Books About Me

• I Like Me! by Nancy L. Carlson

• I Like to Be Little by Charlotte Zolotow

• The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle

• My Five Senses by Aliki

• Owen by Kevin Henkes

• When I Get Bigger by Mercer Mayer

Family Stories

• Just Me Books by Mercer Mayer

• Mama Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse

Predictable Books (Stories with a pattern using rhyme or rhythm.)

• Curious George by H. A. Rey

• Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg

• The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone

• Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat

• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

• Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág

• What’s in Fox’s Sack? by Paul Galdone

Beginning, Middle, and End Concept

• Bony-Legs by Joanna Cole

• A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee by Chris Van Dusen

• Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

• Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins

• The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

Color and Counting Books

• Each Orange Had Eight Slices: A Counting Book by Paul Giganti Jr.

• Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On by Lois Ehlert

• Frog Counts to Ten by John Liebler

• Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni

• Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue? by Tana Hoban

• Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert

• Ten Bears in My Bed: A Goodnight Countdown by Stanley Mack

• Ten Little Fish by Audrey Wood

• 26 Letters and 99 Cents by Tana Hoban
 

Caldecott Winners and Honor Books

• Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert

• Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

• More, More, More Said the Baby by Vera B. Williams

• Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathman

• Swimmy by Leo Lionni

• Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens

Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes

• James Marshall’s Mother Goose by James Marshall

• My Very First Mother Goose by Iona Opie and Rosemary Wells

• Tomie dePaola’s Mother Goose by Tomie dePaola

Folktales and Fairy Tales

• Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg

• Cinderella by Marcia Brown

• The Hare and the Tortoise by Brian Wildsmith

• Henny Penny by H. Werner Zimmermann

• The Little Red Hen by Margot Zemach

• The Three Bears by Paul Galdone

• The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Peter Christen Asbjornsen

• Three Little Pigs by James Marshall

• The Three Little Pigs by Rodney Peppé

• The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen

Stories in Rhyme

• All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka

• Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema

• Miss Spider’s Tea Party by David Kirk

Friends

• Benjamin and Tulip by Rosemary Wells

• We Are Best Friends by Aliki

• Who Will Be My Friends? by Syd Hoff

Fabulous Science Books

• Cars and How they Go by Joanna Cole

• Eyewitness Juniors Amazing Frogs and Toads by Barry Clarke

• Magic School Bus On the Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole