Entering K
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Bill Martin
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Bill Martin
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown
Anno’s Alphabet, Mitsumasa Anno
Mrs. Wishy Washy, Joy Cowley
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish,Blue Fish, Dr. Seuss
Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Eric Carle
Truck, Donald Crews
K entering 1st
The Gingerbread Baby, Jan Brett
Pet Show, Ezra Jack Keats
Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel, Virginia Lee Burton
*Max and Ruby, Rosemary Wells
Thomas’ Snowsuit, Robert Munsch
Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown
The Mixed Up Chameleon, Eric Carle
The Carrot Seed, Ruth Kraus
Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson
*Curious George, H.A. and Margaret Rey
Ferdinand, Munro Leaf
Swimmy, Leo Lionni
*Corduroy, Don Freeman
Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
1st entering 2nd
Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendek
*Henry and Mudge, Cynthia Rylant
*Frog and Toad All Year, Arnold Lobel
It’s Raining Pigs and Noodles, Jack Prelutsky
*Franklin, Paulette Bourgeois
*Clifford the Big Red Dog, Norman Bridwell
Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney
The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree, Gail Gibbons
The Ox-Cart Man, Donald Hall
Scarecrow Boy, Margaret Wise Brown
Hundreds of Cats, Wanda Gag
*Curious George, H.A. and Margaret Rey
*Little Critter Books, Mercer Mayer
Blueberries for Sal, Robert McCloskey
2nd entering 3rd
A Chair for My Mother, Vera Williams
The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Sharp
*Henry and Mudge, Cynthia Rylant
Strega Nona, Tomie dePaola
*26 Fairmont Avenue, Tomie dePaola
The One in the Middle is the Green Kangeroo, Judy Blume
The Amazing Bone, William Steig
*Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday, Judith Viorst
Sea Turtles, Gail Gibbons
Apples, Gail Gibbons
Ducks, Gail Gibbons
Arthur, Marc Brown
If You Made a Million, Steven Kellogg
Johnny Appleseed, Steven Kellogg
*Madeline, Ludwig Bemelmans
*Franklin Forgets, Paulette Bourgeois
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, William Steig
3rd Entering 4th
Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White
*Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
*The Borrowers, Mary Norton
Frindle, Andrew Clements
Amber Brown is Not a Crayon, Paula Danziger
Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh
*Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
The Big Orange Splot, Daniel Pinkwater
The Hundred Dresses, Eleanor Estes
Runny Babbit, Shel Silverstein
4th Entering 5th
The Secret Garden, Frances Burnett
*The Indian in the Cupboard, Lynne Reid Banks
Holes, Louis Sachar
Nasty Stinky Sneakers, Eve Bunting
The Summer of the Swans, Betsy Byers
Midnight Fox, Betsy Byers
Baseball Fever, Johanna Hurwitz
*Ramona, Beverly Cleary
*Runaway Ralph, Beverly Cleary
*Cricket in Times Square, George Selden
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?, Jean Fritz
Ella Enchanted, Gail Levine
(SF): Jim Thorpe: The Bright Path, Joseph Bruchac
5th Entering 6th
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
The Watsons Go to Birmingham, Christopher Paul Curtis
The Midwife’s Apprentice, Karen Cushman
The Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
The Wind in the Door, Madeleine L’Engle
Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar
*Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor
The Pigman, Paul Zindel
*My Teacher is an Alien, Bruce Coville
*Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, Jack Gantos
*Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
(SF): Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’dell
