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 ©2016 Kumon Institute of Education Reproduction in any format is strictly prohibited. KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST - Level 7A ~ Level 3A 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 Alphabet City Rain Rosie’s Walk More Spaghetti, I Say 7 7 7 7 7 Denise Fleming Stephen T. Johnson 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 ©2016 Kumon Institute of Education Reproduction in any format is strictly prohibited. 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 ©2016 Kumon Institute of Education Reproduction in any format is strictly prohibited.