Beginners Reading List

• Allen, Pamela: Who Sank the Boat?
• Appel and Guglielmo, Sterling Publishing: Art (Touch) books
• Asch, Frank: Mooncake, Popcorn, many others
• Barton, Bryon: Airport

Building a House

Boats

Trains

Airplanes

• Berger, Barbara: Grandfather Twilight
• Berger, Samantha and Pamela Chanko: It's Spring
• Blechman, Nicholas: Night Light
• Bogacki, T.: Cat and Mouse in the Snow
• Bornstein, Ruth: Little Gorilla
• Bright, Robert: My Red Umbrella
• Brown, Margaret Wise: Goodnight Moon

The Runaway Bunny

The Big Red Barn

• Burmingham, John: Mr. Grumpy’s Outing
• Burton: Katy and the Big Snow
• Campbell: Dear Zoo
• Carle, Eric: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Does A Kangaroo Have a Mother

many other books

• Cheyette, Wendy: Going to Sleep on the Farm
• Cole, Joanna: I’m a Big Brother
• Cousins, Lucy: Any of the Maisy books
• Chihiro, Nakagawa: Who Made This Cake?
• Christelow, Eileen: Five Little Monkeys Jumping On the Bed
• Crews, Donald: School Bus

Freight Train

other books

• Davis, Kate: Who Hops?
• Denslow, Sharon Phillips: In the Snow
• Ehlert, Lois: Planting a Rainbow

Feathers For Lunch

other books

• Falwell, Cathryn: Turtle Splash

Countdown at the Pond

• Fleming, Denise: In the Tall

Tall Grass

 Lunch (A Colors Book)

• Flack, Marjorie: Ask Mr. Bear
• Fox, M.: Time for Bed
• Frederick, Warne: Peter Rabbit Lift the Flap
• Freeman, Don: Corduroy
• Gamble: Goodnight Zoo
• Gay, Michel: Take Me for a Ride
• Gliori, Debi: Flora’s Blanket
• Goldstone, Bruce: The Beasty Feast
• Graham, Bob: How To Heal A Broken Wing
• Gravett, Emily: Orange Pear Apple Bear
• Hall, Zoe: It’s Pumpkin Time
• Harper, I. and Moser, B.: My Cats Nick and Nora

Our New Puppy

• Henkes, Kevin: Old Bear

Lily's Chocolate Heart

Kittens First Full Moon

A Good Day; Birds

• Hest, Amy: Don’t You Feel Well Sam?

In the Rain with Baby Duck

• Hill, Eric: Where’s Spot
• Hillenbrand, Will: Kite Day
• Hoban, Russell: A Baby Sister for Fancis
• Hoban, Tana: I Read Signs and other books
• Hoberman: Eensy Weensy Spider
• Hutchins, Pat: Titch

Goodnight Owl

The Wind Blew

other books

• Isadora, Rachel: Peekaboo Morning
• Kalan, Robert: Jump, Frog, Jump!
• Kaska, Keiko: A Mother for Choco
• Keats, Ezra Jack: The Snowy Day
• Kleven, Elisa: Lion and the Little Red Hen
• Klove, Lars: Trucks That Build
• Krauss, Ruth: The Carrot Seed
• Lee, Spike: Please Puppy Please and other books
• Lee, Suzy: The Wave
• Lionni, Leo: Little Blue and Little Yellow

Swimmy

other books

• Lindbergh, Reeve: The Midnight Farm
• Lobel, Arnold: Frog and Toad books
• Martin, Bill Jr.: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Listen to the Rain

other books

• Mayo, Margaret and Ayliffe, Alex: Dig, Dig, Digging
• McCarthy, Mary: A Closer Look
• McCloskey: Blueberries for Sal
• Nakagawa, Chihiro: Who Made This Cake?
• Numeroff, Laura Joffe: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

other books

• Ormead, Jan: 101 Things To Do With A Baby

other books

• Oxenbury, Helen: Beach Day; Family

other books

• Parr, T.: Otto Goes to School
• Paxton, Tom and Karen Lee Schmidt: Going To the Zoo, Morrow Junior Books, 1996
• Peek, Merle: Mary Wore Her Red Dress
• Penn, Audrey: The Kissing Hand

Pocketful of Kisses

• Pinkney, Jerry: The Lion and the Mouse

The Little Red Hen

• Polacco, Patricia: Thundercake
• Powell and Sage: Colors in the Garden
• Rathman, Peggy: Goodnight, Gorilla
• Reynolds, Malvina: Morningtown Ride
• Rice, Eve: Sam Who Never Forgets and Benny Bakes a Cake
• Riley, Linnea: Mouse Mess
• Rinker, Sherri Dusky: Steam Train, Dream Train

Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site

• Rockwell, Ann: Fire Engines

My Spring Robin

other books

• Rosen, Michael: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
• Ruggieri, Linda: Winter in the Woods

Is It Spring?

• Russo, Marisabina: The Line­up Book,

Where is Ben

Waiting for Hannah

• Rylant, Cynthia: In November
• Sams, Carl R. and Sams II and Stoick, Jean: Stranger in the Woods
• Scott, A.: On Mother’s Lap
• Seeger, Laura Vaccaro: First the Egg
• Simmons, Jane: Come Along, Daisy
• Sis, Peter: Fire Truck

other books

• Shanno, David: The Rain Came Down
• Smee, N.: Clip­Clop
• Spinella, Eileen: When Momma Comes Home Tonight
• Steig, William: Where’s Toby?

Pete’s a Pizza

• Seuss, Dr.: Hop On Pop

Go Dog Go

other books

• Tafuri, Nancy: Will You Be My Friend?

Silly Little Goose

Have You Seen My Duckling?

• Thompson, Lauren: Mouse’s First Spring
• Trapani, Iza: Itsy, Bitsy Spider
• Tressett, Alvin: Rain, Drop, Splash
• Udry, Janice May: A Tree Is Nice
• Waddell, Martin: Owl Babies
• Walsh, Ellen Stoll: Mouse Paint

Mouse Count

• Wells, Rosemary: Max Cleans Up

other Max books

• Willems, Mo: Knuffle Bunny

other books

• Wilson, Karma and Chapman, Jane: Bear Snores On
• Williams, Sue: Let’s Go Visiting

I Went Walking

I Go with My Family to Grandma’s

• William, Vera: More, More, More, Said the Baby
• Wood, Audrey: The Napping House
• Yolen, Jane and Teague, Mark: How do Dinosaurs Say I’m Mad

other books in the How do Dinosaurs series

Owl Moon

• Zelinsky, Paul O: The Wheels on the Bus
• Zion: Harry the Dirty Dog