Great Books for 1st Graders

 

First Grade Suggested Reading

 

Ackerman        Song And Dance Man

Agee                Terrific

Aliki                 My Visit To The Aquarium

Aylesworth      Aunt Pitty Patty's Piggy

Banks             The Night Workers

Barton             My Car

Berger             Ouch! A Book About Cuts, Scratches, & Scrapes

Bond               The Tales Of Olga Da Polga

Brandenberg  Aunt Nina's Visit

Brown              Arthur's Family Vacation

Burningham    John Patrick Norman Mchennessy

Calhoun           Hot-Air Henry

Cannon           Stellaluna

Capucilli          Biscuit(Series)

Carle               Eric Carle's Animals Animals

Carlstrom        Grandpappy

Carrick            Patrick's Dinosaur

Cleary             Ramona The Pest

Clements        Workshop

Cobb               I Face The Wind

Cooney            Miss Rumphius

Crews             Short Cut

Cronin            Diary Of A Worm

Crowley           Red-Eyed Tree Frog

Cushman        Inspector Hopper

Daly                 What's Cooking, Jamela?

Day                  Frank And Ernest

Davies             Surprising Sharks

Depaola           Oliver Button Is A Sissy

Dorros             Abuela

Eastman         Go, Dog, Go

Edwards          Some Smug Slug

Ehlert               Waiting For Wings

Emberley         Ed Emberley's Picture Pie

Falconer          Olivia

Fleischman     Sidewalk Circus

Fleming           Farmyard Banter

Flournoy          The Patchwork Quilt

Fox                  Tough Boris

Frasier             On The Day You Were Born

Freeman         A Pocket For Corduroy

French             Diary Of A Wombat

Friedman         How My Parents Learned To Eat

Galdone           Cinderella

Gans               Long Pond

George            Monarch Butterflies, Gulls – Gulls – Gulls

Ginsburg         Mushroom In The Rain

Gretz               Teddy Bears' Moving Day

Griffith              Georgia Music

Heide               The Day Of Ahmed's Secret

Heiligman        From Caterpillar To Butterfly

Henkes            Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, Kitten’s First Full Moon

Hirst                 My Place In Space

Hoban, R.        Bread And Jam For Frances

Hoban, T         I Read Signs, Construction Zone

Hodges            Brother Francis And The Friendly Beasts

Hollenbeck      Dancing On The Sand: A Story Of An Atlantic Bluecrab, I Unpacked My Grandmother's Trunk

Hoguet             Surprises

Hopkins           Aunt Flossie's Hats (And Crab Cakes Later)

Howard            Horace And Morris But Mostly Delores

Howe               An Evening At Alfie's, Dogger

Hughes            Russell Sprouts

Hurwitz            Biggest, Strongest, Fastest

Jenkins            The Quilt Story

Johnston         Round Trip

Jonas              The Wolf's Chicken Stew

Jonas              Goggles

Juster              The Hello, Goodbye Window

Keats               The Mysterious Tadpole

Keller               That's Mine, Horace

Kuskin             Any Me I Want To Be

Krementz        A Very Young Gardener

Larrick             When The Dark Comes Dancing

Lester              Hooway For Wodney Wat

Levinson          Watch The Stars Come Out

Lewin               Jafta

Lewis               A Hippopotamusn't

Lionni               Swimmy

Lobel               Owl At Home, Mouse Soup

Long                How I Became A Pirate

Lyon                Come A Tide

Maccarone      Magic Matt (Series)

Marshall, J.      George And Martha

Martin              Will's Mammoth

Mccarty           Hondo And Fabian

Mccloskey       Make Way For Ducklings

Mccord            Every Time I Climb A Tree

Mcdonald         Is This A House For A Hermit Crab?

Mcgovern        Too Much Noise

Mcmillan          Puffins Climb, Penguins Rhyme

Mcphail            Mole Music

Meade             John Willy And Freddy Mcgee

Meddaugh       Martha Speaks

Miller                My Five Senses

Milne                Winnie The Pooh

Morales           Just A Minute: A Trickster Tale And Counting Book

Mosel               Tikki Tikki Tembo

Moss               Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin

Nethery            Hannah And Jack

O'Brien            Poof!

O'neill              Loud Emily

Pilkey               The Paperboy

Pinkwater        The Pickle Creature

Plume              The Bremen-Town Musicians

Pollaco            Just Plain Fancy, Babuska's Mother Goose

Pomeroy         One Potato

Prelutsky         Ride A Purple Pelican

Priceman        Emeline At The Circus

Provenson       Glorious Flight

Rathmann       Officer Buckle And Gloria

Recorvits         My Name Is Yoon

Ringgold          TarBeach

Robbins           A Flower Grows

Rockwell         Honk! Honk! , Thump Thump Thump

Rockwell         The Three Bears And 15 Other Stories

Rotner             Close, Closer, Closest

Rylant              Henry And Mudge

Sadler              Alistair In Outer Space

Say .                Emma's Rug

Schwartz,A     Busy Buzzing Bumblebees & Other Tongue Twisters

Schwartz         Bea And Mr. Jones.

Schwartz,D.    How Much Is A Million?

Sendak            Pierre (The Nutshell Library)

Shannon          Sing A Song Of Popcorn: Every Child's Book Of Poems, Duck On A Bike

Simont             The Stray Dog

Sis                   Madlenka's Dog

Spier                Oh, Were They Ever Happy!

Stanley            Saving Sweetness

Steig                Doctor Desoto

Stevens           And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon

Stevenson       Don't Make Me Laugh

Thomas           Good Night, Good Knight

Uegaki             Suki's Kimono

Ungerer           Three Robbers

Viorst               Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good,Very Bad Day         

Waber            Ira Sleeps Over

Waddell           Farmer Duck

Wells               Mcduff Moves In, Yoko

Wiesner          Hurricane, Sector 7

Willems           Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus, Leonardo The Terrible Monster

Williams,K.      Galimoto

Williams,V.      Something Special For Me

Wilson             Bear Snores On

Wittman          A Special Trade

Yolen               Owl Moon

Young              Seven Blind Mice