For Kids
100 Books for Every Preschooler!
Get wild about reading! Read to your child 20 minutes a day.
Quicklinks: Rhythm, Rhyme, and Good Sounds | Simple Concepts | Let's Hear It for the ABC's | Pattern Stories | City Sights, City People | Starting School | Sleep Tight, Sweet Dreams | "Very" Beginning Readers | Favorites & Classics
Rhythm, Rhyme, and Good Sounds
Nursery rhymes are so soothing
Cha-Cha Chimps
By Julia Durango
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
By Eileen Christelow
Hand Rhymes
By Marc Brown
Here Comes Mother Goose
By Iona Opie
I Went Walking
By Sue Williams
Is Your Mama a Llama?
By Deborah Guarino
Jamberry
By Bruce Degen
“More More More,” Said the Baby
By Vera B. Williams
My Very First Mother Goose
By Iona Opie
Old Black Fly
By Jim Aylesworth
Over in the Meadow
By Ezra Jack Keats
Rah, Rah, Radishes!: A Vegetable Chant
By April Pulley Sayre
Rain
By Manya Stojic
The Runaway Bunny
By Margaret Wise Brown
Sheep in a Jeep
By Nancy Shaw
Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose
By Tomie dePaola
Tortillas and Lullabies / Tortillas y cancioncitas
By Lynn Reiser
Tortillitas para Mamá and Other Nursery Rhymes
By Margot Griego
Where's My T-R-U-C-K?
By April Pulley Sayre
Simple Concepts
Colors and shapes, letters and numbers are all important concepts for young children to learn.
1 Hunter
By Pat Hutchins
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
By Bill Martin Jr.
Click, Clack, Splish, Splash: A Counting Adventure
By Doreen Cronin
Color Farm
By Lois Ehlert
Color Zoo
By Lois Ehlert
The Everything Book
By Denise Fleming
Food for Thought: The Complete Book of Concepts for Growing Minds
By Saxton Freymann
From Head to Toe
By Eric Carle
It Looked Like Spilt Milk
By Charles G. Shaw
Maisy's Amazing Big Book of Learning
By Lucy Cousins
Mouse Paint
By Ellen Stoll Walsh
Ten, Nine, Eight
By Molly Bang
Let's Hear It for the ABC's
Learning the alphabet is a vital building block for learning to read and getting ready for school.
ABC I Like Me!
By Nancy Carlson
Alphabatics
By Suse MacDonald
Ape in a Cape
By Fritz Eichenberg
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By Bill Martin, Jr.
Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An alphabetical Adventure
By Doreen Cronin
Eating the Alphabet
By Lois Ehlert
Kipper’s A to Z
By Mick Inkpen
Max's ABC
By Rosemary Wells
Pattern Stories
Children love to predict what happens next.
Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock
By Eric Kimmel
Bark, George
By Jules Feiffer
Caps for Sale
By Esphyr Slobodkina
The Gigantic Turnip
By Aleksei Tolstoy
The Gingerbread Boy
By Richard Egielski
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
By James Marshall
Hattie and the Fox
By Mem Fox
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
By Laura Numeroff
Millions of Cats
By Wanda Gág
The Seals on the Bus
By Lenny Hort
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
By Paul Galdone
Titch
By Pat Hutchins
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
By Michael Rosen
City Sights, City People
Young children ask a lot of questions about what's around them.
Abuela
By Arthur Dorros
Biscuit Visits the Big City
By Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep!: Listen to the City
By Robert Burleigh
Flower Garden
By Eve Bunting
Make Way for Ducklings
By Robert McCloskey
Night on Neighborhood Street
By Eloise Greenfield
Parade
By Donald Crews
Round Trip
By Ann Jonas
Starting School
Getting ready to start school can be a big transition!
David Goes to School
By David Shannon
Franklin Goes to School
By Paulette Bourgeois
Kindergarten Cat
By J. Patrick Lewis
Kindergarten Diary
By Antoinette Portis
Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!
By Nancy Carlson
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten
By Joseph Slate
Off to School, Baby Duck!
By Amy Hest
School Bus
By Donald Crews
Timothy Goes to School
By Rosemary Wells
Wemberly Worried
By Kevin Henkes
Sleep Tight, Sweet Dreams
Try these titles for helping young children snuggle in for a "happy ever after" night!
A Book of Sleep
By Il Sung Na
Bedtime for Frances
By Russell Hoban
Good Night, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann
Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown
Good-Night, Owl!
By Pat Hutchins
Guess How Much I Love You
By Sam McBratney
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
By Jane Yolen
Time for Bed
By Mem Fox
"Very" Beginning Readers
Readers, or primers, introduce words and use them again and again throughout the story.
Green Eggs and Ham
By Dr. Seuss
Hop on Pop
By Dr. Seuss
Little Bear
By Else Holmelund Minarik
Mine’s the Best
By Crosby Bonsall
Favorites & Classics
These are much loved classics that your child will ask you to read over and over again.
The Carrot Seed
By Ruth Krauss
Corduroy
By Don Freeman
Curious George
By H.A. Rey
George and Martha
By James Marshall
I Like Me!
By Nancy Carlson
The Little Engine That Could
By Watty Piper
Madeline
By Ludwig Bemelmans
The Mitten
By Alvin Tresselt
Olivia
By Ian Falconer
Rosie’s Walk
By Pat Hutchins
Stone Soup
By Marcia Brown
The Story of Ferdinand
By Munro Leaf
Swimmy
By Leo Lionni
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
By Beatrix Potter
Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak
Whistle for Willie
By Ezra Jack Keats
The Wolf’s Chicken Stew
By Keiko Kasza