For Students Who Completed KINDERGARTEN

Entering Grade 1 Summer Reading List 2017

Belleville Public Library & Belleville Public Schools

JOIN THE Read! Favorite Authors SUPERINTENDENT’ Maurice Sendak S CHALLENGE! Eric Carle Dr. Tomko challenges Dr. Seuss you to read as many Read! Arnold Lobel books as you can this Leo Lionni summer! (Every time Mo Willems you read a book, log it Read! Sid Hoff in!) Russell Hoban Steven Kellogg Shel Silverstein

Check out the books listed below! They are some of the most popular books in the library. Read a book by your favorite author. Be curious! Pick up a book you’ve never read before!

Genre Key: Fiction Non-Fiction Biography Poetry

Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield Jamaica Tag-Along by Juanita Havill Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing by Johnny Appleseed by Patricia Demuth Judi Barrett Leonardo, The Terrible Monster by Mo Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson Willems Best Friends for Frances by Russell Hoban Lizards, Frogs and Polliwogs by Douglas Big Cats by Joyce Milton Florian Can I Keep Him by Steven Kellogg Lon PoPo: A Red Riding Hood Story From Danny and the Dinosaur by Sid Huff China by Ed Young Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans Joyce Sidman Madlenka’s Dog by Peter Sis Eight Days Gone by Linda McReynolds Mrs. Brice’s Mice by Sid Hoff Elmer by David McKee Owl At Home by Arnold Lobel Emma’s Yucky Brother by Jean Little The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg Falling Up by Shel Silverstein Red Sings from Treetops by Joyce Sidman Frances series by Russell Hoban Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child’s Book Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel of From Caterpillar to Butterfly by Deborah Poems by Beatrice Schenk deRegniers Heligman Swirl by Swirl by Joyce Sidman The Funny Little Women by Arlene Mosel Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester Good Morning, Chick by Mirra Ginsburg What Do You Do with a Tale Like This? By Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia by Steven Jenkins and Robin Page Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippert When Will I Read by Miriam Cohen How People Learned to Fly by Fran Hodgkins Why Am I Different? by Caroline Rubin How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long