Read Aloud Books

Great Mentor Texts

Narrative Picture Books The Memory String – Eve Bunting Knots on a Counting Rope – Bill Martin Amelia’s Road – Linda Jacobs Altman Each Kindness – Jacqueline Woodson Peppe the Lamplighter – Elisa Bartone The Stories Julian Tells – Ann Cameron

Informational Picture Books Wolves – Seymour Simon No Monkeys, No Chocolate – Melissa Stewart The Whales – Cynthia Rylant If You Lived … series

Persuasive/Argument Picture Books I Wanna Iguana – Karen Kaufman Orloff

Poetry My Man Blue – Nikki Grimes Creatures of Earth Sea and Sky (a collection of poems) - Georgia Heard A Drop Around the World – Barbara Shaw McKinney By Definition (a collection of poems) – Sara Holbrook

Any books by these authors would be great mentor texts.

“A” List – Narrative “A” List - Informational Cynthia Rylant Seymour Simon Eve Bunting Cynthia Rylant Patricia Polacco Melissa Stewart Jacqueline Woodson Sandra Cisneros

“A” List - Poetry Sara Holbrook Georgia Heard Other Great Sources for Read Aloud Books

 Wondrous Words – Katie Wood Ray  The Read Aloud Handbook – Jim Trelease

Fountas and Pinnell Suggested Read Aloud List

Below is a bibliography of suggested read-aloud books from a Fountas and Pinnell workshop. It is separated by Fiction and Non-Fiction.

Other Major Read Aloud Authors

Byrd Baylor Lester Laminack Joseph Bruchak (Native American) Eloise Greenfield Faith Ringgold Marie Bradby Jane Yolen William Steig

Fiction Picture Books

Bartone, Peppe the Lamplighter Baylor, The Best Town in the World Bradby, More than Anything Else Bradby, Momma, Where are you from? Brooks, Town Mouse House Bunting, Fly Away Home Bunting, The Wall Bunting, Butterfly House Bunting, A Train to Somewhere Bunting, A Picnic in October Bunting, The Memory String Cha, Dia’s Story Cloth Chall, Up North at the Cabin Cherry, The Great Kapok Tree Climo, The Persian Cindrella Cooney, Little Brother and Little Sister Cooney, Miss Rumphius Crook, Maple Moon Diakite, The Hunterman and the Crocodile Gallaz, Rose Blanche Garland, Lotus Seed George, Snow Bear Gray, Dear Willie Rudd Gray, My Momma Had a Dancing Heart Hamilton, Her Stories: African American Folk Tales High, Barn Savers Hest, How to Get Famous in Brooklyn Hoestlandt, Star of Fear, Star of Hope Hooks, Freedom’s Fruit Houston, My Great Aunt Arizona Johnson, All Around Town Jonas, Watch William Walk Khalsa, Tales of a Gambling Grandma Kirkpatrick, Redcoats and Petticoats Kroll, Sweet Magnolia Lester, What a Truly Cool World Lewis, The Emperor’s New Clothes Lorbieki, Sister Anne’s Hands Martin, The Rough Faced Girl McCully, The Bobbin Girl McDermot, Arrow to the Sun McKay, Journey Home Miles, Annie and the Old One Miller, The Piano Moss, True Heart Palacco, Pink and Say Paulsen, The Tortilla Factory Paulsen, Canoe Days Pinkney, The Ugly Duckling Rael, What Zeesee Saw on Delancey Street Rahaman, Read for Me Mama Raven, Angels in the Dust Ringgold, Tar Beach Ringgold, Aunt Harriett’s Underground Railroad in the Sky Ringgold, Dinner at Aunt Connie’s House Rylant, When I was Young in the Mountains Schimmel, Dear Children of the Earth Sisulu, The Day Gogo Went to Vote Soto, Snapshots from the Wedding Steig, Amos and Boris Steig, Brave Irene Sturges, Ten Flashing Fireflies Swinburne, In Good Hands Taulbert, Little Cliff and the Porch People Trottier, Prairie Willow Trottier, Dreamstones Trottier, Little Dog Moon Tunnell, Mailing May Turner, Nettie’s Trip South Turner, Katie’s Trunk Vaughan, Abbie Against the Storm Viorst, The Tenth Good Thing About Barney Wheatley, My Place Wing, Jalapeno Bagels Yep, The Khan’s Daughter Yolen, Owl Moon Yolen, Encounter Zolotrow, Snippets

Non Fiction Picture Book Read-Alouds

Arnosky, Sketching Outdoors in Winter Arnosky, All About Rattlesnakes Bachrach, Tell Them We Remember Baker, Where the Forest Meets the Sea Bateman, Safari Berger, Germs Make Me Sick Bierman, Journey to Ellis Island Bird, Insects Borden, The Little Ships Brandenberg, An American Safari Branzei, Animal Grossology Browne, African Animals Bruchac, A Boy Called Slow Burleigh, Hoops Burleigh, Home Run Carlson, Boss of the Plains Cerullo, Coral Reef Cisneros, Hairs = Pelitos Coerr, Sadako Cole, The Magic School Bus in the Time of Dinosaurs Cole, The Magic School Bus inside a Hurricane Collard, Animal Dads Collard, 1000 Years Ago on Planet Earth Cooney, Eleanor Cooper, Mandela Couper, Black Holes Davis, Cesar Chevez Erickson, Daily Life in Covered Wagons Fanelli, My Map Book Fritz, Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln Garza, Magic Windows Geisert, Roman Numerals I to MM Goodman, Stones, Bones and Petroglyphs Govenar, Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter Greenaway, The Snake Book Hawes, Fireflies in the Night Hearne, Seven Brave Women Hodge, Whales Jackson, The Bone Detective King, Oh,Freedom Knight, The Way West Knowlton, Geography A to Z Kodama, Shin’s Tricycle Krull, Wilma Unlimited Krupp, The Moon and You Lasky, Marven of the Great North Woods Lasky, The Most Beautiful Roof in the World Lasky, Vision of Beauty Lauber, Hurricanes Leigh, Learning to Swim in Swaziland Loewer, The Moonflower Marcus, A Caldecott Celebration Markle, Outside and Inside Spiders Markle, Bats Martin, Snowflake Bentley McCurdy, The Gettysburg Address McGill, Molly Bannaky McMillan, Salmon Summer Meltzer, Ten Queens Mochizuki, Baseball Saved Us Mochizuki, Passage to Freedom Murphy, The Great Fire Myers, Amistad Park, My Freedom Trip Pascoe, Slime, Molds and Fungi Peacock, Crossing the Delaware Pinkney, Alvin Ailey Pinkney, Bill Pickett Pringle, Fire in the Forest Quinlan, Puffins Reiser, Beach Feet Ringgold, If a Bus Could Talk Ryan, The Flag We Love Ryan, Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Rylant, Appalachia Sandler, Cowboys Simon, Animal Facts/Animal Fable Simon, Galaxies Simon, Sharks Simon, The Brain Sis, Starry Messenger Stanley, Children of the Dust Bowl Stanley, Shaka Stanley, Bard of Avon Stanley, Charles Dickens Stanley, Michelangelo Stanley, The Last Princess Stanley, Big Annie of Calumet Sturges, Bridges are to Cross Sussman, Lies About Animals Swinburne, In Good Hands Swinburne, Lots and Lots of Zebra Stripes Swinburne, Once a Wolf’ Tsuchiya, The Faithful Elephants Venezia, Monet Wick, A Drop of Water Williams, Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe Wilson, Imagine That! Woodworth, Compassion: The Story of Clara Barton Wu, A City Under the Sea: Life in a Coral Reef