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RECOMMENDED SUMMER READING Pre K Entering Kindergarten Adding With Ants (Animal Math) - Tracey Steffora ©2014 It's time for some math "ant-ics"! Illustrated with cut-out photos on striking, colorful backgrounds to retain reluctant mathematician's interest, this book looks at adding with ants! Age Range: 4 - 6 Years Grade Level: Preschool - 1 Ava’s Poppy - Marcus Pfister ©2012 Ava is delighted when she discovers a red poppy in the field of her house. She sits with the flower in the sunny days of summer and shields it in the rain until one day the petals start to drop and the beautiful flower fades. But when spring comes again, Ava is surprised anew. Age Range: 3 - 8 Years Grade Level: Preschool - 3 Blue Chicken – Deborah Freedman ©2011 In this deceptively simple picture book, author-illustrator Deborah Freedman has created an irresistible character that springs to life and wreaks havoc in a farmyard with a pot of blue paint. Age Range: 3 - 5 Years Grade Level: Preschool - Kindergarten Can You Count 10 Toes? - Lezlie Evans ©1999 Counting book you can learn to count in ten different languages: Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Tagalog, Russian, Hindi, Hebrew, and even Zulu! Age Range: 5 - 8 Years Grade Level: Kindergarten - 3 Centipede's 100 Shoes - Tony Ross ©2004 But when are one hundred shoes too many shoes? And what do you do with too many shoes? Why, you give them away! Find out who gets them in this delightfully silly story about a centipede with sore feet. Age Range: 4 - 7 Years Grade Level: Preschool - 1 The Cow Loves Cookies Rhyming - Karma Wilson ©2010 While all the other animals on the farm enjoy eating their regular food, the cow chooses to eat the one thing that she loves best. Age Range: 3 - 7 Years Grade Level: Preschool - 1 Dogku - Andrew Clements ©2007 Wandering through the neighborhood in the early-morning hours, a stray pooch follows his nose to a back-porch door. After a bath and some table scraps from Mom, the dog meets three lovable kids. Age Range: 4 - 8 Years Grade Level: Kindergarten - 3 Duck and Goose at the Beach - Tad Hills ©2014 Beloved Duck and Goose star in yet another adventure that cements their friendship. Goose is cautious and less adventuresome than Duck. "Let's go away," says Duck. "Sounds like a fine way to twist your ankle," replies Goose. Yet because they are friends, they both hike to the beach. Age Range: 3 – 7 Years Grade Level: Preschool – 2 The Duckling Gets a Cookie - Mo Willems ©2012 The Pigeon is back (hooray!) and this time the drama centers on an adorable little duckling who gets a cookie just by asking--politely. Just by asking?! Politely reminds the duckling, but the Pigeon is already off on a hilarious rant about all the things he asks for--many of which readers of the earlier Pigeon books will remember--ending with the all-too- familiar refrain, “It’s not fair.” Age Range: 2 – 6 Years Grade Level: Preschool - Kindergarten The Gift Box – Rohan Henry ©2012 One day Ollie’s mother tells him that he is “a beautiful gift.” Delighted with this new “identity,” Ollie invites his friend Benjamin to guess what it is. When poor Benjamin cannot guess, despite many hints, Ollie refuses to play with him. Age Range: 2 – 6 Grade Level: Preschool - Kindergarten Glasswings a Butterflys Story - Elisa Kelven ©2013 Claire, a glasswing butterfly whose transparent wings reflect her lush home, finds herself lost in the city after being separated from her family. She doesn’t know how they will ever see her, but she finds new city friends, a pigeon, an ant, and a ladybug, who search for the flowers Claire needs to live. Age Range: 3 - 5 Years Grade Level: Kindergarten - 1 Jesus A to Z – Michael O’Neill McGrath ©2007 This colorful and inviting children's ABC book combines delightful illustrations with alliterative and whimsical (yet appropriate) Scripture story allusions. Age Range: 3 - 7 Years Grade Level: Kindergarten – 2 2 March 15, 2015 Little White Rabbit - Kevin Henkes ©2011 As he hops along a little rabbit wonders what it would be like to be green as grass, tall as fir trees, hard as rocks, and flutter like butterflies. Age Range: 4 - 7 Years Grade Level: Preschool – Kindergarten Out of the Ballpark - Alex Rodriguez © 2012 features the familiar story of a young boy who achieves his ballpark dreams through hard work and determination. His team is in the playoffs, but he is having a terrible game. The Caribes win, nonetheless, and they're on their way to the championship. Alex, however, wants to improve, and practices constantly with a friend (even going so far as to get up at 5:00 a.m. to practice before school). Age Range: 4 – 8 Years Grade Level: Preschool - Kindergarten Quiet Bunny Many Colors - Lisa McCue ©2010 Quiet Bunny loves the beautiful colors of springtime in the forest so much, he wants to change his fur’s winter colors. Age Range: 3 - 5 Years Grade Level: Preschool - Kindergarten Sam and Dave Dig a Hole - Mac Barnett © 2014 Sam and Dave, who are either identical twin boys or friends who look astonishingly alike and share a sartorial sensibility, set out to dig a hole in the hopes of finding "something spectacular." With shovels in hand, the boys (with an eager terrier looking on) begin to tunnel into the soil, but they just can't seem to find anything of interest. What works spectacularly is the clever play between words and pictures. Age Range: 4 – 8 Years Grade Level: Preschool – 3 Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature - Joyce Sidman ©2011 What makes the tiny snail shell so beautiful? Why does that shape occur in nature over and over again—in rushing rivers, in a flower bud, even inside your ear? Age Range: 4 – 8 Years Grade Level: Kindergarten - 3 This Is Not My Hat - Jon Klassen © 2012 A little fish thinks he can get away with stealing a hat. Caldecott Medal Book Age Range: 4 - 8 Years Grade Level: Preschool - 3 3 March 15, 2015 Kindergarten Entering First Grade All the World – Liz Garton Scanlon illus. by Marla Frazee ©2009 Frazee's small vignettes and sweeping double-page spreads invite readers to share a joyful day with a diverse, multigenerational community. Caldecott Honor Book Age Range: 3 - 7 Years Grade Level: Kindergarten - 1 Blackout - John Rocco ©2011 One hot summer night in the city, all the power goes out. The TV shuts off and a boy wails, "Mommm!" His sister can no longer use the phone, Mom can't work on her computer, and Dad can't finish cooking dinner. What's a family to do? Caldecott Honor Book Age Range: 5 – 8 Years Grade Level: Kindergarten - 2 Have You Filled a Bucket Today – C:arol McCloud ©2006 Through sweet, simple prose and vivid illustrations, this book encourages positive behavior as children see how very easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation, and love on a daily basis. Age Range: 5 – Up Years Grade Level: 1 – Up Ivy and Bean – Annie Barrows ©2007 The moment they saw each other, Bean and Ivy knew they wouldn't be friends. But when Bean plays a joke on her sister, Nancy, and has to hide quick Ivy comes to the rescue, proving that sometimes the best of friends are people never meant to like each other. Age Range: 6 – 10 Years Grade Level: 1 – 4 Larry Gets Lost in Philadelphia – John Skewes ©2013 In Larry the adorable pooch's latest adventure, he goes on vacation with Pete and the family to Philadelphia, home of the Liberty Bell and other great American historical landmarks. Age Range: 5 – 7 Years Grade Level: Kindergarten - 2 Let’s Go for a Drive - Mo Willems ©2012 Elephant Gerald and Piggie want to go for a drive, but as Gerald thinks of one thing after another that they will have to take along, they come to realize that they lack the most important thing of all. Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor Book Age Range: 4 - 8 Years Grade Level: Kindergarten – 2 Library Book for Bear – Bonny Becker ©2014 Curmudgeonly Bear succumbs to Mouse’s entreaties and discovers the joy of books in a hilarious story that fans will covet for their own library. Age Range: 4 – 7 Years Grade Level: Kindergarten - 2 Library Mouse - Daniel Kirk ©2010 One night in the library, Sam meets fellow mouse Sarah. Sam learns that Sarah is quite the explorer. She loves to scurry to the tops of shelves and explore the darkest corners of the building. Sam never climbs far up—he’s too afraid! He prefers to research subjects— such as exploration—and write about them. Age Range: 6 – 9 Grade Level: 1 - 4 Lots of Ladybugs! : Counting by Fives - Michael Dahl ©2005 Teaches young children to count to fifty by fives using the spots on the ladybug. Age Range: 4 - 8 Years Grade Level: 1 – 2 Monster Musical Chairs - Stuart J. Murphy ©2000 In this book about subtraction, written in couplets with a beat as definite as that of the rock band supplying the music, six smiling monsters are engaged in an animated game of musical chairs. The action begins when the little creatures forcefully throw chairs across the room, telling everybody to "duck." The game proceeds with chairs and monsters being eliminated one by one. Age Range: 5 – 8 Grade Level: 1 - 2 Mortimer’s First Garden - Karma Wilson ©2009 Little Mortimer Mouse, longing to see something green at winter's end, follows the lead of the big people and plants, waters, and weeds his last sunflower seed until; finally, with God's help and a lot of patience, he harvests his crop.