Lorien Wood Summer Reading Book List We have compiled this preliminary list as an aid to help you choose excellent summer reading books with your child. We encourage you to have reading time for a half hour five days a week. Enjoy your reading! Read-aloud Books for Rising Kindergarteners Ihe Rose's SmrTe; Farizad of the Arabian Nights, David Kheridian rhestrang'":s{;x'nz',r;:,';:::::[t""""iasker Butterflies for Kiri, Cathryn Falwell D Is for Drums: A Colonial Williamsburg ABC, Kay Chorao The Serpent Came to Gloucester, M.T. Anderson The Spider and the Fly, Mary Howitt Just Add One Chinese Sisfe4, Patricia McMahon Just Plain Fancy, Patricia Polacco The Great Stone Face, retold by Gary Schmidt Tea with Milk, Allen Say Butterflies for Kiri, Cathryn Falwell Zoom Upstream, Tim Wynne-Jones The Time of the Lion, Carolyn Pitcher The Gift of the Crocodile, Judy Sierra The Bobbin Girl, Emily Arnold McCully The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne Rarse/'s Riddle, Erica Silverman King Arihur: The Sword in the Stone, King Arthur and the Round Table, Excalibur, Hudson Talbott A Sh/p's Caf, Richard Adams Robin Hook, Pirate Hunter, Eric Kimmel Saint George and the Dragon, Margaret Hodges Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent, How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head, Bill Peet The Quiltmakef s Gift, Jeff Brumbeau The Tailor of Gloucester, Beatrix Potter The Young Lancelof, Robert San Souci Cinderella, K.Y. Craft Marie in Fourth Position, Amy Littlesugar Anna the Bookbinder, Andrea Cheng William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dennis Coville Swan Lake, ill. Lisbeth Zwerger The Trojan Horse, Wanruick Hutton Pegasus, Marianna Mayer The Snow Queen, Andersen/ P.J. Lynch The Pied Piper, Mercer Mayer The Memory Coat, Elvira Woodruff Ma Deaf s Aprons, Patricia McKissack The Twelve Labors of Hercules, James Riordan Up the Learning Tree, Marcia Vaughn Hana in the Time of Tulips, Deborah Noyes Snow White, Trina Schart Hyman Rapunzel, Rumplestiltskin, Paul . O. Zelinsky The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Beauty and the Beast, Marianna Mayer The Pirate Queens, Jane Yolen Hansel and Gretel Rika Lesser The Mare on the Hill, Thomas Locker Emily, Michael Bedard Moses; Noah; A Apple Pie, rll. Gennady Spirin Exodus, Joseph, Brian Wildsmith The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Margaret Sidney Grimm's Fairy Tales Andersen's Fairy Tales Aesop's Fables The Blue and the Gray, Eve Bunting The Emperols New Clothes, Andersen, translated by Naomi Lewis, illustrated by Angela Barrett l, Crocodile, Fred Marcellino The Bat in the Boot, Annie Cannon Lorien Wood Summer Reading Book List We have compiled this preliminary list as an aid to help you choose excellent summer reading books with your child. We encourage you to have reading time for a half hour five days a week. There are suggestions for every reading level. lt is ideal if the reading is a mix of the child reading aloud, the child reading silently and a parent reading to the child. Enjoy your readingl (Books with an asterisk denote that the book is part of a series. ) Form 1 (Rising First) Beginning Readers *Two Silly Trolls, Silly Times with Silly Trolls, Nancy Jewell George the Drummer Boy, Nathaniel Benchley Hi! Fly Guy, Tedd Arnold Baby Wolf, Mary Batten Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Presenf, Charlotte Zolotow Romulus and Remus, Anne Rockwell *Frog and Toad, Robert Lobel *Mr. Putter and Tabby Write the Book, Mr. Putter and Tabby Bake the Cake, Cynthia Rylant The Flying Horse: The Story of Pegasus, Jane Mason *Sheep Out to Eaf, Nancy Shaw Vessie Bear, What Will You Wear?, Nancy White Carlstrom The Little Country Town, Jandelyn Southwell Bunny Cakes, Rosemary Wells Titch, Pat Hutchins *Bedtime for Frances, Russell Hoban Beware, Beware, Susan Hill Developing Readers Who Built the Pyramids? Meredith Hooper Poppington; Mr. Putter and Tabby, Cynthia Rylant Sluggef s Car Wash, Stuart J. Murphy Wild, Wild Wolves,Joyce Milton The Bravest Cat, Laura Driscoll Where are the Night Animals? Mary Ann Fraser First Flight: The story of rom T{e and the wright Brothers, George Shea The Big Balloon Race, Eteanor Coerr Too Many Babas, Carolyn Croll Wagon Wheels, Barbara Brenner Kn ig hts, Catherine Daly-Weir The Animal Rescue Club, John Himmelman Gargoyles: Monsters in sfone, Jennifer Dussring Make way for Ducklings, Blueberries for sal, Robert wliclostey Dragon scares and wiilow Leaves, Terryr Givens Mike Mulligan and His sfeam shovel, Virginia Burton Lee The Egg, M.p. Robertson *Bread and Jam for Frances, Russell Hoban Edward and the pirates, David Mcphail Leah's Pony, Elizabeth Friedrich *No Foal Yef, Jessie Haas Washington lruing,s R/p Van Winkle, Lara Bergen ._ Hejdi, adapted by Lucy Coats Thy Friend, Obadiah, Brinton Turkle peter and the Wolf, Vladimir Vagin The schoolchildren's Blizzard, Marty Rhodes Fisher Toads and Diamonds, Charlotte Huck The Batile for st. Michael's, Emiry Arnord Mccuily The Legend of sleepy Hollow, retold by Diane wolkstein Buffalo Bill and the pony Express, ching,s paper pony, Eleanor Coerr Abe Lincoln's Hat, Martha Brenner Wagon Train, Sydelle Kramer Red, White and Blue, John Herman Sfone Soup, Marcia Brown L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, M.c. Heildorfer Marmee's surprise, adapted by Monica Kuiling A Chair For My Mother, Vera B. Williams The Long Way to a New Land, *The Joan Sandin Mystery of Foghorn lsland, Geoffrey Hayes Dust for Dinner Ann Turner Allen Jay and the lJnderground Railroad, Marlene Targ Brill prairie Lewis and clark: A Dog for the president, shirlei Raye Redmond Read-aloud Books Boy, Were We Wrong about Dinosaursl Kathleen V. Kudlinski The Hero Beowulf , Eric A. Kimmel Just Add One Chinese Sisfer, Patricia McMahon A Medieval Feasf, Aliki Bill Pickett, Rodeo Ridin' Cowboy, Andrea D. Pinkney Beatrix Potter, Alexandra Wallner The Story of Ruby Bridges, Robert Coles *The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, Beatrix Potter Young Mozart, Rachel lsadora The Book of Dragons, E. Nesbit lnto the Forest, Anthony Browne The Rose's Sm/e: Farizad of the Arabian Nights, David Kheridian The Strange Voyage of Neptune's Car, Joe Lasker Love as Sfrong as Ginger, Lenore Look Just Plain Fancy, Patricia Polacco D ls for Drums: A Colonial Williamsburg ABC, Kay Chorao The Serpent Came to Gloucester, M.T. Anderson The Spider and the Fly, Mary Howitt The Greaf Sfone Face, retold by Gary Schmidt Tea with Milk, Allen Say *Zoom Upstream. Tim Wynne-Jones The Time of the Lion, Carolyn Pitcher The Gift of the Crocodile, Judy Sierra The Bobbin Girl, Emily Arnold McCully The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne Raise/'s Riddle, Erica Silverman *King Arthur: The Sword in the Stone,*King Arthur and the Round Table, * Excalibur, Hudson Talbott A Sh,p's Caf, Richard Adams Robin Hook, Pirate Hunter, Eric Kimmel Saint George and the Dragon, Margaret Hodges Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Se4pent, How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head, Bill Peet *The Quiltmakef s Gift, Jeff Brumbeau The Tailor of Gloucester, Beatrix Potter 'The Young Lancelof, Robeft San Souci Cinderella, K.Y. Craft Marie in Fourth Position, Amy Littlesugar Anna the Bookbinder, Andrea Cheng William shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dennis Coville Swan Lake, ill. Lisbeth Zwerger The Trojan Horse, Wanrvick Hutton Pegasus, Marianna Mayer The Snow Queen, Andersen/ P.J. Lynch The Pied Piper, Mercer Mayer The Memory Coat, Elvira Woodruff Ma Deals Aprons, Patricia McKissack The Twelve Labors of Hercules, James Riordan Up the Learning Tree, Marcia Vaughn Hana in the Time of Tulips, Deborah Noyes Snow White, Trina Schart Hyman Rapunzel, Rumplestiltskin, Paul . O. Zelinsky The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Beauty and the Beasf, Marianna Mayer The Pirate Queens, Jane Yolen Hansel and Gretel Rika Lesser The Mare on the Hill, Thomas Locker Emily, Michael Bedard Moses, Noah, ill. Gennady Spirin Exodus, Joseph, Brian Wildsmith The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Margaret Sidney Grimm's Fairy Tales Andersen's Fairy Tales Aesop's Fables The Blue and the Gray, Eve Bunting The Emperof s New Clothes, Andersen, translated by Naomi Lewis, illustrated by Angela Barrett l, Crocodile, Fred Marcellino The Bat in the Boot, Annie Cannon Form Two (Rising Second and Rising Third) Beginner Readers Abigail Adams, Alexandra Wallner Roughing lt on the Oregon Trail, Diane Stanley The Man Who Loved Books, Jean Fritz A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus, A Picture Book of Sacajawea, David A. Adler I Tiger Tales and Big cat stories, Deborah chancellor Journey of a Humpback Whale, Caryn Jenner Plants Bite Bac& Richard platt Shoe/ess Joe and Black Betsy, phil Bildner Be atrix, Jeanette Winter The Saracen Maid, Leon Garfield This Time, Tempe Wick? patricia Lee Gauch *The lnk Drinker, Eric Sanvoisin Daughter of Liberty, Robert euackenbush Sam the Minuteman, Nathaniel Benchley When Jessie Came Across the Sea, Amy Hest Kate shelley and the Midnight Express, Margaret K. wetterer Katie's Trunk, Ann Turner Aladdin an-d the Magic Lamp, Deborah Hautzig The Story of Columbus, Anita Ganeri The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the tJnderground Railroad, F. N. Monjo The Blue Hill Meadows, Cynthia Rylant Ben Franklin and the Magic squares, Frank Murphy Developing Readers Tentaclesl rales of Giant squid, shirley Raye Redmond Pyramids and Mummies, Seymour Simon The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks won the war, Emily Litfle Roman Numerals I to MM, Arthur Geisert Sky Tree, Thomas Locker Grace the Pirate, Kathryn Lasky Secref Seyen Adventure, Enid Blyton Betsy-Tacy, Maud Lovelace *The Happy Orpheline, Natalie Savage *Little Carlson House in the Big woods, Laura lngalls wilder The Velveteen Rabbit, Marjorie Williams Bianco George Washington's Breakfasf, Jean Fritz 'All-of a Kind Family, Sidney Taylor Casting the Gods Adrift, Geraldine McCaughrean .Billy and Blaze, Clarence William Anderson Secure Readers clara BarTon and Her victory over Fear, Robert euackenbush *The *Henry Mouse and the Motorcycle, Huggins.