Book Recommendations

Fiction

• Biscuit and the Lost Teddy- Alyssa Satin Capucilli
• Mr. Putter & Tabby Clear the Decks- Cynthia Rylant
• Touchdown!- Alyson Heller
• You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Fables to Read Together- Mary Ann Hoberman
• Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same!- Grace Lin
• Just a Little Sick- Mercer Mayer
• Fancy Nancy: My Family History- Jane O’Connor
• Trucks Line Up- Jon Scieszka
• Bad Kitty Meets the Baby- Nick Bruel
• Arthur (series) – Marc Brown
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle
• The Grouchy Ladybug – Eric Carle
• The Great Kapok Tree – Lynne Cherry
• Ramona (series) – Beverly Cleary
• Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type – Doreen Cronin
• The Empty Pot – Demi
• Amber Brown (series) – Paula Danziger
• Planting a Rainbow – Lois Ehlert
• The Doorbell Rang – Pat Hutchins
• The Snowy Day – Ezra Jack Keats
• Leo the Late Bloomer – Robert Kraus
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? – Bill Martin, Jr.
• Junie B. Jones (series) – Barbara Park
• The Stories Julian Tells (series) – Ann Cameron
• The Complete Adventures of Curious George – H.A. and Margret Rey
• Henry and Mudge (series) – Cynthia Rylant
• The Relatives Came – Cynthia Rylant
• A Bad Case of Stripes – David Shannon
• The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Judith Viorst
• Frog and Toad – Arnold Lobel
• The Berenstain Bears (series) – Stan and Jan Berenstain
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Judi Barrett
• Chrysanthemum – Kevin Henkes
• Tuesday – David Wiesner
• Miss Nelson is Missing! – Harry Allard
• Goodnight, Moon – Margaret Brown

Non-Fiction

• Hello, Baby Beluga- Darrin Lunde
• Plants Grow!- Mary Dodson Wade
• Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow?- Susan A. Shea
• Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man – David Adler
• Corn is Maize – Alikirinkleroot (series) – Jim Arnosky
• Tell Me, Tree: All About Trees for Kids – Gail Gibbons
• Many Nations: An Alphabet of Native America – Joseph Bruchac
• The Magic School Bus (series) – Joanna Cole
• Animal Dads – Sneed B. Collard
• The Story of Ruby Bridges – Robert Coles
• Ten Black Dots – Donald Crews
• Me on the Map – Joan Sweeney
• Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Doreen Rappaport
• Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman – Kathleen Krull
• Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones (World of Nature Series) – Ruth Heller
• Exactly the Opposite – Tana Hoban
• Snowflake Bentley – Jacqueline Briggs Martin
• The Dinosaur Alphabet Book – Jerry Palotta
• Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman – Alan Schroeder

Poetry

• Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
• Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom – Bill Martin, Jr.
• Honey I Love, and Other Poems – Eloise Greenfield
• Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
• Insectlopedia – Douglas Florian
• A Pizza the Size of the Sun – Jack Prelutsky
• Dizzy Dinosaurs: Silly Dino Poems- Hopkins, Lee Bennett
• Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems- Kristine O'Connell George
• The Great Migration: Journey to the North- Eloise Greenfield

Folklore and Fantasy

• Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain – Verna Aardema
• Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale – Verna Aardema
• The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale – Jan Brett
• The Story of the Milky Way: A Cherokee Tale – Joseph Bruchac
• Strega Nona – Tommie de Paola
• Anansi and the Talking Melon – Eric A. Kimmel
• The Story of Ferdinand – Munro Leaf
• Catwings – Ursula Le Guin
• Tikki Tikki Tembo – Arlene Mosel
• The Littles (series) – John Peterson
• The Ugly Duckling – Hans Christian Anderson and Jerry Pinkney
• Abiyoyo – Pete Seeger
• Where The Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
• Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters – John Steptoe
• Tops and Bottoms – Janet Stevens
• The Warrior and the Wise Man – David Wisniewski
• Sleeping Ugly – Jane Yolen
• Dinosaurs Before Dark – Mary Pope Osborne
• My Father’s Dragon – Ruth Stiles Gannett

Graphic Fiction

• Luke on the Loose- Harry Bliss
• The Adventures of Polo- Régis Faller
• Airplane Adventure – Cari Meister
• Benny and Penny in the Big No-No!- Geoffrey Hayes
• Binky to the Rescue- Ashley Spires
• Captain Raptor and the Space Pirates -Kevin O'Malley and Patrick O'Brien
• A Day at the Fire Station- Lori Mortensen
• Hamster and Cheese- Colleen Venable
• Johnny Boo: The Best Little Ghost in the World!- James Kochalka
• Korgi: Book 1- Christian Slade
• Little Mouse Gets Ready- Jeff Smith
• The Meeting- Brigitte Luciani
• Otto's Orange Day -Jay Lynch
• Owly: The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer- Andy Runton
• Patrick in a Teddy Bear's Picnic and Other Stories- Geoffrey Hayes
• You Can't Take a Balloon into the Museum of Fine Arts- Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman
• Rick & Rack and the Great Outdoors- Ethan Long
• Silly Lilly and the Four Seasons- Agnès Rosenstiehl

Fiction

• Because of Winn Dixie – Kate DiCamillo
• Frindle – Andrew Clements
• A Week in the Woods – Andrew Clements
• Ramona (Series) – Beverly Cleary
• Judy Moody (series) – Megan McDonald
• Maniac Magee – Jerry Spinelli
• Fly Away Home – Eve Bunting
• The Stories Huey Tells and The Stories Julian Tells (series) – Ann Cameron
• Freckle Juice – Judy Blume
• Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing – Judy Blume
• Stone Fox – John Reynolds Gardiner
• The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Goosebumps (series) – R.L. Stine
• In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson – Bette Boa Lord
• The Children of Green Knowe (series)– Lucy Boston
• Old Yeller – Fred Gipson
• The Nancy Drew Series – Carolyn G. Keene
• Chocolate Fever – Robert Kimmel Smith
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
• Rules – Cynthia Lord

Fantasy/Folklore

• Space Race – Sylvia Waugh
• The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse – Bruce Hale
• The Great Good Thing – Roderick Townley
• The Doll People – Ann M. Martin
• I, Houdini – Lynne Reid Banks
• The Indian in the Cupboard – Lynne Reid Banks
• The Secret of Platform 13 – Eva Ibbotson
• Abel’s Island – William Steig
• James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
• The BFG – Roald Dahl
• The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
• Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
• Castle in the Attic – Elizabeth Winthrop
• Magic Tree House (series) – Mary Pope Osborne
• Cricket in Times Square – George Selden
• The Wizard of Oz – Frank L. Baum
• Under the Bridge – Ellen Kindt McKenzie

Historical Fiction

• Meet Kit: An American Girl – 1934 – Valerie Tripp
• Love From Your Friend, Hannah – Mindy Warshaw Skolsky
• Sarah, Plain and Tall – Patricia MacLachlan
• Little House on the Prairie (series) – Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes – Eleanor Coerr
• Understood Betsy – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• The Birchback House – Louise Erdrich
• The Night Journey – Kathryn Lasky
• Grasshopper Summer – Ann Turner
• Boxcar Children – Gertrude Chandler Warner
• Our Only May Amelia – Jennifer L. Holm
• Follow the Drinking Gourd – Jeanette Winter
• Hattie Big Sky – Kirby Larson
• Show Way – Jacqueline Woodson

Science Fiction

• I’m Out Of My Body – Leave Me A Message – Dan Greenburg
• The Dog That Pitched A No Hitter – Matt Christopher
• The Package in Hyperspace – Janet Asimov and John Gampert
• The Computer Nut – Betsy Byars
• Frankenbug – Steven Cousins
• The Classroom at the End of the Hall – Douglas Evans
• My Life Among Aliens – Gail Gauthier
• Nose Pickers from Outer Space – Gordan Korman
• The Time Warp Trio – Jon Scieszka
• Shadows in the Water – Kathryn Lasky
• The Sword of Aradel – Alexander Key
• The Moorchild – Eloise McGraw
• Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery – Deborah and James Howe

Poetry

• Lemonade, and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word- Bob Raczka
• Where The Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
• From Sea To Shining Sea – Amy T. Cohn
• In A River Valley – Josette Frank
• Hand in Hand: An American History Through Poetry – Lee Bennett Hopkins
• Bringing Me News – Mary O’Neill
• The New Kid On The Block – Jack Prelutsky
• Something Big Has Been Here – Jack Prelutsky
• Pierre – Maurice Sendak
• Heartsongs (series) – Mattie J.T. Stepanek
• Spin a Soft Black Song – Nikki Giovanni

Non-Fiction

• The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer’s Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors- Chris Barton
• America is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell- Don Brown
• The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle – Dan Wulffson
• Lives of Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (And What The Neighbors Thought) – Kathleen Krull
• Look To The North: A Wolf Pup Diary – Jean Craighead George
• The Man Who Walked Between The Towers – Mordacai Gerstein
• Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? – Jean Fritz
• Six Minute Nature Mysteries – Faith Brynie
• The Truth About Great White Sharks – Mary M. Cerullo
• Through My Eyes – Ruby Bridges
• The Story of Baseball – Lawrence Ritter
• Girls Think of Everything – Catherine Thimmeah
• Meet Me in St. Louis: A Trip to the 1904 World’s Fair – Robert Jackson
• Just Peace: A Message of Hope – Mattie J.T. Stepanek with Jimmy Carter

Graphic Novel

• Squish: Super Amoeba- Jennifer L. Holm
• The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future- Dav Pilkey
• Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles into Comics- James Sturm
• The Secret of the Unicorn - Hergé
• Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharaohs- Marcia Williams
• Bone: Out from Boneville -Jeff Smith
• The Boxcar Children -Shannon Eric Denton
• Creepy Crawly Crime- Aaron Reynolds
• Knights of the Lunch Table: The Dodgeball Chronicles- Frank Cammuso
• Fashion Kitty and the Unlikely Hero- Charise Mericle Harper
• Into the Volcano- Don Wood
• Zeus: King of the Gods- George O'Connor
• Zita the Spacegirl- Ben Hatke