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| Mooncake (Asch, Frank) | Bear builds a rocket to take him to the moon so he can taste it. |
| Berlioz the Bear (Brett, Jan) | A surprise saves the day when the wagon of bear and his fellow musicians becomes stuck in a hole in the road. |
| Franklin in the Dark (Bourgeois, Paulette) | Franklin, a turtle, is afraid of the dark. Find out how he solves his problem. |
| Clifford the Big Red Dog (Bridwell, Norman) | The story of the huge red dog Clifford and his adventures with Emily Elizabeth. |
| Frogs Jump: A Counting Book (Brooks, Alan) | A counting book that includes funny pictures of animals; from one frog to twelve whales. |
| The Very Busy Spider (Carle, Eric) | A spider keeps spinning her web, in spite of all the other animals on the farm. |
| Petunia (Duvoisin, Roger) | A silly goose thinks that just owning a book makes her wise until she discovers its what is inside the book that counts. |
| Go, Dog, Go (Eastman, P.D.) | Dogs doing all sorts of things, from driving cars to having party in tree tops. |
| Color Zoo (Ehlert, Lois) | Wonderful animal faces provide introduction to colors and shapes. |
| Corduroy (Freeman, Don) | An endearing teddy bear hops down from his shelf in a department store and sets off in search of a new button for his green overalls. |
| The Three Little Pigs (Galdone, Paul) | A favorite version of this familiar folktale. |
| Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? A Book of Colors (Hoban, Tara) | An engaging book of photos that explore colors, sizes, shapes and relationships. |
| Whistle for Willie (Keats, Ezra) | A young boy tries to learn to whistle so he can call his dog. |
| Peter's Chair (Keats, Ezra) | Peter is not happy when he sees all of his things being painted pink for his baby sister. |
| Swimmy (Lionni, Leo) | A little fish outwits the bigger fish in the sea. |
| Brown Bear, Brown What Do You See? (Martin, Bill) | A much loved book of colors using predictable language that will encourage children to join in. |
| Curious George Rides a Bike (Rey, H.A.) | A tale of the naughty monkey whose curiosity always leads him into trouble. |
| Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (Steptoe, John) | Two daughters, one kind and one mean, go before the king, who is choosing a wife. |
| A Chair for My Mother (Williams, Vera) | A young girl helps her mom and grandmother save enough dimes to buy a big soft chair. |
| The Napping House (Wood, Audrey) | One flea causes quite a commotion as everyone is sleeping. |
| Books by Mitsumasa Anno | This Japanese illustrator uses a lively imagination and almost no words to explore places, construct picture puzzles, and introduce math concepts. |
| Books by Tomie DePaola | This author and illustrator has written or illustrated over 170 books, including the Strega Nona books, Mother Goose, and fiction and non-fiction titles. |
| Books by Margaret Hillert | Best known for her beginning reader books, such as the "Dear Dragon" books. |
| Books by Mercer Mayer | Author/illustrator of many books, including the "Little Critter" books, There's a Nightmare in My Closet, and the "Little Monster" books. |
| Books by Dr. Seuss | Beloved author of The Cat in the Hat, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, If I Ran the Zoo, and many more that use rhyming words and silly pictures. |
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| My Five Senses (Aliki) | Simple words and sparkling pictures develop the child's understanding of his senses. |
| This is the Way We Go to School: A Book about Children Around the World (Baer, Edith) | Describes in text and illustrations, the many different modes of transportation children all over the world use to get to school. |
| Clifford, We Love You (Bridwell, Norman) | Clifford the big red dog is feeling bad and no one knows why. So Emily Elizabeth writes him a song telling all the good things about him. |
| Arthur's Pet Business (Brown, Marc) | Arthur's determination to prove he is responsible enough to have a puppy brings him a menagerie of animals to care for. |
| Goodnight Moon (Brown, Margaret Wise) | A little bunny says goodnight one by one to all the familiar objects in his room. |
| I Like Me (Carlson, Nancy) | A charming pig proves the best friend you can have is yourself. |
| 10 Black Dots (Crews, Donald) | Donald Crews uses black dots in colorful illustrations of everyday objects. He begins with one dot and continues up to ten dots. Simple rhymes accompany the graphics. Children love it! A very unique counting book! |
| Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon (Cummings, Pat) | Under Harvey's desk were some comics - all icky from something inside that was dripping and sticky. |
| Tomie DePaola's Mother Goose (DePaola, Tomie) | Tomie DePaola delights young children with this delightfully illustrated and beautifully written "big book of rhymes!" His new verses to some familiar nursery rhymes are fun to read! You won't want to put this book down! |
| Feast for 10 (Falwell, Cathryn) | A counting book that tells how a family shops and prepares a meal together. |
| Count (Felming, Denise) | The antics of lively and colorful animals present the numbers one to ten, twenty, thirty, forty, and fifty. |
| Spot Goes to School (Hill, Eric) | Spot the dog has a very exciting first day of school. |
| Come to School, Dear Dragon (Hillert, Margaret) | A boy's pet dragon visits him at school and joins in the classroom activities. |
| New Shoes for Sylvia (Hurwitz, JoAnna) | Sylvia wants everyone to admire the new shoes that Tia Rosita has sent her from far away. Her new shoes are almost perfect - if only they weren't so big! This is a warm family tale in a tropical setting. |
| Tree Trunk Traffic (Lavies, Bianca) | Text and photographs depict the animal life on a seventy year old maple tree. |
| A Day of Rhymes (Pooley, Sara) | An illustrated collection of Mother Goose and other traditional nursery rhymes and songs. Fun to read together and learn. |
| Chicka, Chicka, Boom Boom (Martin, Bill) | In this exciting alphabet rhyming book, all the letters race each other up the coconut tree. Will there be enough room? Oh no! Chicka, Chicka, Boom Boom! |
| Just Me and My Puppy (Mayer, Mercer) | Even though Puppy misbehaves he makes a wonderful pet. |
| If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Numeroff, Laura) | Is there no end to the many requests a mouse might make if you give it just one cookie? |
| I Love Spiders (Parker, John) | A spider tells of all the spiders he likes. |
| Yo! Yes? (Raschka, Chris) | Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends. |
| Curious George Learns the Alphabet (Rey, H.A.) | The man in the yellow hat teaches a monkey to read. A fun way to learn the alphabet. |
| It Looked Like Spilt Milk (Shaw, Charles) | It might look like spilt milk, but what is it? A guessing game book. |
| The Giving Tree (Silverstein, Shel) | An apple tree shares all it has with a young boy from the time he is very young until he is very old. |
| Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day (Viorst, Judith) | Alexander wakes up with gum in his hair, trips on a skateboard getting out of bed. What else could go wrong? |
| I Went Walking (Williams, Sue) | While walking, a young boy identifies animals of different colors. This book will remind your child of Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? |
| Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry & the Big Hungry Bear (Wood, Don & Audrey) | Little Mouse worries that the big, hungry bear will take his freshly picked, ripe, red strawberry for himself. |
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| Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears (Aardema, Verna) | A mosquito tells a tall tale that sets off a chain reaction. |
| Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds (Adler, David) | A fifth grader and her friend Eric help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds. |
| My Visit to the Dinosaurs (Aliki) | A young boy goes to the museum for the first time and learns about dinosaurs. |
| The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo (Blume, Judy) | Freddy Dissel is tired of being nothing more than the middle child. Then the school play gives him the chance to be recognized for something. |
| Clifford's Good Deeds (Bridwell, Norman) | When the big red dog sets out to do good deeds, trouble follows quickly. |
| Arthur Babysits (Brown, Marc) | Arthur's experience babysitting for the terrible Tibble twins is as challenging as he expected. |
| The Little House (Burton, V.L.) | A little house is threatened by progress when tall buildings take over the countryside. |
| Josefina's Quilt Story (Coerr, Eleanor) | A young girl makes a patchwork quilt while traveling west in the 1850's. |
| The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System (Cole, JoAnna) | On a special field trip in the Magic School Bus, Ms. Frizzle's class goes into outer space and visits each planet in the solar system. |
| Miss Rumphius (Cooney, Barbara) | Great-Aunt Alice Rumphius was once a little girl who loved the sea, longed to visit far-away places, and wished to do something to make the world more beautiful. |
| Bill and Pete (DePaola, Tomie) | When William Everett Crocodile is chosen to be a suitcase, his talking toothbrush becomes his salvation. |
| The Post Office Book (Gibbons, Gail) | A step-by-step description of what happens to mail from the time it is deposited in the mailbox to its arrival at its destination. Also includes brief historical facts about mail service in the United States. |
| The Secret at the Polk Street School (Giff, Patricia Reilly) | Dawn gets a terrible case of stage fright when she gets a threatening note just before the school's play. |
| Africa Dream (Greenfield, Eloise) | A black child's dreams are filled with images of the people and places in Africa. |
| A Friend for Dear Dragon (Hillert, Margaret) | A boy and his pet dragon make friends with a girl and her unicorn. |
| Pass It On: African-American Poetry for Children (Hudson, Wade) | An introduction to fourteen outstanding African-American poets. |
| Louie's Search (Keats, Ezra Jack) | Louie is accused of stealing a music box. |
| Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten (Kellogg, Steven) | Annie searches the neighborhood for her mitten, the fifth one she's lost this winter. |
| Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse (Lionni, Leo) | Alexander wants to be a toy mouse like his friend Willy until he discovers Willy is to be thrown away. |
| Frog and Toad Together (Lobel, Arnold) | Two best friends share cookies, plant a garden, and test their bravery. |
| George and Martha (Marshall, James) | Two hippos teach each other how to behave with grace under pressure. |
| Little Bear (Minarik, Else Holmelund) | Little Bear enjoys his summer with Lucy, but is sad because he has to say good-bye. |
| The Teeny Tiny Woman (O'Connor, Jane) | A teeny-tiny woman puts a teeny tiny bone in a cupboard before she goes to sleep and is awakened by a voice demanding the return of the bone. |
| Amelia Bedelia and the Baby (Parish, Peggy) | When Amelia tries babysitting several hilarious things happen. |
| The Littles (Peterson, John) | When the Bigs go on a three month vacation, the Littles must contend with a family from the city who move in and are not very good housekeepers. |
| Curious George (Rey, H.A.) | Curiosity gets George the monkey into trouble, until he learns to put it to good use. |
| Henry and Mudge and the Forever Sea (Rylant, Cynthia) | Follows the seaside adventures of Henry, Henry's father and Henry's big dog, Mudge. |
| Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak, Maurice) | A naughty little boy sent to bed without his supper sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes a king. |
| Nate the Great and the Musical Note (Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman) | Rosamond turns a phone message from Pip's mother into a music lesson with a secret meaning and Nate steps into solve the mystery. |
| A Giraffe and a Half (Silverstein, Shel) | A giraffe that accumulates some ridiculous things, such as glue on his shoe and a bee on his knee. |
| Ira Sleeps Over (Waber, Bernard) | When invited to spend the night at a friend's house, Ira wants to bring his teddy bear, but is afraid of being teased. |
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| Arthur Accused (Brown, Marc) | Arthur, that lovable aardvark, is accused of stealing quarters from a fund drive. Buster Baxter, Arthur's best friend is the detective who uses clever crime solving techniques to save the day. This book is part of the new "chapter book" series for readers moving from picture books to chapter books. |
| The First Strawberries (Bruchac, Joseph) | This Cherokee legend tells of a quarrel that ends when strawberries grow out of the earth. It is a story that portrays friendship and respect. |
| Wednesday Surprise (Bunting, Eve) | A story about Anne and her Grandmother and how Anne learns to read. |
| Julian, Secret Agent (Cameron, Ann) | Twelve short chapters abut the escapades of Julian, brother Huey, and their friend Gloria when they become "crime busters." A good introduction to lengthier chapter books. |
| Ramona and her Father (Cleary, Beverly) | One of a series about Ramona, a girl about third grade age and the ups and downs of family life. Readers can identify with Ramona who enjoys both the advantages and disadvantages of being the youngest. |
| Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor (Cole JoAnna) | Ms. Frizzle's, the science teacher that encourages kids to "take chances, make mistakes, and get messy" takes the class on an in depth look at the ocean floor from the perspective of sea life. One in a series familiar to most young readers. |
| Amber Brown Goes Forth (Danzinger, Paula) | One of a series of books about a girl getting ready to become a fourth grader. Her best friend has just moved away and she misses him greatly. She moves on reluctantly only to discover there is success and a new best friend waiting for her in fourth grade. |
| Fish Face (Griff, Patricia Reilly) | Emily Arrow isn't the best reader in her class. She does O.K. in math but her real claim to fame is running the fastest. This talent is challenged when Dawn Bosco moves in from Florida. A surprise awaits the reader in this and other stories in the "Kids from Polk Street School" series. |
| Dream Wolf (Goble, Paul) | Goble tells a story of a friendly wolf named Bradbury who helps two lost children find their way home. Wolves are forever revered by the Great Plains Indians. |
| Much Ado About Aldo (Hurwitz, JoAnna) | A little boy named Aldo is curious about everything. His curiosity means bad luck for him and some crickets when four chameleons demonstrate nature's food chain. |
| Horrible Harry's Secret (Kline, Suzy) | Harry's in love and his best friend, Doug is disgusted! Harry no long does all the "horrible" stuff he's so famous for…like throwing snowballs at girls! Will Doug be able to bring Harry back to his normal horrible self? |
| Halloween Parade (Martin, Ann M.) | Excited about dressing up for the Halloween Parade, the kids in Ms. Colman's class are disappointed when the costumes fail to arrive. They improvise and have a wonderful time. |
| The Black Snowman (Mendez, Phil) | Using the magical powers of the kente cloth (African scarf), a black snowman comes to life and helps young Jacob discover the beauty of his African American heritage as well as his own self worth. |
| The New Kid on the Block (Pretlusky, Jack) | Over 100 hilarious poems about strange people and even stranger creatures. From jellyfish stew to chickens with no bones, Pretlusky introduces children to poetry they will love! |
| Tar Beach (Ringgold, Faith) | The book, originally created as a story quilt, tells the dream adventures of eight year old Cassie who magically flies above the roof-tops of Harlem in 1939. |
| Henry & Mudge and the Best Day of All (Ryland, Cynthia) | Another title in a beginning reader series about Henry and his 180 pound dog, Mudge. A good choice for those just beginning to read chapter books. |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends (Silverstein, Shel) | A boy turns into a TV set and a girl eats a whale in Silverstein's collection of humorous poems. Drawings add outrage to the funny poems that are loved by children of all ages. |
| Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Two Spies (Sobol, Donald) | LeRoy, a young boy, helps his father the Chief of Police solve some mysteries with his unique approach to thinking. He decides to open a "detective agency" of his own. First in a series of fun stories. |
| The Widow's Broom (Van Allsburg, Chris) | The story begins when the widow Minna Shaw finds a witch's broom. |
| Tailypo (Wahl, Jan) | A "hauntingly good" southern US folktale about a varmint who lost his tail to a woodsman. The illustrations are done in pastel oils and this is a favorite "re-telling" story. |
| The Boxcar Children (Warner, Gertrude Chandler) | Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are orphans. Determined to make it on their own they seek shelter from a storm in an old abandoned red boxcar. This is the first of a series. |
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| The Hit-Away Kid (Christopher, Matt) | A boy likes to win so much that he sometimes bends the rules. |
| Ramona the Brave (Cleary, Beverly) | The lively and spunky Ramona Quimby is surprised to learn that her new teacher doesn't always appreciate her antics. |
| The BFG (Dahl, Roald) | Sophie and the Big Friendly Giant concoct a plan to save the world from nine other mean giants. |
| If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand (Dakos, Kalli) | Poems about the ups and downs of elementary school. |
| Courage of Sarah Noble (Dalgliesh, Alice) | A story about a brave eight year old who goes with her father into the wilderness in 1707. |
| George Washington's Breakfast (Fritz, Jean) | Did you ever wonder what famous people might eat? Follow George Allen through this story as he investigates the answer to his question that no one can seem to answer. |
| The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (Hamilton, Virginia) | Virginia Hamilton asks that we, "Remember the voices from the past." In this book she retells African-American folktales of animals, the supernatural, and fantasy. |
| The Secret in the Dark (Keene, Carolyn) | Once again, Nancy Drew, girl detective, is involved in solving a mystery. This time she is determined to find out who wants a blind musician out of a musical competition. Image her surprise when her investigation turns up a priceless Stradivarious violin. |
| Babe the Gallant Pig (King-Smith, Dick) | Babe was purchased with bacon and sausage in mind until he displays a special talent. |
| Ben and Me (Lawson, Robert) | Benjamin Franklin's career is recorded by his friend Amos the mouse. |
| Pippi Longstocking (Lindgren, Astrid) | A lucky little girl lives with a horse and a monkey-but without her parents. |
| Anastasia Absolutely (Lowry, Lois) | No one had told Anastasia that growing up would be such an adventure. As she turns thirteen she finds herself playing Cupid for her recently widowed uncle, learning the art of rope climbing, and she has a crush on her gym teacher. |
| Sara, Plain and Tall (MacLachlan, Patricia) | The children, Caleb and Anna, live on the prairie with their Pappa. The problem is they want a mother. What is Pappa to do? What else but place an ad in the paper and then wait to meet Sarah, from Maine, who agrees to come west for one month. |
| The Sun (Simon, Seymour) | A book describing the nature of the sun, its origin, source of energy, layers, atmosphere, sunspots, and activity. |
| Charlotte's Web (White, E.B.) | A little girl, a pig, a spider, and even a rat together teach about friendship, determination, and love. |
| The Best School Year Ever (Robinson, Barbara) | The six horrible Herdmans, the worst kids in the history of the world, cause mayhem throughout the school year. |
| How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark (National Geographic Society)` | Travel back in time as explorers Lewis and Clark search for a route to the Pacific Ocean. Their hair-raising adventures are told using quotes from their own journals. |
| Buried in Ice: The Mystery of a Lost Arctic Expedition (Beattie, Owen) | Icebergs, polar bears, snow blindness - these are just some of the problems Sir John Franklin's expedition had to face in their search to find the Northwest Passage. |
| The Gold Cadillac (Taylor, Mildred) | You would think that any family would be proud to have a beautiful new Cadillac. But when two black girls from the North visit the South, they meet racial prejudice for the first time. |
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| The Fighting Ground (Avi) | Jonathan wanted to fight in the war. Would he have the stomach for all the violence? Could he put his fears aside when the bullets started flying? |
| The Indian in the Cupboard (Banks, Lynne Reid) | A toy Indian comes to life and befriends a nine year old boy. |
| Caddie Woodlawn (Brink, Carol Ryrie) | The story of a spunky girl exploring the wild Wisconsin frontier. This book is based on a true story about an eleven year old girl in 1864. |
| The Enormous Egg (Butterworth, Oliver) | Nate Twitchell's hen lays an enormous egg and the creature that hatches makes world news. |
| The Pinballs (Byars, Betsy) | Three foster children decide they will no longer be "losers" after they come together in a loving home. |
| The Family Under the Bridge (Carlson, Natalie) | A homeless family is befriended by a grumpy hobo. |
| Strider (Cleary, Beverly) | In this sequel to Dear Mr. Henshaw, Leigh Botts adopts a stray dog named Strider. |
| The Door in the Wall (DeAngeli, Marguerite) | A crippled boy proves his courage and earns recognition from the king. |
| Bunnicula (Howe, Deborah) | Harold, a dog, and Chester, a cat, alert their family that the new bunny may be a vegetable vampire. |
| In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (Lord, Bette) | In 1947 a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, at home, and by her love of baseball. |
| The Hundred Penny Box (Mathis, Sharon) | The box holds a penny for every year of Aunt Dew's life and each penny symbolizes a memory. |
| Homer Price (McCloskey, Robert) | Young Homer captures thieves, solves mysteries, and helps young people in trouble. |
| The Island of the Blue Dolphins (O'Dell, Scott) | A story of survival based on the true account of a young Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an island off the California coast. Can she survive on her own? |
| Skinnybones (Park, Barbara) | Alex "Skinnybones" Frankovitch is the smallest kid in the Little League, but he has a major league talent for wisecracking. How will his season go? |
| The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (Scieszka, Jan) | The wolf gives his version of what really happened with the three little pigs in this clever book. |
| Call it Courage (Sperry, Armstrong) | In this Newberry Medal winning book, a Polynesian boy survives many harrowing experiences and conquers his fear of the ocean. |
| The Cay (Taylor, Theodore) | A boy's feelings abut racial prejudice change when he is stranded on a coral island with a black man. |
| The Friendship (Taylor, Mildred) | The year is 1933, the place Mississippi, and when a black man calls a white storekeeper by his first name, big trouble begins. |
| Maniac Magee (Spinelli, Jerry) | After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary as he accomplishes athletic feats which awe his contemporaries. |
| Hatchet (Paulsen, Gary) | After a plane crash, thirteen year old Brian survives fifty-four days alone in the wilderness with the aid of a hatchet. |