Positive and Fun Books to Read Together

•  Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willems

• And I Mean It, Stanley by Crosby Bonsall

• Arthur series by Marc Brown

•  A Bad Case of the Stripes by David Shannon

•  Berenstain Bear series by Jan and Stan Berenstain

•  Clifford series by Norman Bridwell

• Dinosaur Time by Peggy Parish

•  The Eye Book by Theo LeSieg

• Franklin series by Paulette Bourgeois

•  Froggy series by Jonathan London

• Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

• Hi! Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold

• How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long

• Little Critter series by Mercer Mayer

• Morris the Moose by Bernard Wiseman

•  Nate the Great series by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

•  Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

• The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

• The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

• There's an Alligator under My Bed by Mercer Mayer 

• Freckle Juice by Judy Blume

• Press Here by Hervé Tullet 

• The Retired Kid by Jon Agee

• How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships by Steve Jenkins,  Robin Page

• Bats at the Beach by Brian Lies 

• Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows

• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Learning to Read Series

• Hello Reader!

•  I Can Read Books

• Puffin Easy-to-Read

• Step Into Reading Levels 1–4

• National Geographic Readers

Alphabet Books

• Animalia by Graeme Baese

•  The Icky Bug Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta 

• Z Was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg

Math in Picture Books

• How Much Is a Million? by David M. Schwartz

• Ten Sly Piranhas: A Counting Story in Reverse, (A Tale of Wickedness—and Worse!) by William Wise

• When Sheep Cannot Sleep by Satoshi Kitamura

• 365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental

Read Aloud to a First Grader

•  Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus

• The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

•  Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey 

• When Will I Read? by Miriam Cohen

• A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

• Charlotte's Web by E.B. White,  Garth Williams

Award Winners

• Alphabet City by Stephen Johnson

• Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove

• The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster and Chris Raschka

• Owen by Kevin Henkes

• The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

• A Story, A Story by Gail E. Haley

• The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes

Awesome Authors

• Eric Carle 

• Dr. Seuss

• Maurice Sendak 

• Shel Silverstein 

• Mo Willems

• Gail Gibbons

• Laura Numeroff

• Kevin Henkes 

• Chris Van Allsburg

• Jan Brett