Book Recommendations: Read-Alouds
Chapter Books
Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Treasures of the Snow by Patricia St. John
The Adventures of Peter Cottontail by Thorton W. Burgess
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
A Question of Yams by Gloria Repp
Through the Green Gate by Mabel O-Donnell
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
Young Prince Huburt by Sidney Baldwin
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
The Copper Kings of Montana by Marian T. Place
Naya Nuki, the Girl Who Ran by Kenneth Thomasma
The Youngest Rover by John H. Amory
All the Glimmering Stars by Mark T. Sullivan
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
Mrs. Frisby and the Raths of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
God’s Smuggler by Andrew van der Bijl, Elizabeth Sherrill, and John Sherrill
Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
Kavik the Wolf Dog by Walt Morey
Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
From Anna by Jean Little
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
Picture Books
Five Little Monkeys with Nothing to Do by Eileen Christelow
Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester
The Mitten by Jan Brett
The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling
The Story about Ping by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese
Who Wants and Old Teddy Bear? by Ginni Hofman
What Will Hatch? by Jennifer Ward
The Golden Glow by Benjamin Flouw
When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes
A Butterfly is Patient by Dianna Hutts Aston
The Snowy Nap by Jan Brett
Winter Is Coming by Tony Johnston
First Snow in the Woods by Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick
Sleep Tight Farm: A Farm Prepares for Winter by Eugenie Doyle
Home by Carson Ellis
The Uglified Ducky by Brian Claflin
Six Dots by Jen Bryant
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas
Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
Freedom Song: The Story of Henry “Box” Brown by Sally M. Walker
The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
