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Home , Barbara Cooney, Bryan Collier, Jerry Pinkney, Ludwig Bemelmans, Martin Waddell, Mitsumasa Anno

St. Luke’s School Reading List For Students Entering Junior Kindergarten, Kindergarten and Grade 1

Bootsie Barker Bites Big Al; PICTURE BOOKS Barbara Bottner Circus Family Dog Andrew Clements Bringing the Rain to The Mitten; Kapiti Plain The Hat Super Moo; Verna Aardema Jan Brett The Trouble with Mom Babette Cole Each, Peach, Pear, Plum; The Indoor Noisy Book; The Jolly Postman The Little Fur Family Buttons Janet Ahlberg Brock Cole

Miss Nelson Is Missing Arthur’s Eyes (series) The Magic School Bus; (series) Marc Brown Inside the Ocean (series) Harry Allard Joanna Cole Gorilla Who Sank the Boat Uptown Pamela Allen Bryan Collier Mr. Gumpy's Outing; Anno's Alphabet Would You Rather... Doll Face Has a Party; John Burningham The Tub People (series) Pam Conrad Bear's Bargain; The Little House; Happy Birthday, Moon Mike Mulligan & His Eleanor; Frank Asch Steam Shovel Miss Rumphius Virginia Burton Barbara Cooney When Sophie Gets Angry Really, Really, Angry Just Us Women The Winter Bear Molly Bang Jeannette Ruth Craft Caines The Story of Little Babaji Angelina Ballerina Helen Bannerman Cross Country Cat (series) Mary Calhoun Helen Craig The Adventures of Taxi Dog; Stellaluna; A Fine, Fine School Maxi the Hero Verdi Sharon Creech Debra and Sal Barracca Janell Cannon Freight Train Cloudy With a Chance of The Very Busy Spider; Donald Crews Meatballs; The Very Hungry Animals Should Caterpillar Click, Clack, Moo: Cows Definitely Not Wear that Type Clothing Doreen Cronin Judi Barrett Baby-O; Jesse Bear What Will You 100th Day Worries Madeleine (series) Wear (series) Margery Cuyler Nancy Carlstrom The Story of Babar Spike in the City (series) Penelope Jane (series) Paulette Bogan Rosanne Cash Laurent de Brunhoff

2 Oliver Button Is a Sissy; Five Creatures Strega Nona How My Parents Learned Emily Jenkins Tomie de Paola to Eat Ina Friedman Harold & The Purple May I Bring a Friend Crayon Beatrice Schenk de Millions of Cats Regniers Wanda Gag The Quilt; Jamberry The Story of May Round Trip Bruce Degen Mordicai Gerstein Ann Jonas

Abuela; Bernard Goes to School Dinosaur Bob; Isla (series) George Shrinks Arthur Dorros Joan Goodman William Joyce

Fish Eyes; The Maggie B. The Snowy Day Growing Vegetable Soup Irene Haas Lois Ehlert Jamaica’s Find (series) The Dinosaurs of Gilberto & The Wind; Juanita Havill Waterhouse Hawkins Play With Me Barbara Kerley Marie Hall Ets Friends; The Most Wonderful Egg Emma Olivia; In The World Wendy Kesselman Olivia Saves the Circus Helme Heine Ian Falconer How Pizza Came To Chrysanthemum; Queens Bark, George; Julius, The Baby Of The Dayal Kaur Khalsa I Lost My Bear World; Jules Feiffer Wemberly the Worried A Cloak for the Moon Kevin Henkes Eric A. Kimmel The Story About Ping Marjorie Flack Bread & Jam For Frances Lily Takes A Walk (series) Satoshi Kitamura Weslandia Russell Hoban Paul Fleischman The Carrot Seed; A House Is a House For A Very Special House; In the Small, Small Pond Me A Hole Is To Dig Denise Fleming Mary Ann Hoberman Ruth Krauss

The Patchwork Amazing Grace (series) The Philharmonic Gets Quilt Mary Hoffman Dressed Valerie Flournoy Karla Kuskin Dogger Koala Lou; Shirley Hughes The Red Balloon Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Albert Lamorisse Partridge The Doorbell Rang Mem Fox Pat Hutchins The Story Of Ferdinand Munro Leaf Corduroy; Dear Mr. Blueberry Norman The Doorman Simon James Hooway for Wodney Wat Don Freeman Helen Lester

3 I Love You Like Crazy The Little Engine That Cakes Martha Speaks Could Rose Lewis Susan Meddaugh Watty Piper

Frederick; The Rainbabies Thundercake Little Blue Little Yellow; Laura Melmed Patricia Polacco Swimmy Leo Lionni The Black Snowman Piggy In The Puddle Phil Mendez Charlotte Pomerantz On Market Street; One Lighthouse, One Nobody Rides the Unicorn The Tale of Peter Rabbit Moon Adrian Mitchell Anita Lobel Tikki Tikki Tembo It’s Hard to Share My Fables; Arlene Mosel Teacher The Great Blueness Joan Prestine Arnold Lobel Cow That Went Oink Bernard Most The Glorious Flight The Little Island Alice Provensen Golden MacDonald The Paper Bag Princess Robert Munsch Martin's Big Words Brown Bear Brown Bear; Doreen Rappaport Chicka Chicka Boom Sam, Bangs, & Moonshine Boom Evaline Ness Yo! Yes? Bill Martin Christopher Raschka If You Give A Mouse A George & Martha (series) Cookie (series) Officer Buckle and James Marshall Laura Numeroff Gloria; Ruby The Copycat I Spy (series) Rivka's First Peggy Rathmann Jean Marzollo Thanksgiving Elsa Okon Curious George (series) Roxaboxen H. A. Rey Alice McLerran A Boy Wants A Dinosaur; UFO Diary Aunt Harriet and the Blueberries For Sal; Hiawyn Oram ; Make Way For Ducklings; Tar Beach One Morning In Maine The Red Carpet Faith Ringgold Robert McCloskey Rex Parkin We're Going On A Bear Mirette On The Highwire Cowardly Clyde; Hunt Emily Arnold McCully Chester The Worldly Pig Michael Rosen Bill Peet Elmer (series) The Line Up Book David McKee Rainbow Fish Marisabina Russo Dazzle the Dinosaur Goin' Someplace; Marcus Pfister Emma’s Rug Mirandy and Brother Grandfather's Journey Wind; The Big Orange Splot Allen Say The Honest-to Goodness Wempires Truth Daniel Manus Pinkwater How Much is a Million Pat McKissack David Schwartz

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The True Story of the People Good Job Little Bear Three Little Pigs; Peter Spier (series) The Stinky Cheese Man Jon Scieszka Amos & Boris; Brave Irene; Mouse Paint; Abiyoyo Sylvester & The Magic You Silly Goose Pete Seeger Pebble Ellen Stoll Walsh In The Night Kitchen; Apple Farmer Annie; The Nutshell Library; Mufaro's Beautiful Squeaking of Art; Where The Wild Things Daughters Night City Are John Steptoe Monica Wellington The Gardener; Bunny Cakes; Bartholomew and the The Library Yoko; Oobleck; Sarah Stewart Yoko’s Paper Cranes If I Ran the Zoo Rosemary Wells Dr. Seuss The Little Red Lighthouse & The Great Grey Bridge Quacky, Quack, Quack Tasty Belly Buttons Hildegard Hoyt Swift Ian Whybrow Judy Sierra The Araboolies of Liberty Clever Beatrice Sheep In A Jeep (series) Street Margaret Willey Nancy Shaw Sam Swope A Chair For My Mother Snow Eloise Vera Williams Uri Shulevitz (series) Kay Thompson Tuesday The Stray Dog David Wiesner Marc Simont Many Moons James Thurber The Napping House Miss Bindergarten Gets Audrey Wood Ready for Kindergarten Do Not Open! Joseph Slate Brinton Turkle Sweet, Sweet Memory Jacqueline Woodson From One to One Jumanji; Hundred The Polar Express Something Beautiful Teri Sloat Sharon Dennis Wyeth

Caps For Sale Alexander & The Terrible Crow Boy Esphyr Slobodkina Horrible No Good Very Taro Yashima Bad Day; Imogene’s Antlers The Tenth Good Thing Owl Moon David Small About Barney Judith Viorst Chato and the Party Oh Brother!; Animals; The House On East 88th Ugh Too Many Tamales Street; Arthur Yorinks Gary Soto Lyle Lyle Crocodile (series) Bernard Waber

5 Harry The Dirty Dog Swamp Angel The New Oxford Book of (series) Anne Isaacs Children’s Verse Gene Zion Neil Philip, ed. Anansi and the Moss Mr. Rabbit & The Lovely Covered Rock Hailstones and Halibut Present; Eric Kimmel Bones William's Doll Mary Le Duc O’Neill Charlotte Zolotow Johnny Appleseed Steven Kellogg Tail Feathers From Mother Goose FOLKTALES & Puss In Boots Iona Opie FAIRYTALES Fred Marcellino Charles Perrault Awful Ogre’s Awful Day; Beneath A Blue Umbrella; Why Mosquitos Buzz in Hansel And Gretel The Dragons are Singing People’s Ears The Brothers Grimm Tonight; Verna Aardema Ride A Purple Pelican

The Talking Eggs: A Jack Prelutsky The Ugly Duckling Folktale from the American South My Very First Mother

Robert San Soucci Goose The Aesop for Children Rosemary Wells Mio Winter Seven Blind Mice

Ed Young Casey at the Bat Jack and the Beanstalk Ernest L. Thayer Ann Keay Beneduce, The Three Pigs Illustrated by Christopher Gennady Spirin, David Wiesner Bing illustrators

Patricia Lee Gauch, ed. Rumplestiltskin Brown Honey in

Paul Zelinsky Broomwheat Tea: Poems The Town Mouse & The Joyce Carol Thomas Country Mouse Jan Brett

Stone Soup POETRY Marcia Brown You Read To Me, I'll Read One Grain of Rice To You Demi John Ciardi

The Gingerbread Man A Zooful of Animals Richard Egielski William Cole

The Three Billy Goats The Owl and The Gruff Pussycat Paul Galdone Edward Lear

Favorite Fairy Tales Told Now We Are Six; In Ireland When We Were Very (series) Young A. A. Milne

6 I CAN READ BOOKS The Little Brute Family; Clara & The Bookwagon The Stone Doll Of Sister Nancy Smiler Levinson

Brute Cam Jansen and the Russell Hoban Something Queer at the Mystery of the Stolen Library (series) Diamonds (series) Arthur's Mystery Elizabeth Levy David Adler Envelope (Arthur Chapter

Books Series) Frog & Toad Together Finding the Titanic Marc Brown (series); A Hello Reader (series) Owl at Home Robert Ballard Arthur’s Funny Money Arnold Lobel

(series) The Case of the Cat's Lilian Hoban Fox In Love; Meow Rats On The Roof Crosby Bonsall You Read to Me, I’ll Read Edward Marshall

to You: Very Short Hooray for the Golly Stories to Read Together Little Bear (series) Sisters (series) Mary Ann Hoberman Else Holmelund Minarik Betsy Byars

Danny The Dinosaur; The Drinking Gourd; The Stories Julian Tells Grizzwold Wagon Wheels (series) Syd Hoff F. N. Monjo Ann Cameron

Surprises Juan Bobo Goes to Work Will I Have a Friend? More Surprises Marisa Montes Miriam Cohen Lee Bennett Hopkins

Dinosaurs Before Dark; The Best Way to Play; Animals Do The The Magic Treehouse Little Bill (series) Strangest Things (series) (series) Bill Cosby Leonora Mary Pope Osborne

Hornblower Nine True Dolphin Stories Amelia Bedelia (series) Margaret Davidson Pinky & Rex Peggy Parish

and the School Play The Pee Wee Scouts; (series) Junie B. Jones Is Captain; Bookworm Buddies James Howe Field Day (series) (series) Barbara Park Judy Delton Here Comes the

Strikeout; The Littles (series) The Beast In Miss Stan the Hot Dog Man John Peterson Rooney’s Room Leonard Kessler Polk Street School (series) I Was a Second Grade Patricia Reilly Giff The Invisible Dog; Werewolf

Jenius the Amazing Daniel Manus Pinkwater Puppy Riddles (series) Guinea Pig Katy Hall Dick King-Smith M&M and the Mummy

Mess Hello, House! Horrible Harry and the (series) Linda Hayward Purple People; (series) Pat Ross

Song Lee and the

Hamster Hunt (series)

Suzy Kline

7 Henry & Mudge: The First Book of Their FAMILY Adventures READ-ALOUDS (series); Mr. Putter and Tabby Mr. Popper’s Penguins Winnie-The-Pooh; Feed the Fish; Richard Atwater The House at Pooh Poppleton Has Fun Corner (series) The Cat Club A. A. Milne Cynthia Rylant (series) Esther Averill Chocolate Fever Marvin Redpost : (Out of Print but worth Robert K. Smith Kidnapped at Birth tracking down!) (series) Charlotte’s Web; Louis Sachar Freckle Juice Stuart Little; Judy Blume Trumpet of the Swan In A Dark, Dark, Room; E. B. White Ghosts! No Flying In the House Alvin Schwartz Betty Brock

Greg's Microscope; Seven Stories about a Cat From Egg to Chick Sneakers Millicent Ellis Selsam Margaret Wise Brown

Green Eggs and Ham; The Mouse and the I Can Read With My Eyes Motorcycle; Shut; Ramona Quimby Age 8 Fox in Socks (series) Dr. Seuss Beverly Cleary

Nate The Great (series) The Giraffe the Pelly and Margorie Weinman Sharmat Me Roald Dahl The Adam Joshua Capers: The Monster in The Hundred Dresses the Third Dresser Drawer Eleanor Estes (series) Janice Lee Smith My Father's Dragon (series) The Tales of Oliver & Ruth Chrisman Gannett Amanda Pig; Oliver and Albert, A Mouse Called Wolf Friends Forever Dick King-Smith Jean Van Leeuwen Catwings (series) Commander Toad (series) Ursula K. LeGuin Jane Yolen Pippi Longstocking (series)

Betsy-Tacy (series) Maud Hart Lovelace

8 CHILDREN’S Scott King Award Sydney Taylor BOOK AWARDS for Writing: Book Award for Announced on Honor Books: Younger Readers: Talkin’ About Bessie (sponsored by January 27, (Scholastic/Orchard) by the Nikki Grimes, illustrated Association of 2003 by E. B. Lewis Jewish Libraries): Chicken Soup : Coretta by Heart (S & S) by Esther My Friend Rabbit (Roaring Hershenhorn Brook) by Eric Rohmann Scott King Honor Award for Books: Noah’s Illustration: Ark Talkin’ About Bessie (SeaStar) (Scholastic/Orchard) by by ; Nikki Sammy Spider’s First Trip to Grimes, illustrated by Israel (Kar-Ben Copies) by Caldecott Honor E. B. Lewis Sylvia Rouss; Books: Honor Pearl’s Passover (S & S) by Jane The Spider and the Fly Books: (S & S), Breskin Zalben Rap a Tap Tap illustrated by (Scholastic/Blue Tony Sky) by Leo and Charlotte DiTerlizzi, Diane Dillon; Zolotow Award: written by Visiting (for Mary Langston outstanding Howitt; (Holt), writing in a Hondo & illustrated by ): Fabian Bryan Holly Keller, (Holt) by Peter McCarty; Collier, author of Farfallina and Noah’s Ark written by Willie Perdomo Marcel (Greenwillow) (SeaStar) by Jerry Robert F. Sibert Zolotow Honor Pinkney Award: Book: Honor Books: (for Susan Marie Swanson, Laura Ingalls Wilder outstanding author of The First Thing Award: (for lifetime nonfiction): My Mama Told Me contribution to literature Action for children) Eric Carle, Jackson author and illustrator of (Roaring The Very Hungry Brook) by Jan Caterpillar Greenberg and Sandra Jordan; When Marian Sang Coretta (Scholastic) by Pam Muñoz Ryan, (Harcourt), illustrated by illustrator Brian Selznick Christine Davenier

9 CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS for 2004

Caldecott Medal: Coretta Scott King/John Calabash Cat and His Amazing Journey Steptoe New Talent By James Rumford The Man Who Walked Author Award: (Houghton Mifflin) Between the Towers By Mordicai Gerstein The Way a Door Closes Tippy-Toe Chick Go! (Roaring Book By Hope Anita Smith, By George Shannon, Press/Millbrook Press) illustrated by Shane W. Illustrated by Laura Evans (Henry Holt and Dronzek (Greenwillow Caldecott Honor Books: Company) Book/HarperCollins)

Ella Sarah Gets Dressed Coretta Scott King New By Margaret Chodos- Talent Illustrator Award: Irvine (Harcourt, Inc.) Sydney Taylor Book My Family Plays Music What Do You Do with a Tail Award for Younger Illustrated by Elbrite Readers: (sponsored by Like This? Brown, written by Judy Illustrated and Written Cox (Holiday House) the Association of Jewish by Steve Jenkins and Libraries) Robin Page (Houghton Mifflin Company) Charlotte Zolotow Bagels from Benny By Aubrey Davis, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Award: (for outstanding Illustrated by Dusan Bus writing in a picture book) Petricic By Mo Willems (Hyperion Press) What James Likes Best By Amy Schwartz (Atheneum)

Coretta Scott King Charlotte Zolotow Honor Awards: (honoring African Books: American authors and illustrators of outstanding Two Old Potatoes and Me By John Coy, Illustrated books for children and by Carolyn Fisher young adults) (Alfred A. Knopf)

The First Part Last The Baby Goes Beep By Angela Johnson By Rebecca O’Connell (Simon and Schuster (Roaring Brook Press) Books for Young Readers) Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile Beautiful Blackbird By Won-Ldy Paye and Written and Illustrated Margaret H. Lippert, by Illustrated by Julie (Athenaum Books for Pahkis (Henry Holt) Young Readers)

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