January

• The Constellation Orion: The Story of the Hunter, Arnold Ringstad
• Little Green Peas, Keith Baker
• I Dreamed I Was a Ballerina, Anna Pavlova
• D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire and Ingri Parin d'Aulaire*
• Yertle the Turtle, Dr. Seuss*
• Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, Bernard Waber
• Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy World
• The Blue Book of Fairy Tales, ill. Gordon Laite
• Harry the Dirty Dog, Gene Zion
• The Firebird, retold by Demi
• Saint George and the Dragon, retold by Margaret Hodges*
• The Tale of the Firebird, Gennady Spirin
• The Christmas Story, Gennady Spirin
• We Three Kings, Gennady Spirin
• Rumpelstiltskin, retold by Alison Sage, ill. Gennady Spirin
• The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, Beatrix Potter
• Harry the Dirty Dog, Gene Zion
• Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost, (Good Hours)
• Swan Lake, retold by Margot Fonteyn
• Big Red Barn, Margaret Wise Brown*
• Telephone, Mac Barnett
• The Firebird, retold by Robert D. San Souci
• The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring, Ruth Sanderson
• Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
• The Firebird, retold by Jane Yolen
• Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson
• The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson
• Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
• Cinderella, ill. K.Y. Craft
• Horton Hatches the Egg, Dr. Seuss
• The Golden Bird, retold by Neil Philip
• The Wind and the Moon, George MacDonald
• The Pilot and the Little Prince, Peter Sis
• Frank Mildmay, Captain F. Marryat

Books for reading practice:

• How Deep is the Ocean?, Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
• Honey in a Hive, Anne Rockwell
• Choppers!, Susan E. Goodman
• Oil Spill!, Melvin Berger
• Snake Hair: The Story of Medusa, Stephanie Spinner
• Dodsworth in New York, Tim Egan
• Dodsworth in Paris, Tim Egan
• Dodsworth in London, Tim Egan
• Dodsworth in Tokyo, Tim Egan
• Dodsworth in Rome, Tim Egan
• Richard Scarry's Best Read-It-Yourself Book Ever
• The Christmas Witch: An Italian Legend, retold by Joanne Oppenheim
• Volcanoes, Franklin M. Branley
• The Story of Arachne, Pamela Espeland
• Caterpillar to Butterfly, Laura Marsh
• Mouse Tales, Arnold Lobel
• Titanic: The Disaster That Shocked the World!, Mark Dubowski
• Trojan Horse: The World’s Greatest Adventure, David Clement-Davies
• Greek Myths, Deborah Lock
• Romulus and Remus, Anne Rockwell
• Hurricane Watch, Melissa Stewart

February

• How to Be An Elephant, Katherine Roy
• The Little Engine, Lois Lenski
• The Complete Brambly Hedge, Jill Barklem
• Simeon’s Gift, Julie Andrews Edwards
• The Nutcracker, Susan Jeffers
• Superworm, Julia Donaldson
• The Crows of Pearblossom, Aldous Huxley
• Lentil, Robert McCloskey
• Press Here, Herve Tullet
• Cleopatra, Diane Stanley
• Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold, Joyce Sidman & Rick Allen
• The Crane Wife, retold by Odds Bodkin
• The Snail and the Whale, Julia Donaldson*
• Diary of a Baby Wombat, Jackie French
• Lon Po Po, Ed Young
• Molly’s Pilgrim, Barbara Cohen
• Big Cat, little cat, Elisha Cooper
• Pompeii: The Roman City, One House…More than 2,000 Years of Change, Richard Platt
• City, David Macauley
• The Wild Swans, Hans Christian Andersen, ill. Gordon Laite
• Anatole, Eve Titus
• Spring is Here, Taro Gomi
• Policeman Small, Lois Lenski
• Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey
• Eating the Alphabet, Lois Ehlert
• Saint George and the Dragon, retold by Margaret Hodges
• The Dancing Shoes in My Book of Old Time Fairy Tales, ill. Margaret Evans Price
• Steam Train, Dream Train, Sherri Duskey Rinker
• The Red Book, Barbara Lehman
• The Empty Pot, Demi
• See Inside Ancient Rome, Katie Daynes
• The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, Beatrix Potter

Books For Reading Practice

• Elson Reader: Book Two (selected stories)
• First Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers, Caryn Jenner
• Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats, Ann Earle
• Little Brother and Little Sister, retold from the Brothers Grimm by Barbara Cooney
• Knights and Castles, Rupert Matthews
• Droughts, Melissa Stewart
• Elephant Families, Arthur Dorros
• Ancient Rome and Pompeii, Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce

March

• Aesop’s Fables
• Cleopatra, Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema
• On Market Street, Anita Lobel
• Richard Scarry’s Bedime Stories
• Each Peach Pear Plum, Janet and Allan Van Allsburg
• Harry the Dirty Dog, Gene Zion
• Many Moons, James Thurber
• Rome Antics, David Macaulay
• The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, Beatrix Potter
• Pompeii: Lost & Found, Mary Pope Osborne
• King Midas, retold by Neil Philip
• Three Aesop Fox Fables, retold by Paul Galdone
• Cat Goes Fiddle-I-Fee, retold by Paul Galdone
• The Elves and the Shoemaker, retold by Paul Galdone
• Anatole, Eve Titus*
• The Legend of Old Befana, Tomie dePaola
• Andy and the Lion, James Daughterty
• An Early American Christmas, Tomie dePaola
• The Nightingale, retold by Jerry Pinkney
• Persephone, retold by Warwick Hutton
• Moses, Margaret Hodges
• The Little Red Hen, retold by Paul Galdone
• Shaun and the Boat, Ann Malloy
• Leonardo’s Horse, Jean Fritz
• The Three Little Pigs, retold by Paul Galdone
• The Old Woman Who Named Things, Cynthia Rylant
• Fairy Tales and Fables, Gyo Fujikawa
• Aesop’s Fables, Lisbeth Zwerger
• A Children’s Treasury of Mythology, ill. Margaret Evans Price
• The Crows of Pearblossom, Aldous Huxley*
• A Little House Birthday
• Sea Turtles, Laura Marsh
• The Tale of Two Bad Mice, Beatrix Potter
• The Little Fir Tree, Margaret Wise Brown, ill. Barbara Cooney
• The Wild Swans, Hans Christian Andersen, ill. Gordon Laite
• The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Beatrix Potter*
• Cinderella, K.Y. Craft*
• Uncle Wiggily Bedtime Stories, Howard Garis
• Petook, Caryll Houselander
• Peter’s Long Walk, Lee Kingman
• Snow White and Rose Red, Brothers Grimm, ill. Barbara Cooney
• Jesus, ill. Gennady Spirin

Reading Practice

• Ancient Greece and the Olympics, Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Osborne
• Ancient Rome and Pompeii, Mary Pope Osborne
• The King’s Equal, Katherine Patterson
• Jenny and the Cat Club, Esther Averill*

April

• The Tale of Troy, Roger Lancelyn Green
• The Enchanted Hind in A Child’s Book of Stories, ill. Jessie Willcox Smith
• Burt Dow, Deep Water Man, Robert McCloskey
• There are Rocks in My Socks, Said the Ox to the Fox, Patricia Thomas
• Chanticleer and the Fox, retold and ill. by Barbara Cooney
• Tutankhamen’s Gift, Robert Sabuda
• From Seed to Plant, Gail Gibbons
• Spring is Here, Taro Gomi
• The Librarian Who Measured the Earth, Kathryn Lansky
• The Enchanted Pig from The Red Fairy Book, Andrew Lang
• Drakestail from The Red Fairy Book, Andrew Lang
• Policeman Small, Lois Lenski
• The Three Little Pigs, retold by Paul Galdone
• Big Red Barn, Margaret Wise Brown
• Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy World
• Over in the Meadow, Ezra Jack Keats
• The Ship’s Cat, Alan Aldridge and Richard Adams
• Emily, Michael Bedard
• Horton Hatches the Egg, Dr. Seuss
• Cat and Rat: The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac, Ed Young
• The Very Quiet Cricket, Eric Carle
• The Curious Garden, Peter Brown
• Sharks, Lynn Wilson
• Peter’s Chair, Ezra Jack Keats
• The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson
• A Bell For Ursli, Selena Chonz and Alois Carigiet
• Anatole and the Cat, Eve Titus
• Iron John, adapted by Eric Kimmel
• The Water of Life, retold by Barbara Rogasky
• Eleanor, Barbara Cooney
• The Little Train, Lois Lenski
• Animal Alphabet, Alex Lluch
• Every Planet Has a Place, Becky Baines
• Nursery Rhymes, Nicola Bayley
• The Foot Book, Dr. Seuss
• A is for Annabelle, Tasha Tudor
• King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub, Audrey Wood
• Wabi Sabi, Mark Reibstein
• Little Red Riding Hood, retold by Trina Schart Hyman
• Luck, Jean Craighead George
• Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, John Steptoe
• Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose, Dr. Seuss
• Yertle the Turtle, Dr. Seuss
• Lost and Found, Oliver Jeffers
• Press Here, Herve Tullet
• Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown
• Cowboy Small, Lois Lenski
• The Crystal Mountain, retold by Ruth Sanderson
• The Breman Town Musicians, ill. Lisbeth Zwerger

Audio

• Tom Thumb from Rabbit Ears (read by John Cleese)

Reading Practice

• Jenny Goes to Sea, Esther Averill
• The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, Alice Dalgliesh
• The Nine Lives of Aristotle, Dick King-Smith
• The Big Big Big Book of Tashi, Anna Fienberg and Barbara Fienberg

May

• James Herriot*, Oscar Cat-About-Town in James Herriot’s Treasury for Children
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny*
• Aesop’s Fables
• Julia Donaldson, Room on the Broom
• Sherry Garland, How the Tiger Got Its Stripes in Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam
• Roma Gans, How Do Birds Find Their Way
• Ed Young, The Sons of the Dragon King
• Barbara Rogasky (retold), Rapunzel
• Steve Noon, A Street Through Time
• Tomie de Paola (retold), Strega Nona
• Lee Kingman, Peter’s Long Walk
• Jean Fritz, Brendan the Navigator
• Michael Morpurgo (retold), Beowulf*
• Barbara Cooney (adapted by), Chanticleer and the Fox*
• Aldous Huxley, The Crows of Pearblossom
• Barbara Cooney, Miss Rumphius
• Ruth Robbins, Baboushka and the Three Kings
• Kathleen Norris, The Holy Twins: Benedict and Scholastica
• Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, Leif the Lucky
• Ruth Sanderson (retold), Papa Gatto: An Italian Fairy Tale
• Bryce Milligan (retold), Brigid’s Cloak: An Ancient Irish Story
• Christopher Manson (adapted by), The Tree in the Wood: An Old Nursery Song
• Stephen Krensky, Breaking into Print: Before and After the Invention of the Printing Press

Reading Practice

• Anna and Barbara Fienberg and Kim Gamble, The Big Big Big Book of Tashi
• Esther Averill, The School for Cats
• Beth Wagner Brust, The Great Tulip Trade
• Selections from Elson Readers, Book Two

Audio

• Beowulf, read by Crawford Logan, transl. Benedict Flynn*

To the pre-school set

• Keith Baker, Little Green Peas
• Gene Zion, Harry By the Sea
• Robert McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal*
• Sherri Duskey Rinker, Steam Train, Dream Train
• Dr. Seuss, Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?
• Virginia Lee Burton, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
• Ruth Sanderson (retold), Goldilocks
• Julia Donaldson, The Gruffalo*
• Lois Ehlert, Eating the Alphabet
• A Little House Birthday
• Patricia Thomas, There Are Rocks in My Socks! Said the Ox to the Fox
• Tasha Tudor, A is for Annabelle
• Jerry Pinkney (retold), The Grasshopper and the Ants*
• James Herriot, Bonny’s Big Day and Blossom Comes Home in James Herriot’s Treasury for Children*

June

• D’Aulaire’s Book of Norse Myths*
• Bruce Robertson, Marguerite Makes a Book
• Donald Carrick, Harald and the Great Stag
• Richard Scarry, What Do People Do All Day?
• John S. Major, The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of History
• Cherry Gilcrest (retold), Stories from the Silk Road
• Demi, Confucius: Great Teacher of China
• Jean Craighead George, Morning, Noon, and Night
• David Wiesner, Flotsam*
• The Song of Roland in Mary Pope Osborne, Favorite Medieval Tales
• Marie Heaney (retold), The Names Upon the Harp: Irish Myth and Legend
• Jane Louise Curry, The Christmas Knight
• Ed Young (retold), The Lost Horse
• Betsy and Giulio Maestro, The Discovery of the Americas
• Shigeo Nishimura, An Illustrated History of Japan
• Ludmila Zeman (retold), Sindbad
• The Song of Roland in Alyssa Heyman, The Big Book of Knights, Nobles & Knaves
• Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid (ill. Michael Hague)

Reading Practice

• Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Boyce Osborne, Vikings
• Nico Medina, Who Was Julius Caesar?
• Gwen Gross, Knights of the Round Table (Stepping Stones)
• Ann McGovern, If You Lived in the Days of the Knights

Preschool Set

• Oliver Jeffers, Lost and Found
• Dr. Seuss, And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street*
• Jerry Pinkney (retold), The Lion & the Mouse*
• Jerry Pinkney (retold), The Tortoise & the Hare*
• Dr. Seuss, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose*
• Gordon Laite (ill.), Little Golden Book: The Blue Book of Fairy Tales
• Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline in London
• Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans (ill. Gordon Laite)*
• Don Freeman, Corduroy

Audio Books

• Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Listening Library, 2016)

July

• Capt. W.E. Johns, Biggles Defies the Swastika (stories from the WWII collection)
• Julius Caesar, Conquest of Gaul
• Neil Philip (retold), Celtic Fairy Tales
• Helen Docherty, The Story Book Knight
• John S. Goodall, The Story of a Castle
• Tristan and Isolde and Lancelot, The Knight of the Cart in The Big Book of Knights, Nobles & Knaves
• Marianna Mayer (retold), Iron John*
• Margaret Hodges (retold), Merlin and the Making of the King
• Aliki, A Medieval Feast
• Mary Stolz, Storm in the Night
• Paul Galdone (retold), Cinderella
• Michael Morpurgo & Michael Foreman, Dolphin Boy
• Roger Lancelyn Green, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table*

Free Reading

• Jonathan Hunt, Bestiary: An Illuminated Alphabet of Medieval Beasts
• Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne, Knights and Castles
• Eve Titus, The Great Mouse Detective: Basil of Baker Street

Preschool Set

• Richard Scarry’s Best Read-It-Yourself Book Ever
• Mary Englebreit’s Mother Goose
• Deborah Lee Rose, One Nighttime Sea
• Dr. Seuss, The Sneetches and Other Stories
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan
• Wendy Kesselman, Emma
• Nicola Bayley, Nursery Rhymes
• Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Fir Tree*
• Eve Titus, Anatole*
• Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wise, The Story About Ping
• Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy*

August

• Captain W.E. Johns, Biggles Delivers the Goods
• Roger Lancelyn Green, The Adventures of Robin Hood*
• Robert McCloskey, One Morning in Maine*
• Robert McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal*
• Richard Scarry’s Best Bedtime Stories
• Marianna Mayer, Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (retold)
• Barbara Cooney (ill.), Snow White and Rose Red*
• Richard Scarry, Best Little Golden Books Ever! (The Polite Elephant and Duck and Friends)
• Katherine Paterson, The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
• Dennis Nolan, Dinosaur Dream*
• Margaret Hodges, Brother Francis and the Friendly Beasts
• The Bremen Town Musicians in Childcraft
• Don Brown, Across a Dark and Wild Sea
• Judy Dunn, The Little Kitten
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (adapted from), Summertime in the Big Woods
• Phillip Stead, A Sick Day for Amos McGee*
• Edward Lear/ill. Michael Hague, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and Other Nonsense Poems
• Sally Schofer Matthews, The Sad Night: The Story of an Aztec Victory and a Spanish Loss
• Peter Spier, The Book of Jonah
• Jonathan Hunt, Leif’s Saga: A Viking Tale
• Brendan Behan, ill. P.J. Lynch, The King of Ireland’s Son
• Horatius at the Bridge, Thomas Babington, Lord Macauley
• Ashley Bryan, Beautiful Blackbird
• Paul Galdone, The Monkey and the Crocodile

Free Reading

• Clyde Robert Bulla, The Sword in the Tree
• Jack Prelutsky, The Carnival of the Animals
• Nico Medina, Who Was Leif Erikson?

Preschool Set

• Smudge, the Little Lost Lamb in James Herriot’s Treasury for Children
• Dr. Seuss, The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories
• Richard Scarry’s Best Read-It-Yourself Book Ever!
• Alice Schertle, Little Blue Truck
• Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg*
• Julia Donaldson, The Gruffalo
• Edward Lear, The Scroobious Pip
• Sherri Duskey Rinker, Steam Train, Dream Train
• Dr. Seuss, The Foot Book
• Leo Lionni, It’s Mine!
• Richard Scarry’s Busiest Fire Fighters Ever!
• Nonny Hogrogian, One Fine Day
• Laura Marsh, Sea Turtles
• Paul Galdone (retold), Cinderella
• Lee Kingman, Peter’s Long Walk
• Susan Jeffers, Thumbelina
• Chris Raschka, A Ball for Daisy
• Suzy Lee, Wave
• Lois Lenski, The Little Airplane
• Demi, The Empty Pot*
• Lois Lenski, Policeman Small
• Barbara Cooney, Miss Rumphius

September

• Captain W.E. Johns, Biggles Defends the Desert
• Marguerite Henry, King of the Wind
• Charlotte Yonge, The Little Duke*
• Barbara Cooney (retold), The Little Juggler*
• Margaret Early (retold), William Tell*
• Marilyn Singer, The Maiden on the Moor
• Thomas Locker, The Young Artist
• Clyde Robert Bulla, The Moon Singer
• Rumer Godden, The Dragon of Og*
• Gail Gibbons, Tell Me, Tree: All About Trees for Kids
• Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long, A Seed Is Sleepy
• Betsy Maestro, Why Do Leaves Change Color?
• Gail Gibbons, Apples
• Jean Craighead George, Everglades
• Jim Arnosky, Following the Coast
• Jim Arnosky, Crinkleroot’s Guide to Knowing the Trees
• Robert McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal*
• Barbara Cooney, Island Boy*
• Hannah Eliot, What’s Inside My Lunch Box?
• Donald Hall, Ox-Cart Man*

Free Reading

• Mary Pope Osborne, Danger in the Darkest Hour
• Gail Gibbons, Flowers

Preschool Set

• Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy World
• Dr. Seuss, The Foot Book
• Lois Lenski, Cowboy Small
• Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon
• Oliver Jeffers, Lost and Found
• Tasha Tudor, A is for Annabelle
• K.Y. Craft, Beauty and the Beast*
• Anne Rockwell, Who Lives in an Alligator Hole?
• Gail Gibbons, The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree
• Sherri Duskey Rinker, Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
• Aldous Huxley, The Crows of Pearblossom*

October

• Richard Platt, Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess*
• Capt. W.E. Johns, Biggles Fails to Return*
• Elizabeth Janet Gray, Adam of the Road*
• Demi, Chinghis Khan
• Kimiko Kajikawa (retold), Yoshi’s Feast
• Diane Stanley, Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam
• Marcia Brown (retold), Dick Whittington and His Cat
• Leonard Everett Fisher (retold), William Tell
• Walter Wick, A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder
• Cindy Neuschwander, Pastry School in Paris
• Dr. Seuss, The Sneetches*
• Shelley Moore Thomas, This Book is Not About Dragons
• Matt Lamothe, This is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World
• Ralph Fletcher, Twilight Comes Twice
• Matt Forrest Esenwine, Flashlight Night
• Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton, Simeon’s Gift
• Jim Arnosky, Crinkleroot’s Nature Almanac
• Doris Orgel (retold), The Story of Lohengrin
• David Macauley, Castle*
• Eve Titus, Anatole and the Cat

Preschool Set

• Julia Donaldson, Room on the Broom*
• Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
• Don Freeman, Corduroy
• Bill Peet, Chester the Worldly Pig
• Jim Arnosky, Beachcombing: Exploring the Seashore
• Arlene Mosel (retold), The Funny Little Woman
• Brinton Turkle, Rachel and Obadiah
• Best in Children’s Books (1958)
• Susie Ghahremani, Stack the Cats
• Margaret Hodges, Joan of Arc: The Lily Maid
• Charlotte Miner, Peek and Seek
• Kathleen Lines (ed.), Lavender’s Blue*
• Eve Titus, Anatole*
• Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Margot Fonteyn, Swan Lake*
• Cathryn Falwell, Mystery Vine
• Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon
• Donald Hall, Ox-Cart Man
• Edward Lear, The Scroobious Pip*
• Betsy Maestro, How Do Apples Grow?
• Roma Gans, How Do Birds Find Their Way?
• Oliver Jeffers, How to Catch a Star
• John Updike, A Child’s Calendar
• M. Jean Craig (retold), The Donkey Prince*
• Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon
• Susan Jeffers, My Pony

Audio Books

• The Song of the Unicorn*
• Grimm’s Fairy Tales*

November

• Capt. W.E. Johns, Biggles Learns to Fly
• Capt. W.E. Johns, Biggles Flies East
• Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant Jésus, Story of a Soul*
• Kenneth Grahame, The Reluctant Dragon*
• Mahlon and K.Y. Craft, Beauty and the Beast
• Russell Freedman, The Adventures of Marco Polo
• Brian Wildsmith, Saint Francis
• Masako Matsuno, A Pair of Red Clogs
• Andrew Lang story from The Red Fairy Book: The Twelve Dancing Princesses*
• Andrew Lang story from The Blue Fairy Book: The Brone Ring and Prince Hyacinth*
• Thomas Locker, Water Dance
• Antonia Barber, The Firebird in Tales from the Ballet
• Holling Clancy Holling, Pagoo*
• Nicola Davies, White Owl, Barn Owl
• Julian Scheer, A Thanksgiving Turkey
• Robert San Souci, N.C. Wyeth’s Pilgrims
• Ruth Heller, A Sea Within a Sea: Secrets of the Sargasso
• Masaichiro and Mitsumasa Anno, Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar
• Geoffrey Chaucer, Geraldine McCaughrean (retold), The Canterbury Tales*
• Tracey E. Fern, Pippo the Fool
• Berta and Elmer Hader, The Big Snow
• Joyce Sidman, Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night
• Eileen Spinelli, Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch
• Ruth Heller, Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones
• Ruth Heller, The Reason for a Flower
• Brinton Turkle, Rachel and Obadiah
• True Brit (Commando comics collection)

For Preschoolerƨ

• Dr. Seuss, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose
• Sophie Blackall, Hello Lighthouse
• Patricia Lauber, An Octopus is Amazing
• Maurice Pledger, In My Ocean
• Alice and Martin Provenson, The Animal Fair
• Robert McCloskey, Lentil
• Jim Arnosky, All About Turkeys
• Mary Lyn Ray, Go to Sleep, Little Farm
• The Blue Book of Fairy Tales (Little Golden Book)
• Wende and Harry Devlin, Cranberry Thanksgiving
• Margaret Wise Brown, Where Have You Been?
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• J. Alison James, The Drums of Noto Hanto
• Oliver Jeffers, Lost and Found
• Barbara Brenner and Julia Takaya, Chibi: A True Story from Japan
• Charles Carryl, The Walloping Window-Blind
• Robert McCloskey, One Morning in Maine*
• David Elliott, On the Wing
• Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, What Lives in a Shell?
• Marjorie Price, How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
• Mo Willems, City Dog, Country Frog
• Autumn Story from Jill Barklem, The Complete Brambly Hedge
• Sherri Duskey Rinker, Steam Train, Dream Train
• Thomas Locker, Sky Tree
• Robert McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal*
• Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton, Puff the Magic Dragon
• Richard Scarry, What Do People Do All Day?
• Millicent E. Selsam, How To Be a Nature Detective

Independent Reading

• Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, What Lives in a Shell?
• True Brit (Commando comics collection)
• Eve Titus, The Great Mouse Detective: Basil and the Cave of Cats

December 2018

• Natalie Savage Carlson, The Family Under the Bridge
• Robert Byrd, Saint Francis and the Christmas Donkey
• Barbara Cooney, Christmas Folk
• Efner Holmes Tudor, The Christmas Cat*
• Kate Messner, Over and Under the Snow
• Tomie dePaola, An Early American Christmas
• Carl R. Sams II & Jean Stoick, Stranger in the Woods
• Gloria Whelan, The Miracle of Saint Nicholas*
• Dylan Thomas, A Child’s Christmas in Wales*
• Gloria Houston, The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree*
• Ruth Sawyer (retold), The Remarkable Christmas of the Cobbler’s Sons
• Dianna Hutts Aston, A Nest is Noisy
• Lee Kingman, The Best Christmas
• Jim Arnosky, Dolphins in the Sand
• Kate Messner, Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt
• Leonard Everett Fisher, Prince Henry the Navigator
• Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!
• Mitsumasa Anno, Anno’s Journey
• Jacqueline Mitton, Once Upon a Starry Night: A Book of Constellations
• Marguerite de Angeli, Turkey for Christmas
• Barbara Cooney, Hattie and the Wild Waves*
• Antonia Barber, The Mousehole Cat*
• Clement C. Moore, ill. Gyo Fujikawa, The Night Before Christmas
• Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle*
• Susan Wojciechowski, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey*
• Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Fir Tree*
• Barbara Cooney (retold), The Little Juggler*
• Chris van Dusen, The Circus Ship
• Hans Christian Andersen, Neil Philip (transl.), The Book of Fairy Tales and The Fir Tree in Christmas Fairy Tales*
• Howard Pyle, The Best That Life Has to Give in Christmas Fairy Tales*
• Millicent E. Selsam and Joyce Hunt, A First Look at Seashells
• O. Henry, P.J. Lynch (ill.), The Gift of the Magi*
• Eve Titus, Mr. Shaw’s Shipshape Shoeshop
• Margaret Hodges, Joan of Arc: The Lily Maid

Preschoolers

• Richard Scarry’s Bedtime Stories
• Peter Spier, The Book of Jonah
• Richard Scarry’s Best Christmas Book Ever!
• Tony Mitton, Amazing Airplanes
• Heather Vogel Frederick (retold), A Little Women Christmas
• Susan Jeffers (retold), The Nutcracker
• Jim Arnosky, Otters Under Water
• Wendy Pfeffer, From Tadpole to Frog
• Maxine Rose Schur, Samantha’s Surprise: A Christmas Story
• Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline in London
• Margaret Wise Brown, The Quiet Noisy Book
• Jason Chin, Island: A Story of the Galapagos
• Priscilla Belz Jenkins, A Nest Full of Eggs (Let’s Read and Find Out Science)
• Robert Barry, Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree
• Lloyd Alexander, The Fortune-Tellers
• Esphyr Slobodkina, Caps for Sale
• Tomie dePaola, Charlie Needs a Cloak
• Jo Polseno, Secrets of Redding Glen
• Richard Scarry, A Day at the Airport*
• John Becker, Seven Little Rabbits
• National Gallery of Art, A Renaissance Christmas
• Barbara Cooney, A Garland of Games & Other Diversions
• Giles Andreae, Giraffes Can’t Dance
• Margaret Wise Brown, Christmas in the Barn

Independent Reading

• Edith Thatcher Hurd, Starfish (Let’s Read and Find Out Science)
• Eve Titus, The Great Mouse Detective: Basil in Mexico
• Eve Titus, The Great Mouse Detective: Basil in the Wild West
• Brian Selznick and David Serlin, Baby Monkey, Private Eye
• Wendy Pfeffer, What’s it Like to Be a Fish?

Reading