Book Recommendations

0-4 years

• Big Sister and Little Sister by Charlotte Zolotow
• Remy the Rhino Learns Patience by Andy McGuire (A/V)
• The Foolish Tortoise by Richard Buckley (A/V)
• Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
• If I Had a Little Dream by Nina Laden (A/V)
• The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (A/V)

• Me by Emma Dodd

• Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes… (A/V)
• Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel (read aloud)
• Friends by Daniela Sosa
• Owl Moon By Jane Yolen
• Felicity Floo Visits the Zoo by E.S. Redmond
• How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman
• The Snatchabook by Helen Docherty (audiobook)
• Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin
• Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• My Best Book of Rhymes
• Big sister, little sister by LeUyen Pham
• The Yellow Boat by Hilrert Margeret
• The Three Railway Engines by Rev. W. Awdry
• The Snail and the Whale by Axel Scheffler | Julia Donaldson
• The Foolish Tortoise by Richard Buckley
• The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr | John Archambault
• Baby Says by John Steptoe
• Frog and Toad Storybook Treasury by Arnold Lobe
• Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle

4-7 years

• Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
• Lailah’s Lunchbox by Reem Faruqi
• Grandpa’s Garden by Stella Fry
• Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed by Emily Pearson
• A Weekend with Wendell by Kevin Henkes
• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
• Hush-a-bye Bunny by Holly Surplice
• Grill Pan Eddy by Jeanne Willis
• Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg
• Maddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt
• The Sandwich Swap by Kelly DiPucchio, Queen Rania Of Jordan Al Abdullah
• Sitti’s Secrets by Naomi Shihab Nye
• Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen
• Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner
• The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
• If You Plant a Seed by Kadir Nelson
• Toy Boat by Randall de Seve
• The Snail and the Whale by Axel Scheffler | Julia Donaldson
• What Do You Do With a Problem? by Kobi Yamada
• On Earth by G. Brian Karas (A/V)
• A Bargain for Frances by Russell Hoban
• Erandi’s Braids by Antonio Hernandez Madrigal
• A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
• Maddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt
• The Storybook Knight by Helen Docherty
• The Greedy Python by Richard Buckley
• The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
• Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn

7-10 years

• Peppe the Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone
• The Story of Jumping Mouse by John Steptoe
• The Camel in the Sun by Griffin Ondaatje
• The Day Saida Arrived by Susana Gómez Redondo
• The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley
• The Long, Long Letter by Elizabeth Spurr
• The Four Branches of the Mabinogi by Siân Lewis
• Belle and Sébastien: the child of the mountains by Cécil Aubry Illustratrated by Helen Stephens
• The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
• Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
• Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
• Magic or Not? by Edward Eager
• Rain School by James Rumford
• Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg [or watch the movie and then get them to read 😉 ]
• Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
• Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts
• Yeh-Shen by Ai-Ling Louie
• The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
• Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
• Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran
• Sky Color by Peter H. Reynolds
• Going to Mecca by Na’ima B. Robert
• A Day’s Work by Eve Bunting
• The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
• How Much Is a Million? by David M. Schwartz
• Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts
• The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg
• Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

9-12 years

• Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
• A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
• Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
• The Red Bicycle by Jude Isabella
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
• The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat
• Coming to England by Floella Benjamin
• The House of Wisdom by Florence Parry Heide | Judith Heide Gilliland
• The Car Theft Kidnapping by Haji U. Hutchinson
• Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
• The Wheel on the School by Meindert Dejong
• Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
• The Legend of the Wandering King by Laura Gallego García
• The High King by Lloyd Alexander
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
• The MBS and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
• A Different Pond by Bao Phi
• Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place  (a collection) by Maryrose Wood
• The Rag Coat by Lauren A. Mills
• Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
• The Unmapped Sea by Maryrose Wood
• The Wheel on the School by Meindert Dejong
• The House of Wisdom by Florence Parry Heide | Judith Heide Gilliland
• The Legend of the Wandering King by Laura Gallego García
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri
• Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi Cindy Neuschwande