Summertime Favorites: Kindergarten to Grade 3

The booklist below are recommended for K-3, either for reading by children or for reading to them.

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears. by Verna Aardema

Fables. by Aesop

Miss Nelson Is Missing! by Harry Allard

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

Madeline  by Ludwig Bemelmans

Stone Soup by Marcia Brown

Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown

The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Freight Train by Donald Crews

Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty

Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola

Petunia by Roger Duvoisin

The Angus series by Marjorie Flack

Corduroy by Don Freeman

The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz

Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag

The Three Little Pigs by Paul Galdone

The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame

Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky

Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus

The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

A Book of Nonsense by Edwarad Lear

Frederick by Leo Lionni

Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel

Put Me in the Zoo by Robert Lopshire

George and Martha by James Marshall

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott

The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik

Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish

The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

Curious George by H.A. Rey

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

Many Moons by James Thurber

A Tree is Nice by Janice May Udry

The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Crow Boy by Taro Yashima

Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion

William’s Doll by Charlotte Zolotow