriet Ziefert
Possum Come A-Knockin’ – Nancy Van Laan
The House the Jack Built – Jeanette Winter
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout! – Teri Sloat
Daddy, Could I Have an Elephant? – Jake Wolf
Sheila Rae the Brave Kevin Henkes
The Empty Pot – Demi
Too Much Noise – Ann McGovern
Level 3A
My Name is Alice – Jane Bayer
Each Orange Had 8 Slices: A Counting Book – Paul Giganti
Sea Squares – Joy N. Hulme
Bread and Jam for Frances – Russell Hoban
Little Bear – Else Homelund Minarik
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile – Bernard Waber
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel – Virginia Lee Burton
Ming Lo Moves the Mountain – Arnold Lobel
Strega Nona – Tomie dePaola
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – William Steig
The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant – Jean de Brunhoff
The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter
A Giraffe and a Half – Shel Silverstein
Horton Hatches the Egg – Dr. Seuss
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present – Charlotte Zolotow
One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale – Demi
Six-Dinner Sid – Inga Moore
The Salamander Room – Anne Mazer
Umbrella – Taro Yashima
Why Rat Comes First, A Story of the Chinese Zodiac – retold by Clara Yen
Level 2A
The Chick and the Duckling – Mirra Ginsburg
Moonbear’s Skyfire – Frank Asch
The Easy-to-Read Little Engine That Could – Watty Piper
The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle
Jump, Frog, Jump! – Robert Kalan
The Cat in the Hat – Dr. Seuss
Clifford, the Big Red Dog – Norman Bridwell
Farmer Duck – Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury
Herman the Helper – Robert Kraus
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? – Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
The Snowy Day – Ezra Jack Keats
The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein