The Kindergarten Canon
Title Author 1 is One Tasha Tudor Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Judith Viorst & Ray Cruz Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman & Caroline Binch Anansi the Spider Gerald McDermott* Are You My Mother? P.D. Eastman Bear Called Paddington, A Michael Bond Bear Snores On Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman Beauty and the Beast, The Brothers Grimm* Big Red Barn, The Margaret Wise Brown & Felicia Bond Birthday for Frances, A Russell Hoban & Garth Williams Blueberries for Sal Robert McCloskey Bremen Town Musicians, The Brothers Grimm* Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle Caps for Sale Esphyr Slobodkina Carrot Seed, The Ruth Krauss & Crockett Johnson Cars and Trucks and Things that Go Richard Scarry Cat in the Hat, The Dr. Seuss Chair for My Mother, A Vera B. Williams Bill Martin Jr. (author), John Archambault Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (author), and Lois Ehlert Chrysanthemum Kevin Henkes Cinderella Brothers Grimm* Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type Doreen Cronin & Betsy Lewin Corduroy Don Freeman Curious George Margret Rey and H. A. Rey Dear Zoo Rod Campbell Emperor's New Clothes, The Hans Christian Andersen* Fisherman and his Wife, The Brothers Grimm* Frederick Leo Lionni Freight Train Donald Crews Frog and Toad are Friends Arnold Lobel George and Martha James Marshall Gingerbread Man , The Fairy Tale* Giving Tree, The Shel Silverstein Go, Dog. Go! P.D. Eastman Goggles Ezra Jack Keats Goldilocks and the Three Bears Brothers Grimm* Good Night Gorilla Peggy Rathmann Good Night Moon Margaret Wise Brown & Clement Hurd Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney & Anita Jeram Hansel and Gretel Brothers Grimm* Harold and the Purple Crayon Crockett Johnson Harry the Dirty Dog Gene Zion & Margaret Bloy Graham Horton Hears a Who Dr. Seuss House on East 88th Street, The Bernard Waber If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Laura Numeroff & Felicia Bond In the Night Kitchen Maurice Sendak Jack and the Beanstalk Fairy Tale* King Bidgood's in the Bathtub Audrey Wood & Don Wood Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale Mo Willems Lion and the Mouse, The Aesop's Fable* Little Bear Else Holmelund Minarik & Maurice Sendak Little Engine that Could, The Watty Piper Little Red Hen, The Fairy Tale* Little Red Riding Hood, The Brothers Grimm* Madeline Ludwig Bemelmans Make Way for Ducklings Robert McCloskey Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Virginia Lee Burton Millions of Cats Wanda Gag Mother Goose Traditional * Olivia Ian Falconer One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Dr. Seuss One Morning in Maine Robert McCloskey Owl and the Pussycat, The Edward Lear* Pat the Bunny Dorothy Kunhardt Pinocchio Carlo Collodi* Poky Little Puppy, The Janette Sebring Lowrey & Gustaf Tenggren Princess and the Pea, The Hans Christian Andersen* Puss in Boots Charles Perrault* Put Me in the Zoo Robert Lopshire Rainbow Fish Marcus Pfister Rapunzel Brothers Grimm* Runaway Bunny, The Margaret Wise Brown Sleeping Beauty Brothers Grimm* Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Brothers Grimm* Snowy Day, The Ezra Jack Keats Stellaluna Janell Cannon Stone Soup Fairy Tale* Story about Ping, The Marjorie Flack & Kurt Wiese Story of Babar, The Jean de Brunhoff Story of Ferdinand, The Munro Leaf & Robert Lawson Strega Nona Tomie dePaola Swimmy Leo Lionni Sylvester and the Magic Pebble William Steig Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Beatrix Potter There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Simms Taback There's a Nightmare in My Closet Mercer Mayer Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Fairy Tale* Three Little Pigs, The Brothers Grimm* Thumbelina Hans Christian Andersen* Tikki Tikki Tembo Arlene Mosel & Blair Lent Time for Bed Mem Fox & Jane Dyer Tootle Gertrude Crampton & Tibor Gergely Tortoise and the Hare, The Aesop's Fable* Ugly Duckling, The Hans Christian Andersen* Velveteen Rabbit, The Margery Williams & William Nicholson Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Eric Carle When We Were Very Young A. A. Milne Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak Winnie-the-Pooh A. A. Milne
* You can find myriad versions of these classic folk stories, fairy tales, and fables.