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Picture Books ● Life on Mars (Agee) Also by this author: Lion Lessons, Terrific, and Nothing ● Thunder Boy Junior (Alexie) ● Miss Nelson is Missing (Allard) ● Charlotte the Scientist Is Squished (Andros) ● Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (Barnett) Also by this author: President Taft Is Stuck in the Bath, Chloe and the Lion, Extra Yarn, The Magic Word, and Count the Monkeys● Ada Twist, Scientist (Beatty) Also by this author: Iggy Peck, Architect and Rosie Revere, Engineer ● Lighthouse (Blackall) ● The Yellow Tutu (Bramsen) ● Violet the Pilot (Breen) ● Honey, Honey, Lion: A Story from Africa (Brett) Also by this author: Armadillo Rodeo, The Mitten, Hedgie Takes Off, and Mossy. ● Mr. Tiger Goes Wild (Brown) Also by this author: Children Make Terrible Pets, Will You Be My Friend, and The Curious Garden ● Uptown (Bryan) ● Princess Peepers (Calvert) ● Stellaluna (Cannon) Also by this author: Verdi and Pinduli ● Jack and the Beanstalk (Cech) Also retold by this author: The Princess and the Pea, Puss in Boots, and Twelve Dancing Princesses. ● Big Cat Little Cat (Cooper) ● The Ring Bearer (Cooper) ● Dooby, Dooby Moo (Cronin) Also by this author: Click, Clack Moo, Diary of a Worm, and Duck for President ● Prudence Wants a Pet (Daly) ● The Day the Crayons Quit (Daywalt) Also by this author: The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors ● The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet (Deedy) ● Big Anthony and the Magic Ring (de Poala) Also by this author: Bill and Pete, Strega Nona, The Art Lesson, and Legend of the Blue Bonnet. ● Everyone Loves Bacon (DiPucchio) Also by this author: Gaston, Grace for President and Dragon Was Terrible
● The Snathcabook (Docherty) ● The Gruffalo (Donaldson) Also by this author: Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale, and Stickman. ● Du Iz Tak? (Ellis) ● Buster Goes to Cowboy Camp (Fleming) ● Clever Jack Takes the Cake (FLeming) ● Stolen Words (Florence) ● My Name Is Not Isabella (Fosberry) ● Henny Penny (French) ● How to Talk to Your Dog (George) ● We Forgot Brock (Goodrich) Also by this author: The Hermit Crab and Zorro Gets an Outfit ● Traction Man Is Here! (Grey) ● Cupcake (Harper) ● Nobody Likes a Goblin (Hatke) ● Wemberly Worried (Henkes) Also by this author: Chrysanthemum, Lilly’s Purple, Plastic Purse, Owen, Chester’s Way and Jessica. ● Julia’s House for Lost Creatures (Hatke) Also by this author: Little Robot (Graphic Novel) ● The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Hennessy) ● You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together (Hoberman) ● Princess Grace (Hoffman) ● Stuck (Jeffers) Also by this author: Imaginary Fred, Once Upon an Alphabet, the Way Back Home, and The Heart and the Bottle. ● First Grade Here I Come (Johnston) ● Betty Bunny Wants Everything (Kaplan) ● Pet Show! (Keats) ● Farfallina and Marcel (Keller) ● Arnie the Doughnut (Keller) Also by this author: The Scrambled States of America. ● Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock (Kimmel) Also by this author: Anansi stories ● I Want My Hat Back (Klassen)
● Library Lion (Knudsen) ● Black Rabbit (Leathers) ● Pete the Cat: I Like My White Shoes (Litwin) ● Otis (Long) ● How I Became a Pirate (Long) ● Miss Lina’s Ballerinas (Maccarone) ● Hinky Pink: An Old Tale (MacDonald) ● Listen to Our World (Martin) ● Jeremy Draws a Monster (McCarty) ● Me… Jane (McDonnell) ● Elmer (McKee) ● Tia Isa Wants a Car (Medina) Also by this author: Mango, Abula and Me ● Tabitha’s Terrifically Tough Tooth (Middleton) ● Lucky Ducklings (Moore) ● Nino Wrestles the World (Morales) Also by this author: Rudas: Nino's Horrendous Hermanitas ● The Paper Bag Princess (Munsch) Also by this author: Up, Up, Down; I Have to Go!; and Aaron’s Hair ● The Crossing (Napoli) ● Raising Dragon (Nolen) ● Xander’s Panda Party by Linda Sue Park ● Long Shot: Never Too Small to Dream Big (Paul) ● I Don’t Want to Be a Frog (Petty) ● The Ugly Duckling (Pinkney) Also by this author: The Grasshopper and the Ants, The Three Little Kittens, and The Tortoise and the Hair. ● The Bee Tree (Polacco) Also by this author: Ginger and Petunia ● The Beatrix Potter Treasury (Potter) ● This is My Dollhouse (Potter) ● Yo! Yes? (Raschka) Also by this author: A Ball for Daisy and Hello Window, Goodbye Window ● Officer Buckle and Gloria (Rathmann) ● Light Up the Night (Reidy) ● School’s First Day of School (Rex) ● The Stone Thrower (Richardson) ● My Best Friend (Rodman)
● Uni the Unicorn (Rosenthal) Also by this author: Little Pea, One of those Days, Yes Day!, Duck Rabbit, Little Oink and Little Hoot ● After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Gpt Back Up Again (Santat) Also by this author: The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend ● Where’s Walrus (Savage) ● Bedtime Monsters (Schneider) ● Too Many Toys (Shannon) Also by this author: No David, Alice the Fairy and A Bad Case of the Stripes ● Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great (Shea) Also by this author: Ballet Cat and the Totally Secret Secret, I Will Chomp You, Cheetah Can’t Lose and Oh Daddy! ● Wild about Books (Sierra) Also by this author: Wild About You, Zoozical, Monster Goose, Born to Read, and Tell the Truth B. B. Wolf ● Grandpa Green (Smith) Also by this author: It’s a Little Book, Madame President, and John, George & Ben ● Little Mouse Gets Ready (Smith) Graphic Novel ● Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy (Soman) Also by this author: Ladybug Girl books and Three Bears in a Boat ● The Most Magnificent Thing (Spires) • A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Stead) Also by this author: Ruby, Lenny and Lucy, Ideas Are All Around, and Sebastian’s Balloon ● Interrupting Chicken (Stein) Also by this author: Love, Mousarella, I’m My Own Dog, and Ol’ Mama Squirrel ● Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (Steptoe) ● The Great Fuzz Frenzy (Stevens) Also by this author: Help Me Mr. Mutt, Jackelope and The Dish Ran Away from the Spoon ● Rubia and the Three Osos (Sweet) ● Nimoshom and His Bus (Thomas) ● The Faraway Fox (Thompson) ● Chalk (Thompson) ● The Three Little Wolves and the Big, Bad Pig (Trivizas) ● The Part-Time Princess (Underwood) ● The Cazeula that the Farm Maiden Stirred (Vamos) ● Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Viorst) ● Scaredy Squirrel (Watt)
● Glamourpuss (Weeks) ● They All Saw a Cat (Wenzel) Also by this author: Life ● Flotsam (Wiesner) Also by this author: Mr. Wuffles, Tuesday, Sector 7 ● Falling for Rapunzel (Wilcox) ● Harry and Hopper (Wild) ● Are You Ready to Play Outside? (Piggie & Gerald) (Willems) ● Don’t Let the Pigeon drive the Bus (Willems) ● Tap- Tap (Williams) Also by this author: Galimoto, Four Feet, Two Sandals, and My Name Is Sangoel. ● The Flying Dragon Room (Wood) ● Pecan Pie Baby (Woodson) ● Rapunzel (Zelinksy) Also by this author: Rumpelstiltskin
Chapter Books and Readers ● Don’t Throw It to Mo by David Adler ● Hi Fly Guy (Fly Guy series) (Arnold) When Buzz captures a fly to enter in The ● The Sleepover (Ribbit and Robot) (Bell) ● Biscuit (Capucilli) ● Short and Tall (Cork and Fuzz series) (Chaconas) ● Pete’s Big Lunch (Pete the Cat) (Dean) ● Mercy Watson Something Wonky this Way Comes (Mercy Watson series) (DiCamillo) ● Princess Posey and the First Grade Parade (Princess Posey seres) (Greene) ● Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow (Griffiths) ● Bramble and Maggie Horse Meets Girl (Bramble and Maggie series) (Haas) ● Penny and Her Song (Penny series) (Henkes) ● Houndsley & Catina series (Howe) ● Ling and Ting Not Exactly the Same (Ling and Ting series) (Lin) ● Frog and Toad Together (Lobel) ● Pigsticks and Harold and the Incredible Journey (Milway) ● Little Bear (Minarik) ● Annie and Simon (O’Neill) ● Aggie and Ben: Three Stories (Aggie & Ben series) (Ries)
● Henry and Mudge: the First Book of Their Adventures (Rylant) Also by this author: Mr. Putter & Tabby and High Rise Private Eyes ● Tales for Very Picky Eaters (Schneider) ● Nate the Great series (Sharmat) ● Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa series (Silverman) ● Good night, Good Knight (Good Knight series) (Thomas) ● Pip Squeak (Weeks) (Baa Choo!; Mac & Cheese; Drip, Drop) ● Upstairs Mouse, Downstairs Mole (Mouse and Mole series) (Yee)
Non-fiction ● All About Frogs (Arnosky; from his All About… series) ● A Seal Named Patches (Beltran) ● Little Devils (Blake) ● Seahorse: the Shyest Fish (Butterworth) ● A Friend for Einstein: The Smallest Stallion (Cantrell) ● A Little Book of Sloth (Cooke) ● Farm (Cooper) ● Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas (Cox) ● Color (Doran) ● Children of the Tipi: Life in the Buffalo Days (Fitzgerald) ● Curious Critters (Fitzsimmons) ● Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems and Paintings (Florian) ● Growing Frogs (French) ● Spiders (Disgusting Critters series) (Gravel) ● The Greatest Dinosaur Ever (Guiberson) ● How the Dinosaur Got to the Museum (Hartland) ● Dave the Potter (Hill) ● Flight of the Honey Bee (Huber) ● National Geographic: Little Kids First Big Book of Space (Hughes) Other books in this series: Dinosaurs ● My First Day (Jenkins) Also by this author: Biggest, Strongest, Fastest; Creature Features: 25 Animals Explain Why They Look they Way They Do; and Flying Frogs and Walking Fish: Leaping Lemurs, Tumbling Toads, Jet-Propelled Jellyfish, and More Surprising Ways That Animals Move
● Weeds Find a Way (Jenson-Elliott) ● How Big Were the Dinosaurs? (Judge) ● On Earth (Karas) ● Oh Theodore! (Katz) ● Take Me Out of the Bathtub: and Other Silly Dilly Songs (Katz) ● Otters Love to Play (London) ● Once I Ate a Pie (Maclachlan) ● Hip-Pocket Papa (Markel) ● Beatrix Potter and Her Paintbox (McPhail) ● Up in the Garden, Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner ● How Many Ways Can you Catch a Fly? Also by this team: Egg: Nature’s Perfect Package, Sisters and Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World, and What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? ● Out of Sight (Pittau and Gervais) ● That's How! (Niemann) ● How to Help the Earth by the Lorax (Rabe) ● Panda Kindergarten (Ryder) ● About Rodents (Sill; Also by this author: About Marsupials, About Reptiles, etc…) Books in the Sills’ About . . . series are notable for the elegant simplicity of their writing, illustration, and design. (Booklist). ● Bring on the Birds (Stockdale) ● The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps (Winter) ● What Is the World Made Of? All About Solids, Liquids and Gas (Zoehfeld) Also in the Read and Find Out series: Simple Machines, What’s in a Shell, How Mountains Are Made and The Sun and the Moon (various author)
Early Readers Publishers (various levels): Puffin-Easy-to-Read (Three by the Sea, Fox Outfoxed) Step into Reading (Random House Books for Younger Readers) (One Hundred Shoes, Sir Small and the Dragonfly, The Best mistake and Other Stories) I Can Read (HarperCollins) (My Parents Think I’m sleeping, The Best Seat in Second Grade, Emma’s Strange Pet) All Aboard Reading (Grosset and Dunlap) Let’s read and Find Out Science (Collins) (Gravity is a Mystery, Sunshine Makes the Season) Time for Kids (Plants, Frogs, Alexander Graham Bell, Volcanoes)
Other Resources:
● School Library Journal: Top 100 Picture Books http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production/2009/05/16/top-100-pi cture-books-poll-results-1-101/ ● Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh- Kids Link for digital books using Tumble Books and Bookflix and Hoopla http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/ ● ALSC Summer Reading List: http://www.ala.org/alsc/publications-resources/book-lists/2018-summer-readin g-list ● ALSC 2018 Notable Children’s Books: http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/notalists/ncb
* all summaries borrowed from NoveList unless indicated otherwise