St. Luke’s School
Reading List
For Students Entering
Junior Kindergarten, Kindergarten and
Grade 1
PICTURE BOOKS
Bootsie Barker Bites
Barbara Bottner
Bringing the Rain to
Kapiti Plain
Verna Aardema
The Mitten;
The Hat
Jan Brett
Each, Peach, Pear, Plum;
The Jolly Postman
Janet Ahlberg
The Indoor Noisy Book;
The Little Fur Family
Margaret Wise Brown
Miss Nelson Is Missing
(series)
Harry Allard
Arthur’s Eyes (series)
Marc Brown
Who Sank the Boat
Pamela Allen
Anno's Alphabet
Mitsumasa Anno
Bear's Bargain;
Happy Birthday, Moon
Frank Asch
When Sophie Gets Angry
Really, Really, Angry
Molly Bang
The Story of Little Babaji
Helen Bannerman
The Adventures of Taxi
Dog;
Maxi the Hero
Debra and Sal Barracca
Cloudy With a Chance of
Meatballs;
Animals Should
Definitely Not Wear
Clothing
Judi Barrett
Gorilla
Anthony Browne
Mr. Gumpy's Outing;
Would You Rather...
John Burningham
The Little House;
Mike Mulligan & His
Steam Shovel
Virginia Burton
Just Us Women
Jeannette
Caines
Cross Country Cat
Mary Calhoun
Stellaluna;
Verdi
Janell Cannon
The Very Busy Spider;
The Very Hungry
Caterpillar
Eric Carle
Madeleine (series)
Ludwig Bemelmans
Baby-O;
Jesse Bear What Will You
Wear (series)
Nancy Carlstrom
Spike in the City (series)
Paulette Bogan
Penelope Jane
Rosanne Cash
Big Al;
Circus Family Dog
Andrew Clements
Super Moo;
The Trouble with Mom
Babette Cole
Buttons
Brock Cole
The Magic School Bus;
Inside the Ocean (series)
Joanna Cole
Uptown
Bryan Collier
Doll Face Has a Party;
The Tub People (series)
Pam Conrad
Eleanor;
Miss Rumphius
Barbara Cooney
The Winter Bear
Ruth Craft
Angelina Ballerina
(series)
Helen Craig
A Fine, Fine School
Sharon Creech
Freight Train
Donald Crews
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows
that Type
Doreen Cronin
100th Day Worries
Margery Cuyler
The Story of Babar
(series)
Laurent de Brunhoff
2
Oliver Button Is a Sissy;
Strega Nona
Tomie de Paola
May I Bring a Friend
Beatrice Schenk de
Regniers
How My Parents Learned
to Eat
Ina Friedman
Millions of Cats
Wanda Gag
Five Creatures
Emily Jenkins
Harold & The Purple
Crayon
Crockett Johnson
Jamberry
Bruce Degen
The Story of May
Mordicai Gerstein
The Quilt;
Round Trip
Ann Jonas
Abuela;
Isla
Arthur Dorros
Bernard Goes to School
(series)
Joan Goodman
Dinosaur Bob;
George Shrinks
William Joyce
Fish Eyes;
Growing Vegetable Soup
Lois Ehlert
The Maggie B.
Irene Haas
The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats
Jamaica’s Find (series)
Juanita Havill
The Dinosaurs of
Waterhouse Hawkins
Gilberto & The Wind;
Play With Me
Marie Hall Ets
Olivia;
Olivia Saves the Circus
Ian Falconer
Bark, George;
I Lost My Bear
Jules Feiffer
The Story About Ping
Marjorie Flack
Weslandia
Paul Fleischman
In the Small, Small Pond
Denise Fleming
The Patchwork
Quilt
Valerie Flournoy
Koala Lou;
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald
Partridge
Mem Fox
Corduroy;
Norman The Doorman
Don Freeman
Friends;
The Most Wonderful Egg
In The World
Helme Heine
Chrysanthemum;
Julius, The Baby Of The
World;
Wemberly the Worried
Kevin Henkes
Bread & Jam For Frances
(series)
Russell Hoban
A House Is a House For
Me
Mary Ann Hoberman
Amazing Grace (series)
Mary Hoffman
Dogger
Shirley Hughes
The Doorbell Rang
Pat Hutchins
Dear Mr. Blueberry
Simon James
Barbara Kerley
Emma
Wendy Kesselman
How Pizza Came To
Queens
Dayal Kaur Khalsa
A Cloak for the Moon
Eric A. Kimmel
Lily Takes A Walk
Satoshi Kitamura
The Carrot Seed;
A Very Special House;
A Hole Is To Dig
Ruth Krauss
The Philharmonic Gets
Dressed
Karla Kuskin
The Red Balloon
Albert Lamorisse
The Story Of Ferdinand
Munro Leaf
Hooway for Wodney Wat
Helen Lester
3
I Love You Like Crazy
Cakes
Rose Lewis
Frederick;
Little Blue Little Yellow;
Swimmy
Leo Lionni
On Market Street;
One Lighthouse, One
Moon
Anita Lobel
Fables;
The Great Blueness
Arnold Lobel
The Little Island
Golden MacDonald
Brown Bear Brown Bear;
Chicka Chicka Boom
Boom
Bill Martin
George & Martha (series)
James Marshall
I Spy (series)
Jean Marzollo
Roxaboxen
Alice McLerran
Blueberries For Sal;
Make Way For Ducklings;
One Morning In Maine
Robert McCloskey
Mirette On The Highwire
Emily Arnold McCully
Elmer (series)
David McKee
Goin' Someplace;
Mirandy and Brother
Wind;
The Honest-to Goodness
Truth
Pat McKissack
Martha Speaks
Susan Meddaugh
The Little Engine That
Could
Watty Piper
The Rainbabies
Laura Melmed
Thundercake
Patricia Polacco
The Black Snowman
Phil Mendez
Piggy In The Puddle
Charlotte Pomerantz
Nobody Rides the Unicorn
Adrian Mitchell
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
Tikki Tikki Tembo
Arlene Mosel
It’s Hard to Share My
Teacher
Joan Prestine
Cow That Went Oink
Bernard Most
The Paper Bag Princess
Robert Munsch
Sam, Bangs, & Moonshine
Evaline Ness
If You Give A Mouse A
Cookie (series)
Laura Numeroff
Rivka's First
Thanksgiving
Elsa Okon
A Boy Wants A Dinosaur;
UFO Diary
Hiawyn Oram
The Red Carpet
Rex Parkin
Cowardly Clyde;
Chester The Worldly Pig
Bill Peet
Rainbow Fish
Dazzle the Dinosaur
Marcus Pfister
The Big Orange Splot
Wempires
Daniel Manus Pinkwater
The Glorious Flight
Alice Provensen
Martin's Big Words
Doreen Rappaport
Yo! Yes?
Christopher Raschka
Officer Buckle and
Gloria;
Ruby The Copycat
Peggy Rathmann
Curious George (series)
H. A. Rey
Aunt Harriet and the
Underground Railroad;
Tar Beach
Faith Ringgold
We're Going On A Bear
Hunt
Michael Rosen
The Line Up Book
Marisabina Russo
Emma’s Rug
Grandfather's Journey
Allen Say
How Much is a Million
David Schwartz
4
The True Story of the
Three Little Pigs;
The Stinky Cheese Man
Jon Scieszka
Abiyoyo
Pete Seeger
In The Night Kitchen;
The Nutshell Library;
Where The Wild Things
Are
Maurice Sendak
Bartholomew and the
Oobleck;
If I Ran the Zoo
Dr. Seuss
Tasty Belly Buttons
Judy Sierra
Sheep In A Jeep (series)
Nancy Shaw
Snow
Uri Shulevitz
The Stray Dog
Marc Simont
People
Peter Spier
Amos & Boris;
Brave Irene;
Sylvester & The Magic
Pebble
William Steig
Mufaro's Beautiful
Daughters
John Steptoe
The Gardener;
The Library
Sarah Stewart
The Little Red Lighthouse
& The Great Grey Bridge
Hildegard Hoyt Swift
The Araboolies of Liberty
Street
Sam Swope
Eloise
(series)
Kay Thompson
Many Moons
James Thurber
Miss Bindergarten Gets
Ready for Kindergarten
Joseph Slate
Do Not Open!
Brinton Turkle
From One to One
Hundred
Teri Sloat
Jumanji;
The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg
Caps For Sale
Esphyr Slobodkina
Alexander & The Terrible
Horrible No Good Very
Bad Day;
The Tenth Good Thing
About Barney
Judith Viorst
Imogene’s Antlers
David Small
Chato and the Party
Animals;
Too Many Tamales
Gary Soto
The House On East 88th
Street;
Lyle Lyle Crocodile
(series)
Bernard Waber
Good Job Little Bear
(series)
Martin Waddell
Mouse Paint;
You Silly Goose
Ellen Stoll Walsh
Apple Farmer Annie;
Squeaking of Art;
Night City
Monica Wellington
Bunny Cakes;
Yoko;
Yoko’s Paper Cranes
Rosemary Wells
Quacky, Quack, Quack
Ian Whybrow
Clever Beatrice
Margaret Willey
A Chair For My Mother
Vera Williams
Tuesday
David Wiesner
The Napping House
Audrey Wood
Sweet, Sweet Memory
Jacqueline Woodson
Something Beautiful
Sharon Dennis Wyeth
Crow Boy
Taro Yashima
Owl Moon
Jane Yolen
Oh Brother!;
Ugh
Arthur Yorinks
5
Harry The Dirty Dog
(series)
Gene Zion
Mr. Rabbit & The Lovely
Present;
William's Doll
Charlotte Zolotow
FOLKTALES &
FAIRYTALES
Why Mosquitos Buzz in
People’s Ears
Verna Aardema
The Ugly Duckling
Hans Christian Andersen
The Aesop for Children
Mio Winter
Jack and the Beanstalk
Ann Keay Beneduce,
Gennady Spirin,
illustrators
Patricia Lee Gauch, ed.
The Town Mouse & The
Country Mouse
Jan Brett
Stone Soup
Marcia Brown
Swamp Angel
Anne Isaacs
Anansi and the Moss
Covered Rock
Eric Kimmel
Johnny Appleseed
Steven Kellogg
Puss In Boots
Fred Marcellino
Charles Perrault
Hansel And Gretel
The Brothers Grimm
The Talking Eggs: A
Folktale from the
American South
Robert San Soucci
Seven Blind Mice
Ed Young
The Three Pigs
David Wiesner
Rumplestiltskin
Paul Zelinsky
The New Oxford Book of
Children’s Verse
Neil Philip, ed.
Hailstones and Halibut
Bones
Mary Le Duc O’Neill
Tail Feathers From
Mother Goose
Iona Opie
Awful Ogre’s Awful Day;
Beneath A Blue Umbrella;
The Dragons are Singing
Tonight;
Ride A Purple Pelican
Jack Prelutsky
My Very First Mother
Goose
Rosemary Wells
Casey at the Bat
Ernest L. Thayer
Illustrated by Christopher
Bing
Brown Honey in
Broomwheat Tea: Poems
Joyce Carol Thomas
POETRY
One Grain of Rice
Demi
You Read To Me, I'll Read
To You
John Ciardi
The Gingerbread Man
Richard Egielski
A Zooful of Animals
William Cole
The Three Billy Goats
Gruff
Paul Galdone
The Owl and The
Pussycat
Edward Lear
Favorite Fairy Tales Told
In Ireland
(series)
Virginia Haviland
Now We Are Six;
When We Were Very
Young
A. A. Milne
6
I CAN READ BOOKS
Cam Jansen and the
Mystery of the Stolen
Diamonds (series)
David Adler
Finding the Titanic
A Hello Reader (series)
Robert Ballard
The Case of the Cat's
Meow
Crosby Bonsall
Hooray for the Golly
Sisters (series)
Betsy Byars
The Stories Julian Tells
(series)
Ann Cameron
Will I Have a Friend?
Miriam Cohen
The Best Way to Play;
Little Bill (series)
Bill Cosby
Nine True Dolphin Stories
Margaret Davidson
The Pee Wee Scouts;
Bookworm Buddies
(series)
Judy Delton
The Beast In Miss
Rooney’s Room
Polk Street School (series)
Patricia Reilly Giff
Puppy Riddles (series)
Katy Hall
Hello, House!
Linda Hayward
The Little Brute Family;
The Stone Doll Of Sister
Brute
Russell Hoban
Arthur's Mystery
Envelope (Arthur Chapter
Books Series)
Marc Brown
Arthur’s Funny Money
(series)
Lilian Hoban
You Read to Me, I’ll Read
to You: Very Short
Stories to Read Together
Mary Ann Hoberman
Clara & The Bookwagon
Nancy Smiler Levinson
Something Queer at the
Library (series)
Elizabeth Levy
Frog & Toad Together
(series);
Owl at Home
Arnold Lobel
Fox In Love;
Rats On The Roof
Edward Marshall
Little Bear (series)
Else Holmelund Minarik
Danny The Dinosaur;
Grizzwold
Syd Hoff
The Drinking Gourd;
Wagon Wheels
F. N. Monjo
Surprises
More Surprises
Lee Bennett Hopkins
Juan Bobo Goes to Work
Marisa Montes
Animals Do The
Strangest Things (series)
Leonora
Hornblower
Pinky & Rex
and the School Play
(series)
James Howe
Here Comes the
Strikeout;
Stan the Hot Dog Man
Leonard Kessler
The Invisible Dog;
Jenius the Amazing
Guinea Pig
Dick King-Smith
Horrible Harry and the
Purple People; (series)
Song Lee and the
Hamster Hunt (series)
Suzy Kline
Dinosaurs Before Dark;
The Magic Treehouse
(series)
Mary Pope Osborne
Amelia Bedelia (series)
Peggy Parish
Junie B. Jones Is Captain;
Field Day (series)
Barbara Park
The Littles (series)
John Peterson
I Was a Second Grade
Werewolf
Daniel Manus Pinkwater
M&M and the Mummy
Mess
(series)
Pat Ross
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Henry & Mudge: The
First Book of Their
Adventures
(series);
Mr. Putter and Tabby
Feed the Fish;
Poppleton Has Fun
(series)
Cynthia Rylant
Marvin Redpost :
Kidnapped at Birth
(series)
Louis Sachar
In A Dark, Dark, Room;
Ghosts!
Alvin Schwartz
FAMILY
READ-ALOUDS
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Richard Atwater
The Cat Club
(series)
Esther Averill
(Out of Print but worth
tracking down!)
Freckle Juice
Judy Blume
Seven Stories about a Cat
Sneakers
Margaret Wise Brown
Green Eggs and Ham;
I Can Read With My Eyes
Shut;
Fox in Socks
Dr. Seuss
The Mouse and the
Motorcycle;
Ramona Quimby Age 8
(series)
Beverly Cleary
Nate The Great (series)
The Giraffe the Pelly and
Me
Roald Dahl
The Adam Joshua
Capers: The Monster in
the Third Dresser Drawer
(series)
Janice Lee Smith
The Tales of Oliver &
Amanda Pig;
Oliver and Albert,
Friends Forever
Jean Van Leeuwen
Commander Toad (series)
Jane Yolen
Chocolate Fever
Robert K. Smith
Charlotte’s Web;
Stuart Little;
Trumpet of the Swan
E. B. White
No Flying In the House
Betty Brock
Greg's Microscope;
From Egg to Chick
Millicent Ellis Selsam
Margorie Weinman Sharmat
Winnie-The-Pooh;
The House at Pooh
Corner
A. A. Milne
The Hundred Dresses
Eleanor Estes
My Father's Dragon
(series)
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
A Mouse Called Wolf
Dick King-Smith
Catwings (series)
Ursula K. LeGuin
Pippi Longstocking
(series)
Astrid Lindgren
Betsy-Tacy (series)
Maud Hart Lovelace
8
CHILDREN’S
BOOK AWARDS
Announced on
January 27,
2003
Scott King Award
for Writing:
Caldecott Medal:
Coretta
Scott King
Award for
Illustration:
My Friend Rabbit (Roaring
Brook) by Eric Rohmann
Caldecott Honor
Books:
The Spider and the Fly
(S & S),
illustrated by
Tony
DiTerlizzi,
written by
Mary
Howitt;
Hondo &
Fabian
(Holt) by Peter McCarty;
Noah’s Ark
(SeaStar) by
Jerry
Pinkney
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Award: (for lifetime
contribution to literature
for children) Eric Carle,
author and illustrator of
The Very Hungry
Caterpillar
Coretta
Honor Books:
Talkin’ About Bessie
(Scholastic/Orchard) by
Nikki Grimes, illustrated
by E. B. Lewis
Talkin’ About Bessie
(Scholastic/Orchard) by
Nikki
Grimes,
illustrated
by
E. B. Lewis
Honor
Books:
Rap a Tap Tap
(Scholastic/Blue
Sky) by Leo and
Diane Dillon;
Visiting
Langston
(Holt),
illustrated
by
Bryan
Collier,
written by Willie Perdomo
Robert F. Sibert
Award:
Honor Books: (for
outstanding
nonfiction):
Action
Jackson
(Roaring
Brook) by Jan
Greenberg and Sandra
Jordan; When
Marian Sang
(Scholastic) by
Pam Muñoz
Ryan,
illustrator Brian Selznick
Sydney Taylor
Book Award for
Younger Readers:
(sponsored by
the
Association of
Jewish
Libraries): Chicken Soup
by Heart (S & S) by Esther
Hershenhorn
Honor
Books:
Noah’s
Ark
(SeaStar)
by Jerry Pinkney;
Sammy Spider’s
First Trip to
Israel (Kar-Ben Copies) by
Sylvia Rouss;
Pearl’s Passover
(S & S) by Jane
Breskin Zalben
Charlotte
Zolotow Award:
(for
outstanding
writing in a
picture book):
Holly Keller,
author of Farfallina and
Marcel (Greenwillow)
Zolotow Honor
Book:
Susan Marie Swanson,
author of The First Thing
My Mama Told Me
(Harcourt), illustrated by
Christine Davenier
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CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS for 2004
Caldecott Medal:
The Man Who Walked
Between the Towers
By Mordicai Gerstein
(Roaring Book
Press/Millbrook Press)
Caldecott Honor Books:
Ella Sarah Gets Dressed
By Margaret ChodosIrvine (Harcourt, Inc.)
What Do You Do with a Tail
Like This?
Illustrated and Written
by Steve Jenkins and
Robin Page (Houghton
Mifflin Company)
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the
Bus
By Mo Willems
(Hyperion Press)
Coretta Scott King/John
Steptoe New Talent
Author Award:
Calabash Cat and His
Amazing Journey
By James Rumford
(Houghton Mifflin)
The Way a Door Closes
By Hope Anita Smith,
illustrated by Shane W.
Evans (Henry Holt and
Company)
Tippy-Toe Chick Go!
By George Shannon,
Illustrated by Laura
Dronzek (Greenwillow
Book/HarperCollins)
Coretta Scott King New
Talent Illustrator Award:
My Family Plays Music
Illustrated by Elbrite
Brown, written by Judy
Cox (Holiday House)
Sydney Taylor Book
Award for Younger
Readers: (sponsored by
the Association of Jewish
Libraries)
Charlotte Zolotow
Award: (for outstanding
writing in a picture book)
Bagels from Benny
By Aubrey Davis,
Illustrated by Dusan
Petricic
What James Likes Best
By Amy Schwartz
(Atheneum)
Coretta Scott King
Awards: (honoring African
American authors and
illustrators of outstanding
books for children and
young adults)
Charlotte Zolotow Honor
Books:
The First Part Last
By Angela Johnson
(Simon and Schuster
Books for Young
Readers)
The Baby Goes Beep
By Rebecca O’Connell
(Roaring Brook Press)
Beautiful Blackbird
Written and Illustrated
by Ashley Bryan
(Athenaum Books for
Young Readers)
Two Old Potatoes and Me
By John Coy, Illustrated
by Carolyn Fisher
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry
Crocodile
By Won-Ldy Paye and
Margaret H. Lippert,
Illustrated by Julie
Pahkis (Henry Holt)
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