KINDERGARTEN RECOMMENDED READING LIST

  • Wordless Picture Books:

    Color Zoo  by Lois Ehlert (favorite author)

    Dreams  by Peter Spier

    Tuesday  by David Wiesner

    Do You Want to Be My Friend?  by Eric Carle  (favorite author)

    Look! Look! Look!  by Tana Hoban  (nonfiction)

    Shadows and Reflections  by Tana Hoban  (nonfiction)

    You Can’t Take a Balloon Into the Metropolitan Museum  by Jacqueline Weitzman

    Average/High:

    I Went Walking  by Sue Williams

    Leo the Late Bloomer  by Robert Kraus

    Time For Bed  by Mem Fox  (favorite author)

    What Mommies/Daddies Do Best  by Laura Numeroff  (favorite author)

    ABC  I Like Me  by Nancy Carlson

    There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly  by Simms Taback

    Clifford the Big Red Dog  by Norman Bridwell  (series)

    The Caterpillar and the Polliwog  by Jack Kent

    The Carrot Seed  by Ruth Kraus

    Bread and Honey  by Frank Asch  (favorite author)

    The Mitten  by Jan Brett  (favorite author)

    Parent Read-Alouds:

    Hey Diddle Diddle & Other Mother Goose Rhymes  by Tomie DePaola  (favorite author)

    The Three Little Pigs  (and other fairy tales)  by Paul Galdone  (favorite author)

    Curious George  by H.A. Rey  (series)

    Franklin in the Dark  by Paulette Bourgeois  (series)

    Green Eggs and Ham  by Dr. Seuss  (favorite author)

    The Very Hungry Caterpiller  by Eric Carle  (favorite author)

    Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too  by A.A. Milne  (favorite author)

    The Little Engine That Could  by Watty Piper

    Love You Forever  by Robert Munsch  (favorite author)

    The Polar Express  by Chris Van Allsburg  (favorite author)

    Chester’s Way  by Kevin Henkes  (favorite author)

    Where the Wild Things Are  by Maurice Sendak  (favorite author)