First-Grade Reading List 1
Brown, Margaret Wise. Goodnight Moon, Runaway Bunny Brown, Peter. Mr. Tiger Goes Wild. Bruel, Nick. Bad Kitty, Poor Puppy Buckley, Carol. Tarra and Bella Burton, Virginia. Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel Buzzeo, Toni. One Cool Friend
Woodland Elementary Capucilli, Alyssa. Biscuit Series and Katy the Duck Series Suggested Summer Reading List *Carle, Eric. All Books Rising First Grade Chabon, Michael. The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man. Adler, David. Young Cam Jansen Series Child, Lauren. All Books Allard, Harry. Miss Nelson Series Awdry, Rev. W. Thomas the Train Beginning Reader Books *Cole, Joanna. All “Magic School Bus” books Arnold, Ted. Parts, Fly Guy series Cooney, Barbara. Miss Rumphius Baker, Keith. 123 Peas and LMNO Peas Cronin, Doreen. Click Clack Moo and Giggle, Giggle, Quack Barrett, Judi. Animals Should Definitely NOT Wear Clothing Curtis, Jamie Lee. All Books Base, Graeme. Animalia, Jungle Drums Dahl, Roald. The Enormous Crocodile Bate, Lucy. Little Rabbit’s Loose Tooth Dalgliesh, Alice. The Bears on Hemlock Mountain **Berenstain, Stan and Jan. All “Berenstain Bears” books Daywalt, Drew. The Day the Crayons Quit. **Bourgeois. Franklin in the Dark (All “Franklin” books) Degan. Jamberry **Brett, Jan. All Books **Denim, Sue. Dumb Bunnies Series *Bridwell, Norman. “Clifford” books *dePaola, Tomie. All books *Brown, Marc. Arthur books Eastman, P.D. Go Dog Go Elliott, David. Henry’s Map First-Grade Reading List 2
Falconer, Ian. Olivia books Litwin, Eric and James Dean. Pete the Cat Series Freeman, Don, “Corduroy” books **Lobel, Arnold. All “Frog and Toad” books Gag, Wanda - Millions of Cats London, Jonathan. Froggy Series Galdone, Paul. Fairy Tale Books *McCloskey, Robert. All Books *Gibbons, Gail. All Nonfiction Books *McCully, Emily Arnold. Mirette on the High Wire Guarino, Deborah. Is Your Mama a Llama? McPhail, David. All Books Henkes, Kevin. Penny Series *Marshall, James. George and Martha Series **Hillert, Margaret - All beginning reader books Martin, Bill. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Himmelman, John. Cows to the Rescue. Mayer, Mercer. All books Noble, Trinka. The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash Hoban, Russell. Frances Books *Numeroff, Laura. If You Give a Pig a Pancake Series Holub, Joan. Little Red Writing O’Connor, Jane. Fancy Nancy Series Palatini, Margie. Bad Boys series, Gorgonzola Howard, Arthur. Cosmo Zooms Park, Linda Sue. Xander’s Panda Party Hutchins, Pat. The Doorbell Rang Pfister, Marcus. Rainbow Fish Series Johnson, Crockett. Harold and the Purple Crayon Piper, Watty. The Little Engine that Could *Keats, Ezra Jack. All Books Plourdes, Lynn. Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud Kellogg, Steven. Pinkerton Books **Rylant, Cynthia. Mr. Putter and Tabby Series and Henry and Kirk, David. Nova’s Ark, Miss Spider Mudge Series Kovalski. The Wheels on the Bus Salley, Coleen. Epossumondas Series Krosoczka, Jarrett. Lunch Lady Series Sendak, Maurice. Chicken Soup With Rice, Where the Wild Lin, Grace. Ling & Ting series Things Are *Lionni, Leo. All Books Seuss, Dr. All Books First-Grade Reading List 3
Shannon, David. David series Teague, Mark. LaRue series Sharmat, Marjorie. Nate the Great Series Viorst, Judith. Alexander Stories Shaw, Nancy. Sheep in a Jeep Waber, Bernard. Lyle the Crocodile Series Sis, Peter. Madlenka, Madalenka’s Dog Watt, Melanie. Scaredy Squirrel Series Slate, Joseph. Miss Bindergarten Books Wells, Rosemary. McDuff Books - Noisy Nora, Yoko and Slobodkina, Esphyr. Caps for Sale Friends Series Small, David. Imogene’s Antlers Wiesner, David. All Books *Steig, William. Amos and Boris, Shrek Willems, Mo. Pigeon Series, Elephant and Piggie Series, Tafuri, Nancy. Have You Seen My Ducklings? Knuffle Bunny series
American Library Association Caldecott Awards 2016 American Library Association Geisel Awards 2016 For Best Beginning Reader For Best Picture Books Super Truck by Stephen Savage Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick Waiting by Kevin Henkes Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews A Pig, A Fox, and a Box by Jonathan Fenske Waiting by Kevin Henkes Don’t Throw It to Mo! by David A. Adler Voice of Freedom by Carol Boston Weatherford
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena Volunteer State Book Award Winner 2016 Best New Picture Books 2015
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt 8: An Animal Alphabet by Elisha Cooper Wolfie the Bunny by Ame Dyckman We Forgot Brock by Carter Goodrich First-Grade Reading List 4
Toys Meet Snow by Emily Jenkins Written and Drawn by Henrietta by Liniers Thank You and Goodnight by Patrick McDonnell Lenny and Lucy by Phillip Stead