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ProActiveParent.ComThe following books have been screened by and are recommended for pre-school through kindergarten children by the authors of Straight Talk About Reading:
Recommended
Infant / Toddler / Pre-School /
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Title |
Publisher Copyright Date |
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| Ahlberg, Janet & Allen | Each Peach Pear Plum | Viking, Scholastic, 1978 |
| Arnold, Tedd | No Jumping on the Bed
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Dial, 1987 |
| Barton, Byron | Trucks | HarperCollins, 1986 |
| Brown, Margaret Wise | Goodnight Moon
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HarperCollins, 1947 |
| Bruna, Dick | Miffy | Methuen, 1964 |
| Carlstrom, Nancy White | Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? | Simon & Schuster, 1963 |
| Gibbons, Gail | Trains | Holiday House, 1987 |
| Hill, Eric | Where’s Spot?
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Putnam, 1980 |
| Martin, Jr., Bill and Eric Carle | Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? | Holt, 1967, 1983 |
| Martin, Jr., Bill and John Archambault | Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | Simon & Schuster, 1989 |
| Numeroff, Laura Joffe | If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
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HarperCollins, 1985 |
| Oxenbury, Helen | Tom and Pippo and the Bicycle | Candlewick Press, 1997 |
Recommended Picture Books to Read-Aloud to a
Preschool or Kindergarten Child
Author |
Title |
Publisher Copyright Date |
| Allard, Harry | Miss Nelson Is Missing | Houghton Mifflin, 1977 |
| Barrett, Judith | Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
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MacMillan, 1978 |
| Bartone, Elisa | Peppe the Lamplighter | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1983 |
| Bemelmans, Ludwig | Madeline
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Viking, 1939 |
| Brett, Jan | The Mitten | G.P. Putnam, 1989 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur’s Teacher Trouble | Little, Brown, 1986 |
| Burton, Virginia
Lee
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Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel | Houghton Mifflin,
1939 Houghton Mifflin, 1942 Philomel, 1969
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| Cooney, Barbara | Miss Rumphius | Viking Penguin, 1982 |
| DeBrunoff, Jean | The Story of Babar | Random House, 1933 |
| dePaola, Tomie | The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush | Putnam, 1988 |
| Gag, Wanda | Millions of Cats | Coward McCann, 1928 |
| Freeman, Donald | Corduroy | Viking, 1968 |
| Hall, Donald | Ox-Cart Man
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Viking, 1979 |
| Hoban, Russell | A Baby Sister for Frances | Harper, 1964 |
| Holabrid, Katharine | Angelina Ballerina | Random House, 1983 |
| Hutchins, Pat | The Doorbell Rang | Greenwillow/Scholastic, 1986 |
| Hughes, Shirley | An Evening at Alfie’s | Morrow, 1985 (out of Print) |
| Lionni, Leo | Frederick | Random House, 1967 |
Recommended Picture Books to Read-Aloud to a
Preschool or Kindergarten Child, Continued
Title |
Publisher Copyright Date |
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| McCloskey, Robert | Make Way for Ducklings
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Viking, 1941 |
| McCully, Emily Arnold | Mirette on the High Wire | Putnam & Grosset, 1992 |
| Marshall, James | George and Martha | Houghton Mifflin,, 1972 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Babushka’s Doll | Simon & Schuster, 1990 |
| Rey, H.A. | The Complete Adventures of Curious George | Houghton Mifflin, 1941 |
| Seuss, Dr. | The Cat in the Hat | Houghton
Mifflin, 1957
Random House, 1960 |
| Steptoe, John | Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters | William Morrow, 1987 |
| Steig, William | Doctor DeSoto | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982 |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | The Wreck of the Zephyr | Houghton Mifflin, 1983 |
| Viorst, Judith | Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day | Atheneum,
1972
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| Waber, Bernard | Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile | Houghton
Mifflin, 1965
Houghton Mifflin, 1972 |
| Williams, Vera B. | A Chair for My Mother | Greenwillow, 1982 |
| Yolen, Jane | Owl Moon | Philomel, 1987 |
