Suggested Reading Lists
Visit your local library to find these titles and many more wonderful books that will delight the whole family and provide hours of reading enjoyment.
Birth to 3 Years Old
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
- Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
- Where's Spot? by Eric Hill
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr
- I Can! Can You? by Peggy Parish
- I'm a Little Mouse by Noelle & David Carter
- Tom and Pippo Make a Friend by Helen Oxenbury
- Mr. Gumpy’s Motorcar by John Burningham
- Do You Want To Be My Friend? and The Very Hungry Catepillar by Eric Carle
- Freight Train by Donald Crews
- Ask Mr. Bear by Marjorie Flack
- Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? by Tana Hoban
- Quick As A Cricket by Audrey Wood
- Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
4 & 5 Years Old
- A Color Of His Own by Leo Lionni
- The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
- Are You My Mother? by Philip Eastman
- Chester’s Way by Kevin Henkes
- Curious George by H. A. Rey
- I Wanna Iguana by Karen Orloff
- Owen by Kevin Henkes
- Tuesday by David Wiesner
- Little Bear series by Else H. Minark
- Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel
- Move Over, Rover by Karen Beaumont
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- How I Became A Pirate by Melinda Long
- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by John Scieszka
- If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
- Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
- Monster Who Ate My Peas by Danny Schnitzlien
- Diary of a Worm and Diary of A Spider by Doreen Cronin
An additional resource for book suggestions is The Read-Aloud Handbook Including a giant treasury of great read-aloud books by Jim Trelease (published by Penguin Books). The author has a website at http://www.trelease-on-reading.com.