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Books to Read Before

Kindergarten

50 Books to Read

Before Kindergarten

Anno’s Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans The Mitten by Jan Brett The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

by Eileen Christelow Freight Train by Donald Crews Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney Bark, George by Jules Feiffer In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming Corduroy by Don Freeman

Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino

Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins Peter’s Chair by Ezra Jack Keats The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats Swimmy by Leo Lionni The Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose

by Arnold Lobel Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

by Bill Martin, Jr. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

by Bill Martin, Jr. & James Archambault Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott Goin’ Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack I Stink! by Kate & Jim McMullan Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

by Laura Joffe Numeroff Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann Uncle Nacho’s Hat by Harriet Rohmer The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw

Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto Joesph Had a Little Overcoat

by Simms Tabak Whose Chick Are You? by Nancy Tafuri Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good,

Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst Owl Babies by Martin Waddell Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

by Mo Willems Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson Heckedy Peg by Audrey Wood

The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood

A Number of Animals by Christopher Wormell How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?

by Jane Yolen