Suggested Reading for Students Entering Grade 1 These are books you might like to read over the summer! Have fun and read, read, read!
Books That Celebrate Diversity Confetti: Poems for Children Pat Mora Hello Goodbye Dog Maria Gianferrari This Is How We Do It Matt Lamothe The Water Princess Susan Verde, and Georgie Badiel That Is My Dream! Langston Hughes The Children’s Garden: Growing Food in the City Carole Lexa Schaefer Rulers of the Playground Joseph Kuefler Last Stop On Market Street Matt de la Peña Just Like Me Vanessa Brantly Newton
Fiction Take Your Pet to School Day Linda Ashman No Place Like Home Ronojoy Ghosh I’m Worried Michael Ian Black I Am a Tiger Karl Newson Dandy Ame Dyckman Bruno, the Standing Cat Nadine Robert Bear Came Along Richard T. Morris The Babysitter From Another Planet Stephen Savage Picture WIndow Books (Fairy Tale Classics) Henry and Mudge (series) by Cynthia Rylant The First Grade Friends: Lunch Box Surprise by Grace Maccarone and Betsy Lewin The 100th Day of School by Angela Shelf Medearis First Grade Here I Come by Nancy Carlson Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes The Listening Walk by Paul Showers How Full is Your Bucket by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer Spaghetti in a Hotdog Bun by Maria Dismondy The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing by Judi Barrett Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson Best Friends for Frances by Russell Hoban Big Cats by Joyce Milton Can I Keep Him? by Steven Kellogg Danny and the Dinosaur by Sid Huff Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman Eight Days Gone by Linda McReynolds Elmer by David McKee Emma’s Yucky Brother by Jean Little Falling Up by Shel Silverstein Frances (series) by Russell Hoban From Caterpillar to Butterfly by Deborah Heligman The Funny Little Women by Arlene Mosel Good Morning, Chick by Mirra Ginsburg How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long Jamaica Tag-Along by Juanita Havill Johnny Appleseed by Patricia Demuth Leonardo, The Terrible Monster by Mo Willems Lon PoPo: A Red Riding Hood Story From China by Ed Young Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans Madlenka’s Dog by Peter Sis Mrs. Brice’s Mice by Sid Hoff Owl At Home by Arnold Lobel The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg Red Sings from Treetops by Joyce Sidman Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child’s Book of Poems by Beatrice Schenk deRegniers Swirl by Swirl by Joyce Sidman Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester What Do You Do with a Tale Like This? By Steven Jenkins and Robin Page When Will I Read by Miriam Cohen Why Am I Different? by Caroline Rubin Rufus Goes to School by Kim Griswell and Gorbachev Valeri Rufus Goes to Sea by Kim Griswell and Gorbachev Valeri A Day with No Crayons by Elizabeth Rusch
Non-Fiction National Geographic Books (levels 1 and 2) Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia by Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippert How People Learned to Fly by Fran Hodgkins Lizards, Frogs and Polliwogs by Douglas Florian
If your 1st grader is looking for silly books: ● My Toothbrush is Missing by Jan Thomas ● What is Chasing Duck? by Jan Thomas ● We Are in a Book by Mo Willems (all Elephant and Piggie books are fantastic!) ● The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow by Andy Griffiths
If your 1st grade child likes stories about real life and friendships: ● Who Is That, Cat the Cat? by Mo Willems ● We Are Growing by Laurie Keller ● Don’t Worry, BEE Happy by Ross Burach ● Big Cat by Ethan Long ● The Cookie Fiasco by Dan Santat ● Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick & David Serlin ● Lazy Bear, Crazy Bear by Kevin Bolger ● Trucktown by Jon Scieszka
If your 1st grader likes animal stories: Slow, Slow Sloths by Bonnie Bader Little Big Horse by Dave Horowitz We Dig Worms by Keven McCloskey
HAVE FUN READING!