Recommended Books to Read with Your Child! Title Author Book A Chair For My Mother Vera Williams Bread and Jam for Frances Russell Hoban Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Bill Martin Jr. Chrysanthemum Kevin Henkes Doctor DeSoto William Steig Frog and Toad Arnold Lobel Arthur (series) Marc Brown Harold and the Purple Crayon Crockett Johnson Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins Eric Kimmel A Hole Is to Dig Ruth Krauss Horton Hears a Who Dr. Suess If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Laura Numeroff Jumanji Chris Van Allsburg Lon Po Po Ed Young Madeline Ludwig Bemelmans Make Way for Ducklings Robert McCloskey Miss Nelson is Missing! Harry Allrad and James Marshall Miss Rumphius Barbara Cooney The Mitten Jan Brett Olivia Ian Falconer The Ox Cart Man Donald Hall Peter Rabbit (the Tales of) Beatrix Potter The Polar Express Chris Van Allsburg The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats The Spider and the Fly Mary Howitt The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Varda Aadema Peoples Ears The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown Love You Forever Robert Munsch The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Sylvester and the Magic Pebble William Steig The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Blueberries for Sal Robert McCloskey Stellaluna Janell Cannon Owl Moon Jane Yolen The Snowman Raymond Briggs No, David David Shannon The Keeping Quilt Patricia Polacco The Little Engine That Could Watty Piper Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss Curious George H.A. and Margaret Ray Read With Dick and Jane: Grosset and Dunlap Go Away Spot Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Bill Martin Jr. Do You See My Many Colored Day Dr. Seuss The Cat In the Hat Dr. Seuss There Is a Wocket in My Pocket Dr. Seuss Fire! Fire! Said Mrs. McGuire Bill Martin Jr. ABC I Like Me! Nancy Carlson Hippos Go Berserk Sandra Boynton Engine, Engine, Number Nine Stephanie Calmenson Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Jack Prelutsky Very Young Down By the Bay Raffi Words Bird’s Hats (Word Bird’s Jane Moncure for Early Birds) Word Bird’s Fall Words Jane Moncure Miss Spider’s ABC David Kirk The Icky Bug Alphabet Book Jerry Pallotto The Hullabaloo ABC Beverly Cleary So Many Sounds Dana Meachen Rau My “f” Sound Box Jane Moncure The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin All in the Woodland Early: Jane Yolen An ABC Book Six Sleepy Sheep Jeffie Ross Gordon People in My Community Jacqueline Laks Gorman (series) Ape Cape Pam Scheuneman More Bugs in Boxes David Carter Who Is Tapping at My Window A G Deming Bear in a Square Stella Blackstone The Story of Babar, the Little Jean de Brunoff Elephant Dear Zoo Rod Campbell Freight Train Donald Crews Click, Clack, Moo: Doreen Cronin Cows That Type Strega Nona: An Old Tale Tomie DePaola Olivia Ian Falconer Ask Mr. Bear Marjorie Flack How Are You Peeling? : Foods and Moods Saxton Freymann Is Your Mama a Llama? Deborah Guarino Look! Look! Look! Tana Hoban Rosie’s Walk Pat Hutchins Alphabet City Stephen Johnson Mama, Do You Love Me? Barbara Joosse George Shrinks William Joyce The Dog Who Cried Wolf Keiko Kaszo The Carrot Seed Ruth Krause Tacky the Penguin Helen Lester Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo Kevin Lewis Frederick Leo Lionni Froggy Gets Dressed Jonathan London There’s a Nightmare in My Closet Mercer Mayer Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney Flossie & the Fox Pat McKissack Zin, Zin, Zin!: A Violin Lloyd Moss The Peace Book Todd Parr 10 Minutes Till Bedtime Peggy Rathman We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Michael Rosen Grandfather’s Journey Allen Say The True Story of the Three Little Jon Scieszka Pigs It Looked Like Spilt Milk Charles Shaw Caps for Sale Esphyr Slobodkina There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Sims Taback Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day Judith Viorst The Lady With the Alligator Purse Nadine Westcott The Napping House Audrey Wood How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight Jane Yolen The Hello, Goodbye Window Norton Juster Abuela Arthur Dorros Bark, George Jules Feiffer A Chair for My Mother Vera Williams Come Along, Daisy! Jane Simmons Corduroy Don Freeman Dinosaur Roar! Paul Strickland Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Mo Williams Duck on a Bike David Shannon Go Away, Big Green Monster Ed Emberley Good Night, Gorilla Peggy Rathman Harry the Dirty Dog Gene Zion Horton Hatches the Egg Dr. Seuss Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse Kevin Henkes The Man Who Walked Between the Towers Mordicai Gerstein Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! Candace Fleming Old Black Fly Jim Aylesworth Owen Kevin Henkes Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me Eric Carle Rumpelstiltskin Paul Zelinsky The Stray Dog Marc Simont Swimmy Leo Lionni Sylvester and the Magic Pebble William Steig The Three Bears Paul Galdone Tuesday David Wiesner The Wheels on the Bus Paul Zelinsky Where’s Spot Eric Hill Wolf’s Chicken Stew Keiko Kasza A Pocket Full of Kisses Audrey Penn Apple’s and Pumpkins Anne Rockwell Clifford, The Big Red Dog Norm Bridwell Finklehopper Frog Irene Livingston Giggle, Giggle, Quack Doreen Cronin Froggy Goes to School Jonathan London Froggy Learns to Swim Jonathan London Hooray for You: A Celebration of “You-ness” Marianne Richmond How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Jane Yolen Soon Hug Jez Alborough I Love You All the Time Jessica Elin Hirschman Because I Love You So Much Guido Van Genechten I Spy Shapes in Art Lucy Mickelthwait Let’s Get Ready for Kindergarten Linda Desimowich Let’s Get Ready for First Grade Linda Desimowich Miss Spider’s Tea Party David Kirk Mouse’s First Day of School Lauren Thompson Olive, The Other Reindeer J. Otto Seibold Sadie and the Snowman Allan Morgan Sleep Tight, Little Mouse Mary Morgan Snowmen at Night Caralyn Buehner Something Special for Me Vera B. Williams Stranger in the Woods Carl R. Sams Tell Me Again About the Night I was Born Jamie Lee Curtis The Feelings Storybook Alexandra Delis-Abrams The Golden Egg Book A.J. Wood The Grouchy Ladybug Eric Carle The Little Old Lady Who was not Afraid of Nothing Linda Williams The Rainbow Fish Marcus Pfister The Very Busy Spider Eric Carle This First Thanksgiving Day, A Counting Story Laura Krauss Melmed Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day Jamie Lee Curtis Tooth Fairy Tales Deb Capone T’was the Night Before Thanksgiving Dav Pilkey Wake Up, It’s Spring Lisa Campbell Ernst What A Day at School it Was Jack Prelutsky What Can I Do Today? Allison Stoutland What if There Were No Colors? Cindy Thurmond When I Was Little: A Four-Year Old’s Memoir of Her Youth Jamie Lee Curtis Who’s That Knocking on Jan Brett Christmas Eve You Read To Me, I’ll Read to Mary Ann Hoberman You What I Like About Me! A Celebration of Differences Allia Zobel-Nolan .