Kumon's Recommended Reading List

Home , Gerald Durrell, Hop on Pop, Ludwig Bemelmans, Marc Brown (author), Mitsumasa Anno, Russell Hoban

KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST - Level 7A ~ Level 3A These are read-aloud books to be used by a parent when reading to the student.

LEVEL 7A LEVEL 6A LEVEL 5A LEVEL 4A LEVEL 3A

Barnyard Banter Hop on Pop Mean Soup Henny Penny A My Name is Alice 1 Denise Fleming 1 Dr. Seuss 1 Betsy Everitt 1 retold by Paul Galdone 1 Jane Bayer Jesse Bear, What Will Each Orange Had Eight Each Peach Pear Plum The Doorbell Rang Alphabears: An ABC Book 2 You Wear? Slices: A Counting Book Janet and Allen Ahlberg 2 2 Pat Hutchins 2 Kathleen Hague 2 Nancy White Carlstrom Paul Giganti Jr. Eating the Alphabet: Fruits What do you do with a Goodnight Moon Bat Jamboree Sea Squares 3 and Vegetables from A to Z kangaroo? Margaret Wise Brown 3 3 3 Kathi Appelt 3 Joy N. Hulme Lois Ehlert Mercer Mayer Here Are My Hands Black? White! Day? Night! The Icky Bug Alphabet Book Curious George Bread and Jam for Frances 4 Bill Martin Jr. and 4 4 4 4 John Archambault Laura Vaccaro Seeger Jerry Pallotta H.A. Rey Russell Hoban

I Heard A Little Baa 5 Big Red Barn My Very First Mother Goose Make Way for Ducklings Little Bear Elizabeth MacLeod 5 Margaret Wise Brown 5 edited by Iona Opie 5 Robert McCloskey 5 Else Holmelund Minarik Read Aloud Rhymes for the Noisy Nora A Rainbow of My Own Millions of Cats Lyle, Lyle Crocodile 6 Very Young 6 Rosemary Wells 6 Don Freeman 6 Wanda Gag 6 Bernard Waber collected by Jack Prelutsky Mike Mulligan and His Steam Quick as a Cricket Sheep in a Jeep The Listening Walk Stone Soup 7 Shovel Audrey Wood 7 Nancy Shaw 7 Paul Showers 7 Marcia Brown 7 Virginia Lee Burton

Three Little Kittens Silly Sally The Little Red Hen The Three Billy Goats Gruff Ming Lo Moves the Mountain 8 retold by Paul Galdone 8 Audrey Wood 8 retold by Paul Galdone 8 P.C. Asbjornsen and J.E. Moe 8 Arnold Lobel How Do Dinosaurs Say Where’s My Teddy? The Runaway Bunny Tikki Tikki Tembo Strega Nona 9 Goodnight? Jez Alborough 9 9 Margaret Wise Brown 9 retold by Arlene Mosel 9 Tomie dePaola Jane Yolen Sylvester and the Magic Whose Mouse Are You? Angus and the Cat We’re Going on a Bear Hunt A House is a House for Me 10 Pebble Robert Kraus 10 Marjorie Flack 10 Michael Rosen 10 Mary Ann Hoberman 10 William Steig

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Chicken Soup with Rice: The Story of Babar : the Little All the Colors of the Earth Swimmy 11 Bill Martin Jr. and A Book of Months Elephant Sheila Hamanaka 11 Leo Lionni 11 11 11 John Archambault Maurice Sendak Jean de Brunhoff Animals Should Definitely If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Old Black Fly Fireman Small The Tale of Peter Rabbit 12 Not Wear Clothing 12 Laura Numeroff 12 Jim Aylesworth 12 Wong Herbert Yee 12 Beatrix Potter Judi Barrett Mother Goose Numbers on Have You Seen My Duckling? Alligators All Around One Hundred Hungry Ants A Giraffe and a Half 13 the Loose Nancy Tafuri 13 Maurice Sendak 13 Elinor J. Pinczes 13 13 Shel Silverstein Leo and Diane Dillon

Lunch Feast for 10 The ABC Bunny Possum Come A-Knockin’ Horton Hatches the Egg 14 Denise Fleming 14 Cathryn Falwell 14 Wanda Gag 14 Nancy Van Laan 14 Dr. Seuss One Was Johnny: A Counting This Is the House that Jack Mr. Rabbit and the The Carrot Seed Harry the Dirty Dog 15 Book Built Lovely Present Ruth Krauss 15 15 Gene Zion 15 15 Maurice Sendak Simms Taback Charlotte Zolotow There Was an Old Lady Who One Grain of Rice: Kitten’s First Full Moon Ten Nine Eight The Gigantic Turnip 16 Swallowed a Trout! A Mathematical Folktale Kevin Henkes 16 Molly Bang 16 Aleksei Tolstoy 16 16 Teri Sloat Demi Harold and the Purple The Napping House Green Eggs and Ham Leo the Late Bloomer Six-Dinner Sid 17 Crayon Audrey Wood 17 17 Dr. Seuss 17 Robert Kraus 17 Inga Moore Crockett Johnson

On Market Street In the Tall, Tall Grass Miss Spider’s Tea Party Sheila Rae, the Brave The Salamander Room 18 Arnold Lobel 18 Denise Fleming 18 David Kirk 18 Kevin Henkes 18 Anne Mazer

Ten Black Dots Mr. Gumpy’s Outing Ask Mr. Bear The Empty Pot Umbrella 19 Donald Crews 19 John Burningham 19 Marjorie Flack 19 Demi 19 Taro Yashima Bringing the Rain to Ten Terrible Dinosaurs Guess How Much I Love You The Treasure Too Much Noise 20 Kapiti Plain Paul Stickland 20 Sam McBratney 20 Uri Shulevitz 20 Ann McGovern 20 Verna Aardema

These are books for the student to practice on his or her own. Parents should offer help when needed.

LEVEL 7A LEVEL 6A LEVEL 5A LEVEL 4A LEVEL 3A Museum ABC Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Here Are My Hands Truck Anno’s Counting Book 1 The Metropolitan Museum 1 What Do You See? 1 Bill Martin Jr. and Donald Crews 1 Mitsumasa Anno 1 of Art Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle John Archambault

Pancakes for Breakfast I Went Walking Cookie’s Week 2 Clown Alphabatics 2 2 Tomie dePaola 2 Quentin Blake 2 Suse MacDonald Sue Williams Cindy Ward

The Turn-Around, The Lady with the Alligator Changes, Changes Orange Pear Apple Bear It Looked Like Spilt Milk 3 Upside-Down Alphabet Book 3 3 Purse Pat Hutchins 3 Emily Gravett 3 Charles G. Shaw Lisa Campbell Ernst Nadine Bernard Westcott

Alphabet Explosion! Search and Mary Wore Her Red Dress and The Red Book Frog Goes to Dinner Freight Train 4 Count from Alien to Zebra 4 Henry Wore His Green Sneakers 4 Barbara Lehman 4 Mercer Mayer 4 Donald Crews John Nickle Merle Peek

ABC: A Child’s First Alphabet Free Fall Yo! Yes? Not a Box Drummer Hoff 5 Book 5 5 David Wiesner 5 5 Chris Raschka Antoinette Portis Barbara Emberley Alison Jay

Tuesday Hattie and the Fox We’re Going on a Bear Hunt 6 The New Alphabet of Animals Have You Seen My Cat? 6 6 David Wiesner 6 Christopher Wormell 6 Eric Carle Mem Fox Michael Rosen

The Everything Book Rosie’s Walk More Spaghetti, I Say 7 Alphabet City Rain 7 7 Denise Fleming 7 Stephen T. Johnson 7 Robert Kalan Pat Hutchins Rita Golden Gelman

Do You Want to Be My In the Tall, Tall Grass You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Friend? My Very First Book of Words Mice Squeak, We Speak Very Short Stories to Read Together 8 8 8 8 Denise Fleming 8 Eric Carle Eric Carle Arnold Shapiro Mary Ann Hoberman

KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST

Level 2A ~ Level BII

LEVEL 2A LEVEL AI LEVEL AII LEVEL BI LEVEL BII The One in the Middle Is the The Chick and the Duckling little blue and little yellow May I Bring A Friend? Curious George Takes a Job 1 1 Green Kangaroo Mirra Ginsburg 1 Leo Lionni 1 Beatrice Schenk de Regniers 1 H.A. Rey Judy Blume Nate the Great and the A Hat for Minerva Louise Peter’s Chair A Chair for My Mother The Josefina Story Quilt 2 Snowy Trail 2 Janet Morgan Stoeke 2 Ezra Jack Keats 2 2 Vera B. Williams Eleanor Coerr Marjorie Weinman Sharmat The Easy-to-Read Little The Cable Car and the A Tree Is Nice The Fire Cat Where the Wild Things Are 3 Engine That Could 3 Dragon 3 Janice May Udry 3 Esther Averill 3 Maurice Sendak Watty Piper and Walter Retan Herb Caen Cork & Fuzz: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Peanut Butter and Jelly Arthur’s Pen Pal The Little House 4 Short and Tall 4 Eric Carle 4 Nadine Bernard Westcott 4 4 Lillian Hoban Virginia Lee Burton Dori Chaconas

Jump, Frog, Jump! Madeline Days With Frog and Toad The Golly Sisters Go West The Biggest Bear 5 5 Robert Kalan 5 Ludwig Bemelmans 5 Arnold Lobel 5 Betsy Byars Lynd Ward Aliens for Breakfast The Cat in the Hat Arthur’s Eyes Purple, Green and Yellow The Gardener 6 6 Jonathan Etra and Dr. Seuss 6 Marc Brown 6 Robert Munsch 6 Sarah Stewart Stephanie Spinner

Clifford the Big Red Dog All Kinds of Families Freckle Juice Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Paul Bunyan 7 7 Norman Bridwell 7 Norma Simon 7 Judy Blume 7 Dr. Seuss Steven Kellogg

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Farmer Duck Curious George Flies a Kite Lon Po Po The Drinking Gourd 8 Partridge 8 Martin Waddell 8 Margret Rey 8 8 Ed Young F.N. Monjo Mem Fox There’s a Nightmare in My Herman the Helper Little Bear’s Friend Martha Speaks The New Kid on the Block 9 Closet 9 Robert Kraus 9 Else Holmelund Minarik 9 Susan Meddaugh 9 Jack Prelutsky Mercer Mayer Baby Bear, Baby Bear, Caps for Sale The Story About Ping One of Each Fantastic Mr. Fox 10 What Do You See? 10 10 10 10 Bill Martin Jr. Esphyr Slobodkina Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese Mary Ann Hoberman Roald Dahl Henry and Mudge: The First The Snowy Day Blueberries for Sal Corduroy Fables 11 Book 11 Ezra Jack Keats 11 11 Robert McCloskey 11 Don Freeman Arnold Lobel Cynthia Rylant Nana Upstairs & Nana Snowed In with The Giving Tree Amelia Bedelia Helps Out The Story of Ferdinand 12 Downstairs 12 Grandmother Silk Shel Silverstein 12 Peggy Parish 12 Munro Leaf 12 Tomie dePaola Carol Fenner Why Mosquitoes Buzz in If You Give a Moose a Muffin Good Night, Good Knight Doctor De Soto Amos & Boris 13 People’s Ears 13 Laura Numeroff 13 Shelley Moore Thomas 13 13 William Steig William Steig Verna Aardema Cloudy With a Chance of The Adventures of Taxi Dog Ira Sleeps Over The Mitten The Littles 14 Meatballs 14 Debra and Sal Barracca 14 Bernard Waber 14 14 Alvin Tresselt John Peterson Judi Barrett Here’s a Little Poem The Magic School Bus: The Boy Who Didn’t Believe Flat Stanley: His Original The Hat 15 compiled by Jane Yolen and Inside the Earth in Spring 15 Adventure 15 Jan Brett 15 15 Andrew Fusek Peters Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen Lucille Clifton Jeff Brown

LEVEL CI LEVEL CII LEVEL D LEVEL E LEVEL F Liang and the Magic Owl Moon Jumanji The Wizard of Oz The Princess and the Goblin 1 1 Paintbrush 1 Jane Yolen Chris Van Allsburg 1 L. Frank Baum 1 George MacDonald Demi The Day Gogo Went to Vote: The Girl Who Loved Wild My Diary from Here to There Li Lun, Lad of Courage Alice in Wonderland 2 South Africa, April 1994 2 2 Horses Amada Irma Pérez 2 Carolyn Treffinger 2 Lewis Carroll Eleanor Batezat Sisulu Paul Goble When Jessie Came Across Amazing Grace Sam, Bangs & Moonshine Black Beauty The Red Pony 3 3 the Sea 3 Mary Hoffman Evaline Ness 3 Anna Sewell 3 John Steinbeck Amy Hest The Snow Walker Maple Moon Many Moons Old Yeller Secret of the Andes 4 Margaret K. and Charles M. 4 Connie Brummel Crook & 4 James Thurber 4 Fred Gipson 4 Ann Nolan Clark Wetterer Scott Cameron Kate Shelley and the The Hundred Dresses Eloise Island of the Blue Dolphins The Shakespeare Stealer 5 5 Midnight Express 5 Eleanor Estes Kay Thompson 5 Scott O’Dell 5 Gary Blackwood Margaret K. Wetterer Sadako and the Thousand My Father’s Dragon Charlotte’s Web James and the Giant Peach The House of Dies Drear 6 6 6 Paper Cranes Ruth Stiles Gannett E.B. White 6 Roald Dahl 6 Virginia Hamilton Eleanor Coerr The Fool of the World and The Shrinking of Treehorn Frindle The Enormous Egg A Wizard of Earthsea 7 7 7 the Flying Ship Florence Parry Heide Andrew Clements 7 Oliver Butterworth 7 Ursula K. Le Guin Arthur Ransome Action Jackson Joyful Noise: Poems for Two The Hundred Penny Box It’s Like This, Cat Homesick: My Own Story 8 Jan Greenberg and 8 Voices 8 Sharon Bell Mathis 8 Emily Cheney Neville 8 Jean Fritz Sandra Jordan Paul Fleischman

McBroom’s Wonderful Charlie and the Chocolate Star of Fear, Star of Hope Sarah, Plain and Tall Dicey’s Song 9 9 One-Acre Farm 9 Factory Jo Hoestlandt Patricia MacLachlan 9 9 Cynthia Voigt Sid Fleischman Roald Dahl

The Rough-Face Girl Cinderella The Big Wave Pippi Longstocking Thimble Summer 10 10 10 Rafe Martin Charles Perrault Pearl S. Buck 10 Astrid Lindgren 10 Elizabeth Enright Help! I’m a Prisoner in the Judy Moody Gets Famous Mr. Popper’s Penguins …and now Miguel Bud, Not Buddy 11 11 11 Library! Megan McDonald Richard and Florence Atwater 11 Joseph Krumgold 11 Christopher Paul Curtis Eth Clifford

Encyclopedia Brown Shows A New Coat for Anna One Day in the Prairie Ella Enchanted The Wheel on the School 12 12 12 the Way Harriet Ziefert Jean Craighead George Gail Carson Levine 12 12 Meindert DeJong Donald J. Sobol

The Lion, the Witch and the Bunnicula The Chalk Box Kid Mama’s Bank Account Sounder 13 13 13 Wardrobe Deborah and James Howe Clyde Robert Bulla Kathryn Forbes 13 13 William H. Armstrong C.S. Lewis

From the Mixed-up Files of The Orchestra Stone Fox Henry Reed, Inc. Walk Two Moons 14 14 14 Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Mark Rubin John Reynolds Gardiner Keith Robertson 14 Sharon Creech 14 E.L. Konigsburg Mrs. Frisby and the Rats Knights in Shining Armor Old Mother West Wind Maniac Magee The Wind in the Willows 15 15 15 of NIMH Gail Gibbons Thornton W. Burgess 15 Jerry Spinelli 15 Kenneth Grahame

Robert C. O’Brien

The Phantom Tollbooth The Borrowers Harriet the Spy 16 Norton Juster 16 Mary Norton 16 Louise Fitzhugh

The Doll’s House Bridge to Terabithia Number the Stars 17 Rumer Godden 17 Katherine Paterson 17 Lois Lowry The Invention of Tuck Everlasting Strawberry Girl 18 Hugo Cabret 18 Natalie Babbitt 18 Lois Lenski Brian Selznick

My Side of the Mountain 19 By the Great Horn Spoon! Black Ships Before Troy Jean Craighead George 19 Sid Fleischman 19 Rosemary Sutcliff Escape: The Story of the The Little Prince Tatterhood and Other Tales 20 Great Houdini Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 20 Ethel Johnston Phelps 20 Sid Fleischman

KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST

Level G ~ Level I

LEVEL G LEVEL H LEVEL I

A Wrinkle in Time Jacob Have I Loved 1 Fahrenheit 451 Madeleine L’Engle 1 Katherine Paterson 1 Ray Bradbury

Caddie Woodlawn 2 The Secret Garden Code Talker Carol Ryrie Brink 2 Frances Hodgson Burnett 2 Joseph Bruchac

Boy 3 The Hobbit The Time Machine Roald Dahl 3 J.R.R. Tolkien 3 H.G. Wells

The Yearling 4 Kidnapped The Color of Magic Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 4 Robert Louis Stevenson 4 Terry Pratchett

Julie of the Wolves 5 The Old Man and the Sea Watership Down Jean Craighead George 5 Ernest Hemingway 5 Richard Adams

The Giver King of the Wind Jane Eyre 6 6 Lois Lowry Marguerite Henry 6 Charlotte Brontë

I, Robot 7 Fever, 1793 The Beekeeper’s Apprentice Isaac Asimov 7 Laurie Halse Anderson 7 Laurie R. King The Hound of the Song of the Buffalo Boy Cry, the Beloved Country 8 Baskervilles Sherry Garland 8 Alan Paton 8 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Extraordinary Amos Fortune: Free Man David Copperfield 9 Adventures of Arsène Lupin Elizabeth Yates 9 9 Charles Dickens Maurice Leblanc The Adventures of The Story of My Life Frankenstein 10 Tom Sawyer 10 10 Mark Twain Helen Keller Mary Shelley

The Diary of a Young Girl 11 So Much to Tell You To Kill a Mockingbird Anne Frank 11 John Marsden 11 Harper Lee The Race to Save the Around the World in archy and mehitabel 12 Lord God Bird Eighty Days 12 12 Don Marquis Phillip Hoose Jules Verne Shipwreck at the A Christmas Carol I, Juan de Pareja 13 Bottom of the World Charles Dickens 13 13 Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Jennifer Armstrong

Chinese Cinderella 14 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Across Five Aprils Adeline Yen Mah 14 Mildred D. Taylor 14 Irene Hunt Farewell to Manzanar The Other Side of Truth Daddy-Long-Legs 15 Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Beverley Naidoo 15 Jean Webster 15 & James D. Houston

LEVEL J LEVEL K LEVEL L A White Heron and Other The Spy Who Came In from 101 Great American Poems 1 Stories the Cold 1 1 Various authors Sarah Orne Jewett John Le Carré Great Tales and Poems of Songs of Innocence and My Family and Other Animals 2 Edgar Allan Poe Songs of Experience Gerald Durrell 2 2 Edgar Allan Poe William Blake Lyrical Ballads The World’s Greatest Short The Bridge of San Luis Rey William Wordsworth and Stories 3 Thornton Wilder 3 3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Various authors The Strange Case of The Awakening and Selected Hamlet 4 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stories of Kate Chopin 4 William Shakespeare 4 Robert Louis Stevenson Kate Chopin 20,000 Leagues Under Ethan Frome Lord of the Flies 5 the Sea 5 Edith Wharton 5 William Golding Jules Verne The Waste Land Go Tell It on the Mountain King Oedipus 6 and Other Poems James Baldwin 6 Sophocles 6 T.S. Eliot The Importance of Being Annie John Macbeth 7 Earnest and Other Plays Jamaica Kincaid 7 7 William Shakespeare Oscar Wilde

Pride and Prejudice A Midsummer Night’s Dream Uncle Tom’s Cabin 8 Jane Austen 8 William Shakespeare 8 Harriet Beecher Stowe The Adventures of Night Death of a Salesman 9 Huckleberry Finn 9 Elie Wiesel 9 Arthur Miller Mark Twain The French Lieutenant’s A Separate Peace Brave New World 10 Woman John Knowles 10 Aldous Huxley 10 John Fowles