A Suggested Summer Reading List for Students Entering 3 &
4 Year Old Classes
Fall 2008
| Adams |
The Easter Egg Hunt |
| Ahlberg |
Each Peach Pear Plum: An I Spy Story |
| Aliki |
Feelings |
| Anderson, P. |
Time for Bed, The Baby Sitter Said |
| Asch, F. |
Happy Birthday, Moon; Moon Bear |
| Auch |
Peeping Beauty |
| Averill |
The Fire Cat |
| Baker |
Hide and Seek |
| Bang, M. |
Ten, Nine, Eight; The Paper Crane; Tye May & the Magic Brush |
| Balian |
The Aminal |
| Bemelmann |
Madeline series |
| Berger |
I Have Feelings |
| Brett, J. |
Annie and the Wild Animals; Goldilocks and the Three Bears |
| Brown, Marc |
Hand Rhymes; Finger Rhymes |
| Brown, M.W. |
The Indoor Noisy Book; Goodnight Moon; The Runaway Bunny; and others |
| Buckley | Grandfather and I; My Sister and I; Grandmother and I |
| Burton, Marilee Robin |
Tail, Toes, Eyes, Ears, Nose |
| Burton, Virginia Lee | Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel |
| Butterworth |
Jasper's Beanstalk |
| Carle | The Very Busy Spider; The Very Hungry Caterpillar; and others |
| Cazet |
I'm Not Sleepy |
| Christelow |
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed |
| Cleary | The Real Hole; Two Dog Biscuits |
| Coats | Alphabet Garden; Ten Little Animals |
| Crews, D. |
School Bus; Ten Black Dots; Truck; Big Mama's Shortcut |
| de Angeli | Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes |
| de Brunhoff |
The Story of Babar |
| dePaola |
any by this author |
| de Regniers |
May I Bring a Friend? |
| Duvoisin |
The Rain Puddle; Veronica, Petunia and others |
| Duncan | Songs for Dreamland (Book & Cassette Classic Series) |
| Dutton |
The Cinnamon Hen's Autumn Day |
| Emerson | The Nursery Treasury: A Collection of Baby Games, Rhymes, and Lullabies |
| Fleming |
In The Tall, Tall Grass |
| Florian | At the Zoo |
| Fox |
Hattie and The Fox; Shoes from Grandpa |
| Freeman | Corduroy Books |
| Gackenbach | Hattie be Quiet, Hattie Be Good; Hattie Rabbit; Mother Rabbit's Son Tom |
| Gag |
Millions of Cats; The ABC Bunny |
| Galdone |
The Three Bears; The Three Little Kittens; Frog Prince; and others |
| Garten |
The Alphabet Tale |
| Geraghty |
Look Out, Patrick |
| Guilfoile, E. |
Nobody Listens to Andrew |
| Heide |
That's What Friends Are For |
| Heine, H. |
Friends |
| Henkes |
Julius, the Baby of the World; Owen |
| Heyward |
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes |
| Hill, E. |
Spot books |
| Hoban | Bedtime for Frances; Bread and Jam for Frances; A Mystery Counting Book |
| Hoquet | I Unpacked My Grandmother's Trunk |
| Hutchins | Rosie's Walk; Little Pink Pig; Surprise Party; What Game Shall We Play? |
| Johnson |
Harold and the Purple Crayon |
| Joyce |
Bently and Egg |
| Keats |
The Snowy Day; Peter's Chair; Kitten for a Day; Pet Show; Goggles; and others |
| Kellogg |
The Mysterious Tadpole; Pinkerton books; and others |
| Keller, H. | Geraldine's Blanket; Geraldine's Big Show; Furry |
| Kessler |
Do Baby Bears Sit on Chairs? The Day Daddy Stayed Home; The Big Red Bus |
| Kimmel |
(Retold) The Gingerbread Man |
| Kraus |
The Backward Day; A Hole is to Dig; I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue; and others |
| Kroll | Pigs in the House |
| Leaf |
Ferdinand |
| Lewis, K. | The Shepherd Boy; Emma's Lamb |
| Lionni |
Swimmy; Colors; Cornelius; Fish is Fish; Tico and the Golden Wings; and others |
| Lobel |
A Zoo for Mister Muster; Mouse Tale; Frog and Toad Are Friends |
| Macaulay |
Why the Chicken Crossed the Road |
| Madden |
The Wartville Wizard |
| McCloskey |
Make Way for Ducklings |
| McCully |
Mirette on the High Wire |
| McPhail |
Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore; Henry Bear's Park; Stanley; Henry |
| McMillan |
Growing Colors; Bear's Friend; Fix It; Dream Child; The Bear's Toothache |
| Marshall, J |
Red Riding Hood, retold; Hansel and Gretel; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; and others |
| Martin |
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do You Hear? |
| Milne |
Now We Are Six; When We Were Very Young; The Christopher Robin Book of Verse |
| Minarik |
Little Bear; A Kiss for Little Bear; Father Bear Comes Home; No Fighting, No Biting |
| Numeroff | If You Give a Moose a Muffin; If You Give a Mouse a Cookie |
| Oxenbury | Tom and Pippo books |
| Peck |
Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore Green Sneakers |
| Pfister, M. |
Rainbow Fish, Dazzle the Dinosaur |
| Polacco, P. |
Chicken Sunday; Just Plain Fancy |
| Polushkin | Baby Brother Blues; Who Said Meow? |
| Prelutsky |
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children; Read Aloud Rhymes for Very Young; Ride a Purple Pelican |
| Piper |
The Little Engine That Could |
| Potter |
Peter Rabbit Books |
| Provenson |
Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm |
| Rey |
Curious George books |
| Rockwell |
At the Beach; |
| Rogers, T. |
Making Friends |
| Rosen |
We're Going on a Bear Hunt |
| Rounds, Glen | Old MacDonald Had a Farm |
| Rylant |
Henry and Mudge series |
| Schertle | William and Grandpa |
| Schlein | Fast is Not a Ladybug; Heavy is a Hippopotamus |
| Sendak |
Where the Wild Things Are; Nutshell Library |
| Serfozo | Who Said Red?; Rain Talk; Benjamin Bigfoot |
| Seuss | The Cat in the Hat; Green Eggs and Ham; The Foot Book |
| Sharmat |
Gregory, the Terrible Eater |
| Shaw | Sheep in a Shop; Sheep Out to Eat |
| Sheppard | Splash! Splash! |
| Silverstein |
The Giving Tree |
| Steig | Doctor DeSoto |
| Tafuri, N. | Have You Seen My Duckling; Early Morning in the Barn; In a Red House; and others |
| Udry | A Tree is Nice |
| Viorst | The Tenth Good Thing About Barney; Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day |
| Voake | Mrs. Goose's Baby |
| Waber | Ira Sleeps Over; Ira Says Goodbye |
| Walsh | Mouse Paint |
| Wellington | All My Little Ducklings |
| Wells, R. | Hazel's Amazing Mother; Max's Dragon Shirt; Max's Chocolate Chicken |
| Whipple, Laura, compiler |
Eric Carle's Animals, Animals |
| Wiesner |
Tuesday |
| Wildsmith | Give the Dog a Bone |
| Williams, V. |
Kevin's Grandma; A Chair for My Mother; Music, Music for Everyone |
| Wolff | Stella and Roy |
| Wood, A. Wood, D. |
The Napping House; Piggies |
| Yolen | Owl Moon |
| Zion |
Harry the Dirty Dog; No Roses for Harry; The Plant Sitter |
| Zolotow | The Sky Was Blue; The Quarreling Book, and others |