2021

January

• Brian Jacques, Redwall
• Twelfth Night in Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories*
• Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island*
• Donald M. Silver, One Small Square: Cave
• Louis Untermeyer (ed.), This Singing World (selections)*
• Louis Untermeyer (ed.), The Golden Books Family Treasury of Poetry (selections)*

First Grade

Everything listed above plus:

• M. Charlotte Craft, Cupid and Psyche*
• Anne Rockwell, Clouds
• Astrid Lindgren, Christmas in Noisy Village
• Sally Tagholm, Animal Lives: The Frog
• Anne Rockwell, Bugs are Insects
• Margaret Hodges (retold), The Legend of Saint Christopher
• A.A. Milne, Prince Rabbit and The Princess Who Could Not Laugh*
• Marilyn Singer, Eggs
• Charles Micucci, The Life and Times of the Ant
• Aesop’s Fables (selections)
• Alfred Church, The Children’s Plutarch: Tales of the Greeks
• Antonia Barber, Apollo & Daphne: Masterpieces of Mythology

Reading Practice (First Grade)

• Laura Ingalls Wilder (based on), A Little House Birthday
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (based on), Summertime in the Big Woods
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (based on), A Little Prairie House
• C.W. Anderson, Blaze and the Forest Fire
• C.W. Anderson, Blaze Shows the Way
• Avi, Prairie School
• Stephanie Spinner, Snake Hair: The Story of Medusa
• P.D. Eastman, Sam and the Firefly
• Helen Palmer, A Fish Out of Water
• Natalie Standiford, The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto
• Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Little Pigs
• Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Billy Goats Gruff
• Mike McClintock, A Fly Went By
• Anne Rockwell, Two Blue Jays
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• Paul O. Zelinsky, The Lion and the Stoat
• Edward Ardizzone, Tim All Alone
• Barbara Brenner, Wagon Wheels
• Edward Ardizzone, Tim’s Friend Towser
• Anne Rockwell, Honey in a Hive
• Mary Lyn Ray, Basket Moon
• Edward Ardizzone, Ship’s Cook Ginger

Nursery

Everything listed above plus:

• Jerry Pinkney, Noah’s Ark
• Taro Gomi, Bus Stops
• Hildegarde H. Swift, The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge
• Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Fir Tree
• Julia Donaldson, The Snail and the Whale
• Gyo Fujikawa, Sleepy Time
• Iona Opie (ed.), Mother Goose’s Little Treasures
• Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Alice Schertle, Little Blue Truck
• Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon
• Gene Zion, Harry the Dirty Dog
• Tomie dePaola, The Birds of Bethlehem
• Taro Gomi, My Friends
• Ezra Jack Keats, Whistle for Willie*
• Mercer Mayer, a boy, a dog, and a frog
• Peter Yarrow, Puff the Magic Dragon
• Herge Tullet, The Game of Light
• Robert McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal*
• Beatrice Schenk de Regines, What Can You Do With a Shoe?
• Sherri Duskey Rinker, Steam Train, Dream Train
• Gail Gibbons, From Seed to Plant
• Donald Hall, Ox-Cart Man
• Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
• Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child’s Garden of Verses*
• Esphyr Slobodkina, Caps for Sale
• Richard Scarry, Cars and Trucks and Things That Go
• Lois Lenski, Policeman Small
• Paul Galdone, The Gingerbread Boy
• Dahlov Ipcar, One Horse Farm*

February

• George MacDonald, The Light Princess
• Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark
• Poetry for Young People: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• George MacDonald, The Golden Key*
• Walter de la Mare, Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages* (selections)
• Rosemary Sutcliff, The Iliad*
• Louis Untermeyer (ed.), The Golden Books Family Treasury of Poetry* (selections)

First Grade

Everything listed above plus:

• Alice and Martin Provensen, The Year at Maple Hill Farm
• David Macaulay, City
• Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child’s Garden of Verses
• Joyce Sidman, Winter Bees
• Leonard Everett Fisher, Theseus and the Minotaur
• Charlotte Craft, King Midas and the Golden Touch*
• Milo Winter (ill.), The Aesop for Children (selections)
• Roger L. MacBride (adapted), Going to Town
• Roger L. MacBride (adapted),Winter Days in the Big Woods
• Julia Donaldson, The Snail and the Whale
• Childcraft, vol. 2: Storytelling and Other Poems
• Katie Daynes, See Inside Ancient Rome
• James Herriot, Treasury for Children*

First Grade (Reading Practice)

• Edward Ardizzone, Tim to the Rescue
• Edward Ardizzone, Tim and Lucy Go to Sea
• Thomas P. Lewis, Hill of Fire
• Edward Ardizzone, Tim and Charlotte
• Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon
• William H. Elson, The Elson Readers: Book Two (selections)
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• Oliver Jeffers, How to Catch a Star
• Ezra Jack Keats, Over in the Meadow
• Richard Scarry, Bedtime Stories
• Nicola Bayley, Nursery Rhymes
• Kathleen Lines (ed.), Lavender’s Blue: A Book of Nursery Rhymes
• Philip C. Stead, A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Fourth Grade

• Scott O’Dell, The King’s Fifth
• Jay Williams, The Battle for the Atlantic
• William Shirer, The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt

Nursery

Everything listed above plus:

• Maurice Pledger, In the Woods
• Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!
• Lee Kingman, Peter’s Long Walk
• Nonny Hogrogian, One Fine Day
• Maurice Pledger, In the Ocean
• Sherri Duskey Rinker, Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
• Victoria Sherrow, Chipmunk at Hollow Tree Lane
• Don Freeman, Corduroy
• Iona Opie, Mother Goose’s Little Treasures
• Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon
• Lois Lenski, Cowboy Small
• Gyo Fujikawa, A Child’s Book of Poems*
• Paul Galdone, Little Red Riding Hood
• Nicola Bayley, Nursery Rhymes

March

• Walter de la Mare, Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages (selections)*
• J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan*
• Marguerite Henry, Birds at Home
• Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days (first half)

First Grade

Everything listed above plus:

• Mary O’Neill, Hailstones and Halibut Bones
• William J. Bennett, The Children’s Treasury of Virtues
• Jacqueline Briggs Martin, Snowflake Bentley
• Leonard Everett Fisher, Cyclops
• Charles Kingsley, Jason and the Argonauts (in Best in Children’s Books)*
• Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
• Ingri and Edgar Parin, Parin D’Aulaire, Book of Greek Myths (first half)
• Franklyn M. Branley, Earthquakes
• Kathryn Lasky, The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
• Virginia Lee Burton, Choo Choo
• Stephen R. Swinburne, Wings of Light: The Migration of the Yellow Butterfly
• Carol Lerner, Butterflies in the Garden
• Rebecca L. Johnson, A Journey into a Lake
• Gail Gibbons, Marshes & Swamps

First Grade (Reading Practice)

• Avi, Abigail Takes the Wheel
• Roger MacBride (retold), Summertime in the Big Woods
• Dahlov Ipcar, One Horse Farm
• Laura Marsh, Polar Bears
• Paul O. Zelinsky, The Lion and the Stoat
• Clyde Robert Bulla, A Tree is a Plant
• Franklyn M. Branley, Eclipse: Darkness in Daytime
• Elson Readers Book Two (selections)
• Priscilla Belz Jenkins, A Nest Full of Eggs
• Bernadette Watts (retold), The Wind and the Sun
• Henrietta Bancroft, Animals in Winter
• Anna Fienberg and Barbara Fienberg, The Big Big Big Book of Tashi (first half)
• Aliki, Fossils Tell of Long Ago
• Franklyn M. Branley, Down Comes the Rain

Fourth Grade

• Arthur Conan Doyle, The Original Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (selections)
• Rosemary Sutcliff (adapting), The Iliad
• Rosemary Sutcliff, The Wanderings of Odysseus: The Story of the Odyssey

Nursery

Everything listed above plus:

• Margaret Wise Brown, Where Have You Been?
• Richard Scarry’s Bedtime Stories
• Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Little Pigs*
• Lois Lenski, The Little Airplane
• Esphyr Slobodkina, Caps for Sale
• Margaret Wise Brown, Big Red Barn
• Alvin Tresselt, White Snow, Bright Snow
• Robert McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal*
• Barbara Juster Esbensen, Baby Whales Drink Milk
• Virginia Lee Burton, Katy and the Big Snow
• Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
• Oliver Jeffers, Lost and Found
• Sherry Duskey Rinker, Steam Train, Dream Train
• Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings*
• Gene Zion, Harry the Dirty Dog
• Dr. Seuss, The Foot Book
• Dr. Seuss, There’s a Wocket in my Pocket!
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Two Bad Mice
• Alice and Martin Provenson, Animal Fair*
• Selina Chonz, A Bell for Ursli
• Elizabeth Ring, Loon at Northwood Lane
• Taro Gomi, Bus Stops
• Taro Gomi, Spring is Here
• Munro Leaf, Wee Gillis
• April Pulley Sayre, Best in Snow
• Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
• Allen Say, The Bicycle Man
• Demi, The Empty Pot*
• Don Freeman, Corduroy*
• Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!*
• Julia Donaldson, The Snail and the Whale
• Julia Donaldson, Room on the Broom
• Peter Spier, Noah’s Ark
• Blanche Fisher Wright (ill.), The Real Mother Goose (selections)*

April

• Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days* (second half)
• L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
• Kenneth Grahame, The Reluctant Dragon*

First Grade

Everything listed above plus:

• Ingri and Edgar Parin Parin D’Aulaire, Book of Greek Myths (second half)*
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Miss Moppet
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of the Fierce Bad Rabbit
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Two Bad Mice
• Benjamin Elkin, The Wisest Man in the World
• Alan Aldridge, The Butterfly Ball
• Rebecca L. Johnson, A Journey into a Wetland
• Claudia Logan, The 5,000 Year-Old Puzzle: Solving a Mystery of Ancient Egypt
• Paul Galdone, Three Aesop Fox Fables*
• Deborah Kogan Ray, Lily’s Garden
• Wendy Pfeffer, Life in a Coral Reef
• Deborah Kogan Ray, The Flower Hunter: William Bartram, America’s First Naturalist
• Jerry Pinkney, The Tortoise and the Hare
• Stephen R. Swinburne, Turtle Tide: The Ways of Sea Turtles
• Deborah Kogan Ray, Dinosaur Mountain: Digging into the Jurassic Age
• Stephen R. Swinburne, Armadillo’s Trail
• Ruth Horowitz, Crab Moon
• Shirley Climo (retold), Atalanta’s Race
• Joyce Cooper Arkhurst (retold), The Adventures of Spider

First Grade (Reading Practice)

• Anne Rockwell, Romulus and Remus
• Katharine Kenah, Super Marsupials
• Barbara Juster Esbensen, Baby Whales Drink Milk
• Courtney Granet Raff, Giant of the Sea: A Story of a Sperm Whale
• Anna Fienberg and Barbara Fienberg, The Big Big Big Book of Tashi (second half)
• Esther Averill, Jenny and the Cat Club (first half)

Fourth Grade

• Arthur Conan Doyle, The Original Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (selections)
• Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, Book of Greek Myths
• Claudia Logan, The 5,000 Year-Old Puzzle: Solving a Mystery of Ancient Egypt
• Jack London, The Call of the Wild (first half)

Nursery

Everything listed above plus:

• Clement Hurd, The Merry Chase
• Peter Spier, The Book of Jonah
• Blanche Fisher Wright (ill.), The Real Mother Goose (selections)*
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
• Caryll Houselander, Petook
• Brinton Turkle, Thy Friend, Obadiah
• Nancy Tafuri, Have You Seen My Duckling?
• Doris Burn, Andrew Henry’s Meadow
• Virginia Lee Burton, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
• Gyo Fujikawa, A Child’s Book of Poems
• Jim Arnosky, Armadillo’s Orange
• Gail Gibbons, Sea Turtles
• Lois Lenski, The Little Airplane
• Shirley Climo (retold), The Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb
• Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day*
• Lizi Boyd, Inside Outside
• Howard Pyle, Bearskin*
• Clement Hurd, The Merry Chase
• Marguerite de Angeli, Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes*

May

books 2020-2021

• J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit*
• Rudyard Kipling, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (from The Jungle Book)*

First Grade

Everything listed above plus:

• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
• Rebecca L. Johnson, A Walk in the Desert
• Lee Kingman, Peter’s Long Walk
• Ed Young, Cat and Rat: The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac
• Dianna Hutts Aston, A Rock Is Lively
• Barbara Cooney (retold), Snow White and Rose Red*
• Michael Bedard, Emily*
• Best in Children’s Books (1958) (poems; Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea)
• Betty Tatham, Penguin Chick
• Jim Arnosky, Turtle in the Sea
• Ruth Heller, Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones
• Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Forces Make Things Move
• Franklyn M. Branley, Comets
• Sibylle von Olfers, The Story of the Root Children*
• Aliki, Dinosaurs Are Different

First Grade (Reading Practice)

• Anne Rockwell, Who Lives in an Alligator Hole?
• Henry Barker, Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
• Eve Titus, Mr. Shaw’s Shipshape Shoeshop
• Robert McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal*
• Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House
• Clyde Robert Bulla, Daniel’s Duck
• Eleanor Coerr, The Josefina Story Quilt
• Ruth Stiles Gannet, My Father’s Dragon
• Ruth Stiles Gannet, Elmer and the Dragon

Fourth Grade

• Jack London, The Call of the Wild (completed)*
• Paul Gallico, The Snow Goose*

Nursery

Everything listed above plus:

• Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, What Can You Do With a Shoe?
• Allan Ahlberg, Mockingbird
• Bruce Hiscock, When Will it Snow?
• Elsa Beskow, Princess Sylvie*
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (adapted from), A Little Prairie House
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (adapted from), Summer in the Big Woods
• Aldous Huxley, The Crows of Pearblossom
• Barbara Cooney (retold), Little Brother and Little Sister
• Richard Scarry, Busiest Fire Fighters Ever!
• Julia Donaldson, The Gruffalo
• Ruth Heller, The Reason for a Flower
• Sherri Duskey Rinker, Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
• Sherri Duskey Rinker, Steam Train, Dream Train
• Dr. Seuss, Thidwick, The Big-Hearted Moose
• Edna Mitchell Preston, Squawk to the Moon, Little Goose
• Keith Baker, 123peas
• Molly Brett, Hare in a Hurry
• Marjorie Flack, The Story About Ping
• Paul Galdone, The Three Billy Goats Gruff
• Iona Opie (ed.), Mother Goose’s Little Treasures
• Patricia Thomas, "There Are Rocks in My Socks!" Said the Ox to the Fox
• Chris Raschka, A Ball for Daisy
• Julia Donaldson, The Snail and the Whale
• Richard Scarry, The Great Pie Robbery

June

• Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows*
• T.S. Eliot, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

Second Grade

• E. Nesbit, Melisande
• Nora Kramer (ed.), Princess Tales
• Philip Balestrino, The Skeleton Inside You
• Jane Louise Curry, Brave Cloelia
• Robert Lawson (ill.), Just for Fun
• Barbara Rogasky (retold), Rapunzel*
• K.Y. Craft (ill.), Cinderella*
• A.A. Milne, The Magic Hill
• Dennis Nolan, The Castle Builder
• Catherine Schaefer McEwen (ed.), Away We Go! 100 Poems for the Very Young
• Marianna Mayer (retold), The Twelve Dancing Princesses*
• Wendy Pfeffer, Wiggling Worms at Work

Nursery

• Eleanor B. Coerr, Circus Day in Japan
• Melvin Berger, Spinning Spiders
• David Wiesner, Flotsam
• Elsa Beskow, Rosalind and the Little Deer
• Paul Galdone (retold), The Gingerbread Boy
• Dr. Seuss, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
• Robert McCloskey, Lentil
• Ezra Jack Keats, Over in the Meadow
• Tomie dePaola, Charlie Needs a Cloak
• Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!
• Alice McLerran, Roxaboxen
• Arlene Mosel (retold), Tikki Tikki Tembo
• Paul Galdone (retold), Little Red Riding Hood
• Alice and Martin Provenen, The Animal Fair
• Margaret Wise Brown, Where Have You Been?
• Shirley Climo (retold), Tuko and the Birds
• Wendy Pfeffer, Dolphin Talk
• Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon
• Robert McCloskey, Time of Wonder*
• Elsa Beskow, Princess Sylvie
• Alice Schertle, Down the Road
• Anita and Arnold Lobel, On Market Street
• John Updike, A Child’s Calendar

Fifth Grade

• Virginia Lee Burton, Life Story
• Harry Mazer, The Last Mission

Second Grade

• Ruth Stiles Gannett, The Dragons of Blueland
• Pamela Espeland (retold), The Story of King Midas
• Joyce Lancaster Brisley, The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook
• John Becker, Seven Little Rabbits (to younger sibling)
• Dr. Seuss’s ABC (to younger sibling)
• Amy Sklansky, Where Do Chicks Come From?
• Alice Dalgliesh, The Courage of Sarah Noble

July

• Rosemary Sutcliff, Beowulf: Dragon Slayer*
• Bruce Coville, William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Leon Garfield, Julius Caesar in Shakespeare Stories
• Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, Book of Norse Myths*
• E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web*

Second Grade

• Alice Dalgliesh, The Fourth of July Story
• Reeve Lindbergh, Johnny Appleseed
• Paul Galdone, The Magic Porridge Pot
• The Children’s Hour: Favorite Fairy Tales (selections)*
• Robert D. San Souci (retold), Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure
• Gary D. Schmidt, Saint Ciaran: The Tale of a Saint of Ireland

Nursery

• Mary Ann Fraser, Where Are the Night Animals?
• Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Pop! A Book About Bubbles
• Demi, The Greatest Treasure
• Beatrice Schenk de Regines, What can you do with a shoe?
• Virginia Lee Burton, Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel
• Ezra Jack Keats, Whistle For Willie
• Suzy Lee, Wave
• Dahlov Ipcar, One Horse Farm*
• Richard Scarry’s Best Busy Year Ever
• Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House
• Paul Galdone (retold), The Three Billy Goats Gruff
• Brinton Turkle, Obadiah the Bold
• Tomie dePaola, Strega Nona
• Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings
• Childcraft: Poems for Young Children
• Alvin Tresselt, Hide and Seek Fog
• Paul Galdone, The Three Bears
• Paul Galdone, The Elves and the Shoemaker*
• Roger Duvoisin, Petunia
• Paul Galdone (retold), The Monkey and the Crocodile
• Robert D. San Souci, Cendrillon
• Bill Peet, The Ant and the Elephant
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Miss Moppet
• Eve Titus, Anatole*

Fifth Grade (independent reading)

• C.S. Forester, The Man in the Yellow Raft
• Quentin Reynolds, The Battle of Britain
• Jules Verne, The Master of the World

Second Grade (independent reading)

• Astrid Lindgren, The Children of Noisy Village
• Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy
• Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy Tacy and Tib
• Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
• Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

August

• C.S. Forester, Mr. Midshipman Hornblower*
• Marguerite de Angeli, The Door in the Wall
• C.S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe*

Second Grade

• Margaret Hodges (retold), Merlin and the Making of the King
• Margaret Hodges (retold), The Kitchen Knight*
• Margaret Hodges (retold), Saint George and the Dragon*
• Norman Denny & Josephine Filmer-Sankey, The Bayeux Tapestry
• Bruce Coville (retold), Hans Brinker
• C.M. Millen, The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane
• Lise Lunge-Larsen, The Race of the Birkebeiners
• Jonathan Hunt, Leif’s Saga: A Viking Tale
• Mary Pope Osborne, Favorite Medieval Tales
• Jo Polseno, Secrets of Redding Glen: The Natural History of a Wooded Valley

Nursery

• Richard Scarry, Busy Busy World
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (adapted from), Summertime in the Big Woods
• Rebecca Caudill, A Pocketful of Cricket
• Molly Brett, Hare in a Hurry
• Allan Ahlberg, Mockingbird
• Edward Lear, The Scroobious Pip
• Barbara Cooney, Miss Rumphius*
• Dahlov Ipcar, One Horse Farm*
• Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express
• The Blue Book of Fairy Tales (ill. Gordon Laite)
• Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans (ill. Gordon Laite)
• Brinton Turkle, Obadiah the Bold
• Sibylle von Olfers, The Story of the Root Children
• Tomie dePaola, Charlie Needs a Cloak
• Maurice Pledger, In the Ocean
• Elizabeth Ring, Loon at Northwood Lake
• Bill Peet, Cock-a-Doodle Dudley
• Richard Scarry’s Busiest Fire Fighters Ever!
• Doris Burn, Andrew Henry’s Meadow
• Ole Risom, I am a Bunny
• Mitsumasa Anno, Anno’s Alphabet
• Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, Barn Dance!

Fifth Grade (independent reading)

• Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

Second Grade (independent reading)

• Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy Go Downtown
• Eve Titus, Basil of Baker Street
• Eve Titus, Basil and the Cave of Cats

September

• C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
• C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*
• C.S. Lewis, The Horse & His Boy

Second Grade

• Margaret Hodges (retold), The Legend of Saint Christopher
• Brendan Behan, The King of Ireland’s Son*
• John Perkins (retold), Perceval: King Arthur’s Knight of the Holy Grail
• Aliki, A Medieval Feast

Nursery

• Paul Galdone, The Little Red Hen
• Joy Cowley, The Rusty, Trusty Tractor
• Furball in My Book of Old-Time Fairy Tales
• Richard Scarry, Cars and Trucks and Things That Go
• Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
• David Wiesner, Tuesday
• Don Freeman, Fly High Fly Low
• Jerry Pinkney (retold), The Little Red Hen
• Franklyn M. Branley, The Big Dipper
• Gail Gibbons, The Vegetables We Eat
• Elsa Beskow, Christopher’s Garden
• Paul Galdone, The Three Billy Goats Gruff
• Eric Carle (retold), Tom Thumb: Grimm’s Tales
• Elsa Beskow, Pelle’s New Suit*
• Demi, The Greatest Treasure
• Thomas Locker, Sailing With the Wind
• Munro Leaf, Wee Gillis
• Thomas Locker, Cloud Dance
• Childcraft: Poems of Early Childhood*
• Robert McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal
• Helen Bannerman, The Story of Little Babaji
• Betsy Maestro, How Do Apples Grow?

Independent Reading (Second Grade)

• Eve Titus, Basil in Mexico
• Eve Titus, Basil in the Wild West

October

• C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
• C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

Second Grade

• David Macaulay, Cathedral
• Charlotte Craft, King Midas and the Golden Touch

Nursery

• Cicely Mary Barker, A Flower Fairies Treasury
• Linda Glaser, Compost! Growing Gardens From Your Garbage
• Barbara Rogasky (retold), Rapunzel
• Eve Titus, Mr. Shaw’s Shipshape Shoeshop
• Richard Scarry, The Great Pie Robbery and Other Mysteries
• Paul Galdone, Little Red Riding Hood
• Benjamin Elkin, The Wisest Man in the World*
• Dr. Seuss, McElligot’s Pool
• Doris Burns, Andrew Henry’s Meadow
• Elsa Beskow, Princess Sylvie
• Peter Spier (ill.), The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night
• Carin Berger, The Little Yellow Leaf

Independent Reading (Second Grade)

• Eve Titus, Basil and the Lost Colony
• Barbara Rogasky (retold), Rapunzel

November

• C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

Nursery

• Richard Scarry’s Best Busy Year Ever
• Dahlov Ipcar, One Horse Farm
• Esphyr Slobodkina, Caps For Sale
• Susan Wojciechowski, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

Independent Reading (second grade)

• C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

December

• Armstrong Sperry, All Sail Set*
• Margaret Hodges, Brother Francis and the Friendly Beasts
• Marguerite De Angeli, The Lion in the Box
• Douglas Anderson (ed.), Tales Before Narnia (selections)
• Ruth Sawyer, This Way to Christmas*
• Margaret Tarrant (ill.), A Christmas Garland
• Elizabeth Goudge, I Saw Three Ships
• O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi*
• Marchette Chute, Twelfth Night in Stories From Shakespeare

Second Grade

• Clare Turlay Newberry, Smudge
• Bruce Robertson, Marguerite Makes a Book
• Heather Frederick Vogel (adapted by), A Little Women Christmas
• Linda Granfield, Silent Night: The Song From Heaven
• A Renaissance Christmas
• Natalia Belting, Christmas Folk
• Tasha Tudor, A Time to Keep
• Olive Beaupre Miller (ed.), Robin Hood in My Book House

Nursery

• Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Fir Tree
• Efner Tudor Holmes, The Christmas Cat*
• Donald Hall, Lucy’s Christmas
• Virginia Lee Burton, Calico the Wonder Horse
• Margaret Wise Brown, A Home in the Barn
• Margery Clark, The Poppy Seed Cakes
• Elsa Beskow, Peter and Lotta’s Christmas
• Susan Jeffers, The Nutcracker
• Margaret Wise Brown, Christmas in the Barn
• Norma Faber, How the Hibernators Came to Bethlehem
• Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express
• Denise Brennan-Nelson, Grady the Goose
• Astrid Lindgren, The Tomten

Independent reading (Fifth Grade)

• Rosemary Sutcliff, Warrior Scarlet
• Sterling North, Rascal

Independent Reading (Second Grade)

• Dick King-Smith, The Golden Goose
• Esther Averill, The Hotel Cat
• Esther Averill, The School for Cats
• C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
• Selina Chonz, A Bell for Ursli
• Herge, Red Rackham’s Treasure
• C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*

Reading

* indicates a great book.