Montessori Summer Packet Summer 2017 Montessori Reading List

Dear Woods Families, Summer is a great time for reading and The Woods, as always, is encouraging students to read. The suggestions below are a list of books for your 3-6 year olds they might enjoy -rhymes, lullabies, folksongs and folktales and a range of reading levels. Most of the listed books are available in the public library and/or local bookstores. In some cases, titles may be out of print, but are worth seeking in libraries and through used-book sources. These titles and verses have been passed down through generations. To better help students become lifetime readers, establishing a reading habit at home is essential every day. The most important thing is to read anything and everything!

Enjoy the summer and happy reading! -Katya Pilong- Media and Curriculum Specialist

A Special Note to Parents to Help Establish a Love of Reading: -Create an inviting reading environment in your home. -Model reading! Let your children see you enjoy reading. -Read aloud! Read a book as a family, take turns reading, etc. - Establish a reading time and routine. -Visit your local library regularly.

Nursery Rhymes and Songs Mother Goose: The Volland Edition. Rearranged and edited by Eulalie Osgood Grover; illus. by Frederick Richardson. M.A. Donahue & Co., . 1915. The Real Mother Goose. Illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright. Rand McNally and Co., Chicago. 1916. Marguerite deAngeli’s Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes. Doubleday and Co., Garden City, N.Y. 1953. Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by . A Studio Book/Viking Press, New York. 1975. Tomie DePaola’s Mother Goose. Putnam, New York. 1985. The Jessie Wilcox Smith Mother Goose. Edited by Edward Nudelman. 1991. (reissue of 1914 original, Dodd Mead, New York.) Michael Foreman’s Mother Goose. Foreward by Iona Opie. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York. 1991. Over the Moon: A Book of Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Charlotte Voake. 1995. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Iona and Peter Opie. Oxford University Press, UK. 1997 (Second edition) The Random House Treasury: Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes and Nonsense Verse. Edited by Alice Mills. Random House, New York. 2003. Un Deux Trois: First French Rhymes (paperback and CD). Barron Educational Series, 1995. Pio Peep!: Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes. Edited by Alma Flor Ada, Alice Shertle, and F. Isabel Campoy; illustrated by Vivi Escrivi. Harper, New York. 2003. Mama Goose: A Latina Nursery Treasury. Edited by Alma Flor Ada, Isabel Campoy; illustrated by Maribel Suarez. Hyperion, New York. 2005. A Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Sally Mavor. Houghton Mifflin, New York/Boston. 2010. (Horn Book Award) Catch Me and Kiss Me and Say It Again. Rhymes by Clyde Watson. 1978. Each Peach Pear Plum. Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Viking, New York. 1978. Piggy In the Puddle. Charlotte Pomerantz. Illlustrated by James Marshall. 1989. Wynken, Blynken and Nod. Poem by Eugene Field. Illustrated by Susan Jeffers. 1992. Three Little Kittens. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Dial/Penguin, New York. 2010. Street Rhymes Around the World. Edited by Jane Yolen. Illustrated by seventeen international artists. Boyds Mill Press. 1992. Jane Yolen’s Songs of Summer. Edited by Jane Yolen. Arrangements by Adam Stemple. Illustrated by Cyd Moore. Boyds Mill Press. 1993. Hush Little Baby: A Folk Lullaby. Illustrated by Aliki Brandenburg. Simon and Schuster, New York. 1968. Oh, A-Hunting We Will Go. John Langstaff and Nancy Winslow Parker. 1981. Cat Goes Fiddle-I-Fee. Illustrated by Paul Galdone. 1988. What A Wonderful World. Composed by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele. Illustrated by . Atheneum, New York. 1995. Lullabies: An Illustrated Songbook. Edited by Richard Kapp. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1997. When I First Came to This Land. Retold by Harriet Ziefert. Pictures by Simms Taback. Putnam, New York. 1998.

Folktales and Fables Johnny Cake, Ho! Ruth Sawyer. Illustrated by Robert McCloskey. Viking, New York. 1953. Chanticleer and the Fox. Geoffrey Chaucer (adapted from The Canterbury Tales). Illustrated by Barbara Cooney. Harper, New York. 1958; pbk. 1982. The North Wind and the Sun. A La Fontaine fable. Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith. Oxford University Press, UK. 1964. One Fine Day. Nonny Hogrogrian. Simon and Schuster, New York. 1971. Chicken Forgets. Miska Miles. Little Brown and Company, New York, 1976. The Princess and the Pea. . Illustrated by Paul Galdone. Clarion/Seabury, 1978. (Paul Galdone titles include many folk and fairy tales.) Tomie DePaola’s Favorite Nursery Tales. Putnam, New York. 1986. Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock. Eric Kimmel. Holiday, New York. (Eric Kimmel titles include other Anansi folktales and many other folktale retellings.) Borreguita and the Coyote. Verna Aardema. Illustrated by Petra Mathers. 1991. Zomo the Rabbit. Gerald McDermott. Harcourt, New York. 1992. Mabela the Clever. Margaret Read MacDonald. Albert Whitman, 2001. (pbk.) The Bremen Town Musicians. The Brothers Grimm. Translated by Anthea Bell. Illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger. Penguin, New York. 2007. (Lisbeth Zwerger illustrates many folk and fairy tales.) The Lion and the Mouse. A fable from Aesop. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Little Brown and Company, New York. 2009. (wordless ) Mouse and Lion. A fable from Aesop. Illustrated by Susan Jeffers. Michael DiCapua/Scholastic, New York. 2010. (a good companion to the Pinkney version)

Fiction Story Texts The Bear Ate Your Sandwich. Julia Sarcone- Roach, 2015. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Bill Martin Jr. , 1989. Don’t Worry Bear. David Landry, 1989. My Bike. Byron Barton, 2016. I Want My Hat Back. Jon Klassen, 2011. Hot Rod Hamster. Cynthia Lord, 2014. Brownie and Pearl Grab a Bite. Cynthia Rylant, 2015. Wolfie the Bunny. Ame Dyckman, 2015 Panda Kindergarten. Joanne Ryder, 2015. The Hula-Hoopin’ Queen. Thelma Lynn Godin, 2014. Flashlight. Lizi Boyd, 2014. Chu’s First Day of School. Neil Gaiman, 2014.