January
- Stephen Krensky, Hanukkah at Valley Forge*
- Leonard Everett Fisher, Theseus and the Minotaur
- Efner Tudor Holmes, The Christmas Cat*
- Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man in Michael Foreman’s Christmas Treasury
- Hilda von Stockum, A Day on Skates*
- Gennady Spirin,We Three Kings*
- Ann Keay Beneduce (retold), Gulliver’s Adventures in Lilliput
Gennady Spirin (ill.), The Story of Noah and the Ark
- Alexander Pushkin (Gennady Spirin ill.), The Tale of Tsar Saltan
- Ann Keay Beneduce (retold), Moses: The Long Road to Freedom
- Charles Micucci, The Life and Times of the Apple
- Jim Arnosky, Crinkleroot’s Guide to Knowing Butterflies & Moths
- Sneed B. Collard III, Our Natural Homes
- Karen Latchana Kenney, Peeking Underground
- Sneed B. Collard III, Butterfly Count
Kindergarten and Nursery
- Richard Scarry’s Best Christmas Book Ever!
- Antonia Barber, The Mousehole Cat*
- Paul Galdone (retold), Little Red Riding Hood
- Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings*
- Maurice Pledger, In the Ocean
- April Pulley Sayre, Dig, Wait, Listen: A Desert Toad’s Tale
- Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express
- Paul Galdone, The Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Elisha Cooper, Beach
- O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi (ill. P.J. Lynch)*
- Richard Scarry, What Do People Do All Day?
- Gyo Fujikawa (ill.), A Child’s Book of Poems*
- Gene Zion, Harry the Dirty Dog
- Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline in London
- Leo Tolstoy, Ann Keay Beneduce (retold), Philipok*
- Donald Hall, Ox-Cart Man
- Mary Hoffman (retold), Clever Katya: A Fairy Tale from Old Russia*
- Gennady Spiring (retold), The Tale of the Firebird*
- Barbara Rogasky (retold), The Water of Life: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm*
- Elisha Cooper, Train
- Lois Lenski, The Little Train*
- Barbara Nichol, Beethoven Lives Upstairs
- Elisha Cooper, Homer
- Jim Arnosky, Raccoons and Ripe Corn
Independent Reading
- Arthur Ransome, Swallowdale (part)
- Penelope Proddow, Hermes, Lord of Robbers
- Sneed B. Collard III, The Deep-Sea Floor
- Steven Kroll, Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the American West
- Wendy Kesselman, Emma
- Sophie Blackall, Hello Lighthouse
- David Macaulay, Crossing on Time
- Sir George Webbe Dasent (transl.), P.J. Lynch (ill.), East O’ the Sun and West O’ the Moon*
- Brenda Z. Guiberson, Life in the Boreal Forest
- Michelle Cusolito, Flying Deep: Climb Inside Deep-Sea Submersible ALVIN
- Lesa Cline-Ransome, Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass
- David A. and Michael S. Adler, A Picture Book of Sam Houston
- Russell Freedman, The Sinking of the Vasa: A Shipwreck of Titanic Proportions
February
- Stephen Krensky, Hanukkah at Valley Forge*
- Charles Dickens, The Magic Fish-Bone
- James Mayhew, The Kingfisher Book of Tales from Russia*
- Gavin Maxwell, A Ring of Bright Water*
Kindergarten
Everything listed above plus:
- Eve Titus, Mr. Shaw’s Shipshape Shoeshop
- Mary Lyn Ray, Basket Moon
- Mahlon and Kinuko Craft, Beauty & The Beast*
- Kinuko Craft, Cinderella
- Kinuko Craft, Sleeping Beauty
- Doris Burn, Andrew Henry’s Meadow
- Alice and Martin Provensen, The Year at Maple Hill Farm
- Elizabeth Rusch, The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori & the Invention of the Piano
- Iona Opie (ed.), Mother Goose’s Little Treasures’
- Tomi Ungerer, Crictor
Nursery
Everything listed above plus:
- Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day
- Francois Crozat, I am a little panda
- Ole Risom, I am a Bunny*
- Rod Campbell, Dear Zoo
- Richard Scarry’s Best Little Golden Books Ever!*
- Richard Scarry’s Best Busy Year Ever!
- Richard Scarry’s Best Fire Fighters Ever!
- Taro Gomi, My Friends
- Gail Gibbons, The Vegetables We Eat
- Sandra Boynton, Pajama Time!
Independent Reading
- Dennis Brindell Fradin, The Alamo
- David Macaulay, Mill
- David Weitzman, The John Bull: A British Locomotive Comes to America
- Peter Malone, Close to the Wind: The Beaufort Scale
- Elizabeth Rusch, The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori & the Invention of the Piano
- Robert Lawson, I Discover Columbus*
March
- Olive Beaupre Miller, My Book House, Vol. 3 (Up One Pair of Stairs)*
- J.R.R. Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham*
- Walter de la Mare, The Lord Fish*
- Hans Christian Andersen, Thumbelina in Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales (Canterbury Classics)*
- Eric Sloane, Diary of an Early American Boy, 1805*
- Betty Macdonald, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Kindergarten
Everything listed above plus:
- Maurice Pledger, In the Ocean
- P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins*
- Richard Scarry’s Best Little Golden Books Ever!
- Oliver Jeffers, Lost and Found
- K.Y. Craft (retold), Cinderella*
- Rumer Godden, The Old Woman who lived in a Vinegar Bottle
- Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, Foxie
- Roma Gans, How Do Birds Find Their Way?
- Gail Gibbons, Marshes & Swamps
- Barbara Cooney (retold), Little Brother and Little Sister
- Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- M.M. Kaye, The Ordinary Princess
- Sheila MacGill-Callahan, The Children of Lir
- Paul O. Zelinsky (retold), Rapunzel
- Kate Messner, Tree of Wonder: The Many Marvelous Lives of a Rainforest Tree
- Penelope Proddow (transl.), Hermes, Lord of Robbers
- Barbara Cooney (retold), Snow White and Rose Red*
- Demi, The Greatest Treasure
- Patricia Lauber, An Octopus is Amazing
- Mitsumasa Anno, Anno’s Math Games*
Nursery
Everything listed above plus:
- Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Taro Gomi, Bus Stops*
- Margaret Wise Brown, Big Red Barn*
- Keith Baker, 123 peas
- Lois Lenski, The Little Train*
- Tomie dePaola, Charlie Needs a Cloak*
- Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Billy Goats Gruff
- John Langstaff, Over in the Meadow
- Kathleen Jones (ed.), Lavender’s Blue*
- Francois Crozat, I am a little panda.
- Sherri Duskey Rinker, Steam Train, Dream Train
- Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon
- Richard Scarry, The Rooster Struts
- Lois Lenski, Cowboy Small*
Independent Reading
- Robert Lawson, Captain Kidd’s Cat
- Henry Winterfeld, Detectives in Togas
- Henry Winterfeld, Mystery of the Roman Ransom
- Marie McSwigan, Snow Treasure*
April
- M. Jean Craig, The Donkey Prince
- Olive Beapre Miller, My Book House, Vol. 4 (Through the Gate) (in part)*
- James Baldwin, Stories of Don Quixote*
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess*
Kindergarten
Everything listed above plus:
- Julia Donaldson, Superworm
- Keith Baker, 1-2-3 peas
- Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Little Pigs*
- Paul O. Zelinsky, The Lion and the Stoat
- Tomie dePaola, An Early American Christmas
- John Updike, A Child’s Calendar
- Caryll Houselander, Petook
- Life on Earth (Usborne’s Starting Point Science)
- Robert McCloskey, Burt Dow Deep-Water Man
- Brinton Turkle, Thy Friend, Obadiah
- Barbara Brenner, Chibi: A True Story from Japan
Nursery
Everything listed above plus:
- Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go*
- Beatrice Schenck de Regniers, What Can You Do With a Shoe?
- Dr. Seuss, The Foot Book
- Chris Raschka, A Ball for Daisy
- Sherri Duskey Rinker, Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
- Sherri Duskey Rinker, Steam Train, Dream Train
- Richard Scarry, The Rooster Struts
- Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
- Clement Hurd, The Merry Chase
- James Thurber, Many Moons
Independent Reading
- Rene Goscinny, Asterix Omnibus 1
- C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*
May
- Margaret Hodges (retold), Merlin and the Making of the King
- Edward Lear, A Book of Nonsense
- Olive Beaupre Miller, My Book House vol. 4
- Demi (retold), The Firebird
- Sneed B. Collard III, One Iguana, Two Iguanas
- George MacDonald, Little Daylight in The Enchanter’s Spell
Kindergarten
Everything listed above plus:
- Patricia Thomas, There are Rocks in My Socks! Said the Ox to the Fox
- Eric A. Kimmel (adapted by), Iron John*
- Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale*
- Brinton Turkle, Rachel and Obadiah
- Best in Children’s Books (1958) poetry selections
- Paul O. Zelinsky (retold), Rumpelstiltskin*
- Marianna Mayer (retold), The Twelve Dancing Princesses*
- Sherri Duskey Rinker, Steam Train, Dream Train
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- Lois Lenski, The Little Airplane
- Mark Shasha, The Hall of Beasts
- Furball in Katharine Lee Bates (ed.), Once Upon a Time
- Florence Sakade (ed.), Japanese Children’s Favorite Stories (Book Two)
- Aldous Huxley, The Crows of Pearblossom*
- Diane Lang, Fur, Feather, Fin: All of Us are Kin
- Susan Campbell Bartoletti, The Flag Maker
- Karin Cates, The Secret Remedy Book
- Paul Galdone (retold), Cinderella
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (adapted from), Summertime in the Big Woods
- Maida Silverman, Festival of Freedom: The Story of Passover
- Julia Donaldson, The Gruffalo
- Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!
- Paul Galdone (retold), The Amazing Pig*
- Elsa Beskow, Christopher’s Garden*
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Two Bad Mice
- Demi, The Empty Pot*
- Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid (ill. Michael Hague)*
- The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship in Joanna Cole (ed.), Best-Loved Folktales of the World*
- A.A. Milne, The Magic Hill*
- Michael Bedard, Emily*
- Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings*
- Barbara Cooney (retold), Snow White and Rose Red*
- Dennis Nolan, The Castle Builder
Nursery
Everything listed above plus:
- Dr. Seuss, There’s a Wocket in My Pocket!
- John Langstaff, Over in the Meadow
- Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Billy Goats Gruff*
- Iona Opie (ed.), Mother Goose’s Little Treasures
- Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Little Pigs*
- Beatrice Schenck de Regniers, What can you do with a shoe?
- Ole Risom, I am a Bunny*
- Maurice Pledger, In the Ocean
- Margaret Wise Brown, Where Have You Been?
- Tony Mitton, Amazing Airplanes
- Eric Carle (retold), Hans in Luck (in Tom Thumb: Grimm’s Tales Retold and Illustrated)
- Taro Gomi, Bus Stops
- Taro Gomi, Spring is Here
- Richard Scarry’s Busiest Fire Fighters Ever!
- Alice and Martin Provensen, The Animal Fair*
- H.A. Rey, Curious George Gets a Medal
- Paul Galdone (retold), The Gingerbread Boy
- Lois Lenski, Cowboy Small*
- Lizi Boyd, Inside Outside
- Margaret Wise Brown, Big Red Barn*
- Keith Baker, LMNOpeas
- Peter Spier, Noah’s Ark*
- Francois Crozat, I am a little panda.
- Francois Crozat, I am a little elephant.
- Lois Lenski, Policeman Small
Independent Reading
- C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
- David A. Adler, A Picture Book of Lewis and Clark
- Hudson Talbott, River of Dreams: The Story of the Hudson River
June
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book For Girls and Boys (part)*
- Aldous Huxley, The Crows of Pearblossom*
- Joanna Cole (ed.), Best-Loved Folktales of the World (selections)*
- Peter Spier, The Book of Jonah
- Virginia Lee Burton, Life Story
- Aesop’s Illustrated Fables (Barnes & Noble ed. 2014)*
- Olaf Baker, Where the Buffaloes Begin
- Tracey Fern, W is for Webster: Noah Webster and His American Dictionary
- David Weitzman, Pharaoh’s Boat
First Grade
Everything listed above plus:
- E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan*
- David Wiesner, Flotsam*
- Richard Scarry, The Great Pie Robbery and Other Mysteries
- Doris Burns, Andrew Henry’s Meadow
- Gordon Laite (ill.), The Blue Book of Fairy Tales*
- Molly Brett, The Forgotten Bear
- Dianne White, Blue on Blue
- Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!*
- K.Y. Craft, Sleeping Beauty*
- Barbara Cooney, Miss Rumphius*
- Edward Ardizzone, Tim and Charlotte
- Edward Ardizzone, Tim’s Friend Towser*
- Edward Ardizzone, Tim and Lucy Go To Sea
- Edward Ardizzone, Tim’s Last Voyage
- Demi, The Empty Pot*
- Munro Leaf, Wee Gillis
- Margaret Hodges (adapted by), Comus: A Masque at Ludlow Castle
- Franklyn M. Branley, Down Comes the Rain
- Selina Chonz, A Bell for Ursli
- Jason Chin, Grand Canyon
- Jason Chin, Island: A Story of the Galapagos*
- Olive Beaupre Miller, My Book House (vol. 4) (part)
Nursery
Independent Reading
- Captain W.E. Johns, Biggles of the Fighter Squadron
- Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Little Pigs (read to siblings)
- Paul Galdone (retold), Little Red Riding Hood (read to siblings)
July
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys*
- Allan Drummond (retold), Moby Dick
- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (part)
- Walter Dean Myers, Frederick Douglass, The Lion Who Wrote History
- Louis Untermeyer (ed.), The Golden Books Family Treasury of Poetry (selections)*
- Doe Boyle, Otter on His Own: The Story of a Sea Otter
- Roger Lancelyn Green, Tales of Ancient Egypt (selections)
First Grade
Everything listed above plus:
- Sergei Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf
- Carolyn Haywood, “B” is for Betsy
- Gail Gibbons, From Seed to Plant
- Howard Pyle, The Swan Maiden*
- Marjorie Flack, Angus and the Ducks
- Molly Brett, Two in a Tent
- Julia Donaldson, Room on the Broom
- Dr. Seuss, McElligot’s Pool*
- Gail Gibbons, Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharaohs
- Gail Gibbons, Spiders
- Joanna Cole (ed.), Best-Loved Folktales of the World (selections)*
- Margery Sharp, The Rescuers
- Gail Gibbons, The Reasons for the Seasons
- Elsa Beskow, Princess Sylvie
- M. Charlotte Craft, Cupid and Psyche*
- Gail Gibbons, Gulls … Gulls … Gulls
- David Macaulay, Pyramid
- Victoria Sherrow, Chipmunk at Hollow Tree Lane
- Elsa Beskow, Christopher’s Garden
- Elizabeth Ring, Loon at Northwood Lake
- Eve Titus, Mr. Shaw’s Shipshape Shoeshop
- Gail Gibbons, Ducks!
- Florence Sakade (ed.), Japanese Children’s Favorite Stories
- Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Secrets of the Seasons
- Aliki, Mummies Made in Egypt
- Gail Gibbons, The Planets
- Susan Korman, Box Turtle at Silver Pond Lane
- Laura Gates Galvin, Bumblebee at Apple Tree Lane
Nursery
Everything listed above plus:
- Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Each Peach Pear Plum*
- Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, What Can You Do With a Shoe?
- Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Little Pigs
- Paul Galdone (retold), Little Red Riding Hood
- Dahlov Ipcar, One Horse Farm*
- Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon
- Margaret Wise Brown, Big Red Barn
- Taro Gomi, My Friends
- Sherry Duskey Rinker, Steam Train, Dream Train
- Lois Lenski, Policeman Small
- Nancy Tafuri, Have You Seen My Duckling?
- Gene Zion, Harry the Dirty Dog
- John Langstaff, Over in the Meadow
August
Fourth Grade
- Donald Hall (ed.), The Oxford Book of Children’s Verse in America (selections)
- John Ruskin, The King of the Golden River*
- Meinert DeJong, Along Came a Dog
- Gail Gibbons, Coral Reefs
- Kate Seredy, The White Stag*
- William F. Russell, Classic Myths to Read Aloud (selections)*
- Marianna Mayer, The Twelve Dancing Princesses*
First Grade
Everything listed above plus:
- Beatrix Potter, The Story of Miss Moppet
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Tom Kitten
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
- Beatrix Potter, The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit
- Margaret Hodges (retold), Saint George and the Dragon*
- Laura Gates Galvin, River Otter at Autumn Lane
- Edward Lear (ill. Nancy Ekholm Burkert), The Scroobious Pip*
- M. Jean Craig (retold), The Donkey Prince*
- Laura Gates Galvin, Bumblebee at Apple Tree Lane
- Olive Beapre Miller (ed.), My Book House, vol. 4 (completed this month)
- Beauty and the Beast, The White Cat, Drakestail in Joanna Cole (ed.), Best-Loved Folktales of the World*
- William F. Russell, Classic Myths to Read Aloud (selections)
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin*
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
- Olive Beaupre Miller, My Book House, vol. 5 (part)
- Michael Bedard, Emily*
- Eve Titus, Anatole*
- Robert McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal*
- Lorraine A. Jay, Sea Turtle Journey: The Story of a Loggerhead Turtle
- Carolyn B. Otto, Raccoon at Clear Creek Road
- Paul Heins (retold), Snow White*
- Richard Scarry, A Day at the Airport
- Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Secrets of the Garden: Food Chains and the Food Web in Our Backyard
- Edward Ardizzone, Tim and Ginger
- Elinor Lander Horwitz, When the Sky is Like Lace
- Alan Aldridge, The Ship’s Cat*
- Dr. Seuss, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose*
- Gyo Fujikawa, A Child’s Book of Poems*
- Dennis Nolan, The Castle Builder
- Ludmila Zeman, Gilgamesh the King
- Robert Barry, Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree
- Paul Galdone, The Elves and the Shoemaker*
- Elsa Beskow, Christopher’s Garden*
- Rumer Godden, The Old Woman who lived in a Vinegar Bottle*
- Wendy Pfeffer, Mallard Duck at Meadow View Pond
- Beatrice Schenk de Regines, David and Goliath
- Gennady Spirin, The Tale of the Firebird*
- Benjamin Elkin, The Wisest Man in the World
- Dr. Seuss, The Sneetches and Other Stories
- Jim LaMarche, Pond
- Susan Korman, Groundhog at Evergreen Road
- Deborah Dennard, Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle
- Robert McCloskey, Lentil
- Paul Zelinsky, Rumpelstiltskin*
Nursery
Everything listed above plus:
- Ole Risom, I am a Bunny*
- Gail Gibbons, Boat Book
- Nicola Bayley, Nursery Rhymes*
- Olive Beaupre Miller (ed.), My Book House, vol. 1*
- Margaret Wise Brown, Big Red Barn
- Alice Schertle, Little Blue Truck
- Lois Lenski, Policeman Small
- Paul Galdone, Cat Goes Fiddle-I-Fee
Independent reading
- Clay Blair, Jr., Silent Victory (part)
- Herge, Cigars of the Pharaoh
Reading practice (First Grade)
- Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad All Year
- Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad Are Friends
September
- William F. Russell, Classic Myths to Read Aloud
- Ludmila Zeman, The Last Quest of Gilgamesh
- Rudyard Kipling, How the Camel Got His Hump*
- Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Manatee Winter
- Kathleen M. Hollenbeck, Islands of Ice: The Story of a Harp Seal
- J.R.R. Tolkien, Roverandom*
- Paul Galdone (retold), Three Aesop Fox Fables*
- Howard Pyle, Bearskin*
- Bill Peet, Cock-a-Doodle Dudley
- Laurence Pringle, The Secret Life of the Red Fox
- Laurence Pringle, A Dragon in the Sky*
- Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Dolphin’s First Day
- Ruth Heller, Merry-Go-Round: A Book About Nouns
- Joanna Cole, Best-Loved Folktales of the World (selections)*
First Grade
Everything listed above plus:
- Barbara Rogasky (retold), Rapunzel*
- Courtney Granet Raff, Giant of the Sea: A Story of a Sperm Whale
- Dr. Seuss, The Bippolo Seed
- Kay Winters, Abe Lincoln: The boy who loved books
- Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Billy Goats Gruff*
- Paul Galdone (retold), The Magic Porridge Pot
- Alice and Martin Provensen, The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot
- Janet Stevens (retold), The Tortoise and the Hare
- Bonny Becker, A Visitor for Bear
- Gail Gibbons, Tell Me, Tree
- Don Freeman, Norman the Doorman
- Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House
- Jim LaMarche, The Raft
- Bill Peet, The Ant and the Elephant
- Ludmila Zeman, The Revenge of Ishtar
- Esphyr Slobodkina, Caps for Sale
- Patricia Polacco, Rechenka’s Eggs
- Bill Peet, Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent
- Jason Chin, Gravity
- Mark Kurlansky, The Cod’s Tale
- Ingri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, Foxie
- Margaret Wise Brown, A Home in the Barn*
- Don Freeman, Gregory’s Shadow
- Elsa Beskow, The Flower’s Festival*
- Dahlov Ipcar, One Horse Farm*
- Don Freeman, Fly High Fly Low
- Virginia Lee Burton, Katy and the Big Snow
- Bill Peet, Farewell to Shady Glade
- Laurence Pringle, Come to the Ocean’s Edge
- Robert McCloskey, Time of Wonder*
- Alice and Martin Provensen, Town & Country
- Kevin Kurtz, A Day in the Salt Marsh
- Robert Sabuda, Tutankhamen’s Gift
- Laurence Pringle, The Secret Life of the Little Brown Bat
- Laurence Pringle, One Room School
- Catherine Schaefer McEwan, Away We Go! 100 Poems for the Very Young*
- Laurence Pringle, The Secret Life of the Woolly Bear Caterpillar
- Milo Winter (ill.), The Aesop for Children (selections)
- Nicola Davies, White Owl, Barn Owl
- Sally Tagholm, Animal Lives: The Barn Owl
- C.M. Millen, The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane
- Ron Hirschi, Ocean Seasons
- Brinton Turkle, Thy Friend, Obadiah
Reading Practice (First Grade)
- Cynthia Rylant, Mr. Putter & Tabby Ring the Bell
- Cynthia Rylant, Mr. Putter & Tabby Walk the Dog
- Else Holmelund Minarik, A Kiss for Little Bear
- Else Holmelund Minarik, Little Bear’s Friend
- Cynthia Rylant, Mr. Putter & Tabby Dance the Dance
- Arnold Lobel, Days With Frog and Toad
- Cynthia Rylant, Poppleton Cork & Fuzz
Nursery
Everything listed above plus:
- Keith Baker, LMNOpeas
- Paul O. Zelinsky, Rumpelstiltskin*
- Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Island
- Margaret Wise Brown, Where Have You Been?
- Robert McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal*
- Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Bears
- Virginia Lee Burton, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
- Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
- Gyo Fujikawa, Oh, What a Busy Day!
- Lois Lenski, Policeman Small
- Margaret Wise Brown, Big Red Barn*
- François Crozat, I am a little elephant.
- Maurice Pledger, Ocean
- Mark Shasha, The Hall of Beasts
Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)
- Lynne D. Steinberg, What Are Sea Plants and Algae?
- Clay Blair, Silent Victory (continued)
October
- Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gay Neck, The Story of a Pigeon*
- Leonard Everett Fisher, The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
- Joanna Cole (ed.), Best-Loved Folktales of the World (selections from Italy and Spain)*
- Louis Untermeyer (ed.), This Singing World*
- William Bennett (ed.), The Book of Virtues (chapter on Work)
- Rosemary Sutcliff, The Wanderings of Odysseus*
First Grade
Everything listed above plus:
- Tamara Bower, The Shipwrecked Sailor: An Egyptian Tale with Hieroglyphs
- Deborah Nourse Lattimore, The Winged Cat: A Tale of Ancient Egypt
- Gloria Houston, My Great-Aunt Arizona
- Tamara Bower, How the Amazon Queen Fought the Prince of Egypt
- Aldous Huxley, The Crows of Pearblossom*
- Alice and Martin Provensen, The Year at Maple Hill Farm*
- Mary Ann Hoberman (ed.), Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
- Charles Carryl, The Walloping Window-Blind
- Donald Hall, Ox-Cart Man*
- Ruth Heller, Mine, All Mine: A Book About Pronouns
- Marjorie Flack, Angus and the Cat*
- Marjorie Flack, Angus Lost
- Karma Wilson, Who Goes There?
- Elsa Beskow, The Flowers’ Festival*
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or The Roly-Poly Pudding
- Ruth Heller, The Reason for a Flower
- Donald M. Silver, One Small Square: Pond
- Joseph Bruchac, Squanto’s Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving*
- Bruce Coville (retold), A Midsummer Night’s Dream*
- Marjorie Flack, The Boats on the River
- Wende and Harry Devlin, Cranberry Thanksgiving
- Rosalind Creasy, Blue Potatoes, Orange Tomatoes
- Molly Brett, Two in a Tent
- Mariana Mayer, Pegasus*
Reading Practice (First Grade)
- Esther Averill, The Fire Cat
- Olivier Dunrea, Gossie & Gertie
- Arnold Lobel, Owl at Home
- Else Holmelund Minarik, Little Bear
- Taro Gomi, My Friends
- Russell Hoban, Bread and Jam for Frances
- Andrew Clements, Temple Cat
- Richard Scarry, The Best Mistake Ever! And Other Stories
- Cynthia Rylant, Mr. Putter & Tabby Row the Boat
- Grace Lin, Ling & Ting Share a Birthday
- Grace Lin, Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same!
- Benjamin Elkin, The King’s Wish and Other Stories
- Cynthia Rylant, Mr. Putter & Tabby Fly the Plane
Nursery
Everything listed above plus:
- Lois Lenski, The Little Airplane
- Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
- Richard Scarry, The Best Read-it-Yourself Book Ever
- Richard Scarry, A Day at the Airport
Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)
- C.S. Forester, The Good Shepherd
- Bruce Coville (retold), A Midsummer Night’s Dream
November
- Louis Untermeyer (ed.), This Singing World (selections)*
- Susan Reynolds, The First Marathon: The Legend of Pheidippides
- A Children’s Treasury of Mythology (ill. Margaret Evans Price; Barnes & Noble Books ed.)
- James Baldwin, Ulysses and the Wooden Horse of Troy*
- Marcia Sewall, The Pilgrims of Plimoth
- James Baldwin, Fifty Famous Stories Retold (selections)*
- Laurence Pringle, An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly
- Margaret Hodges (retold), The Kitchen Knight*
- Gail Gibbons, Galaxies! Galaxies!
- Olive Beaupre Miller, My Book House (vol. 7) (selections)*
First Grade
Everything listed above plus:
- Penelope Proddow, Demeter and Persephone
- Jenny Koralek, The Coat of Many Colors
- Hardie Gramatky, Little Toot
- Rosemary Sutcliff, The Minstrel and the Dragon Pup
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
- Leonard Weisgard, The Plymouth Thanksgiving
- Great Children’s Stories (The Classic Volland Edition)
- Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg*
- Dr. Seuss, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose*
- Elsa Beskow, Christopher’s Garden*
- Ruth Heller, A Sea Within A Sea: Secrets of the Sargasso
- John Updike, A Child’s Calendar
- Tomie dePaola, An Early American Christmas
- James Rumford, Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Reading Practice (First Grade)
- Arnold Lobel, Grasshopper on the Road
- Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad Together
- Arnold Lobel, Mouse Tales
- Syd Hoff, Danny and the Dinosaur
- Arnold Lobel, Mouse Soup
- William H. Elson and Lura E. Runkel, Elson Readers: Book One (selections)
- Wendy Pfeffer, From Tadpole to Frog
- Deborah Heiligman, From Caterpillar to Butterfly
- François Crozat, I am a little panda.
- François Crozat, I am a little elephant.
Nursery
Everything listed above plus:
- Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon
- Kathleen Lines (ed.), Lavender’s Blue
- Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon
- Taro Gomi, Spring is Here
- Dr. Seuss, The Foot Book
- Richard Scarry’s Best Little Golden Books
- Donald Hall, Ox-Cart Man*
- Allan Ahlberg, Mockingbird*
- Nancy Tafuri, Have You Seen My Duckling?
- Ezra Jack Keats, Over in the Meadow
- Richard Scarry, The Rooster Struts
- David Wiesner, I Got It!
- Charles Shaw, It Looked Like Spilt Milk
- Lois Lenski, The Little Train
- Richard Scarry, Cars and Trucks and Things That Go*
Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)
- C.S. Forester, The Good Shepherd
- Frank R. Donovan, Ironclads of the Civil War
December
- James Baldwin, Fifty Famous Stories Retold*
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, A Little House Christmas Treasury
- Gloria Whelan, The Miracle of Saint Nicholas
- Elsa Beskow, Peter and Lotta’s Christmas
- Alison Gage (retold), Rumpelstiltskin
- Ruth Heller, Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs
- Neil Philip (ed.), Christmas Fairy Tales*
- Louis Untermeyer (ed.), This Singing World (selections)*
- Louis Untermeyer, The Firebringer and Other Great Stories (selections)
- Why the Sea is Salt in Andrew Lang, The Blue Fairy Book
- Julia L. Sauer, The Light at Tern Rock
- Dylan Thomas (ill. Trina Schart Hyman), A Child’s Christmas in Wales
- Brian Jacques, Redwall (first half)
- Antonia Barber, The Mousehole Cat
First Grade
Everything listed above plus:
- Molly Brett, Robin Finds Christmas
- Norma Farber, How the Hibernators Came to Bethlehem
- Gail Gibbons, Christmas on an Island
- Clement C. Moore (ill. Gyo Fujikawa), The Night Before Christmas*
- Barbara Cooney, Island Boy*
- Munro Leaf, Wee Gillis
- Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express
- Felix Hoffmann, The Story of Christmas
- Elsa Beskow, Ollie’s Ski Trip
- Audrey Tarrant, The Donkey of Nazareth
- Richard Scarry, The Best Christmas Book Ever!
- Patrcia Lee Gauch, On to Widecombe Fair
- Barbara Cooney, The Little Juggler
- Robert Barry, Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree
- Dahlov Ipcar, One Horse Farm
- Eve Titus, Anatole and the Cat*
- Margaret Hodges, Moses
- Robert McCloskey, Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man
- Toni De Gerez, Louhi, Witch of North Farm
- Dr. Seuss, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
- Bruce Coville, William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
- Mia Posada, Ladybugs
- Demi, Alexander the Great
- O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi*
- Elsa Beskow, Rosalind and the Little Deer
- Linda Granfield, Silent Night: The Song From Heaven
- Thomas Locker, Sky Tree
- Efner Tudor Holmes, The Christmas Cat*
Reading Practice (First Grade)
- Elson Readers: Book One (selections)
- Elsa Beskow, The Flowers’ Festival
- Melvin Berger, Chirping Crickets
- Edward Ardizzone, Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
- Nathaniel Benchley, Red Fox and his Canoe
- Arnold Lobel, Small Pig
- Augusta Goldin, Ducks Don’t Get Wet
- Nathaniel Benchley, Oscar Otter
- Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Little Pigs
- Mary Stolz, Emmett’s Pig
- C.W. Anderson, Billy and Blaze*
- C.W. Anderson, Blaze and the Lost Quarry
- C.W. Anderson, Blaze and the Gray Spotted Pony
- C.W. Anderson, Blaze and the Mountain Lion
- C.W. Anderson, Blaze Finds the Trail
Nursery
Everything listed above plus:
- Lois Lenski, Cowboy Small
- Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Each Peach Pear Plum
- Iona Opie (ed.), Mother Goose’s Little Treasures
- Sorche Nic Leodhas, Always Room for One More*
- Clement Hurd, The Merry Chase
- Clement C. Moore (ill. Christian Birmingham), The Night Before Christmas
- Sherry Duskey Rinker, Steam Train, Dream Train
- Alice and Martin Provensen, The Animal Fair*
- Richard Scarry, Busiest Fire Fighters Ever!
- Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
- Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Little Pigs
- Margaret Wise Brown, Christmas in the Barn
- Childcraft, vol. 2, Storytelling and Other Poems
- Lois Ehlert, Eating the Alphabet
- John Becker, Seven Little Rabbits
- Anne Rockwell, Trains
- Anne Rockwell, Hiking Day
- Sophie Blackall, Hello Lighthouse
Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)
- James Rumford, Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs
- Robert McCloskey, Homer Price
- C.S Forester, The Good Shepherd
Reading