Don’t know what to read? Check out some suggestions from librarians!
Infants and Toddlers
Preschoolers
First and Second Grades
Third and Fourth Grades
Fifth and Sixth Grades
Books to Share With Your Children Before They Learn to Read:
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Books That Invite Participation |
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| The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Carle |
| The Little Red Hen | Galdone |
| Jump, Frog, Jump! | Kalan |
| Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? | Martin |
| The Jacket I Wear in the Snow | Neitzel |
| Good Night, Gorilla | Rathmann |
| Napping House | Wood |
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Wordless Books That Make You the Storyteller |
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| Welcome to the Zoo | Jay |
| Shadow | Lee |
| The Red Book | Lehman |
| Trainstop | Lehman |
| The Lion and the Mouse | Pinkney |
| Time Flies | Rohmann |
| Flotsam | Wiesner |
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Books to Sing |
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| Five Little Ducks | Dann |
| She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain | Emmett |
| Pete the Cat : I Love My White Shoes | Litwin |
| Good Night, Gorilla | Rathmann |
| We’re Going on a Bear Hunt | Rosen |
| Green Eggs and Ham | Seuss |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends | Silverstein |
| She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain | Sturges |
| There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly | Taback |
| How Much is That Doggie in the Window? | Trapani |
| If You’re Happy and You Know It | Warhola |
| The Wheels on the Racecar | Zane |
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Books for Fun with Letters |
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| Old Black Fly | Aylesworth |
| LMNO Peas | Baker |
| The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book | Ernst |
| Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | Martin |
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Books with Rich Language |
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| First to Fly : How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane | Busby |
| Big, Bigger, Biggest! | Coffelt |
| Something from Nothing : Adapted from a Jewish Folktale | Gilman |
| Chrysanthemum | Henkes |
| Make Way for Ducklings | McCloskey |
| I Stink! | McMullan |
| Skippyjon Jones | Schachner |
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Books with Movement, Props, or Puppets |
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| From Head to Toe | Carle |
| Dancing Feet | Craig |
| If You’re a Monster and You Know It | Emberley |
| Tacky the Penguin | Lester |
| We’re Going on a Bear Hunt | Rosen |
| Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp | Shields |
| If You’re Happy and You Know It | Warhola |
| Bunny Cakes | Wells |
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Books about Science and Math |
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| Magic School Bus : Inside the Human Body | Cole |
| One Little Seed | Greenstein |
| Teddy Bear Counting | McGrath |
| How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? | McNamara |
| Find the Constellations | Rey |
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And More |
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| Hug | Alborough |
| Big Red Barn | Brown |
| Peek-a-Moo | Cimarusti |
| Llama, Llama, Red Pajama | Dewdney |
| Grumpy Gloria | Dewdney |
| Toot Toot Beep Beep | Garcia |
| Big Chickens Fly the Coop | Helakoski |
| Tugga-Tugga Tug Boat | Lewis |
| Caps for Sale | Slobodkina |
| Mouse Shapes | Walsh |
| Max Cleans Up | Wells |
Recommended to Read to Infants and Toddlers:
Recommended to Read to Preschoolers: 
Recommended for First and Second Grades:
| Title | Author |
| Cam Jansen (series) | David Adler |
| Miss Nelson (series) | Harry Allard |
| Billy and Blaze | C. W. Anderson |
| Happy Birthday Moon | Frank Asch |
| Old Black Fly | Jim Aylesworth |
| Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Judi Barrett |
| Madeline | Ludwiig Bemelmans |
| The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo | Judy Blume |
| Clifford the Big Red Dog | Norman Bridwell |
| Arthur (series) | Marc Brown |
| The Chalk Box Kid | Clyde Robert Bulla |
| Hooray for the Golly Sisters | Betsy Byars |
| The Stories Julian Tells | Anne Cameron |
| The Very Lonely Firefly | Eric Carle |
| Petunia | Roger Duvoisin |
| Are You my Mother? | P.D. Eastman |
| Kazam’s Magic | Amy Ehrlich |
| Ask Mr. Bear | Marjorie Flack |
| Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses | Paul Goble |
| Small Green Snake | Libba Moore Gray |
| Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse | Kevin Henkes |
| Owen | Kevin Henkes |
| Wemberly Worried | Kevin Henkes |
| Arthur (series) | Lillian Hoban |
| Bedtime for Frances | Russell Hoban |
| Danny the Dinosaur | Syd Hoff |
| Pinky and Rex | James Howe |
| Horrible Harry (series) | Suzy Kline |
| Inch by Inch | Leo Lionni |
| Swimmy | Leo Lionni |
| Frog and Toad (series) | Arnold Lobel |
| George and Martha | James Marshall |
| Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | Bill Martin Jr. |
| Little Bear | Else Molmelund Minarik |
| There’s a Nightmare in my Closet | Mercer Mayer |
| Blueberries for Sal | Robert McCloskey |
| The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash | Trinka Hakes Noble |
| If You Give a Mouse a Cookie | Laura Numeroff |
| Junie B. Jones (series) | Barbara Park |
| Amelia Bedelia (series) | Herman Parish |
| Scruffy | Peggy Parish |
| Officer Buckle and Gloria | Peggy Rathman |
| Curious George | H. A. Rey |
| Henry and Mudge | Cynthia Rylant |
| The Relatives Came | Cynthia Rylant |
| Marvin Redpost (series) | Louis Sachar |
| Nate the Great (series) | Marjorie Sharmat |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak |
| The 500 hats of Batholomew Cubbins | Dr. Suess |
| Caps for Sale | Esphyr Slobodkina |
| Imogene’s Antlers | David Small |
| The Teacher From the Black Lagoon | Mike Thaler |
| Ira Sleeps Over | Bernard Waber |
| Lyle, Lyle Crocodile | Bernard Waber |
| Noisy Nora | Rosemary Wells |
| The Napping House | Audrey Wood |
| Letting Swift River Go | Jane Yolen |
| Harry, the Dirty Dog | Gene Zion |
Recommended for Third and Fourth Grades:
Recommended for Fifth and Sixth Grades:
| Title | Author |
| The Book of Three | Lloyd Alexander |
| Crispin | Avi |
| Poppy | Avi |
| The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi |
| The Penderwicks | Jeanne Birdsall |
| Room One: A Mystery or Two | Andrew Clements |
| Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer |
| The Boggart | Susan Cooper |
| Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis |
| The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963 | Christopher Paul Curtis |
| Catherine, Called Birdy | Karen Cushman |
| Matilda Bone | Karen Cushman |
| The Midwife’s Apprentice | Karen Cushman |
| Because of Winn Dixie | Kate DiCamillo |
| The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | Kate DiCamillo |
| A Girl Named Disaster | Nancy Farmer |
| Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key | Jack Gantos |
| All the Way Home | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| Hoot | Carl Hiassen |
| Our Only May Amelia | Jenni Holm |
| Alex Rider (series) | Anthony Horowitz |
| Warriors (series) | Erin Hunter |
| The Secret of Platform 13 | Eva Ibbotson |
| Rose Blanche | Roberto Innocenti |
| Hattie Big Sky | Kirby Larson |
| Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine |
| Number the Stars | Lois Lowry |
| Heat | Max Lupica |
| Pendragon (series) | D.J. MacHale |
| Pirate Curse | Kai Meyer |
| Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid | Walter Dean Myers |
| Preacher’s Boy | Katherine Paterson |
| A Long Way from Chicago | Richard Peck |
| Percy Jackson and the Olympians (series) | Rick Riordan |
| For Your Eyes Only! | Joanne Rocklin |
| Harry Potter (series) | J.K. Rowling |
| Van Gogh Café | Cynthia Rylant |
| Holes | Louis Sachar |
| Sign of the Beaver | Elizabeth Speare |
| Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli |
| Sammy Keyes (series) | Wendelin Van Draanen |
| Dream Soul | Laurence Yep |
