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Kindergarten Suggested Reading List 

Research has shown that the single greatest factor in predicting reading success is whether a child is read to when young. Here are some titles to get you started!

Note: The following books are only suggestions. Please feel free to add any books that are appropriate for your reader. The staff in the children’s area of the public library will also have many wonderful suggestions for you.  

 

Books About Me

I Like Me! by Nancy L. Carlson

I Like to Be Little by Charlotte Zolotow

The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle

My Five Senses by Aliki

Owen by Kevin Henkes

When I Get Bigger by Mercer Mayer

 

Family Stories

• Just Me Books by Mercer Mayer

Mama Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse

 

Predictable Books (Stories with a pattern using rhyme or rhythm.)

Curious George by H. A. Rey

Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg

The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone

Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág

What’s in Fox’s Sack? by Paul Galdone

 

Beginning, Middle, and End Concept

Bony-Legs by Joanna Cole

A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee by Chris Van Dusen

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins

The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

 

Color and Counting Books

Each Orange Had Eight Slices: A Counting Book by Paul Giganti Jr.

Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On by Lois Ehlert

Frog Counts to Ten by John Liebler

Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni

Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue? by Tana Hoban

Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert

Ten Bears in My Bed: A Goodnight Countdown by Stanley Mack

Ten Little Fish by Audrey Wood

26 Letters and 99 Cents by Tana Hoban

 

Caldecott Winners and Honor Books

Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

More, More, More Said the Baby by Vera B. Williams

Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathman

Swimmy by Leo Lionni

Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens

 

Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes

James Marshall’s Mother Goose by James Marshall

My Very First Mother Goose by Iona Opie and Rosemary Wells

Tomie dePaola’s Mother Goose by Tomie dePaola

 

Folktales and Fairy Tales

Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg

Cinderella by Marcia Brown

The Hare and the Tortoise by Brian Wildsmith

Henny Penny by H. Werner Zimmermann

The Little Red Hen by Margot Zemach

The Three Bears by Paul Galdone

The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Peter Christen Asbjornsen

Three Little Pigs by James Marshall

The Three Little Pigs by Rodney Peppé

The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen

 

Stories in Rhyme

All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema

Miss Spider’s Tea Party by David Kirk

 

Friends

Benjamin and Tulip by Rosemary Wells

We Are Best Friends by Aliki

Who Will Be My Friends? by Syd Hoff

 

Fabulous Science Books

Cars and How they Go by Joanna Cole

Eyewitness Juniors Amazing Frogs and Toads by Barry Clarke

Magic School Bus On the Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole

 

 

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Here is an additional site that has booklists for children: 

http://www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading/book-lists-and-recommendations/ages-3-5