Ms. Lucinda's 100 Books to Read Before Kindergarten

M S . L UCINDA ’ S 100 BOOKS
TO READ BEFORE
K INDERGARTEN

S IX LITERACY SKILLS

 These six skills are the skills that child development experts
have determined are necessary to get children ready to learn to
read and gain greater benefit from reading instruction.
 They are:
• Vocabulary
• Vocabulary, knowing the names of things, is an extremely important skill for
children to have when they are learning to read. Most children enter school
knowing between 3,000 and 5,000 words.
• Help develop your child's vocabulary by reading a variety of books with him,
both fiction and nonfiction, and by naming all the objects in your child's world.

L I TERACY S KIL L S CONT.

• Print Motivation
• Print Motivation is a child's interest in and enjoyment of books. A child
with print motivation enjoys being read to, plays with books, pretends to
write, asks to be read to and likes trips to the library.
• Encourage print motivation in your child by making shared book reading
a special time, keeping books accessible, and letting your child see that
you enjoy reading. Explain how you use reading and writing in everyday
life.
• Print Awareness
• Print Awareness includes learning that writing in English follows basic
rules such as flowing from top-to-bottom and left-to-right, and that the
print on the page is what is being read by someone who knows how to
read. An example of print awareness is a child's ability to point to the
words on the page of a book.

• Narrative Skills
• Narrative Skills, being able to understand and tell stories, and describe
things, are important for children being able to understand what they are
learning to read. An example of a narrative skill is a child's ability to tell
what happens at a birthday party or on a trip to the zoo.
• Help your child strengthen her narrative skills by asking her to tell you
about the book, instead of just listening to you read the story. Encourage
your child to tell you about things he has done that have a regular
sequence to them.
• Your child's print awareness can be encouraged by pointing out and
reading words everywhere you see them—on signs, labels, at the grocery
store and post office.


• Letter Knowledge
• Letter Knowledge includes learning that letters have names and are
different from each other, and that specific sounds go with specific
letters. An example of letter knowledge is a child's ability to tell the name
of the letter B and what sound it makes.
• Letter knowledge can be developed by using a variety of fun reading or
writing activities, like pointing out and naming letters in alphabet books,
picture books, or on signs and labels. For babies, talk about the shape of
things, and for preschoolers, try drawing letters and pictures in the sand.


• Phonological Awareness
• Phonological Awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate the smaller
sounds in words. Phonological awareness includes the ability to hear and create
rhymes, to say words with sounds or chunks left out and the ability to put two
word chunks together to make a word. Most children who have difficulty in
reading have trouble in phonological awareness.
• Strengthen phonological awareness by playing fun word games with your child:
• Make up silly words by changing the first sound in a word: milk, nilk,
pilk, rilk, filk.
• Say words with a pause between the syllables ("rab"and "it") and have
your child guess what word you are saying.
• Read stories of poems with rhymes or different sounds to your child.

 (Source--http://www.multcolib.org/birthtosix/elitskills.html)

W H Y M O S QU I T O S BU Z Z I N
P E O P L E ’ S E A R S b y Ve r n a A a r d e m a

 Literacy Skills: Vocabulary
 Summary: A West African tale where a
mosquito whispers a false tale to iguana and
sets off a chain of unexpected, unfortunate
events that result in a tragic occurrence. A good
example of why its not a good practice for
children to tell a lie.

H U G b y Je z A l b r o u g h

 Literacy Skills: Narrative Skills, Letter Knowledge

 Summary: Bobo needs a hug. But his friends don't
seem to understand. "Hug," he implores, time and
again. Time and again his puzzled pals—from the
smallest chameleon to the tallest giraffe—shrug and
cuddle with their jungle mothers. As the lonely chimp’s
plea escalates, his friends grow concerned. Can the
elephants lead Bobo to his heart’ desire?

MISS NELSON IS MISSING
by Har r y Allard

 Literacy Skills: Print Motivation,
Print Awareness

 Summary: The kids in Room 207
take advantage of their teacher’s good
nature until she disappears and they are
faced with a vile substitute.

O L D B L AC K F LY b y J i m Ay l e s wo r t h

 Literacy Skills: Phonological Sensitivity, Letter
Knowledge
 Summary: Rhyming text and illustrations follow a
mischievous old black fly through the alphabet as he has a
very busy bad day landing where he should not be.
Nothing drives a family crazy faster than an old black fly on a
hot summer day, especially when the family's a little crazy
already. And this fly is as bad as they come. He knows every
low-down trick in the book—and won’t rest until he’s gone
through them all.

C L O U DY W I T H A C H A N C E O F
M E AT BA L L S b y J u d i B a r r e t t

 Literacy Skills: Narrative Skills,
Print Awareness

 Summary: Life is delicious in the
town of Chewandswallow where it rains
soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes,
and blows storms of hamburgers—until
the weather takes a turn for the worse.

MADELINE by Ludwig Bemelmans

 Literacy Skills: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary

 Summary: Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of
the twelve little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up
one night with an attack of appendicitis. Nothing
frightens Madeline—not tigers, not mice, not even
getting sick. To Madeline, a trip to the hospital is a
grand adventure.

CHICKEN CHEEKS
by Michael Black

 Literacy Skills: Phonological Sensitivity,
Vocabulary

 Summary: Some bears will go to any length to
get some honey. This one recruits every animal that
comes along to form, well, a stack. The result? Tail
of the duck to the Gluteus Maximus of the duck-
billed platypus (with many other rears in between).

CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG
by Nor man Bridwell

 Literacy Skills: Print Motivation

 Summary: Emily Elizabeth describes
the activities she enjoys with her very big,
very red dog and how they take care of
each other.

STONE SOUP by Marcia Brown

 Literacy Skills: Print Motivation, Narrative
Skills

 Summary: When three hungry soldiers come
to a town where all the food has been hidden, they
set out to make soup of water and stones, and all
the town enjoys a feast.

GOODNIGHT MOON
by Marg aret Wise Brown

 Literacy Skills: Phonological
Awareness, Vocabulary

 Summary: A little bunny bids
goodnight to all the objects in his
room before falling asleep.

T H E S T O RY O F BA BA R
b y Je a n d e B r u n h o f f

Skills

 Summary: The classic first story about
literature’s most beloved pachyderm. After his
mother is killed by a hunter, Babar avoids capture
by escaping to the city, where he is befriended by
the kindly Old Lady. He becomes educated and
cultured and, upon his return to the great forest, is
crowned King of the Elephants.

T H E V E RY H U N G RY
C AT E R P I L L A R b y E r i c C a r l e

Narrative Skills, Print Awareness
 Summary: Follows the progress of
a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his
way through a varied and very large
quantity of food until, full at last, he
forms a cocoon around himself and
goes to sleep.

FIVE LITTLE MONKEYS JUMPING
ON THE BED by Eileen Christelow

Print Awareness

 Summary: A counting book in
which one by one the little monkeys
jump on the bed only to fall off and
bump their heads.

M I S S RU M P H I U S b y B a r b a r a C o o n e y

Skills

 Summary: As a child Great-aunt Alice
Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she
would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her
old age, and do something to make the world
more beautiful—and she does all those things, the
last being the most difficult of all.

T H E B L AC K B O O K O F C O L O R S
by Menena Cottin

Vocabulary

 Summary: Through the use of
raised lines, textures, and braille, the
author lets children gain insight into
what it is like to live with blindness.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD
MOTHER GOOSE by Nina Crews

Phonological Awareness

 Summary: A collection of nursery
rhymes, both familiar and lesser known,
illustrated with photographs in a city
setting.

C L I C K , C L AC K , M O O : C OW S
T H AT T Y P E b y D o r e e n C r o n i n

 Literacy Skills: Print Awareness, Narrative
Skills

 Summary: When Farmer Brown's cows find a
typewriter in the barn they start making demands,
and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give
them what they want.

T H E C OW T H AT L A I D A N E G G
by Andy Cutbill

Awareness, Narrative Skills

 Summary: Aware that she lacks many
of the skills her fellow barnyard cows
possess, Marjorie is left feeling sad until a
group of caring chickens with a plan comes
up with the perfect solution to make her
realize just how special she is.

THE EMPTY POT by Demi

 Literacy Skills: Print Motivation, Vocabulary

 Summary: When Ping admits that he is the
only child in China unable to grow a flower from
the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is
rewarded for his honesty.

L L A M A , L L A M A R E D PA JA M A
by Anna Dewdney

Vocabulary

 Summary: Baby Llama turns bedtime into
an all-out llama drama! Tucked into bed by his
mama, Baby Llama immediately starts worrying
when she goes downstairs, and his soft whimpers
turn to hollers when she doesn't come right
back. But just in time, Mama returns to set
things right.

GREEN EGGS AND HAM
b y D r. S e u s s


 Summary: Sam-I-am encourages his friend
to try the green eggs and ham that Sam is
proffering in a number of ways and venues
until his friend discovers that he does in fact,
like green eggs and ham.

H O RT O N H E A R S A W H O
b y D r. S e u s s

 Literacy Skills: Phonological Awareness,
Narrative Skills

 Summary: A city of Whos on a speck of dust
are threatened with destruction until the smallest
Who of all helps convince Horton’s friends that
Whos really exist.

O N E F I S H , T WO F I S H , R E D F I S H ,
B LU E F I S H b y D r. S e u s s

Awareness, Print Motivation

 Summary: A story-poem about the
activities of such unusual animals as the
Nook, Wump, Yink, Yop, Gack, and the
Zeds.

T H E C AT I N T H E H AT
b y D r. S e u s s

 Literacy Skills: Phonological Awareness, Narrative
Skills

 Summary: Two children sitting at home on a rainy
day are visited by the Cat in the Hat, who shows them
some tricks and games. When the Cat in the Hat arrives,
the gloom of a rainy day is quickly dispelled.

T H E L O R A X b y D r. S e u s s


 Summary: The Lorax, a little brown
creature, has tried in vain to ward off pollution
& ecological blight, but Onceler, who wanted the
trees for his business, would not heed the
warning.

OLIVIA by Ian Falconer

Narrative Skills

 Summary: Whether at home getting ready
for the day, enjoying the beach, or at bedtime,
Olivia is a feisty pig who has too much energy
for her own good.

BA R K , G E O RG E b y J u l e s Fe i f f e r

Print Motivation

 Summary: George’s mother asks
him to bark, but all he can say is
“Meow.” Hilarity ensues as poor George
continues to do everything but bark.

E V E RY T H I N G I N E E D T O K N OW
B E F O R E I ’ M F I V E b y Va l o r i e F i s h e r

Vocabulary

 Summary: Perfect for kids heading to
kindergarten, this all-in-one concept picture book
covers the alphabet, counting, opposites, shapes,
colors, and seasons. Award winning author-illustrator
Valorie Fisher uses bright, gorgeous photos of retro
toys to illustrate these topics in a completely fresh way.
Parents will love this stylish and funny approach to
basic concepts, while kids will learn, well, everything.

B LU E C H I C K E N
by Debrorah Freedman

 Literacy Skills: Narrative Skills, Print
Awareness

 Summary: An enterprising chicken
attempts to help an artist paint the
barnyard and accidentally turns the whole
picture blue.

C O R D U ROY b y D o n F r e e m a n

Motivation

 Summary: A toy bear in a department
store wants a number of things, but when a
little girl finally buys him he finds what he
has always wanted most of all.

M I L L I O N S O F C AT S
b y Wa n d a G a g

Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary

 Summary: How can an old man and
his wife select one cat from a choice of
millions and trillions?

T H R E E B I L LY G OAT S G RU F F
b y Pa u l G a l d o n e

Skills

 Summary: Tells the story of three billy goats
who try to cross a bridge to get to greener
pastures, but are blocked by a mean, nasty troll.

M Y L I T T L E S I S T E R AT E O N E H A R E
by Bill Grossman

 Literacy Skills: Phonological Sensitivity, Print
Motivation

 Summary: Little sister has no problem eating
one hare, two snakes, and three ants, but when she
gets to ten peas, she throws up quite a mess.

M Y H E A RT I S L I K E A Z O O
by Michael Hall

 Literacy Skills: Phonological Sensitivity, Letter
Knowledge

 Summary: Depicts in rhyming text how love
can be many different things, such as eager as a
beaver, steady as a yak, or silly as a seal. In
addition, the illustrations are comprised of heart
shapes, further developing love as a theme.

L I L LY ’ S P U R P L E P L A S T I C P U R S E
by Kevin Henkes

Vocabulary, Narrative Skills

 Summary: Lilly loves everything about
school, especially her teacher, but when he asks
her to wait a while before showing her new
purse, she does something for which she is very
sorry later.

WHERE’S SPOT by Eric Hill

Narrative Skills

 Summary: A mother dog finds eight
other animals hiding around the house
before finding her lost puppy. Flaps conceal
the animals.

YOU RE AD T O ME I’ L L RE AD T O YOU:
V E RY S H O R T M O T H E R G O O S E T A L E S
by Mary Ann Hober man

Skills

 Summary: Consists of nursery rhymes
that are meant to be read with two voices.
Text is individuated by different colored text
for each reader.

DA N N Y A N D T H E D I N O S AU R
by Syd Hoff

Motivation

 Summary: A little boy is surprised and pleased
when one of the dinosaurs from the museum
agrees to play with him.

T H E S E A L S O N T H E BU S
by Lenny Hor t

Print Motivation

 Summary: Different animals—including
seals, tigers, geese, rabbits, monkeys, and more—
make their own sounds as they ride all around
the town on a bus.

RO S I E ’ S WA L K b y Pa t H u t c h i n s

Awareness

 Summary: Although unaware that a fox
is after her as she takes a walk around the
farmyard, Rosie the hen still manages to
lead him into one accident after another.

P R I N C E S S H YAC I N T H
b y F l o r e n c e Pa r r y H e i d e

Motivation

 Summary: Princess Hyacinth is bored
and unhappy sitting in her palace every day
because, unless she is weighed down by
specially-made clothes, she will float away,
but her days are made brighter when kite-
flying Boy stops to say hello.

S T U C K b y O l i v e r Je f f e r s

 Literacy Skills: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness

 Summary: When Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, he's
determined to get it out. But how? Well, by knocking it
down with his shoe, of course. But strangely enough, it
too gets stuck. And the only logical course of action . . .
is to throw his other shoe. Only now it’s stuck! Surely
there must be something he can use to get his kite
unstuck. An orangutan? A boat? His front door? Yes, yes,
and yes. And that’s only the beginning.

AC T UA L S I Z E b y S t e v e Je n k i n s

 Literacy Skills: Print Motivation

 Summary: Discusses and gives examples of
the size and weight of various animals and parts
of animals.

H A RO L D A N D T H E P U R P L E
C R AYO N b y C r o c k e t t Jo h n s o n

 Literacy Skills: Print Motivation, Print Awareness

 Summary: One evening Harold decided to go for
a walk in the moonlight. But there wasn’t any moon,
and Harold needed a moon for a walk in the moonlight.
Fortunately, he had brought his purple crayon. So he
drew a moon. He also needed something to walk on. So
he drew a path...

PINKALICIOUS by Victoria K ann

 Literacy Skills: Print Awareness,
Narrative Skills

 Summary: A little girl who is obsessed
with the color pink eats so many pink
cupcakes that she herself turns pink.

T H E S N OW Y DAY
b y E z r a Ja c k K e a t s

Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary

 Summary: The adventures of a little
boy in the city on a very snowy day.

ANANSI AND THE MOSS-
C OV E R E D RO C K b y E r i c K i m m e l

Skills

 Summary: Coming upon a moss-covered
rock with magical powers, Anansi the spider uses
the rock to trick Lion, Elephant, Giraffe, and
Zebra, but Little Bush Dear soon turns the tables
on the mischievous Anansi.

I WA N T M Y H AT BAC K
b y Jo n K l a s s e n

Awareness

 Summary: A bear almost gives up his
search for his missing hat until he remembers
something important.

W H O S E M O U S E A R E YO U ?
B y Ro b e r t K r a u s

Motivation

 Summary: A lonely little mouse has to be
resourceful in order to bring his family back
together.

T H E S T O RY O F F E R D I N A N D
by Munro Leaf

Motivation

 Summary: Ferdinand likes to sit quietly
and smell the flowers, but one day he gets
stung by a bee and his snorting and
stomping convince everyone that he is the
fiercest of bulls.

F RO G A N D T OA D A R E F R I E N D S
by Ar nold Lobel

Narrative Skills

 Summary: Five tales recounting the
adventures of two best friends—Frog
and Toad.

G E O RG E A N D M A RT H A
b y Ja m e s M a r s h a l l

Motivation

 Summary: Relates several episodes in
the friendship of two hippopotamuses.

GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE
B E A R S b y Ja m e s M a r s h a l l

Skills

 Summary: Lost in the woods, a tired and
hungry girl finds the house of the three bears
where she helps herself to food and goes to
sleep. Then the three bears return home to find
her sleeping in their beds.

B ROW N B E A R , B ROW N B E A R W H AT
D O YO U S E E ? b y B i l l M a r t i n

Awareness, Print Awareness

 Summary: Children see a variety
of animals, each one a different color,
and a teacher looking at them.

CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM
by Bill Mar tin

Vocabulary

 Summary: An alphabet rhyme/chant that
relates what happens when the whole alphabet
tries to climb a coconut tree.

T H E R E ’ S A N A L L I G AT O R
UNDER MY BED by Mercer Mayer

Skills

 Summary: The alligator under his bed makes a
boy's bedtime a hazardous operation, until he lures
it out of the house and into the garage.

G U E S S H OW M U C H I L OV E YO U
by Sam McBratney

Vocabulary

 Summary: During a bedtime game,
every time Little Nutbrown Hare
demonstrates how much he loves his father,
Big Nutbrown Hare gently shows him that
the love is returned even more.

I STINK! by K ate McMullen

Letter Knowledge

 Summary: A big city garbage truck
makes its rounds, consuming everything
from apple cores and banana peels to
leftover ziti with zucchini.

WINNIE THE POOH
by A.A. Milne

 Literacy Skills: Print Motivation, Vocabulary

 Summary: The adventures of Christopher
Robin and his friends, in which Pooh Bear uses a
balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and
Eeyore has a birthday.

T H E PA P E R BAG P R I N C E S S
b y Ro b e r t M u n s c h

Narrative Skills

 Summary: The Princess Elizabeth is
slated to marry Prince Ronald when a dragon
attacks the castle and kidnaps Ronald. In
resourceful and humorous fashion, Elizabeth
finds the dragon, outsmarts him, and rescues
Ronald --- who is less than pleased at her un-
princess-like appearance.

I K I S S E D T H E BA B Y !
by Mar y Mur phy

Narrative Skills

 Summary: Various animals tell how they
saw, fed, sang to, tickled, and kissed the new
duckling.

I F YO U G I V E A M O U S E A C O O K I E
by Laura Numeroff

Print Motivation

 Summary: Relating the cycle of requests
a mouse is likely to make after you give him a
cookie takes the reader through a young
child's day.

FA N C Y N A N C Y b y Ja n e O ’ C o n n o r

 Literacy Skills: Vocabulary, Print
Motivation

 Summary: A young girl who loves fancy
things helps her family to be fancy for one
special night.

HERE COMES MOTHER GOOSE
by Ione Opie, ed.


 Summary: Presents more than sixty
traditional nursery rhymes, including “Old
Mother Hubbard,” “I'm a Little Teapot,” and
“One, Two, Buckle My Shoe,” accompanied
by illustrations of various animals.

A M E L I A B E D E L I A b y Pe g g y Pa r i s h

 Literacy Skills: Print Awareness, Phonological
Awareness

 Summary: Amelia Bedelia, the housekeeper with
a literal mind, merrily upsets the household when she
“dresses” the chicken and “trims” the steak with
ribbons and lace.

THE KISSING HAND
b y A u d r e y Pe n n


 Summary: When Chester the raccoon is
reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first
time, his mother teaches him a secret way to
carry her love with him.

T H E L I T T L E E N G I N E T H AT
C O U L D b y Wa t t y P i p e r

Narrative Skills

 Summary: Although she is not very
big, the Little Blue Engine agrees to try to
pull a stranded train full of toys over the
mountain.

N O T A B OX b y A n n e t t e Po r t i s

Vocabulary

 Summary: To an imaginative bunny,
a box is not always just a box.

T H E TA L E O F P E T E R R A B B I T
b y B e a t r i x Po t t e r

 Literacy Skills: Vocabulary, Narrative Skills

 Summary: When Mrs. Rabbit begs her four
furry children to stay away from Mr. McGregor's
garden, the impish Peter Rabbit naturally takes this
as an open invitation to create mischief. But when
he is spotted by the farmer himself, the chase is
on!

G O O D N I G H T, G O R I L L A
b y Pe g g y R a t h m a n n

Narrative Skills

 Summary: An unobservant
zookeeper is followed home by all the
animals he thinks he has left behind in
the zoo.

C U R I O U S G E O RG E b y H . A . Re y

 Literacy Skills: Vocabulary, Print
Motivation

 Summary: The curiosity of a newly-
captured monkey gets him into considerable
trouble.

D U C K ! R A B B I T ! b y A m y Ro s e n t h a l

Print Motivation

 Summary: Two unseen characters
argue about whether the creature they
are looking at is a rabbit or a duck.

L I T T L E P E A b y A m y Ro s e n t h a l

Motivation

 Summary: Little Pea hates eating candy
for dinner, but his parents will not let him
have his spinach dessert until he cleans his
plate.

T H E T RU E S T O RY O F T H E T H R E E
L I T T L E P I G S b y Jo n C c i e s z k a

Vocabulary

 Summary: The wolf gives his own
outlandish version of what really happened
when he tangled with the three little pigs.

LEMONS ARE NOT RED
b y L a u r a Va c c a r o S e e g e r

Vocabulary

 Summary: From carrots that are not
purple to lemons that are not red this is a
color book with a fun twist.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
by M a u r i c e S e n d a k


 Summary: A naughty little boy, sent
to bed without his supper, sails to the
land of the wild things where he becomes
their king.

N O, DAV I D ! b y D a v i d S h a n n o n

Skills

 Summary: A young boy is depicted doing a
variety of naughty things for which he is
repeatedly admonished, but finally he gets a hug.

A BA D C A S E O F S T R I P E S
by David Shannon

Vocabulary
 Summary: In order to ensure her popularity,
Camilla Cream always does what is expected,
until the day arrives when she no longer
recognizes herself.

NEW SOCKS by Bob Shea

 Literacy Skills: Print Awareness

 Summary: A chicken is filled with
excitement and self-confidence when he
dons a new pair of orange socks.

WILD ABOUT BOOKS
by Judy Sier ra

 Literacy Skills: Print Awareness, Vocabulary

 Summary: A librarian named Mavis McGrew
introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of
reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo
by mistake.

W H E R E T H E S I D E WA L K E N D S
by Shel Silverstein

Awareness, Vocabulary
 Summary: A boy who turns into a
TV set and a girl who eats a whale are
only two of the characters in a collection
of humorous poetry illustrated with the
author's own drawings.

CAPS FOR SALE
by Esphyr Slobodkina

Skills

 Summary: When a cap peddler falls asleep
under a tree, the monkeys in the tree steal his
caps and he must find a way to get them back.

T H E R E WA S A N O L D L A DY W H O
S WA L L OW E D A F LY b y S i m s Ta b a c k

Phonological Awareness, Narrative Skills

 Summary: This is the story of an old lady
who swallows a variety of animals with dire
consequences.

J O S E P H H A D A L I T T L E OV E RC OAT
b y S i m s Ta b a c k

Vocabulary

 Summary: The story of Joseph’s
overcoat that is recycled into an array of
new things.

ELOISE by K ay Thompson


 Summary: Eloise is a little girl who lives at The Plaza
Hotel in New York. She is not yet pretty but she is already
a Person. Henry James would want to study her. Queen
Victoria would recognize her as an Equal. The New York
Jets would want to have her on their side. Lewis Carroll
would love her (once he got over the initial shock). She
knows everything about The Plaza. She is interested in
people when they are not boring. She has Inner Resources.

P R E S S H E R E b y H e r v e Tu l l e t

 Literacy Skills: Print Motivation, Print
Awareness

 Summary: Press the yellow dot on the cover of
this book, follow the instructions within, and
embark upon a magical journey! Each page of this
surprising book instructs the reader to press the
dots, shake the pages, tilt the book, and who knows
what will happen next!

THE POLAR EXPRESS
b y C h r i s Va n A l l s b u r g

Vocabulary
 Summary: A magical train ride
on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the
North Pole to receive a special gift
from Santa Claus.

J U M A N J I b y C h r i s Va n A l l s b u r g


 Summary: Left on their own for an
afternoon, two bored and restless
children find more excitement than they
bargained for in a mysterious and
mystical jungle adventure board game.

ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE,
H O R R I B L E , N O G O O D, V E RY B A D D AY
b y J u d i t h Vo i r s t

 Literacy Skills: Vocabulary, Narrative
Skills
 Summary: On a day when everything
goes wrong for him, Alexander is
consoled by the thought that other people
have bad days too.

OW L BA B I E S b y M a r t i n Wa d d e l l

Print Motivation

 Summary: When three baby owls
awake one night to find their mother
gone, they can’t help but wonder where
she is.

M O U S E PA I N T
b y E l l e n S t o h l Wa l s h

Letter Knowledge

 Summary: Three white mice
discover jars of red, blue, and yellow
paint and explore the world of color.

S C A R E DY S QU I R R E L
b y M e l a n i e Wa t t

Narrative Skills
 Summary: Scaredy Squirrel thinks about
all the things that could happen to him if he
left the safety of his home, but he has no
choice when he accidently drops his
emergency kit.

T U E S DAY b y D a v i d We i s n e r

Print Awareness

 Summary: Frogs rise on their lily
pads, float through the air, and explore
the nearby houses while their inhabitants
sleep.

DON’T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE
T H E BU S b y M o W i l l e m s

 Literacy Skills: Print Awareness, Print
Motivation
 Summary: When a bus driver takes a break
from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs
up to take his place—a pigeon! But you've
never met one like this before. As he pleads,
wheedles, and begs his way through the book,
children will love being able to answer back and
decide his fate.

K N U F F L E BU N N Y b y M o W i l l e m s

Vocabulary

 Summary: After Trixie and daddy
leave the laundromat, something very
important turns up missing.

T H E V E LV E T E E N R A B B I T
by Marger y Williams


 Summary: By the time the Velveteen Rabbit
is dirty, worn out, and about to be burned, he has
almost given up hope of ever finding the magic
called Real.

THE NAPPING HOUSE
b y A u d r e y Wo o d

Narrative Skills

 Summary: In this cumulative tale, a
wakeful flea atop a number of sleeping
creatures causes a commotion, with just one
bite.

H OW D O D I N O S AU R S S AY
G O O D N I G H T ? b y Ja n e Yo l e n

 Literacy Skills: Print Awareness, Print
Motivation, Phonological Awareness

 Summary: Mother and child ponder the
different ways a dinosaur can say goodnight, from
slamming his tail and pouting to giving a big hug and
kiss.

R A P U N Z E L b y Pa u l Z e l i n s k y

Vocabulary
 Summary: A retelling of the German
folktale in which a beautiful girl with long
golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely
tower by a sorceress.

H A R RY T H E D I RT Y D O G
by Gene Zion

Narrative Skills

 Summary: When a white dog with black
spots runs away from home, he gets so dirty
his family doesn’t recognize him as a black
dog with white spots.

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