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SHARE Reading Lists: Preschool

This Reading List as a tool to help you migrate through a myriad of books available for children. It is NOT intended to be our endorsement of all the books listed below, it is simply a tool for your use. 

If you or your children come across books that you find to be especially beneficial and enjoyable, please email those to Maria McKown who creates this list. The reverse is also true. If any of the books in the list you have found to be objectionable, kindly state your reasons and send that information to Maria who will periodically update the reading list.

Alborough, Jez.  “It’s the Bear”; “Where’s My Teddy?”
Allard, Harry. “Miss Nelson Is Missing”
Arnold, Tedd. “Green Wilma”; “Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan 
      Logan Bogan Was Her Name”; “Hi! Fly Guy”
Baker, Liza.  “I Love You Because You’re You”
Barrett, Judi  “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”; (sequel) “Pickles to Pittsburgh”
Beaumont, Karen.  “Move Over, Rover!”; “Baby Danced the Polka”
Berenstain, Jan & Stan.  “Berenstain Bears”  books 
Boynton, Sandra. “The Going-To-Bed Book”; Short, Short Bedtime Stories for Lively Little Kids”
Brett, Jan.  “The Mitten”
Bridwell, Norman.  “Clifford, the Big Red Dog” books
Briggs, Raymond. “The Snowman”
Brown, Marc.  “Arthur” books
Brown, Marcia.  “Stone Soup”
Brown, Margaret Wise.  “Goodnight Moon”; The Runaway Bunny”; Big Red Barn Board Book
Burton, Virginia.  “The Little House”; Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel”
Carle, Eric.  “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”; 
Carlson, Nancy.  “I Like Me”
Chodos-Irvine, Margaret.  “Best Best Friends”
Christelow, Eileen.  “Five Little Monkeys” books
Cox, Phil Roxbee.  “Fat Cat on a Mat”; Frog on a Log; Ted in a Red Bed”
Crampton, Gertrude. “Tootle” and “Scuffy the Tugboat”
Crews, Donald.  „Freight Train“
de Angeli, ed. „Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes”
De Brunhoff, Jean & Laurent.   “Babar” books
De Paolo, Tomie.  “Oliver Button Is a Sissy”; “The Knight and the Dragon”
Degen, Bruce. “Jamberry”
Fox, Mem.  “Hattie and the Fox”; “Time for Bed”
Freeman, Don.  “Corduroy”
Gag, Wanda.  “Millions of Cats”; ABC Bunny
Guarino, Deborah.  “Is Your Mama a Llama?”
Handford, Martin.  “Where’s Waldo”
Henkes, Kevin.  “Kitten’s First Full Moon”; The “Mouse” books (“Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse”;
        “Owen”; “Chrysanthemum”)    
Hoban, Lillian & Russell.  “Bedtime for Frances”
Hoff, Syd.  “Danny and the Dinosaur”; “Oliver”
Jackson, Kathryn.  “Saggy, Baggy Elephant”  (Little Golden Book)
Johnson, Crockett.  “Harold and the Purple Crayon”
Keats, Ezra Jack.  “The Snowy Day”
Keller, Holly.  “Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science” books
Kellogg, Steven.  “Pinkerton” books
Kimmel, Eric.  “The Gingerbread Man”
Kirk, David.  “Miss Spider” books
Kraus, Robert.  “Leo, the Late Bloomer”
Leaf, Munro.  “The Story of Ferdinand”
Lester, Helen.  “Me First”; Hurty Feelings”
Lewis, Kevin.  “Chugga Chugga, Choo Choo”
Lionni, Leo.   “Swimmy”; “Inch by Inch”
Lobel, Arnold.   “Frog and Toad” books; Fables
Lowrey, Janette.  “Pokey Little Puppy” (Little Golden Book Classic)
Marshall, James.  “George & Martha”
Marshall, James.  “The Three Little Pigs”; also “Goldilocks” & Little Red Riding Hood”
Martin, Bill Jr.  “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom”;  “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?”
Mayer, Mercer.  “Little Monster” books
McCloskey, Robert.  “Make Way for Ducklings”; “Blueberries for Sal”
McPhail, David.  “Pig Pig Grows Up"
Most, Bernard.  “Can You Find It?”
Munsch, Robert.  “Love You Forever”
Numeroff, Laura.  “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie”; Chimps Don’t Wear Glasses”
Pfister, Marcus.  “The Rainbow Fish”
Pinkney, Jerry/Hans Christian Andersen.  “The Ugly Duckling”
Piper, Watty.  “The Little Engine That Could”   (original, complete edition)
Rey, H. A. & Margret.  “Curious George” books
Root, Phyllis.  “Kiss the Cow”; “One Duck Stuck”
Rosenthal, Amy Krouse.  “Little Pea”
Savadier, Elivia.  “No Haircut Today”
Scarry, “Richard.  “Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever”; Richard Scarry’s Please and Thank You Book”
Scotton, Bob.  “Russell the Sheep”
Sendak, Maurice.  “Where the Wild Things Are”;  “Chicken Soup with Rice”
Seuss, Dr.  “Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?” “Cat in the Hat”
Shannon, David.  “No, David” books
Shaw, Nancy.  “Sheep in a Jeep”
Silverstein, Shel.  “The Giving Tree”
Slobodkina, Esphyr.  “Caps for Sale”
Steig, William.  “Doctor De Soto”
Stevenson, Robert Louis.  “A Child’s Garden of Verses”
Viorst, Judith.  “Alexander and the Terrible,  Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”
Waber, Bernard.  „Ira Sleeps Over“
Waber, Bernard.  “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile”
Waddell, Martin.  “Good Job, Little Bear;  “The Pig in the Pond”
Walsh, Ellen Stoll.  ”Mouse Paint”; “Hop Jump”
Weeks, Sarah.  “Overboard!”
Wells, Rosemary.  “Max and Ruby” books
Wildsmith, Brian.  “Brian Wildsmith’s ABC”
Wilson, Karma.  “Mama Always Comes Home”
Wood, Audrey.  “Silly Sally; “Quick as a  Cricket”
Wood, Don.  “The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear” 
Zelinsky, Paul, illust.  “Rumpelstiltskin” and “Rapunzel”
Ziefert, Harriet.  “Sleepy Dog”
Zion, Gene.  “Harry the Dirty Dog”
Zolotow, Charlotte.  “William’s Doll”; The Seashore Book”