SECOND GRADE SUMMER READING LIST

Below is a list of titles and authors that incoming second graders may enjoy.  This is not a required list but a guide to help you find good books.  Hope to see you this summer at the library.  Happy Reading!
      

Fantasy and Fairy Tales
Ahlberg, Janet.  It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Andersen, H.C.  The Emperor's New Clothes
Base, Grahame.  The Eleventh Hour
Brett, Jan.  Trouble With Trolls
DePaola, Tomie.  The Legend of the Blue Bonnet
Marshall, James.  Little Red Riding Hood
Purdy, Carol.  Iva Dunnit and the Big Wind
Seuss, Dr.  Fox in Sox
Thompson, Colin.  Looking for Atlantis

Books in Series (check out other books in the series, too!)
Ahlberg, Allan.  The Black Cat  (Funnybones)
Berenstain, Stan.  The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV
Bridwell, Norman.  Clifford the Big Red Dog
Brown, Marc.  Arthur's Sleepover
Cole, Joanna.  The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System
Coombs, Patricia.  Doorie and the Haunted House
Hoban, Lillian. Arthur's Camp-Out
Levy, Elizabeth.  Something Queer on Vacation
Giff, Patricia Reilly.  BEST Friends  (Polk Street School Series)
Hoff, Syd.  Danny and the Dinosaur
O'Connor, Jane.  Corrie's Secret Pal (Here Come the Brownies)
Parish, Peggy.  Come Back, Amelia Bedelia
Ross, Pat.  M and M and the Big Bag
Rylant, Cynthia.  Henry and Mudge and the Forever Sea
Rylant, Cynthia. Mr. Putty and Tabby Pick the Pears
Sharmat, Marjorie.  Nate the Great and the Musical Note
Van Leeuwen, Jean.  More Tales of Oliver Pig
Zion, Gene.  Harry and the Lady Next Door

Other Great Books
Guarino, Deborah.  Is Your Mama a Llama?
Hazen, Barbara.  The Gorilla Did It
Mahy, Margaret.  The Rattlebang Picnic
Marzollo, Jean.  Soccer Sam
Mayer, Mercer.  There's a Nightmare in My Closet
McCully, Emily Arnold.  Mirette on the High Wire
McKissack, Patricia C.  Mirandy and Brother Wind
Mitchell, Margaree King.  Uncle Jed's Barbershop
Moss, Lloyd.  Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin
Munsch, Robert.  Love You Forever
Naylor, Phyllis, Reynolds.  Ducks Disappearing
Ness, Evaline.  Sam, Bangs and Moonshine
Numeroff, Laura Joffe.  If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Noble, Trinka H.  The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
Prelutsky, Jack.  The New Kid on the Block (Poems)
Steig, William.  Brave Irene
Stevenson, Robert L.  A Child's Garden of Verses
Thaler, Mike.  Hippo Lemonade
Thurber, James.  Many Moons
Viorst, Judith.  If I Were in Charge of the World
Wilhelm, Hans.  Tyrone the Horrible
Williams, Margery.  The Velveteen Rabbit

There's always time for a book:
Take a book when you know you'll be waiting.
Take a book to the doctor's office.
Take a book when you travel.
Read a book instead of watching TV.
Get a public library card.
READ!  READ!  READ!