Reading Tips & Books

Adoption

• Adoption
  by Fred Rogers
• The Day We Met You
  by Phoebe Koehler
  Aladdin, 1997
• Horace
  by Holly Keller
  Mulberry Books, 1995
• I Love You Like Crazy Cakes
  by Rose A. Lewis, illustrated by Jane Dyer
  Little, Brown Young Readers, 2000
• Jin Woo
  by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet
  Clarion Books, 2001
• A Koala for Katie: An Adoption Story
  by Jonathan London, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar
  Albert Whitman and Company, 1997
• Mommy Far, Mommy Near: An Adoption Story
  by Carol Antoinette Peacock, illustrated by Shawn Costello Brownell
  Albert Whitman and Company, 2000
• A Mother for Choco
  by Keiko Kasza
  Putnam Juvenile, 1996
• Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born
  by Jamie Lee Curtis, illustrated by Laura Cornell
  HarperTrophy, 2000
• We Wanted You
  by Liz Rosenberg, illustrated by Peter Catalanotto
  Roaring Book Press, 2002
• The White Swan Express: A Story about Adoption
  by Jean Davies Okimoto and Elaine M. Aoki, illustrated by Meilo So
  Clarion books, 2002

Africa & African Folktales

• Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock
  retold by Eric Kimmel, illustrated by Janet Stevens
  Holliday House, 1990
• Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti
  retold and illustrated by Gerald McDermott
  Henry Holt and Company, 1987
• Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions
  by Margaret Musgrove, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon
  Dial, 1976
• Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
  by Verna Aardema, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon
  Puffin, 1992
• Hatseller and the Monkeys
  retold and illustrated by Baba Wague Diakite
  Scholastic Press, 1999
• Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book
  by Muriel Feelings, illustrated by Tom Feelings
  Dial, 1985
• Moja Means One: A Swahili Counting Book
  by Muriel Feelings, illustrated by Tom Feelings
  Puffin, 1992
• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
  by John Steptoe
  Amistad, 1987
• A Story, A Story
  retold and illustrated by Gail Haley
  Aladdin, 1988
• Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale
  By Verna Aardema, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
  Puffin/dial, 2004
• Zomo the Rabbit: A Trickster Tale from West Africa
  retold and illustrated by Gerald McDermott
  Voyager Books, 1996

Alphabet Books

• The Alphabet Tree
  by Leo Lionni
  Dragonfly Books, 1990
• Alphabet Mystery
  By Audrey Wood, illustrated by Bruce Wood
  Blue Sky Press, 2003
• Alphabet Under Construction
  by Denise Fleming
  Henry Holt and Company BYR Paperbacks, 2006
• Animal Action ABC
  By Karen Pandell, animal photographs by Art Wolfe, child photographs by Nancy Sheehan
  Dutton Juvenile, 1996
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (series)
  by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, illustrated by Lois Ehlert
  Aladdin, 2000
• Eating the Alphabet
  by Lois Ehlert
  Voyager Books, 1993
• Kindergarten ABC
  by Jacqueline Rogers
  Cartwheel, 2002
• Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten (series)
  by Joseph Slate, illustrated by Ashley Wolff
  Puffin, 2001
• Old Black Fly
  by Jim Aylesworth, illustrated by Steven Gammell
  Henry Holt and Company BYR Paperbacks, 1995
• Tomorrow's Alphabet
  by George Shannon, illustrated by Donald Crews
  HarperTrophy, 1999
• 26 Letters and 99 Cents
  by Tana Hoban
  HarperTrophy, 1995

Anger and Conflict

• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (series)
  by Judith Viorst, illustrated by Ray Cruz
  Aladdin, 1987
• Angry Dragon
  by Thierry Robberecht, illustrated by Philippe Goossens
  Clarion Books, 2004
• How Are You Peeling?
  by Joost Elffers and Saxton Freyman
  Arthur A. Levine Books, 1999
• If You're Angry and You Know It!
  by Cecily Kaiser, illustrated by Cary Pillo
  Cartwheel Books, 2005
• Julius, the Baby of the World
  by Kevin Henkes
  HarperTrophy, 1995
• Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
  by Kevin Henkes
  Greenwillow, 1996
• Sometimes I am Bombaloo
  by Rachel Vail, illustrated by Yumi Heo
  Scholastic Press, 2002
• What a Tantrum! ¡Vaya rabieta!
  by Mireille d'Allance
  Scholastic, 2004
• When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry
  by Molly Bang
  Scholastic Paperbacks, 2004
• Where the Wild Things Are
  by Maurice Sendak
  HarperTrophy, 1998

Animals

• And the Cow Said Moo!
  by Mildred Phillips, illustrated by Sonja Lamut
  Greenwillow, 2000
• Click Clack Moo: Cows that Oink (series)
  
  by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin
  Scholastic, 2005
• The Cow That Went Oink
  by Bernard Most
  Voyager Books, 2003
• From Head To Toe
  by Eric Carle
  HarperCollins Childrens Books, 1997
• Harry the Dirty Dog (series)
  by Gene Zion, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham
  HarperTrophy, 1976
• Have You Seen My Duckling?
  by Nancy Tafuri
  HarperTrophy, 1991
• The Little Red Hen
  by Paul Galdone
  Clarion Books, 1985
• Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten (series)
  by Joseph Slate, illustrated by Ashley Wolff
  Puffin, 2001
• Quick as a Cricket
  by Audrey Wood, illustrated by Don Wood
  Child's Play International, 1990
• Rosie's Walk
  by Pat Hutchins
  Puffin Books, 1970
• The Seals on the Bus
  by Lenny Hort, illustrated by G. Brian Karas
  Owlet Paperbacks, 2003
• There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
  by Simms Taback
  Scholastic Inc., 1999

Babies and Siblings

• Angel Baby
  by Pat Cummings
  HarperCollins, 2000
• Bright Baby Animals
  by Roger Priddy
  Priddy Books, 2004
• Brothers and Sisters
  by Ellen B. Senisi
  Scholastic, 2001
• Flip-A-Face: Baby Animals
  by SAMi
  Blue Apple Books, 2005
• Hannah's Baby Sister
  by Marisabina Russo
  Greenwillow, 1998
• Happy Birth Day!
  by Robie H. Harris, illustrated by Michael Emberly
  Candlewick, 2002
• Henry's First-Moon Birthday
  by Lenore Look, illustrated by Yumi Heo
  Athenuem/Anne Schwartz Books, 2001
• Hi New Baby!
  by Robie H. Harris, illustrated by Michael Emberly
  Candlewick, 2003
• I'm a Big Brother/ I'm a Big Sister
  by Joanna Cole, illustrated by Maxie Chambliss
  HarperCollins, 1997
• I Used to Be the Baby
  by Robin Ballard
  Greenwillow, 2002
• Julius the Baby of the World
  by Kevin Henkes
  HarperTrophy, 1995
• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
  by John Steptoe
  Amistad, 1987
• Mama, Do You Love Me?
  by Barbara M. Joosse, illustrated by Barbara Lavallee
  Story Time Association, 1993
• My New Baby
  by Annie Kubler
  Child's Play International, 2000
• The New Baby
  by Mercer Mayer
  Random House Books for Young Readers, 2001
• The New Baby
  by Fred Rogers
  Putnam Juvenile, 1996
• On Mother's Lap
  by Ann Herbert Scott and Glo Coalson
  Clarion Books, 1992
• On The Day I Was Born
  by Deborah M. Newton Chocolate, illustrated by Melodye Benson Rosales
  Cartwheel Books, 1995
• Our New Baby
  By Wendy Cheyette Lewison
  Grosset & Dunlap, 1996
• Peter's Chair
  by Ezra Jack Keats
  Puffin, 1998
• Sophie and the New Baby
  by Laurence Anholt and Catherine Anholt
  Orchard Books, 2004
• Ten, Nine, Eight
  by Molly Bang
  HarperCollins Publishers-Harper Trophy, 1983
• Waiting for Baby
  by Annie Kubler
  Child's Play International, 2000
• Waiting for Baby
  by Harriet Ziefert, illustrated by Emily Bolam
  Henry Holt and Company, 1998
• What Shall We Do with the Boo-Hoo Baby?
  by Phyllis Root, illustrated by Ingrid Godon
  Macmillan Children's Publishers, 2001
• You're the Boss, Baby Duck
  by Amy Hest, illustrated by Jill Barton
  Candlewick, 2001

Bedtime Fears

• Brave Martha
  by Margot Apple
  Houghton Mifflin, 1999
• Close Your Eyes
  by Kate Banks, illustrated by Georg Hallensleben
  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002
• Max's Starry Night
  by Ken Wilson-Max
  Belitha Press Ltd, 2003
• Shadow Night
  by Kay Chorao
  Dutton Juvenile, 2001
• Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep
  by Joyce Dunbar
  Corgi, 2007
• There's a Monster Under My Bed
  by James Howe and David S. Rose
  Aladdin, 1990
• Too Many Monsters
  by Eve Bunting and James Bernardin
  Troll Communications, 2002

Counting and Number Books

• Click Clack Splish Splash: A Counting Adventure (series)
  by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin
  Athenuem, 2006
• The Doorbell Rang
  by Pat Hutchins
  HarperTrophy, 1989
• Eating Fractions
  by Bruce McMillan
  Scholastic Paperbacks, 1992
• Farm Life
  by Elizabeth Spurr, illustrated by Steve Bjorkman
  Holiday House, 2003
• Feast for Ten
  by Cathryn Falwell
  Scholastic, 1993
• Five Little Dinosaurs
  by Will Grace, illustrated by Ed Vere
  Cartwheel, 2004
• How Much is a Million?
  by David Schwartz, illustrated by Steven Kellogg
  HarperTrophy, 2004
• Inch by Inch
  by Leo Lionni
  HarperTrophy, 1995
• Math Curse
  by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith
  Viking Juvenile, 1997
• More than One
  by Miriam Schlein, illustrated by Donald Crews
  Greenwillow, 1996
• One Duck Stuck
  by Phyllis Root, illustrated by Jane Chapman
  Candlewick, 2003
• One Naked Baby: Counting to Ten and Back Again
  by Maggie Smith
• Over in the Meadow
  by Olive A. Wadsworth, illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats
• Ten Black Dots
  by Donald Crews
• Ten, Nine Eight
  by Molly Bang
  HarperCollins Publishers-Harper Trophy, 1983

Death

• Goodbye Mousie
  by Robie Harris, illustrated by Jan Ormerod
  Aladdin, 2004
• When a Pet Dies
  by Fred Rogers
  Putnam Juvenile, 1998
• Badger's Parting Gifts
  by Susan Varley
  HarperCollins, 1984
• The Tenth Good Thing About Barney
  by Judith Viorst, illustrated by Erik Blegvad
  Aladdin, 1987
• When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death
  by Laurie Kransy Brown, illustrated by Marc Brown
  Little, Brown Young Readers, 1998
• The Dead Bird
  by Margaret Wise Brown
  William Morrow & Co (P), 2008
• Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs
  by Tomie dePaola
  Putnam Juvenile, 2000
• My Grandson Lew
  by Charlotte Zolotow
  HarperCollins, 2009

Health and Nutrition

• Animal Action ABC
  by Karen Pandell, animal photographs by Art Wolfe, child photographs by Nancy Sheehan
  Dutton Juvenile, 1996
• Bearobics: A Hip-Hop Counting Story
  by Vic Parker, illustrated by Emily Bolam
  Puffin, 1999
• Bread, Bread, Bread (Around the World Series)
  by Ann Morris, illustrated by Ken Heyman
  HarperTrophy, 1993
• Clap Your Hands
  by Lorinda Bryan Cauley
  Putnam Juvenile, 1997
• Eating the Alphabet
  by Lois Ehlert
  Voyager Books, 1993
• Feast for 10
  by Cathryn Fallwell
  Scholastic, 1993
• Gregory the Terrible Eater
  by Mitchell Sharmat, illustrated by Jose Aruego
  Checkerboard Press, 1987
• Growing Vegetable Soup
  by Lois Ehlert
  Voyager Books, 1990
• How Are You Peeling?
  by Joost Elffers and Saxton Freyman
  Arthur A. Levine Books, 1999
• Let's Eat!
  by Ana Zamorano, illustrated by Julie Vivas
  Scholastic, 1999
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  by Eric Carle
  Scholastic, 2007

Learning Disabilities

• If You're So Smart, How Come You Can't Spell Mississippi?
  by Barbara Esham, illustrated by Mike and Carl Gordon
  Mainstream Connections, 2007
• Last to the Finish: A Story about the Smartest Boy in Math Class
  by Barbara Esham, illustrated by Mike and Carl Gordon
  Mainstream Connections, 2007
• Marvin One Too Many
  by Katherine Paterson, illustrated by Jane Clark Brown
  HarperTrophy, 2003
• Mrs. Gorski, I Think I Have the Wiggle Fidgets
  by Barbara Esham, illustrated by Mike and Carl Gordon
  Mainstream Connections, 2007
• My Travelin' Eye
  by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
  Henry Holt and Company, 2008
• Once Upon a Time
  by Niki Daly
  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003
• Stacey Coolidge's Fancy-Smancy Cursive Handwriting
  by Barbara Esham, illustrated by Mike and Carl Gordon
  Mainstream Connections, 2007
• Thank You, Mr. Falker
  by Patricia Polacco
  Philomel, 1998

Moving Away

• Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move
  by Judith Viorst
  Aladdin, 1998
• Annie Bananie
  by Leah Komaiko, illustrated by Laura Cornell
  HarperTrophy, 2003
• Best Friends Together Again
  by Aliki
  Scholastic Inc., 2000
• I'm Not Moving, Mama
  by Nancy White Carlstrom, illustrated by Thor Wickstrom
  Aladdin, 1999
• The Leaving Morning
  by Angela Johnson
  Orchard Books, 1996
• A New Room for William
  by Sally Grindley, illustrated by Carol Thompson
  Candlewick, 2000

Music: Books with a Beat

• Barn Dance!
  by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, illustrated by Ted Rand
  Henry Holt and Company, 1988
• Bearobics: A Hip-Hop Counting Story
  by Vic Parker, illustrated by Emily Bolam
  Puffin, 1999
• Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
  by Chris Raschka
  Live Oak Media, 2001
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (series)
  by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, illustrated by Lois Ehlert
  Aladdin, 2000
• Clap Your Hands
  by Lorinda Bryan Cauley
  Putnam Juvenile, 1997
• Hush Little Baby
  By Sylvia Long
  Scholastic, 1997
• If You're Happy and You Know It!
  by Jane Cabrera
  Holiday House, 2005
• The Itsy Bitsy Spider
  as told and illustrated by Iza Trapani
  Charlesbridge Publishing, 2004
• Jamberry
  by Bruce Degen
  HarperTrophy, 1985
• Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp
  by Carol Diggory Shields, illustrated by Scott Nash
  Candlewick, 2008
• There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
  by Simms Taback
  Scholastic Inc., 1999
• The Seals on the Bus
  by Lenny Hort, illustrated by G. Brian Karas
  Owlet Paperbacks, 2003
• The Wheels on the Bus
  by Paul O. Zelinsky
  Dutton Juvenile, Pop edition, 1990

Rhyming Books

• Barnyard Banter
  by Denise Fleming
  Henry Holt & Co., 2008
• Bear Snores On (series)
  by Karma Wilson, illustrated by Jane Chapman
  Margaret K. McElderry, 2002
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See? (series)
  by Bill Martin Jr., illustrated by Eric Carle
  Henry Holt & Co., 2008
• The Cat in The Hat (series)
  by Dr. Seuss
  Random House Books for Young Readers, 1957
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (series)
  by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, illustrated by Lois Ehlert
  Simon & Schuster, 1989
• A Frog in the Bog
  by Karma Wilson, illustrated by Joan Rankin
  Aladdin, 2007
• In the Small, Small Pond
  by Denise Fleming
  Henry Holt and Co., 1998
• Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten (series)
  by Joseph Slate, illustrated by Ashley Wolff
  Puffin, 2001
• Mrs. McNosh Hangs up her Wash (series)
  by Sarah Weeks and Nadine Bernard Westcott
  HarperTrophy, 2002
• One Duck Stuck
  by Phyllis Root
  Candlewick, 2003
• The Piggy in the Puddle
  by Charlotte Pomerantz, illustrated by James Marshall
  Aladdin; 1st Aladdin Books Ed Edition, 1989
• Sheep in a Jeep (series)
  by Nancy Shaw
  Houghton Mifflin, 1997

School

• Countdown to Kindergarten
  by Alison McGhee, illustrated by Harry Bliss
  Voyager books, 2006
• First Day, Hooray!
  by Nancy Poydar
  Holiday House, 2000
• First Day Jitters
  by Julie Danneburg, illustrated by Judith Dufour Love
  Charlesbridge Publishing, 2000
• Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!
  by Nancy Carlson
  Harcourt, 2002
• Kindergarten ABC
  by Jacqueline Rogers
  Cartwheel, 2002
• Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten (series)
  by Joseph Slate, illustrated by Ashley Wolff
  Puffin, 2001
• My Kindergarten
  by Rosemary Wells
  Hyperion, 2004
• Off to School, Baby Duck
  by Amy Hest, illustrated by Jill Barton
  Candlewick, 2007
• Vera's First Day of School
  by Vera Rosenberry
  Owlet Paperbacks, 2003
• Wemberly Worried
  by Kevin Henkes
  Scholastic Inc., 2000

Shapes and Colors

• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (series)
  by Bill Martin, Jr.
  Henry Holt and Company, 2008
• Freight Train
  by Donald Crews
  Scholastic Inc., 1978
• It Looked Like Spilt Milk
  by Charles Shaw, illustrated by Yes
  HarperCollins, 1947
• Little Blue & Little Yellow
  by Leo Lionni
  HarperTrophy, 1995
• Little Cloud
  by Eric Carle
  Putnam Juvenile, 2001
• Mouse Paint
  by Ellen Stoll Walsh
  Voyager Books, 1995
• My Very First Book of Shapes
  by Eric Carle
  Puffin Books, 2005
• Planting a Rainbow
  by Lois Ehlert
  Voyager Books, 1992
• Round is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes
  by Roseanne Thong
  Scholastic, 2005
• Shapes Shapes Shapes
  by Tana Hoban
  Greenwillow, 1986