My Absolute Favorite Books!
Use this link to check out books for yourself from the library:
Chris Van Allsburg books:
The Stranger
The Sweetest Fig
The Garden of Abdul Gaszai
Probuditi!
Just A Dream
Two Bad Ants
The Widows Broom
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
Patricia Polacco Books
The Bee Tree
Rotten Richie and the Ultimate Dare
Mr. Lincoln's Way
Just in time, Abraham Lincoln
Someone for Mr. Sussman
Chicken Sunday
Check out Stephen Cosgrove's Serendipity books
Halloween Stories
The Pumpkin Runner by Marsha Diane Arnold
The Ghost Eye Tree by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
Ghost Hour, Spook's Hour by Eve Bunting
The Littlest Pumpkin by R.A Herman
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin by Margaret McNamara
Mrs. McMerphy's Pumpkin (compare to Little Red Riding Hood)
The House that Witchy built (compare to The House That Jack Built)
Pumpkin Town! or Nothing Worse is Better and Worse Than Pumpkins by Katie McKy
The Ugly Pumpkin: A Thanksgiving Story by Dave Horowitz
Thanksgiving Books
A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting
Sometimes it's Turkey, Sometimes it's Feathers by Lorna and Lecia Balian
Cranberry Thanksgiving by Harry and Wende Devlin
Christmas Stories
Too Many Tomales by Gary Soto
A Candle for Christmas by Jean Speare
Home for Christmas by Jan Brett
Cranberry Christmas by Harry and Wende Devlin
Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett
Thank You, Santa by Margaret Wild
Jingle the Christmas Clown by Tomie dePaola
Countdown to Christmas by Bill Peet
Groundhog Day Books (February 2)
Groundhog Gets a Say by Pamela Curtis Swallow
Groundhog Weather School by Joan Holub
It's Groundhog Day! by Steven Kroll
Nonfiction
by Gail Gibbons:
Bats
Owls
Deserts
St. Patrick's Day
Valentine's Day
Tell Me, Tree: All About Trees for Kids
Season's of Arnold's Apple Tree
The Milk Makers
The Honey Makers
Knights in Shining Armor
Learning Books
Dear Deer a Book of Homophones by Gene Barretta
House Mouse Senate Mouse and Woodrow and The White House Mouse both books by Peter W. Barnes
Puzzle Maps USA by Nancy L. Clouse
The 7 Habits of Happy Kids written by Sean Covey
First Garden The White House Garden and How It Grew by Robbin Gourley
Gila Monsters Meet you at the Airport by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (Reading Rainbow video #1707.)
Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland by Cindy Neuschwander
Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens by Cindy Neuschwander (check out tumblebooks)
Newton and Me by Lynne Mayer
Just for Fun Books
Hair in the Air by Gary Hogg
Spencer's Adventures: Stop That Eyeball by Gary Gogg
Diggory The Dragon Slayer by Angela McAllister
Enemy Pie by Eric Munson (on tumblebooks)
The Sandwich Swap by Kelly DePucchio
How to Be Perfect in Just 3 Days by Stephen Manes
Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith
Teammates by Peter Goldenbock
The Gold Cadillac by Mildred B Taylor
George Washington's Breakfast by Jean Fritz
Zoom by Istavan Banyai
For our Monthly Bulletin Board Project
I like Me by Deborah Connor Coker and I like me by Nancy Carlson (September)
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon (October)
Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault (November) (Reading Rainbow video #1752.1)
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (December)
The Mitten by Jan Brett (January)
Mr. Lincoln's Hat by Martha Brenner and Just like Abraham Lincoln by Bernard Waber (February)
The Luckiest Leprechaun A Tail-Wagging Tale of Friendship by Justine Korman (March)
Max's Chocolate by Rosemary Wells (April)
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney (May)