January

• John Masefield, The Box of Delights*
• Bryce Milligan, Brigid’s Cloak: An Ancient Irish Story
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (adapted from), Winter Days in the Big Woods
• M. Jean Craig (retold), The Donkey Prince*
• Norah Mongomerie (transl.), Babushka and the Three Wise Men in Christmas Fairy Tales
• Robert McCloskey, Time of Wonder*
• Julia Donaldson, The Snail and the Whale*
• Rumer Godden (retold), The Old Woman who lived in a Vinegar Bottle*
• Paul Galdone (retold), Cinderella
• Gail Gibbons, The Moon Book
• David Macaulay, Cathedral
• Holling Clancy Holling, Seabird*
• James Rumford, From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World
• Astrid Lindgren (adapted by), The Tomten
• Tomie dePaola, Tony’s Bread
• Arthur Ransome, Little Daughter of the Snow*
• Arthur Ransome, The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship*
• James Herriot, Smudge, the Little Lost Lamb and Oscar, Cat-About-Town in Treasury for Children*
• Leon Garfield, The Tempest in Shakespeare Stories*

Preschoolers

• Alvin Tresselt, White Snow Bright Snow
• Aldous Huxley, The Crows of Pearblossom*
• Richard Scarry, The Bunny Book
• Marjorie Flack, The Story About Ping
• Norma Farber, How the Hibernators Came to Bethlehem
• Gail Gibbons, Christmas on an Island
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (adapted from), Going to Town
• James Herriot, The Christmas Day Kitten in James Herriot’s Treasury for Children*
• Alvin Tresselt (retold), The Mitten
• Barbara Cooney, Hattie and the Wild Waves
• Sorche Nic Leodhas, Always Room for One More
• Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!
• Munro Leaf, Wee Gillis
• Alexis York Lumbard (retold), Pine and the Winter Sparrow
• Aliki, My Five Senses
• Gennady Spirin (retold), Goldilocks and the Three Bears
• Alice and Martin Provensen, The Animal Fair
• Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Each Peach Pear Plum
• Chris Raschka, A Ball for Daisy
• Molly Brett, Two in a Tent
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (adapted from), A Little Prairie House
• Demi, The Empty Pot*
• Dr. Seuss, The Sneetches
• Oliver Jeffers, Lost and Found*
• James Thurber, Many Moons*
• Barbara Cooney, Miss Rumphius*
• Sherri Duskey Rinker, Steam Train, Dream Train*
• Jean de Brunhoff, The Story of Babar
• Gene Zion, Harry the Dirty Dog
• Sergei Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf (ill. Charles Mikolaycak)*
• Johnny Gruelle (adapted from), The Raggedy Ann 100^th Anniversary Treasury

Independent Reading

• Eve Titus, Basil and the Lost Colony

February

• David Macaulay, Ship
• Enid Blyton, The Island of Adventure
• Clive King, Stig of the Dump*
• Diane Stanley, Leonardo da Vinci
• Diane Stanley, Michelangelo
• Paul O. Zelinsky, Rumpelstiltskin
• Mark Shasha, The Hall of Beasts
• Bruce Coville (retold), William Shakespeare’s The Tempest*
• Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema, Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare
• Carson Ellis, Du Iz Tak?*
• Oliver Jeffers, How to Catch a Star
• Margaret Hodges (retold), The Legend of Saint Christopher
• Julia Donaldson, Room on the Broom*
• Arlene Mosel (retold), Tikki Tikki Tembo

Preschoolers

• Brothers Grimm (Paul Heins, transl.), Snow White*
• Margaret Early (retold), Sleeping Beauty
• Michael Bedard, Emily
• Jerry Pinkney (retold), The Three Billy Goats Gruff*
• Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida, Nine Days to Christmas: A Story of Mexico*
• Katharine Lee Bates (ed.), Once Upon A Time: A Book of Old-Time Fairy Tales*
• Selina Chonz, A Bell for Ursli
• Anne Rockwell, Our Stars
• Judy Hawes, Why Frogs Are Wet
• Jim Arnosky, All About Frogs
• Allen Say, The Bicycle Man
• Demi, The Empty Pot*
• Jack Prelutsky, The Carnival of the Animals
• Paul O. Zelinsky, The Lion and the Stoat
• Tomie de Paola, The Cloud Book
• Tomie de Paola (retold), Strega Nona
• Kate Banks, The Bear in the Book
• Keith Baker, LMNO peas
• Barbara Cooney, Hattie and the Wild Waves
• Hans Christian Andersen and Demi (ill.), The Nightingale*
• Paul Goble, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
• Dayle Ann Dodds, The Prince Won’t Go To Bed!
• Komako Sakai, Emily’s Balloon
• Hans Christian Andersen, Anthea Bell (transl.), The Ugly Duckling
• Keith Baker, LMNO pea-quel
• Laurence Holt, Camille and the Sunflowers
• Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, What Can You Do With a Shoe?
• Robert McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal*
• A.A. Milne, The Magic Hill
• Dianne Snyder, The Boy of the Three-Year Nap
• Eve Titus, Anatole*
• Johnny Gruelle, 100^th Anniversary Raggedy Ann Stories
• Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!
• Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day*

Audio

• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone*

Poetry

• Louis Untermeyer (ed.), The Golden Books Family Treasury of Poetry*

Independent Reading

• Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who Was Galileo?
• Dick King-Smith, The Water Horse*
• Chris Butterworth, See What a Seal Can Do

March

• Leon Garfield, Twelfth Night from Shakespeare Stories*
• Ingri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, Foxie
• Marchette Chute, The Wonderful Winter

Preschoolers:

• Alice and Martin Provensen, Town & Country
• Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham, Cloud Tea Monkeys
• Lee Kingman, Peter’s Long Walk
• Robert McCloskey, Lentil
• Robin Davies (adaptation), Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans
• Trina Schart Hyman (retold), Little Red Riding Hood
• Gene Zion, Harry the Dirty Dog
• Alice McLerran, Roxaboxen
• Alice Provensen (retold), The Master Swordsman & The Magic Doorway
• Mahlon Craft (retold), Sleeping Beauty
• Clement Hurd, The Merry Chase
• Clare Turlay Newberry, April’s Kittens
• Marjorie Flack, Angus and the Cat
• Mordicai Gerstein, The First Drawing
• Richard Scarry’s Bedtime Stories
• Aldous Huxley, The Crows of Pearblossom*
• Mary O’Neill, Hailstones and Hailbut Bones
• Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• John Becker, Seven Little Rabbits
• Demi (retold), The Firebird
• Edith Nesbit, Melisande*
• Don Freeman, Corduroy
• Philip C. Stead, A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Free reading:

• Dick King-Smith, Martin’s Mice
• Dick King-Smith, A Mouse Called Wolf

April

• Paul O. Zelinsky (retold), Rapunzel*
• Dr. Seuss, Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories
• Paolo Guarnieri, A Boy Named Giotto
• Nicola Davis, Just Ducks!
• John Masefield, The Midnight Folk*
• Margaret Hodges (retold), The Kitchen Knight*
• Demi (retold), The Emperor’s New Clothes: A Tale Set in China
• Gail Gibbons, Gulls … Gulls … Gulls …
• Paul Galdone (retold), Cinderella
• Demi, Columbus
• Sarah Stewart, The Library
• Bill Peet, Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent*
• Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House
• Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline and the Gypsies
• Ingri d'Aulaire and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, Foxie: The Singing Dog

Preschoolers:

• Esphyr Slobodkina, Caps for Sale
• Marjorie Flack, Wait for William
• Barbara Cooney, Miss Rumphius*
• Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon
• Eve Titus, Mr. Shaw’s Shipshape Shoeshop
• Laurent de Brunhoff, Babar on Paradise Island
• The Firebird in Antonia Barber, Shoes of Satin, Ribbons of Lace
• Eve Titus, Anatole and the Cat
• Rumer Godden, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
• Julia Donaldson, The Gruffalo*
• Gail Gibbons, Nature’s Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests
• Gail Gibbons, The Vegetables We Eat
• Steve Jenkins & Robin Page, What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
• P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins from A to Z
• Aldous Huxley, The Crows of Pearblossom*
• Paul O. Zelinsky, The Lion and the Stoat
• Ezra Jack Keats, Whistle for Willie
• John S. Goodall, Great Days of a Country House
• Toni de Gerez (retold), Louhi: Witch of North Farm
• Caryll Houselander, Petook
• Tony Mitton and Ant Parker, Super Submarines
• Katherine Milhous, The Egg Tree
• Gail Gibbons, Boat Book
• James Mayhew, Katie Meets the Impressionists
• Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!
• Oliver Jeffers, How to Catch a Star
• Gail Gibbons, The Berry Book
• Demi (retold), The Magic Boat

Poetry

• Louis Untermeyer (ed.), The Golden Books Family Treasury of Poetry*
• John Masefield, The Everlasting Mercy in Easter Stories
• Michael Hague’s Family Easter Treasury

Independent reading

• Edward Ardizzone, Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain*
• Edward Ardizzone, Tim in Danger
• Edward Ardizzone, Tim and Lucy Go To Sea
• Edward Ardizzone, Tim All Alone
• Edward Ardizzone, Tim and Ginger
• Edward Ardizzone, Ship’s Cook Ginger
• Edward Ardizzone, Little Tim’s Last Voyage
• Dick King-Smith, The Hodgeheg
• Jean Lee Latham, David Glasgow Farragut: Our First Admiral
• Bruce Coville (retold), William Shakespeare’s The Tempest*
• Richard Platt, Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter* (first half)
• Mary Pope Osborne, American Tall Tales (Davy Crockett)

May

• J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (first half)*
• Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories (first half)*
• Aliki, William Shakespeare & the Globe
• Bruce Koscielniak, Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press
• Ann Keay Beneduce (retold), The Tempest
• Gail Gibbons, Planet Earth Inside Out
• Gail Gibbons, The Planets
• Alice McLerran, Roxaboxen
• Ruth Sells (retold), The Farmer and the Poor God
• Eve Titus, Anatole*
• Nicola Davies, Big Blue Whale
• Gail Gibbons, Beacons of Light: Lighthouses
• Demi (retold), The Magic Gold Fish
• Dr. Seuss, What Pet Should I Get?
• Dawnine Spivak, Grass Sandals: The Travels of Basho
• Steve Jenkins and Robin Page, Move!
• Demi (retold), Demi’s Reflective Fables
• Demi (retold), Chen Ping and His Magic Axe
• Gail Gibbons, Soaring with the Wind: The Bald Eagle

Preschoolers:

• Elinor Lander Horwitz, When the Sky is Like Lace
• Tomie dePaola (retold), Strega Nona
• Lloyd Alexander, The Fortune-Tellers
• Clement Hurd, The Merry Chase
• Gail Gibbons, Ice Cream: The Full Scoop
• Mitsumasa Anno, Anno’s Counting Book*
• Paul O. Zelinsky, The Lion and the Stoat
• Alice and Martin Provensen, The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot
• Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Each Peach Pear Plum
• Suzy Lee, Wave
• Puff the Magic Dragon
• Gail Gibbons, Monarch Butterfly
• Oliver Jeffers, How to Catch a Star
• Maurice Pledger, In the Ocean
• Rod Campbell, Dear Zoo
• Robin Davies (adapted by), Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans*
• Gail Gibbons, Sun up, Sun down
• Johnny Gruelle, Raggedy Ann Stories (100^th Anniversary edition)*
• Julia Donaldson, Room on the Broom*
• Masako Matsuno, A Pair of Red Clogs
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse*
• Howard Pyle, Bearskin*
• Paul Heins (transl.), Snow White*
• Munro Leaf, Wee Gillis
• Charles Perrault, Toads and Diamonds in Best in Children’s Books (1960)*
• Aldous Huxley, The Crows of Pearblossom*
• Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings*
• Dr. Seuss, McElligot’s Pool*
• Paul O. Zelinsky (retold), Rumpelstiltskin*
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse*
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles
• George Webbe Dasent (retold), The Lad Who Went to the North Wind in Childcraft
• Demi, Kites: Magic Wishes That Fly Up to the Sky

Independent reading:

• Richard Platt, Pirate Diary (last half)
• James Thurber, The 13 Clocks*
• Wooden Boat magazine
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (adapted from), Summertime in the Big Woods (to younger sibling)

June

• J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (last half)*
• Yoshiko Uchida (retold), The Magic Purse
• Jim LaMarche, The Raft
• Jim LaMarche, Pond
• Dianna Hutts Aston, A Butterfly Is Patient
• Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (first 50 pages)*
• Demi, The Dragon’s Tale and Other Animal Fables of the Chinese Zodiac
• Michael Bedard, Emily*
• Randolph Caldecott, Ride a-Cock-Horse and Other Rhymes and Stories*
• Eric A. Kimmel (retold), Iron John
• The Goose-Girl in The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales
• Thomas Locker, The Boy Who Held Back the Sea
• Marcia Sewall, James Towne: Struggle for Survival
• Eric Carle, Walter the Baker
• Julia Donaldson, Tabby McTat The Musical Cat*
• Julia Donaldson, The Highway Rat
• Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm, Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth
• Lynne Cherry, The Sea, The Storm, and The Mangrove Tangle
• Marcia Sewall, The Pilgrims of Plymouth
• Thomas Locker, Sailing with the Wind
• Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm, Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life
• Brinton Turkle, Thy Friend, Obadiah

Kindergarten and nursery

• Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking (first half)
• Ruth Sawyer (retold), Journey Cake, Ho!
• Trish Marx, Hanna’s Cold Winter
• Margaret Wise Brown, Where Have You Been?
• Alan Aldridge, The Butterfly Ball
• Jason Chin, Island: The Story of the Galapagos
• A.A. Milne, The Magic Hill
• Jason Chin, Grand Canyon
• Gail Gibbons, Ducks!
• Aldous Huxley, The Crows of Pearblossom*
• Stephanie Parsley Ledyard, Pie is for Sharing
• Dennis Nolan, The Castle Builder
• Jan Freeman Long (retold), The Bee and the Dream
• Dianna Hutts Aston, A Rock Is Lively
• Dianna Hutts Aston, The Moon Over Star
• Dianna Hutts Aston, A Beetle is Shy
• Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy World
• Oliver Jeffers, How to Catch A Star
• Clement Hurd, The Merry Chase
• Molly Brett, The Forgotten Bear
• Tomie dePaola, Charlie Needs a Cloak
• Margaret Wise Brown, Big Red Barn*
• Wendy Kesselman, Emma
• Don Freeman, Norman the Doorman
• David Wiesner, Art & Max
• Rika Lesser (retold), Hansel and Gretel
• Gail Gibbons, Coral Reefs
• Joan Sweeney, Bijou, Bonbon & Beau: The Kittens Who Danced for Degas
• Eric Carle, Pancakes, Pancakes!
• Julia Donaldson, A Gold Star for Zog*
• Karen Hesse, Come On, Rain!
• Don Freeman, A Rainbow of My Own
• Shirley Hughes, The Big Alfie Out of Doors Book*
• Richard Scarry, The Great Pie Robbery*
• Donald Hall, I am the Dog, I am the Cat
• Rosemary Wells, Yoko’s Paper Cranes
• Robert McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal*
• Robert McCloskey, One Morning in Maine*
• Philip C. Stead, A Sick Day for Amos McGee*
• Brenda Z. Guiberson, Cactus Hotel*
• Robert Sabuda, America the Beautiful*
• Rumpel-stilt-skin in My Book of Old-Time Fairy Tales (ill. Margaret Evans Price)
• Nonny Hogrogian, One Fine Day
• Alvin Tresselt (retold), The Mitten
• Beatrice Schenk de Regines, What Can You Do With a Shoe?
• Emily Kate Moon, Joone
• James Mayhew, Ella Bella Ballerina and The Sleeping Beauty
• Margaret Hodges (retold), The Kitchen Knight Eve Titus, Anatole and the Cat*

Independent reading

• James Thurber, The 13 Clocks*
• Mercer Mayer, Shibumi and the Kitemaker
• Janet Schulman (retold), Felix Salten’s Bambi
• David Wiesner, Art & Max
• Sally Schofer Mathews, The Sad Night: The Story of an Aztec Victory and a Spanish Loss
• Louise Borden, Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude

July

• Janice Weaver, Hudson
• Eve Titus, Anatole and the Toy Shop
• Laurence Houseman, Rocking Horse Land
• Bernadette Watts (retold), The Elves and the Shoemaker
• Margaret Hodges (retold), The Fire Bringer: A Paiute Indian Legend
• E. Nesbit (retold) and Matt Tavares (ill.), Jack and the Beanstalk
• Rebecca L. Johnson, A Walk in the Tundra
• Bernadette Watts (retold), The Rich Man and the Shoemaker: A Fable from La Fontaine
• Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings*
• Brenda Z. Guiberson, Life in the Boreal Forest
• Kathryn Lasky, The Man Who Made Time Travel
• Barbara Cooney (retold), Little Brother and Little Sister
• Bernadette Watts (retold), The Bremen Town Musicians
• Robert McCloskey, Lentil
• Bernadette Watts (retold), The Wind and the Sun: An Aesop Fable
• Mary Ann Fraser, Where Are the Night Animals? Maria Gianferrari, Hawk Rising
• Kathryn Lasky, Newton’s Rainbow: The Revolutionary Discoveries of a Young Scientist
• Janet Schulman, A Bunny For All Seasons
• Udo Weigelt, Old Beaver
• Mary Lyn Ray, Welcome, Brown Bird
• Brigitte Sidjanski, The River
• Steven Kellogg, Paul Bunyan
• Laurel Long and Jacqueline Ogburn, The Lady & the Lion
• Bernadette Watts, Saint Francis and the Proud Crow
• Tomi Ungerer, Crictor
• Gail Gibbons, Caves and Caverns
• Janet Schulman, Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City
• Diane Stanley, Peter the Great
• Lynne Cherry, Flute’s Journey: The Life of a Wood Thrush

Kindergarten and nursery

Everything listed above for this month plus:

• Demi, The Empty Pot*
• Bernadette Watts (retold), Jorinda and Jorindel
• Matt Forrest Esenwine, Flashlight Night
• K.Y. Craft (retold), Sleeping Beauty
• Barbara Brenner and Julia Takaya, Chibi: A True Story from Japan
• Gennady Spirin (retold), The Tale of the Firebird
• Bernadette Watts (ill.) and The Brothers Grimm, Little Red Riding Hood
• Don Freeman, Corduroy*
• James Mayhew, Katie and the Mona Lisa
• Jeanette Winter, Cowboy Charlie
• Peter Sis, Ice Cream Summer
• Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg*
• Robert McCloskey, Time of Wonder*
• Mary Lyn Ray, Go to Sleep, Little Farm
• Amber Stewart, Little by Little
• Julia Donaldson, Charlie Cook’s Favorite Book
• Evan Turk, You Are Home: An Ode to the National Parks
• Carson Ellis, Du Iz Tak?
• Robert J. Blake, Fledgling
• Dr. Seuss, Yertle the Turtle*
• Tasha Tudor, Pumpkin Moonshine
• Dawn Sirett, How Does a Butterfly Grow?
• Irene Kelly, It’s a Hummingbird’s Life
• Allen Say, The Bicycle Man
• Dennis Nolan, Dinosaur Dream
• Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, What Can You Do With a Shoe?
• Mary Lyn Ray, Basket Moon
• Arlene Mosel (retold), Tikki Tikki Tembo
• Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Each Peach Pear Plum
• Patricia Polacco, Emma Kate
• Cathryn Sill, About Hummingbirds
• Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child’s Garden of Verses (ill. Tasha Tudor)
• Julia Donaldson, Superworm
• Rod Campbell, Dear Zoo
• Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon
• Maria Gianferrari, Coyote Moon
• Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton, Simeon’s Gift
• Charles G. Shaw, It Looked Like Spilt Milk
• Penelope Proddow (transl.), Hermes, Lord of Robbers

Independent reading

• Clyde Robert Bulla, A Lion to Guard Us
• Louise Borden, The Greatest Skating Race
• Louise Borden, The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II
• Kate Waters, Samuel Eaton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy
• David A. Adler and Michael S. Adler, A Picture Book of Daniel Boone
• Hergé, Tintin in America
• Hergé, Cigars of the Pharaoh
• Hergé, The Blue Lotus
• Matt Doeden, Can You Survive in the Special Forces?

Poetry

• Bernadette Watts (ed./ill.), Fly Away, Fly Away Over the Sea and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti Louis Untermeyer (ed.), The Golden Books Family Treasury of Poetry

Audio books

• Grimm’s Fairy Tales
• A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

August

• Franklyn M. Branley, Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll
• Irene Kelly, A Frog’s Life
• Lise Lunge-Larsen, The Race of the Birkebeiners*
• Jane Yolen, Welcome to the River of Grass
• James Herriot, Only One Woof in James Herriot’s Treasury for Children*
• Beatrix Potter, The Story of Miss Moppet
• The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Pantheon; ill. Joseph Scharl): Bearskin, The Willow-Wren and the Bear, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
• Jacqueline Briggs Martin, On Sand Island
• Nancy Luenn, Squish! A Wetland Walk
• Molly Bang, My Light
• Julius Lester, Sam and the Tigers
• Steven Kroll, William Penn: Founder of Pennsylvania
• Emily Arnold McCully, Caroline’s Comets: A True Story
• Anna Harwell Celenza, The Farewell Symphony
• Rebecca L. Johnson, A Walk in the Boreal Forest
• Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore, Parrots Over Puerto Rico
• Jim Arnosky, Babies on the Bayou
• Jim Arnosky, Frozen Wild
• Leslea Newman, Ketzel, The Cat Who Composed
• Laura Amy Schlitz (retold), The Bearskinner
• Allan Drummond, Energy Island: How One Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed Their World
• Pat Hutchins, The Wind Blew*
• Betsy Maestro, Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars, 1689-1763
• Jane Louise Curry, Brave Cloelia
• Barbara Brenner, The Boy Who Loved to Draw: Benjamin West
• Paul Galdone (retold), The Amazing Pig: An Old Hungarian Tale*
• Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House*
• Anita Sanchez, Karl, Get Out of the Garden!: Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything
• Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Bears

Kindergarten and nursery

Everything listed above plus:

• Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who*
• Jane Ray, The Apple-Pip Princess
• Caroline Starr Rose, Over in the Wetlands
• Lise Lunge-Larsen, The Race of the Birkebeiners*
• Brinton Turkle, Thy Friend, Obadiah
• A.A. Milne, The Magic Hill
• Philip Stead, A Sick Day for Amos McGee*
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher*
• Alice Schertle, Down the Road
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Tom Kitten
• Donald Hall, Ox-Cart Man*
• Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham, Cloud Tea Monkeys
• Tomie dePaola, Charlie Needs a Cloak
• Tomie dePaola (retold), Strega Nona
• Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking*
• Karen Lynn Williams, A Beach Tail
• Anne Rockwell, Hiking Day
• Peggy Rathman, Good Night, Gorilla
• Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Billy Goats Gruff
• Ann Tompert, Saint Patrick
• Virginia Lee Burton, Choo Choo
• Sherry Garland, The Lotus Seed
• Toads and Diamonds and Crunch Crunch in Best in Children’s Books (1960)
• Iona Opie and Rosemary Wells, Mother Goose’s Little Treasures*
• Paul Galdone (retold), The Little Red Hen*
• Verna Aardema (retold), The Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks
• Jerry Pinkney (retold), The Grasshopper & the Ants
• Jerry Pinkney (retold), Noah’s Ark
• Peter Spier, Noah’s Ark
• Joseph Jacobs (retold), Tom Tit Tot in English Fairy Tales (Everyman’s)
• Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Songs: A Celebration of the Seasons
• Eve Titus, Anatole*
• Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline and the Gypsies
• Wendy Pfeffer, A Log’s Life
• Ruth Sawyer (retold), The Remarkable Christmas of the Cobbler’s Sons
• Margaret Wise Brown, A Home in the Barn*
• Maurice Sendak, One Was Johnny: A Counting Book*
• Pat Hutchins, Rosie’s Walk
• Jane Louise Curry, The Christmas Knight
• Lise Lunge-Larsen, The Hidden Folk: Stories of Fairies, Dwarves, Selkies, and Other Secret Beings
• Jan Brett, On Noah’s Ark
• Zoe Hall, The Apple Pie Tree
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit*

Independent reading

• Hergé, Red Rackham’s Treasure
• Hergé, The Seven Crystal Balls
• Hergé, Prisoners of the Sun
• Hergé, The Broken Ear
• Hergé, The Black Island
• Hergé, King Ottokar’s Sceptre
• R. Goscinny and A. Uderzo, Asterix Omnibus I
• Hergé, The Crab with the Golden Claws
• Hergé, The Shooting Star
• Hergé, The Secret of the Unicorn
• Esther Averill, The Hotel Cat
• David A. Adler, A Picture Book of George Washington
• David A. Adler, A Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson

Poetry

• Robert Louis Stevenson (ill. Tasha Tudor), A Child’s Garden of Verses
• Louis Untermeyer, The Forms of Poetry (for study / explanation)

September

• Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons*
• Barbara Cooney, Island Boy*
• Hardie Gramatky, Little Toot
• Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Island*
• James Cross Giblin, The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin*
• Cathryn and John Sill, Polar Regions
• Adrien Stoutenberg, American Tall Tales
• Howard Pyle, Twilight Land*
• Arthur Dorros, A Tree is Growing*
• Cheryl Bardoe, Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas
• Margaret Hodges (retold), Gulliver in Lilliput*
• David A. Adler, A Picture Book of Benjamin Franklin
• Helen Bannerman, The Story of Little Babaji
• Jane Yolen, On Duck Pond
• Elisa Kleven, The Apple Doll
• Cathryn Sill, About Penguins
• J.R.R. Tolkien, Smith of Wootton Major*
• Gail Gibbons, Spiders*
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (ill. Ted Rand), Paul Revere’s Ride
• Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney, Black Cowboy Wild Horses
• Aesop, The Stag Looking Into the Water

Kindergarten and Nursery

• Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day
• Carol Reed-Jones, The Tree in the Ancient Forest
• Paul Galdone, Three Aesop Fox Fables*
• Alice Mclerran, Roxaboxen*
• Bonny Becker, A Visitor for Bear
• Astrid Lindgren, The Children of Noisy Village
• Molly Brett, The Forgotten Bear
• Ole Risom, I am a Bunny
• Dr. Seuss, There’s a Wocket in my Pocket!
• Lois Lenski, Cowboy Small
• Lois Lenski, Policeman Small
• Dr. Seuss, I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories*
• Margaret Wise Brown, The Seashore Noisy Book
• Joseph Bruchac and James Bruchac, How Chipmunk Got His Stripes
• Dr. Seuss, The Foot Book
• Keith Baker, Little Green Peas: A Big Book of Colors
• Axel Scheffler, Mother Goose’s Storytime Nursery Rhymes
• Eating the Alphabet
• Will Hillenbrand, Fiddle-I-Fee*
• Dr. Seuss, I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew
• Tasha Tudor, Pumpkin Moonshine

Independent Reading

• Stephen Krensky, Dangerous Journey: The Revolutionary Voyage of John Quincy Adams
• David A. Adler, A Picture Book of Paul Revere
• C.S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (read after listening to audio)*
• Alice Dalgliesh, The Courage of Sarah Noble

Audio Books

• C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (read by Kenneth Branagh)
• C.S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (read by Michael York)
• C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (read by Lynn Redgrave)

October

• Betsy and Giulio Maestro, The New Americans: Colonial Times, 1620-1689
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (ill. Gustave Dore)*
• Dennis Brindell Fradin, Let It Begin Here! Lexington & Concord: First Battles of the American Revolution
• Cathryn Sill, About Habitats: Seashores
• Candace Fleming (retold), The Hatmaker’s Sign: A Story by Benjamin Franklin
• Ilse Plume, The Farmer in the Dell
• Wendell Minor, Daylight Starlight Wildlife
• Russell Freedman, Washington at Valley Forge*
• Russell Freedman, The Boston Tea Party
• Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, David and Goliath*
• Howard Pyle, Twilight Land*
• Anna Harwell Celenza, The Heroic Symphony
• Phil Stong, Honk the Moose
• Carolyn Croll, Redoute: The Man Who Painted Flowers
• Charles Perrault, Perrault’s Fairy Tales*
• Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, George Washington

Kindergarten and Nursery




Everything listed above plus:

• Paul Galdone (retold), Over in the Meadow*
• Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, it does not say meow
• Will Hubbell, Pumpkin Jack
• Leo Politi, Song of the Swallows*
• Richard Scarry, Cars and Trucks and Things that Go
• Keith Baker, Little Green Peas
• Francois Crozet, I am a Little Panda
• Ole Risom, I am a Bunny*
• Beatrice Schenk de Regiers, May I Bring a Friend?
• Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev, The Fool and the Fish: A Tale from Russia
• Will Hubbell, Apples Here!
• Candace Fleming, Boxes for Katje
• Gail Gibbons, From Seed to Plant
• Rebecca Caudill, A Pocketful of Cricket
• Barbara Brenner, One Small Place by the Sea
• Gail Gibbons, Flowers
• Gene Zion, Harry the Dirty Dog
• Jean Merrill (retold), The Girl Who Loved Caterpillars
• Alice McLerran, Roxaboxen
• Uri Shulevitz, Dusk
• Ingri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, Foxie
• Barbara Cooney, Miss Rumphius*
• Deborah Hopkinson, Apples to Oregon
• Francois Crozat, I am a little elephant
• Gyo Fujikawa (ill.), A Child’s Book of Poems*
• Celia Godkin, Fire! The Renewal of a Forest

Independent Reading

• Leonard Everett Fisher, The Cabinetmakers
• Leonard Everett Fisher, The Glassmakers
• Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children
• David A. and Michael S. Adler, A Picture Book of John Hancock
• Barbara Brenner, One Small Place in a Tree
• Alexandra Wallner, Betsy Ross
• David A. and Michael S. Adler, A Picture Book of Samuel Adams
• Celia Godkin, Fire! The Renewal of a Forest
• Edward Ardizzone, Ship’s Cook Ginger
• Edward Ardizzone, Tim and Lucy Go to Sea
• Eric A. Kimmel (retold), Don Quixote and the Windmills
• Cheryl Harness, Mark Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi
• Rosalyn Schanzer, George vs. George: The American Revolution as seen from Both Sides

Audio Books

• Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1

November

• Robert Lawson, Mr. Revere and I
• April Pulley Sayre, The Bumblebee Queen
• Gail Gibbons, Grizzly Bears
• Gavin Bishop, Cook’s Cook: The Cook Who Cooked for Captain Cook
• Alice Dalgliesh, The Thanksgiving Story

Kindergarten and Nursery

Everything listed above, plus:

• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit*
• Tomie dePaola, Charlie Needs a Cloak*
• Bernard Waber, Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
• Peter Spier’s Christmas!
• Allen Say, The Bicycle Man
• Herve Tullet, Press Here
• Robert McCloskey, Lentil

Independent reading

• Capt. W.E. Johns, Biggles of 266
• David A. Adler, A Picture Book of Patrick Henry

December

• K.M. Briggs, Hobberdy Dick*
• Mem Fox, Hattie and the Fox
• Jim Aylesworth (retold), The Gingerbread Man
• Alice and Martin Provensen, Town & Country
• Olive Beaupre Miller, My Storytime Treasury (first half)*
• Barbara Cooney (retold), The Little Juggler*
• Robin Davies (retold), Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans
• Elsa Beskow, Christopher’s Garden
• Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol*
• Charles Perrault, Perrault’s Fairy Tales (first half)*

Kindergarten and Nursery

Everything listed above plus:

• Maurice Sendak, Chicken Soup with Rice
• E. Nesbit, The Town in the Library in Rocking Horse Land
• Cynthia Rylant, Christmas in the Country
• Rika Lesser (retold), Hansel and Gretel
• Demi (retold), Hans Christian Andersen’s The Nightingale
• Susan Jeffers (retold), The Nutcracker
• Robert Barry, Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree
• Elsa Beskow, Ollie’s Ski Trip
• Heather Vogel Frederick (adapted by), A Little Women Christmas
• I.C. Springman, More
• Margaret Wise Brown (ill. Barbara Cooney), The Little Fir Tree*
• Susan Wojciechowski, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey*
• Margaret Wise Brown, Christmas in the Barn
• Elsa Beskow, Peter and Lotta’s Christmas
• Rumer Godden, St. Jerome and the Lion
• Astrid Lindgren, Christmas in Noisy Village
• Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Little Pigs
• Tomie dePaola, An Early American Christmas
• Dennis Nolan, Dinosaur Dream*
• Audrey Tarrant, The Donkey of Nazareth
• Akiko Miyakoshi, The Way Home in the Night
• Robert McCloskey, Make Way For Ducklings*
• Francois Crozat, I am a little panda.
• Francois Crozat, I am a little elephant.
• Suzy Lee, Wave
• Gene Zion, Harry the Dirty Dog
• Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon
• Lois Lenski, Cowboy Small*
• Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Billy Goats Gruff*
• Dahlov Ipcar, One Horse Farm
• Doris Burn, Andrew Henry’s Meadow
• John Langstaff, Over in the Meadow

Independent Reading

• John McCutcheon, Christmas in the Trenches
• Rosalyn Schanzer, How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning
• Anne Gatti (retold), The Magic Flute
• Opal Wheeler and Sybil Deucher, Mozart the Wonder Boy
• Barbara Cooney, Eleanor
• Barbara Nichol, Beethoven Lives Upstairs
• James Cross Giblin, Thomas Jefferson
• Munro Leaf, Wee Gillis
• Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham, Cloud Tea Monkeys
• Opal Wheeler, Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells

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