Book Lists

The other day at Mother Goose Story Hour I picked up some flyers that gave suggestions about books that you should read to your kids. I was glad for the suggestion, so I thought I would pass it along.

100 Books Every Child Should Hear Before Starting School:

Babies:
Ten, Nine, Eight; Molly Bang
Goodnight Moon; Margaret Wise Brown
The Very Hungry Caterpillar; Eric Carle
Freight Train; Donald Crews
Lunch; Denise Fleming
Where's Spot?; Eric Hill
Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue? An Adventure in Color; Tana Hoban
Brown Bear, Brown Bear; Bill Martin
Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom; Bill Martin
Who's Counting; Nancy Tafuri
How Do I Put It On?; Shigeo Watanabe

Toddlers:
On the Day I Was Born; Debbi Chocolate
Good Dog, Carl; Alexandra Day
Feathers for Lunch; Ehlert, Lois
Go Away, Big Green Monster!; Ed Emberley
Ask Mr. Bear; Marjorie Flack
Is Your Mama a Llama?; Deborah Guarina
Hush! A Thai Lullaby; Minfong Ho
Rosie's Walk; Pat Hutchins
Harold and the Purple Crayon; Crockett Johnson
Jump, Frog, Jump!; Robert Kalan
The Teddy Bears' Picnic; Jimmy Kennedy
Whose Mouse are You?; Robert Kraus
The Carrot Seed; Ruth Krauss
Over in the Meadow; John Langstaff
Dim Sum for Everyone!; Grace Lin
Little Blue and Little Yellow; Leo Lionni
Guess How Much I Love You; Sam McBratney
Whose Hat?; Margaret Miller
Shades of Black; Sandra Pinkney
The Little Engine that Could; Watty Piper
Good Night, Gorilla; Peggy Rathmann
We're Going on a Bear Hunt; Michael Rosen
Cars and Trucks and Things that Go; Richard Scarry
Lizard's Song; George Shannon
It Looked Like Spilt Milk; Charles Shaw
Farmer Duck; Martin Waddell
Mouse Paint; Ellen Stoll Walsh
"Hi, Pizza Man!"; Virginia Walter
Noisy Nora; Rosemary Wells
The Lady with the Alligator Purse; Nadine Westcott
Buzz; Janet Wong
The Napping House; Audrey Wood

Preschool:
Happy Birthday, Moon; Frank Asch
Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing; Judi Barrett
Madeline; Ludwig Bemelmans
The Mitten; Jan Brett
Stone Soup; Marcia Brown
The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant; Jean de Brunhoff
Mr. Grumpy's Outing; John Burningham
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel; Virginia Lee Burton
Mama Zooms; Jane Cowen-Fletcher
The Empty Pot; Demi
Pancakes for Breakfast; Tomie DePaola
Abuela; Arthur Dorros
Are You My Mother?; P.D. Eastman
Corduroy; Don Freeman
Millions of Cats; Wanda Gag
The Three Billy Goats Gruff; Paul Galdone
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses; Paul Goble
All the Colors of the Earth; Sheila Hamanaka
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse; Kevin Henkes
Bread and Jam for Frances; Russell Hoban
Amazing Grace; Mary Hoffman
Angelina Ballerina; Katherine Holabird
The Wolf's Chicken Stew; Keiko Kasza
The Snowy Day; Ezra Jack Keats
The Caterpillar and the Polliwog; Jack Kent
Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock; Eric Kimmel
I Took My Frog to the Library; Eric Kimmel
Tacky the Penguin; Helen Lester
I Love You Like Crazy Cakes; Rose Lewis
On Market Street; Anita Lobel
Frog and Toad Are Friends; Arnold Lobel
Frog Goes to Dinner; Mercer Mayer
Make Way for Ducklings; Robert McClaskey
Raven; Gerald McDermott
Goin' Someplace Special; Pat McKissack
Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!; David McPhail
Martha Speaks; Susan Meddaugh
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash; Trinka Noble
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie; Laura Numeroff
The Ant and the Elephant; Bill Peet
The Tale of Peter Rabbit; Beatrix Potter
Martin's Big Words: the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Doreen Rappaport
Curious George; H.A. Rey
The Relatives Came; Cynthia Rylant
Grandfather's Journey; Allen Say
Where the Wild Things Are; Maurice Sendak
The Cat in the Hat; Dr. Seuss
Caps for Sale; Esphyr Slobodkina
Imogene's Antlers; David Small
Snapshots from the Wedding; Gary Soto
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble; William Steig
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly; Simms Taback
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; Judith Viorst
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile; Bernard Waber
Owl Moon; Jane Yolen
Seven Blind Mice; Ed Young
and
Harry, the Dirty Dog; Gene Zion

Now, if you don't have kids of your own, or they won't let you read these books to them for some reason.....then come to Seattle and read them to Clancy. He loves books and he loves visitors!