2023
January
- O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi*
- Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester*
- Richard Muhlberger (ed.), The Christmas Story*
- Ruth Sawyer, The Long Christmas*
- Jo Polseno, Secrets of a Cypress Swamp: The Natural History of the Okefenokee
Third Grade
Everything listed above plus:
- Berneice Freschet, The Year on Muskrat Marsh
- Betsy Maestro, The New Americans: Colonial Times, 1620-1689
Pre-K and Nursery
Everything listed above plus:
- Margaret Wise Brown, Christmas in the Barn
- Elsa Beskow, Peter and Lotta’s Christmas
- Norma Farber, How the Hibernators Came to Bethlehem
- Elsa Beskow, Ollie’s Ski Trip
- Tomie dePaola, An Early American Christmas
- Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Fir Tree
- Robert Barry, Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree
- Barbara Cooney (retold), The Little Juggler
- Mitsumasa Anno, Anno’s Counting Book
- Audrey Tarrant, The Donkey of Nazareth
- Astrid Lindgren, Christmas in Noisy Village
- Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!*
- Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, The Star Spangled Banner
- Allen Say, Kamishibai Man
- Lois Lenski, Policeman Small
- Elsa Beskow, Around the Year
- Gene Zion, Harry the Dirty Dog
- Patricia Thomas, There Are Rocks in My Socks! Said the Ox to the Fox
- Paul Galdone (ill.), The Three Billy Goats Gruff*
- Gyo Fujikawa (ill.), Fairy Tales and Fables*
- Barbara Cooney (ill.), Read Me Another Story
- Elsa Beskow, Pelle’s New Suit*
- Feodor Rojankovsky (ill.), The Tall Book of Mother Goose
- Dahlov Ipcar, Lobsterman
- Jim Aylesworth, The Folks in the Valley
- Kathryn and Byron Jackson, The Saggy Baggy Elephant
- Jane Werner Watson, Wonders of Nature
February
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter
Third Grade
Everything listed above plus:
- H.A. Rey, The Stars
- Kathryn Lasky, Newton’s Rainbow: The Revolutionary Discoveries of a Young Scientist
- Bryce Milligan, Brigid’s Cloak: An Ancient Irish Story
- Arabella Buckley, Wild Life in Woods and Fields
- Jean de la Fontaine (transl. Sir Edward Marsh), Fables
- Betsy Maestro, Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars, 1689-1763
Pre-K and Nursery
Everything listed above plus:
- Aldous Huxley, The Crows of Pearblossom*
- Marianna Mayer (retold), The Twelve Dancing Princesses*
- Jane Yolen, Owl Moon
- John Steptoe (retold), The Story of Jumping Mouse
- The Brave Little Tailor in Herbert Leupin (ill.), Tales from the Brothers Grimm
- Trina Schart Hyman (ill.), Little Red Riding Hood
- Marjorie Priceman, Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride
- The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids in Herbert Leupin (ill.), Tales from the Brothers Grimm
- Tasha Tudor, 1 is One
- Steven Kellogg, Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale
- Hans Christian Andersen (transl. Naomi Lewis), The Wild Swans
- David A. Adler, A Picture Book of Sacagawea
- Jon Arno Lawson, A Day for Sandcastles
- Tomie dePaola, Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland
- Charles Santore (ill.), Paul Revere’s Ride*
- Tomie dePaola (retold), The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
- Hans Christian Andersen (transl. Naomi Lewis), The Emperor’s New Clothes
- John Langstaff, Over in the Meadow
- K.Y. Craft, Cinderella*
- Paul Galdone (retold), Three Aesop Fox Fables*
- Demi (retold), The Donkey and the Rock
- Demi (adapted), The Magic Gold Fish
- Tomie dePaola, The Legend of Old Befana
- Charlotte Craft (retold), King Midas and the Golden Touch
- Ilse Plume (ill.), The Farmer in the Dell
- John Becker, Seven Little Rabbits
- Peter Spier, The Book of Jonah
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Miss Moppet
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Tom Kitten
- Gyo Fujikawa, Oh, What a Busy Day!
- Arlene Mosel (retold), Tikki Tikki Tembo
- Dr. Seuss’s ABC
- Elizabeth Ring, Loon at Northwood Lake
- Bernadette Watts (retold), The Rich Man and the Shoemaker
- Nicola Bayley’s Book of Nursery Rhymes*
- Ilse Plume (retold), The Shoemaker and the Elves
- Joanna Cole, Plants in Winter
Independent reading (third grade)
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie
March
Reading
* indicates a great book.