Great Reads for First Graders
Bathtime for Biscuit by Alyssa Capucilli
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin
Eating Apples by Gail Saunders-Smith
Generous Me by Mary E. Pearson
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Jim Aylesworth
Good Luck Charlie by Jennifer E. Kramer
Harry’s Hats by Ann Tompert
I Can Do it All by Mary E. Pearson
I Want a Pet by Lauren Child
I Went Walking by Sue Williams
Jordan’s Silly Sick Day by Justine Fontes
Joshua James Likes Trucks by Catherine Petrie
The Long Way Home by Larry Dane Brimner
Masks by Lola Schaefer
Mice Squeak, We Speak by Tomie dePaola
My Book by Me by Dana Meachen Rau
Old Mo by Stacey W. Hsu
Our Raspberry Jam by David F. Marx
Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaloa
Rude Ralph by Justine Fontes
So Many Me’s by Barbara J. Neasi
Spots, Feathers, and Curly Tails by Nancy Tafuri
Sunflowers by Gail Saunders-Smith
Wait Skates by Mildred D. Johnson
What’s for Lunch? by Ann Garrett
Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka
Come Here, Tiger! by Alex Moran
Dirty Larry by Bobbie Hamsa
Hi, Clouds by Carol Greene
Morris and Boris at the Circus by Bernard Wiseman
Paul the Pitcher by Paul Sharp
Rick is Sick by David McPhail
School Bus by Donald Crews
Too Many Balloons by Catherine Matthias
A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
Big Ben by Marcia Leonard
Big Machines by Melanie Davis Jones
Firehouse Sal by Larry Dave Brimner
Five Little Monkeys Jumpingon the Bed by Eileen Christelow
The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
Get the Ball, Slim by Marcia Leonard
Hop, Skip, Run by Marcia Leonard
I Like Mess by Marcia Leonard
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw
No New Pants! by Marcia Leonard
Sometimes by Keith Baker
Spots by Marcia Leorard
The Tin Can Man by Marcia Leonard
Who is Coming? by Patricia C. McKissack
Biscuit Series by Alyssa Capucilli
Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin
Bear Shadow by Frank Asch
Just Like Daddy by Frank Asch
Quite Enough Hot Dogs by Wil Mara
Thank You, Nicky! by Harriet Ziefert
Being Me by Julie Broski
Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
Digger Pig and the Turnip by Caron Lee Cohen
The Great Race by David McPhail
Just For You by Mercer Mayer
Just Me and My Babysitter by Mercer Mayer
Mine’s the Best by Crosby Bonsall
Shoe Town by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel
Crayon Adventure by Crockett Johnson
Fox and the Stork by Gerald McDermott
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Mercury the Iron Planet by Lincoln James
“More, More, More,” Said the Baby by Vera Williams
Morris the Moose by Bernard Wiseman
Oh! by Kevin Henkes
The Purple Snerd by Rozanne Lanczak Williams
Seven Little Monsters by Maurice Sendak
Swimmy by Leo Lionni
Animals on the Go by Jessica Brett
Did You Hear About Jake? by Louise Vitellaro Tidd
The Good Bad Day by Charnan Simon
I’ll Do it Later by Louise Vitellaro Tidd
Jupiter the largest Planet by Daisy Allyn
Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus
Lost and Found by Louise Vitellaro Tidd
Messsy Bessey by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
Monster Songs by Deborah Eaton
The Napping House by Don and Audrey Wood
Neptune the Stormy Planet by Greg Roza
Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells
The Sun: Star of the Solar System by Lincoln James
That Cat! by Margery Bernstein
There’s a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
Uranus the Ice Planet by Greg Roza