2024
January
- Giorgio Vasari, Sandro Botticelli in Lives
- Ruth Sawyer & Emmy Molles, Dietrich of Berne and the Dwarf King Laurin
- Susan Wojciechowski, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey*
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Five Orange Pips
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Reigate Squires
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Speckled Band
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Engineer’s Thumb
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Illustrious Client
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lion’s Mane
- Marjory Bartlett Sanger, Checkerback’s Journey: The Migration of the Ruddy Turnstone
- Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth*
- G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross in Father Brown: The Essential Tales*
Kindergarten
- John McCutcheon, Christmas in the Trenches
- Tomie dePaola, An Early American Christmas
- Norma Farber, How the Hibernators Came to Bethlehem
- Astrid Lindgren, Christmas in Noisy Village
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles
- Barbara Cooney (retold), The Little Juggler*
- Margaret Wise Brown, Nibble Nibble: Poems for Children
- Trina Schart Hyman, Little Red Riding Hood*
Nursery
- Robin Davies (adapted by), Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans*
Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)
- Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn
- Opal Wheeler, Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells
- Sibylle von Olfers, The Story of the Root Children
- Barbara Brenner and Julia Takaya, Chibi: A True Story from Japan
- Elsa Beskow, The Flowers’ Festival
- Barbara Cooney, Hattie and the Wild Waves
- Sibylle von Olfers, The Story of the Snow Children
- Paul Galdone, The Elves and the Shoemaker
- Arlene Mosel (retold), Tikki Tikki Tembo
- Mary Lyn Ray, Basket Moon
- M. Charlotte Craft (retold), Cupid and Psyche*
- Clare Truly Newberry, Smudge
- Tomie dePaola (retold), Strega Nona
- Elsa Beskow, Princess Sylvie
- Marjorie Flack, The Story About Ping
- Elsa Beskow, Rosalind and the Little Deer
- Elsa Beskow, Pelle’s New Suit
- Sibylle von Olfers, The Princess in the Forest
February
- Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice*
- A. Kent and Constance Hieatt (retold), The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer*
Kindergarten
- Megan McDonald, Tundra Mouse
- Rika Lesser (retold), Hansel and Gretel*
- Bernadette Watts (retold), The Rich Man and the Shoemaker*
- Paul O. Zelinksy (retold), Rapunzel*
- Olive Beaupre Miller, My Book House Vol. 3: Up One Pair of Stairs (part)
Nursery
- Dr. Seuss, The Foot Book
- Julia Donaldson, Room on the Broom
- Bernadette Watts (ill.), Fly Away, Fly Away Over the Sea
- Francois Croat, I am a little panda.
- Beatrice Schenck de Regniers, What can you do with a shoe?
- John Langstaff, Over in the Meadow
- Selina Chonz, Florina and the Wild Bird*
Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)
- M. Jean Craig (retold), The Donkey Prince
- Michael Bedard, Emily
- Hans Christian Andersen (Naomi Lewis transl.), The Steadfast Tin Soldier
- Margaret Evans Price (ill.), A Children’s Treasury of Mythology
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles
- Susan S. Adler, Samantha Learns a Lesson
- Valerie Tripp, Changes for Samantha
- Arthur Ransome, Swallows & Amazons*
- Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn’s Family
Independent Reading (Seventh Grade)
- Samuel Eliot Morison, The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943-May 1945*

black snake in garden
March
- Marchette Chute, An Introduction to Shakespeare*
- G.K. Chesterton, Father Brown: The Essential Tales
- Aaron Shepard (retold), The Sea King’s Daughter: A Russian Legend
- Marchette Chute, Richard III in Stories from Shakespeare
- C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (audio)
- C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (audio)
Kindergarten
- Margaret Hodges (retold), Saint George and the Dragon*
- Lee Kingman, Peter’s Long Walk
- Richard Scarry, The Supermarket Mystery
- Paul Heins (transl.), Snow White*
- Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings*
- Margaret Hodges (retold), Moses*
- John Updike, A Child’s Calendar
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle*
- Berneice Freschet, Turtle Pond*
- Elsa Beskow, Pelle’s New Suit*
- Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
- Paul O. Zelinksy (retold), Rumpelstiltskin*
- Marianna Mayer (retold), The Twelve Dancing Princesses*
- Barbara Cooney, Miss Rumphius*
- Elsa Beskow, Rosalind and the Little Deer
- Robert D. San Souci (retold), The White Cat
- Dahlov Ipcar, Lobsterman
- Molly Brett, Two in a Tent
- Dinah Maria Mulock, Some Adventures of a Brownie (in Best in Children’s Books, vol. 14 1958)
- Munro Leaf, Wee Gillis*
- Barbara Cooney, Island Boy*
Nursery
- Charles Shaw, It Looked Like Spilt Milk
- Dr. Seuss, If I Ran the Zoo
Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)
- James Thurber, Many Moons (to younger sibling)
- Brinton Turkle, Obadiah the Bold (to younger sibling)
- Virginia Lee Burton, Life Story
- Margaret Early, William Tell
- Claudia Logan, The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle: Solving a Mystery of Ancient Egypt
- Arthur Ransome, Swallowdale
Independent Reading (Seventh Grade)
- John Meade Falkner, Moonfleet

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April
- C.S. Forester, Rifleman Dodd
- Sterling North, Hurry, Spring!
- C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (audio)
Kindergarten
- James Herriot, Oscar, Cat About Town in Treasury for Children
- Hans Christian Andersen, The Steadfast Tin Soldier*
- Peter Spier, The Book of Jonah*
- Rumer Godden, The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle*
- Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House
- Lise Lunge-Larsen, The Race of the Birkebeiners
- Barbara Cooney (retold), Snow White and Rose Red*
- Holling C. Holling, Minn of the Mississippi
- Philip C. Stead, A Sick Day for Amos McGee
- Hans Christian Andersen (ill. Michael Hague), The Little Mermaid*
- Anne Rockwell, Who Lives in an Alligator Hole?
- Laurence Pringle, Come to the Ocean’s Edge
- Jim Arnosky, All About Deer
- Jim Arnosky, Armadillo’s Orange
Nursery
- Iona Opie, Mother Goose’s Little Treasures
- Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!
- Lois Lenski, The Little Sailboat
Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)
- Eric A. Kimmel (retold), Iron John
- Demi, The Greatest Treasure
- Elsa Beskow, Christopher’s Garden
- Nancy Carol Willis, Red Knot: A Shorebird’s Incredible Journey
- Edward Ardizzone, Tim and Lucy Go to Sea
- Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings
Independent Reading (Seventh Grade)
- John Toland, The Flying Tigers
- C.S. Forester, The Barbary Pirates
- Robert Penn Warren, Remember the Alamo!

controlled burn
May
- Shakespeare, Richard III*
Kindergarten
- Jim Arnosky, Crinkleroot’s Visit to Crinkle Cove
- Anne Rockwell, Four Seasons Make a Year
- Victoria Sherrow, Chipmunk at Hollow Tree Lane
- David Weitzman, Old Ironsides: Americans Build a Fighting Ship*
- Jim Aylesworth, The Folks in the Valley
- William Steig, Amos & Boris
- Anne Rockwell, Honey in a Hive
- Bernadette Watts (retold), Mother Holly
- Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!*
- Barbara Rogasky (retold), The Water of Life*
- Bridget Anderson, What Fossils Tell Us: The History of Life
- Marie Ponsot (retold), The Frog Princess in Russian Fairy Tales
- Barbara Cooney (retold), Snow White and Rose Red*
- Trina Schart Hyman (retold), The Sleeping Beauty*
- Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings*
- Gail Gibbons, Migration
- Barbara Mitchell, Waterman’s Child
- Gail Gibbons, Caves and Caverns
- Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, Wings for Per
Nursery
- Margaret Wise Brown, The Color Kittens
- Jan Brett, The Hat
- Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad Together
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- John Langstaff, Over in the Meadow
- Bernadette Watts (retold), The Wind and the Sun
Independent Reading (Kindergarten)
- Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat
Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)
- Arthur Ransome, Peter Duck
- Arthur Ransome, Winter Holiday
- Lari Don (retold), The Secret of the Kelpie
- Judith Berry Griffin, Phoebe and the General
- Dennis Nolan, The Castle Builder
- Alice Schertle, Down the Road
- William Steig, Amos & Boris
- Donald Hall, Ox-Cart Man
- Laura Ingall’s Wilder (adapted from), A Little House Birthday
- Alice McLerran, Roxaboxen
- A.A. Milne, The Magic Hill
- Eve Titus, Anatole and the Cat
- Molly Brett, The Forgotten Bear
- Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!
- Peggy Thomas, Farmer George Plants a Nation
Independent Reading (Seventh Grade)
- Stephen Meader, The Muddy Road to Glory
June
- Tim Severin, The Brendan Voyage*
First Grade
- Charlotte Craft (retold), King Midas and the Golden Touch*
- Dr. Seuss, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose*
- David Weitzman, Jenny: The Airplane That Taught America to Fly
- Rosemary Lanning (retold), Jonah and the Whale
- Margaret Wise Brown, Wait Till the Moon is Full
- Bernadette Watts (ill.), The Bremen Town Musicians
- Caroline Arnold, Giant Sea Reptiles of the Dinosaur Age
- Gail Gibbons, Dinosaurs!
- Aldous Huxley, The Crows of Pearblossom*
- Sandra Markle, The Long, Long Journey: The Godwit’s Amazing Migration
- Jim Arnosky, All About Rattlesnakes
- Margaret Hodges (retold), Comus
- Dennis Nolan, Dinosaur Dream
- Glenn O. Bough, After the Sun Goes Down: The Story of Animals at Night
Nursery
- Keith Baker, LMNOpeas
- Dr. Seuss, There’s a Wocket in my Pocket!
Independent Reading (First Grade)
- Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham
- Theo LeSieg, Wacky Wednesday
- Richard Scarry, Super Silly Seek and Find!
Independent Reading (Fifth Grade)
- Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post
- Trina Schart Hyman (retold), The Sleeping Beauty
Independent Reading (Eighth Grade)
- Mackinlay Cantor, Gettysburg

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July
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest*
- Virgil, The Aeneid (R. Fitzgerald transl.)*
- Scott O’Dell, The Cruise of the Arctic Star
- John Mason Brown, Daniel Boone
First Grade
- Carl Memling, Our Flag
- Richard Mabey, Oak & Company*
- M. Jean Craig (retold), The Donkey Prince*
- Gerda Muller, How Does My Fruit Grow?
- Selections from Best in Children’s Books 8 (1958)
- Tasha Tudor, A Time to Keep
- Trina Schart Hyman (retold), Little Red Riding Hood*
- Lorraine A. Joy, Sea Turtle Journey: The Story of a Loggerhead Turtle
- Margaret Hodges (retold), The Legend of Saint Christopher
- Susan Korman, Box Turtle at Silver Pond Lake
- Udo Weigelt, Old Beaver
- Gail Gibbons, The Berry Book
Independent Reading (First Grade)
- Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
- Peggy Parish, No More Monsters For Me!
- Cynthia Rylant, Mr. Putter & Tabby Pour the Tea
- Cynthia Rylant, Mr. Putter & Tabby Walk the Dog
- Cynthia Rylant, Mr. Putter & Tabby See the Stars
Independent Reading (Fifth Grade)
- Arthur Ransome, We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea
Independent Reading (Eighth Grade)
- Hodding Carter, The Commandos of World War II

squall from the west
August
- Rosemary Sutcliff, Flame-Coloured Taffeta
- William E. Barrett, The Lilies of the Field
- Ruth Brindle, The Gulf Stream
First Grade
- William T. George, Box Turtle at Long Pond
- Laurel Long & Jacqueline K. Ogburn, The Lady & the Lion
- Paul Galdone (retold), Three Aesop Fox Fables*
- Sam Usher, Lost
- Kate Greenaway’s Family Treasury*
- Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg*
- Bernadette Watts (retold), The Rich Man and the Shoemaker*
- John Updike, A Child’s Calendar
- David Weitzman, A Subway for New York
- Roma Gans, Let’s Go Rock Collecting
- Jason Chin, Island: A Story of the Galapagos
- Donald Hall, Ox-Cart Man*
- Cynthia Rylant, The Relatives Came
- Jerry Pinckney (ill.), Aesop’s Fables
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (adapted from), Summertime in the Big Woods
- Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
- Gail Gibbons, Caves and Caverns
- Robert McCloskey, Time of Wonder*
- Eve Titus, Anatole and the Cat
- Brinton Turkle, Thy Friend, Obadiah
- Jason Chin, Grand Canyon
- Jason Chin, The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey
- Sibylle von Olfers, The Princess in the Forest
- Edward Lear, The Scroobious Pip
- Doe Boyle, Coral Reef Hideaway: The Story of a Clown Anemonefish
Independent Reading (First Grade)
- Richard Scarry, Best Read-It-Yourself Book Ever
- Benjamin Elkin, The King’s Wish
Independent Reading (Fifth Grade)
- Rosemary Sutcliff, The Iliad*
- Arthur Ransome, Secret Water
- Hayao Miyazaki, Shuna's Journey
September
- Hilda van Stockum, The Winged Watchman*
First Grade
- Hans Christian Andersen (ill. Virginia Lee Burton), The Emperor’s New Clothes*
- Margaret Wise Brown, Where Have You Been?*
- Robert McCloskey, Burt Dow: Deep-Water Man
- Esphyr Slobodkina, Caps For Sale
- Dahlov Ipcar, Lobsterman
- Julia Donaldson, The Gruffalo
- Richard Scarry, Busiest People Ever!
- Demi, The Greatest Treasure*
- Robert D. San Souci (retold), The White Cat*
- Mahlon Craft (retold), Sleeping Beauty*
- Eric A. Kimmel (retold), Iron John*
- Victoria Sherrow, Chipmunk at Hollow Tree Lane
- Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon
- Carolyn B. Otto, Raccoon at Clear Creek Road
Pre-Kindergarten
- Marjorie Flack, The Story of Ping
- Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
Independent Reading (First Grade)
- Helen Palmer, A Fish Out of Water
- Roy McKie, Snow
- Michael Frith, I’ll Teach My Dog 100 Words
- P.D. Eastman, Flap Your Wings
- P.D. Eastman, Big Dog, Little Dog
- Peter Eastman, Fred and Ted Go Camping
- Russell Hoban, Bread and Jam for Frances
Independent Reading (Fifth Grade)
- Robert Lawson, Captain Kidd’s Cat
- Robert Lawson, Mr. Revere and I
- Robert Lawson, I Discover Columbus
- Robert Lawson, Ben and Me
- Virginia Wright-Frierson, A Desert Scrapbook: Dawn to Dusk in the Sonoran Desert
- Jean Craighead George, One Day in the Desert
- Arthur Ransome, Secret Water
- Arthur Ransome, The Big Six
Independent Reading (Eighth Grade)
- Theodore Taylor, Battle in the Arctic Seas
October
First Grade
- Charlotte Craft (retold), King Midas and the Golden Touch*
- Rosemary Sutcliff, The Minstrel and the Dragon Pup
- Selena Hastings (retold), Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady
- Dr. Seuss, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
- Nonny Hogrogian, One Fine Day
- Dr. Seuss, The King’s Stilts
- Maria Carlson (transl.), Peter and the Wolf
- Dr. Seuss, The Sneetches and Other Stories
- Dr. Seuss, McElligot’s Pool
- Kate Duke, Archaeologists Dig For Clues
- Eric A. Kimmel (retold), The Three Princes
- Jim LaMarche, Pond
- Arnold Lobel, Uncle Elephant
Independent Reading (First Grade)
- Russell Hoban, Bedtime for Frances
- Russell Hoban, A Bargain for Frances
- Cynthia Rylant, Henry and Mudge: The First Book
- Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad All Year
- Arnold Lobel, Owl at Home
- Arnold Lobel, Grasshopper on the Road
- Richard Scarry, The Best Mistake Ever! And Other Stories
- Esther Averill, The Fire Cat
- Arnold Lobel, Small Pig
Independent Reading (Fifth Grade)
- Arthur Ransome, The Picts and the Martyrs
- Thornton Burgess, Old Mother West Wind
- Dick King-Smith, The Hodgeheg
November
- MacKinlay Kantor, Lee and Grant at Appomattox
First Grade (everything listed above plus)
- Richard Scarry, Busiest People Ever!
- Ruth Sawyer (retold), The Remarkable Christmas of the Cobbler’s Sons
- Laura Gates Colvin, River Otter at Autumn Lane
- L. Maria Child (ill. Matt Tavares), Over the River and Through the Wood
- Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg
- Gordon Morrison, A Drop of Water
- Gail Gibbons, Thanksgiving Is…
- Aliki, Mummies Made in Egypt
Nursery (everything listed above plus)
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- Clement Hurd, The Merry Chase
- Elsa Beskow, Princess Sylvie
Independent Reading (First Grade)
- Fred Phleger, Red Tag Comes Back
- Joan Sandin, The Long Way Westward
- Nancy Smiler Levinson, Clara and the Bookwagon
- Russell Hoban, A Birthday for Frances
- Else Holmelund Minarik, Little Bear
- P.D. Eastman, Go Dog, Go!
- Syd Hoff, Julius
Independent Reading (Fifth Grade)
- Clive King, Stig of the Dump
- Benjamin Elkin, The Wisest Man in the World
- Arthur Ransome, Great Northern
- Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Independent Reading (Eighth Grade)
- Showell Styles, Midshipman Quinn
December
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company*
- Genevieve Foster, The World of Columbus and Sons
- Charles Dickens, The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain*
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Day After To-morrow
Fifth Grade (everything listed above plus)
First Grade (everything listed above plus)
- Bernadette Watts (ill.), Stories for Christmas*
- Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
- Gabrielle Vincent, Merry Christmas, Ernest and Celestine
- Howard Pyle, Bearskin
- Elsa Beskow, Children of the Forest
- Tomie dePaola (retold), The Legend of Old Befana
- Tomie dePaola, An Early American Christmas
- Berniece Freshet, Bear Mouse
- Robert Barry, Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree
- Clement Moore, The Night Before Christmas
Nursery (everything listed above plus)
- Ezra Jack Keats (ill.), The Little Drummer Boy
Independent Reading (First Grade)
- Arnold Lobel, Mouse Tales
Independent Reading (Fifth Grade)
- Marguerite Henry, Brighty of the Grand Canyon
- Jill Barklem, The Complete Brambly Hedge
- L. Leslie Brooke, The Golden Goose Book
- Sergei Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf
- Astrid Lindgren, Christmas in Noisy Village
- Efner Tudor Holmes, The Christmas Cat
- Marianna Mayer (retold), The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Yuri Yasuda, A Treasury of Japanese Folktales
Independent Reading (Eighth Grade)
- Showell Styles, Quinn of the Fury
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