2018 Summer Reading Suggestions For Those Entering Grade 1 Beginner Readers Arnold Fly Guy (series) Berenstain Berenstain Bears Play Football (I Can Read) Boelts Dogerella Bond Paddington Sets Sail (I Can Read series) Bunting My Robot; Frog and Friends stories Capucilli Biscuit (I Can Read series) Catalanotto Monkey & Robot Clayton Narwhal Unicorn of the Sea Picture Books Day Carl and the Kitten; Carl….Puppies (series) Beaty Rosie Revere Engineer; Iggy Peck Architect Dean Pete the Cat (I Can Read series) Briggs Snowflake Bentley (picture book biography) Himmelman Tales of Bunjitsu Bunny (series) Brumbeau The Quiltmaker's Gift Hoff Danny and the Dinosaur (series) Cole Magic School Bus (series) Kann ` Pinkalicious (series) Daywalt The Day the Crayons Quit Medearis The 100th Day of School de la Pena Last Stop on Market Street Marshall Fox in Love (series) DePaola Strega Nona (and many others) Nolen Block Party Surprise; Backyard Camp-out DiPucchio Grace for President O’Connor Fancy Nancy (I Can Read series) Funke The Princess Knight; Pirate Girl Parish Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read series) French Yucky Worms Rylant Henry and Mudge (series) Hesse Come On, Rain Hoffman Amazing Grace (and others) Schneider Tales for Very Picky Eaters Inches Adventures of a Plastic Bottle Scotton Splat the Cat (series) Lin The Ugly Vegetables Willems Elephant and Piggie (series) Madison Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly Ziefert Harry Takes a Bath (series) Mattick Finding Winnie: true story of world’s most famous bear McNulty If you Decide to Go to the Moon Muth Zen Shorts Chapter Books to Read Aloud Polacco Meteor! (and others) Blume Freckle Juice Reynolds Creepy Carrots Cameron The Stories Julian Tells; Gloria’s Way Rocco Blizzard; Blackout Cleary Ramona the Pest (and others) Spinelli Sophie’s Masterpiece Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Steig The Amazing Bone (and others) DiCamillo Tale of Despereaux Stevens Cook-A-Doodle-Do!; Tops and Bottoms Van Dusen If I Built a House; If I Built a Car Jenkins Toys Go Out Winter Here Comes the Garbage Barge Kurtz Adventures of a South Pole Pig Woodson This is the Rope Lin Year of the Rat Lowry Gooney Bird Greene (and sequels) Caldecott Medal Winners Martin The Doll People (and sequels) For Best Illustrations in a Children’s Book Milne The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh 2018 Wolf in the Snow Cordell Osborne Magic Tree House (series) 2017 Radiant Child Steptoe Roy A to Z Mysteries (series) 2016 Finding Winnie Mattick Rylant Gooseberry Park (and sequel) 2015 Adventures of Beekle Santat Van de Velde 8 Class Pets + 1 Squirrel ….= Chaos 2014 Locomotive Floca Warner Absolutely Alfie and the Furry, Purry Secret 2013 This is Not My Hat Klassen White Charlotte’s Web; Trumpet of the Swan 2012 A Ball for Daisy Raschka These books are just suggestions, mostly “The single most important activity for building the fiction. Many children love to read nonfiction knowledge required for eventual success in reading is books. Let your child’s interests guide you. reading aloud to children. It is a practice that should Visit your local library for summer continue throughout the grades.” U.S. Dept. of Education, Commission on Reading programs and more great books! .