Recommended Titles for Kids
of All Ages
Babies and
Toddlers:
Goodnight Moon
by Margaret Wise Brown
The Snowy Day
by Ezra Jack Keats
All Fall Down by Helen Oxenbury
Let's Get Dressed by Harriet
Ziefert
What is it? by Tana Hoban
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
by Bill Martin
Play Rhymes by Marc Brown
Ten
in a Bed by Mary Rees
Max's Bath by Rosemary Wells
Preschoolers:
If I Ran the Zoo
by Dr. Seuss
Caps for Sale
by Esphyr Slobodkina
Corduroy
by Don Freeman
Make Way for Ducklings
by Robert McCloskey
Tikki Tikki Tembo
by Arlene Mosel
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
by Laura J. Numeroff
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle
There's a Nightmare in My Closet
by Mercer Mayer
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
by Leo Lionni
Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack
Keats
Kindergarten
to Second Grade:
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel
Silverstein
Could Be Worse! by James Stevenson
Alexander & the Terrible, Horrible,
No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
James and the Giant Peach by Roald
Dahl
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
by Verna Aardema
Mama Don't Allow by Thacher Hurd
A Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams
The
Drinking Gourd by F. N. Monjo
More Spaghetti, I Say by Rita Gelman
Hundred-Penny Box by Sharon Mathis
Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry
Allard
Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice
Sendak
Third
through Fifth Grade:
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
The Pinballs by Betsy Byars
Superfudge by Judy Blume
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (from
the Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Song of the Trees by Mildred Taylor
Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe
Sixth
Grade and Up:
Homecoming
by Cynthia Voigt
Indian in the Cupboard
by Lynne R. Banks
Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
White Mountains
by John Christopher
Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred Taylor
The Mouse Rap
by Walter Dean Myers
My Darling, My Hamburger
by Paul Zindel
Number the Stars by
Lois Lowry
Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
