Young Readers Book List

Our Favorite Picture Books
A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond

A Beetle is Shy by Dianna Hustts Aston

A Butterfly is Patient by Dianna Hustts Aston

A Computer Called Katherine by Suzanne Slade

A Day so Gray by Marie Lamba
A Desert Scrapbook by Virginia Wright-Frierson

A Fine Dessert by Emily Jenkins

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School by by Davide Cali

A Little More Beautiful by Sarah Mackenzie

A Nest is Noisy by Dianna Hutts Aston
A North-American Rain Forest Scrapbook by Virginia Wright-Frierson

A Rock is Lively by Dianna Hutts Aston

A Shell is Cozy by Dianna Hutts Ashton

A Splash of Red by Jen Bryant
A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Phillip C. Stead
A Toad for Tuesday by Russell Erickson
A Tree for Peter by Kate Seredy
A Year Around the Great Oak  by Gerda Muller
A Year in our New Garden by Gerda Muller
Across the Wide Dark Sea by Jean Van Leeuwen
An Island Scrapbook by Virginia Wright-Frierson

An Outlaw Thanksgiving by Emily Arnold McCully

And the Bullfrogs Sing by David Harrison

Any Room for Me by Loek Koopmans
Alfie (series) by Shirley Hughes
Amelia's Road by Linda Jacobs Altman
Animals at my Doorstep by Helen Hoover

Apple and Magnolia by Laura Gehl & Patricia Metola
Around the Pond: Who's Been Here? by Lindsay Barrett George

As Strong as the River by Sarah Noble
Autumn by Gerda Muller
Bad Day at Riverbend by Chris Van Allsburg

Because of an Acorn by Lola & Adam Schaefer
Ben's Dream by Chris Van Allsburg

Beyond the Pond by Joseph Kuefler
Billy and Blaze series by C. W. Anderson

Black Dog by Levi Pinfold
Book of Trolls by Ingri D'Aulaire

Blue Chicken by Deborah Freedman
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin, Jr
Buffalo Bill by Ingri D'Aulaire
Bun Bun Button by Patricia Polocco

Bunny in the Middle by Anika Denise

Bunny Roo, I Love You by Melissa Marr
Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polocco
Cleopatra by Diane Stanley
Click, Clack, Moo Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
Cook-a-Doodle-Doo by Janet Stevens
Counting Kisses by Karen Katz

Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende and Harry Devlin

Down the Hole by Scott Slater
Emma Kate by Patricia Polocco

Every Little Kindness by Marta Barolj
Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett
Flat Tail by Alice Gall and Fleming Crew

Fletcher and the Falling Leaves by Julia Rawlinson
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka Bake a Cake by Maj Lindman
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and the Little Dog by Maj Lindman
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and the New Dotted Dress by Maj Lindman
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and their New Friend by Maj Lindman
Floatsam by David Weisner

Flora and the Chicks by Molly Idle

Flora and the Flamingo by Molly Idle

Flora and the Penguin by Molly Idle

Follow the Moon Home by Philippe Cousteau & Deborah Hopkinson

Fungus Among Us by Joy Keller

George Flies South by Simon James
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Gerda Miller
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Jan Brett

Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter by Kenard Pak

Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn by Kenard Pak

Grandfather Twilight by Barbara Helen Berger

Granny and Bean by Karen Hesse
Great Wolf and the Good Woodsman by Helen Hoover
Greek Myths by Ingri D'Aulaire

Green on Green by Dianne White
Guess How Much I Love You by  Sam McBratney

Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin by Chieri Uegaki & Qin Leng
Henny Penny by Paul Galdone

How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers

Hurry, Hurry Mary Dear by NM Bodecker

If you Want to see a Whale by Julie Fogliano

I'm Sticking with You by Smriti Prasadam-Halls
In the Snow: Who's Been Here? by Lindsay Barrett George
In the Woods: Who's Been Here? by Lindsay Barrett George

Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall
James Herriot's Treasury for Children by James Herriot

John Ronald's Dragon by Caroline McAlister
Joshua by the Sea by Angela Johnson
Journey by Aaron Becker
Jumangi by Chris Van Allsburg

Just a Story by Jeff Mack

Little Cub by Olivier Dunrea

Little Fairy Can't Sleep by Daniela Drescher

Little Farm by the Sea by Kay Chorao

Little Fox in the Forest by Stephanie Graegin 
Lost in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy by Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick
Kittens First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Mice Skating by Annie Silvestro

Migration by Mike Unwin
Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
My Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston
My Name is Alice by Steven Kellogg

National Parks of the USA by Kate Siber
Nature in the Neighborhood by Gordon Morrison
Nicky the Nature Detective by Ulf Svedberg
Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant
Norse God's and Giants by Ingri D'Aulaire
One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey

Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emiuly Gravett

Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen by Deborah Hopkinson
Otis by Loren Long

Out to Sea by Helen Kellock

Over and Under the Canyong by Kate Messner

Over and Under the Pond by Kate Messner

Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner

Over and Under the Wetland by Kate Messner
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

Owling by Mark Wilson
Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling
Pagoo by Holling C Holling

Papa and the Pioneer Quilt by Jean Van Leeuwen
Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Peggy: A Brave Chicken on a Big Adventure by Anna Walker
Peter in Blueberry Land by Elsa Beskow
Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats

Pippa and Pelle by Daniele Drescher 
Pink and Say by Patricia Polocco

Planting the Wild Garden by Kathryn Galbraith
Pocahontas by Ingri D'Aulaire
Pocketful of Posies by Salley Mavor

Rain by Sam Usher
Randolph Caldecott Picture Books
Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran

Sadie and the Silver Shoe by Jane Godwin

Sam and Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett
Seabird by Holling C. Holling
Seven Little Rabbits by John Becker

Shelter by Celine Claire

Sleep Tight Farm by Eugenie Doyle

Snow Birds Kirsten Hall
Something from Nothing by Phoebe Gilman

Sometimes we fall by Randall de Seve

Sophie's Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller
Spring by Gerda Muller
St. George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges
Story of the Root Children by Sibylle von Olfers
Summer by Gerda Muller

Summer's Call: A Michigan Day by Amber Lynn Hellewell

Sun by Sam Usher

Thanksgiving is Here by Diane Goode

Thanksgiving Treat by Catherine Stock

That Bear Can't Babysit by Ruth Quayle

The Busy Tree by Jennifer Ward

The Apple Pie that Papa Baked by Lauren Thompson
The Biggest Bear by Gerda Muller

The Blue Meadows by Cynthia Rylant

The Blue Whale by Jenni Desmond

The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken
The Complete Book of Flower Fairies by Cecily Mary Barker

The Complete Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem

The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
The Dark by Lemony Snicket
The Day the Crayons Quit by Okew Dagwalk

The Digger and the Flower by Joseph Kuefler

The Dot by Peter Reynolds

The Empty Pot by Demi
The Enormous Turnip by Kathy Parkinson

The Flowers' Festival by Elsa Beskow

The Fog by Kyo Maclear
The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg
The Gigantic Turnip by Aleksei Tolstoy and Niamh Sharkey
The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett
The Gingerbread Man by Aylesworth
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

The Golden Glow by Benjamin Flouw
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
The Hat by Jan Brett

The Hundred-Year Barn by Patricia MacLachlan

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
The Last Little Cat by Meindert DeJong

The Little Blue Cottage by Kelly Jordan
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone
The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza by Philemon Sturges

The Littlest Weaver by Robin Hall
The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds

The Mighty Silent E! by Kimberlee Gard
The Milly Molly Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley
The Mitten by Jan Brett

The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires
The Mystery of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg

The Noise Inside Boys by Pete Oswald

The Old Truck by Jarrett Pumphrey

The Peterkins' Thanksgiving by Elizabeth Spurr

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey
The Raft by Jim Lamarche
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
The Story about Ping by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese

The Street Beneath my Feet by Charlotte Buillain

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (and others)

The Thanksgiving Door by Debby Atwell
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas
The Three Little Pigs by Paul Galdone
The Tomten and the Fox by Astrid Lindgren
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse by Helen Ward

The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles by Michelle Cuevas
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

The Wreck of the Zephyr by Chris Van Allsburg
The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg
Thee, Hannah! by Marguerite de Angeli

This Moose Belongs to Me by Oliver Jeffers

Three Bears in a Boat by David Soman
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polocco

Tiny, Perfect Things by MH Clark

Toot and Puddles Let it Snow by Holly Hobbie
Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens
Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling
Tuesday by David Weisner

Two for me, One for you by Jorg Muhle

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner

Up in the Leaves by Shira Boss

Water is Water by Miranda Paul

Wave by Suzy Lee

We Travel so Far by Laura Knowles
We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen

What do you do with an Idea? by Kobi Yamada
When the Moon is Full by Penny Pollock
When the Sun Rose by Barbara Helen Berger

Where Sparks Fly by Kristen Fulton

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Wherever you Go by Pat Zietlow Miller

Whooo Knew? The Truth about Owls by Annette Whipple

Windows by Julia Denos
Winnie the Pooh series by Milne
Winter by Gerda Muller

Winter is Coming by Tony Johnston

Woodland Dreams by Karen Jameson
Yeh Shen by Ai-Ling Louie

You are a Beautiful Beginning by Nina Laden
Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg

Chapter Books for Younger Children
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla
A Long Way to Chicago by Richard Peck
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
Along Came A Dog by Meindert De Jong
Andy Buckram's Tin Men by Carol Ryrie Brink
At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin by Marguerite Henry
Betsy and Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace
Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Centerburg Tales by Robert McCloskey
Charlie's House by Clyde Robert Bulla
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Children of the New Forest by F. Marryat
Down the Mississippi by Clyde Robert Bulla
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Series by Margaret Sidney
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
Happy Little Family by Rececca Caudill

Home in the Woods by Eliza Wheeler
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
Heidi by Joanna Spyri
In Grandma's Attic by Arleta Richardson
King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Pear by Eleanor Francis Lattimore
Little Pear and His Friends by Eleanor Francis Lattimore
Little Pear and the Rabbits by Eleanor Francis Lattimore
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

Moon by Britta Teckentrup
More Stories from Grandma's Attic by Arleta Richardson
Mother Stories by Maud Lindsay
More Home Price by Robert McCloskey
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark

Shh! We have a Plan by Chris Haughton
Spiderweb for Two by Elizabeth Goudge
Star of Wild Horse Canyon by Clyde Robert Bulla
Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic by Arleta Richardson
Swallows and Amazons Series by Arthur Ransome
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Christmas Doll by Elvira Woodruff
The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
The Four Story Mistake by Elizabeth Goudge
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge
The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge

The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
The Secret Valley by Clyde Robert Bulla
The Seven Little Sisters by Jane Andrews
The Slowcoach by E. V. Lucas
The Sword in the Tree by Clyde Robert Bulla
The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong

The Whisper by Pamela Zagarenski
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Poetry
A Calendar by Sara Coleridge
A Cat is by Adrien Stoutenburg
A Christmas Carol by Christina Rossetti
A Good Play by Robert Louis Steveneson
A Mosquito in the Cabin by Myra Stilborn
A Pizza the Size of the Sun by Jack Prelutsky
A Short Trip
A Spring Morning by Alix Thorn
A Triangular Tale
After a Bath (Nursery Rhyme)

All But Blind by Walter de la Mare
All for Baby by Emilie Poulsson
All Things Bright and Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander
Animal Friends by Marchette Chute
April by John Updike
Aquarium by Valerie Worth
Autumn Leaves by Leland B. Jacobs
Balence
Bats by Brenda Dahl
Because it's Spring by Alice Curtis
Beetles by Aileen Fisher
Blow up by XJ Kennedy
Cat Purring by Keith Bosley
Caterpillars by Winifred Welles
Certainty by Emily Dickinson
Chickens by Alice M. Meyer
Counting Balls from Education in the Kindergarten
Dandelions by Katherine Gallagher
Dandelions by Hazel Cederburg
Day-Time Moon by Dorothy Aldis
Do Trees Sneeze?
Dog by Jeanne Bendick
Dogs by Marchette Chute
Drippy Weather by Aileen Fisher
Extremes by James Whitcomb Riley
Farm Animals by Ella Colbo
February by John Updike

Five Eyes by Walter de la Mare
Five Little Chickadees from The Romper Room Book of Finger Plays and Action Rhymes

Forgiven by AA Milne

Furry Bear by AA Milne

Goldfish by Aileen Fisher

Halfway Down by AA Milne

Hoppity by AA Milne
I Have two Eyes to see with from Lady Bell's Singing Circle
I Love you More Than Applesauce by Jack Prelutsky
I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
I Somersault just like a clown by Dorothy Aldis
I'm Glad
January by John Updike
Kings Canyon
Kitty Caught a Caterpillar

Knight-in-Armour by AA Milne

Knights and Ladies by AA Milne
Lavender's blue, dilly, dilly by Anonymous
Little Black Bug by Margaret Wise Brown
Little Blue Bird and his Wife by Julia Wolfe
Little Things by Julia Carney
Lunchbox
Make-Believe by Aileen Fisher
Maple Shoot in the Pumpkin Patch Kristine O'Connell George
March by John Updike
Meadow Surprise by Lois Brandt Phillips
Merry Sunshine from 1903 New American Reader
Mine by Lilian Moore

Missing by AA Milne
My Toboggan and I Carve Winter
New Sounds

November by Walter de la Mare
Old Elm Speaks
Open, shut them Hand Play)  from The Romper Room Book of Finger Plays and Action Rhymes
Pigeons by Eleanor Farjeon
Piggy by William Cole
Pirate Story by Robert Louis Stevenson
Popsicle by Joan Bransfield Graham
Puzzled by Margaret Hillert
Rabbit by Frances Frost
Rabbits by Dorothy Baruch
Rabbits by Marie Louise Allen
Rabbits and Squirrels by Dorothy Aldis
Rain by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rain, Wind, and Snow by C.C. Long
Recipe by Bobbi Katz
Robin Redbreast by William Allingham
Sally and Manda by Alice B. Campbell

Sand-Between-the-Toes by AA Milne
Shells by Lilian Moore
Seeds by Elenor Dennis
September by John Updike
Singing-Time by Rose Fyleman
Smells of Summer by Vivian Gouled
Song for the Moon by Michael Stillman
Sounds are things I listen to by Eleanor Graham
Spaghetti! Spagetti! by Jack Prelutsky
Special Privilege by Dorothy H. Gallaher
Spring by William Blake
Spring Rain by Marchette Chute
Spring Song by Robert Browning
Spring Zing by Minnie Mondschein

Sneezles by AA Milne

Some One by Walter de la Mare
Squirrels (American Rhyme)

Summer Evening by Walter de la Mare
Susan Blue by Kate Greenaway

Swing Song by AA Milne
The Apple Tree from The Romper Room Book of Finger Plays and Action Rhymes

The Bees' Song by Walter de la Mare
The Big Cat by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
The Caterpillar by Christina Rossetti
The Celestial Surgeon by Robert Louis Stevenson
The City Child by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Counting Lesson by Emilie Poulsson
The Cow by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Crocodile from The Romper Room Book of Finger Plays and Action Rhymes

The Cupboard by Walter de la Mare

The Dormouse and the Doctor by AA Milne
The Duck by Ogden Nash
The Fly

The Good Little Girl by AA Milne

The Horseman by Walter de la Mare
The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Land of Story-books by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Little Turtle by Vachel Lindsay
The Mermaid by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Mulberry Bush from Lady Bell's Singing Circle
The Picnic by Dorothy Aldis
The Prettiest Butterfly I will ever see
The Rainbow by Christina Rossetti
The Shark in the Park by
The Skylark by Christina Rossetti
The Snow by Emily Dickinson
The Swallow by Christian Rossetti
The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Throstle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Visitor by Sean O Huigen
The Wind by Christina Rossetti

The Window by Walter de la Mare
This is my Rock by David McCord
Time to Rise by Robert Louis Stevenson
Timmy Tatt, Timmy Tatt
To a Butterfly by William Wordsworth
To Catch a Fish by Eloise Greenfield
Trains by James S. Tippett
Tree Brooms by Dorothy Aldis
Tree Traffic
Trees by Nelda Dishman
Trees by Sara Coleridge
Tulips by VW Lachucotte

Twinkle Toes by AA Milne
Until I Saw the Sea by Lilian Moore
Waiters by Mary Ann Hobberman

Waiting at the Windowpane by AA Milne
Who? by Aileen Fisher
Who am I? by Felice Holman

Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
Windy Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson
Winter Time by Robert Louis Stevenson
Woodpecker by Elizabeth Maddox Roberts
Words by Nikki Grimes
Written in March by William Wordsworth
Wynken, Blynken and Nod by Eugene Field
Yellow by David McCord

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