Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd & 3rd Grade Book List

Books are listed alphabetically by author's last name

Aardema, Verna
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

Allard, Harry
Miss Nelson Is Missing!

Atwater, Richard and Florence
Mr Popper's Penguins

Bemelmans, Ludwig
Madeline

Brown, Marcia
Stone Soup

Burton, Virginia Lee
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Choi, Yangsook
The Name Jar

Cleary, Beverly
The Mouse and the Motorcycle; Ramona (series)

Collodi, Carlo
Adventures of Pinocchio

Crews, Donald
Freight Train

Daugherty, James
Andy and the Lion

dePaola, Tomie
Strega Nona; Pancakes for Breakfast

Dooley, Norah
Everybody Bakes Bread

Duvoisin, Roger
Petunia

Freeman, Don
Corduroy

Gag, Wanda
Millions of Cats

Galdone, Paul
The Three Little Pigs

Grahame, Kenneth
The Reluctant Dragon

Gramatky, Hardie
Little Toot

Hoffman, Mary
Amazing Grace

Keats, Ezra Jack
The Snowy Day

Kraus, Robert Leo
The Late Bloomer

Krauss, Ruth
The Carrot Seed

Leaf, Munro
The Story of Ferdinand

Lear, Edward
A Book of Nonsense

Lionni, Leo
Frederick; An Extraordinary Egg; Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse

Lobel, Arnold
Frog and Toad Are Friends

Lopshire, Robert
Put Me in the Zoo

Marshall, James
George and Martha

McCloskey, Robert
Make Way for Ducklings

McDermott, Gerald
Anansi the Spider

Merrill, Jean
The Pushcart War

Milne, AA
Winnie-the-Pooh

Minarik, Else Holmelund
Little Bear

Mosel, Arlene
Tikki Tikki Tembo

Parish, Peggy
Amelia Bedelia

Piper, Watty
The Little Engine That Could

Potter, Beatrix
The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Recorvits, Helen
My Name Is Yoon

Rey, HA
Curious George

Sendak, Maurice
Where the Wild Things Are

Seuss, Dr
The Cat in the Hat; Green Eggs and Ham; Fox in Socks

Shannon, David
A Bad Case of Stripes

Slobodkina, Esphyr
Caps for Sale

Steig, William
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble; Shrek; Brave Irene

Stuve-Bodeen, Stephanie
Elizabeth's School

Soto, Gary
Too Many Tamales

Taylor, Sydney
All-of-a-Kind Family

Thurber, James
Many Moons

Udry, Janice
May A Tree is Nice

Uegaki, Chieri
Suki's Kimono

Van Allsburg, Chris
The Garden of Abdul Gasazi; Jumanji; The Widow's Broom; The Stranger

Viorst, Judith
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries

Ward, Lynd
The Biggest Bear

White, EB
Charlotte's Web

Williams, Vera
A Chair for My Mother

Yashima, Taro
Crow Boy

Zion, Gene
Harry the Dirty Dog

Zolotow, Charlotte
William's Doll