Suggested Titles
Here are just a few of the wonderful children’s books that are appropriate for National Reading Day..
- All Birds Have Feathers By Bruce Larkin
- A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
- A Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanne Bloom
- Abuela by Arthur Dorros
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
- Alpha Oops! The Day the Z Went First by Alethea Kontis
- Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner by Amy Schwartz
- Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
- Bear Draws Food by Bruce Larkin
- Ben’s Teddy Bear by Beverly Randell
- Black? White! Day? Night!: A Book of Opposites by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
- Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
- Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg
- Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- Curious George by H.A. Rey
- Dino Pets by Lynn Plourde
- Doctor De Soto by William Steig
- Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
- Down the Back of the Chair by Margaret Mahy
- Duck on a Bike by David Shannon
- Easy Street by Rita Gray
- Farm Colors By Bruce Larkin
- Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell
- Freight Train by Donald Crews
- Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London
- Green as a Bean by Karla Kuskin
- Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
- Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss
- Hot dogs by Beverly Randell
- How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
- If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff
- In My Classroom By Bruce Larkin
- Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino
- It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale retold by Margot Zemach
- It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Green Shaw
- Jump, Frog, Jump! by Robert Kalan
- Kindergarten Countdown by Anna Jane Hays
- King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood
- Kiss Good Night by Amy Hest
- Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
- Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus
- Let’s Eat By Bruce Larkin
- Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come! by Nancy Carlson
- Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- Mama Cat Has Three Kittens by Denise Fleming
- Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
- Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate
- Mother Goose: Numbers on the Loose by Leo & Diane Dillon
- Move Over, Rover! by Karen Beaumont
- Mr. Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham
- Mushroom in the Rain retold by Mirra Ginsburg
- My Grandma= Mi Abuelita by Ginger Foglesong Guy
- My Kindergarten by Rosemary Wells
- Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
- Old MacDonald Drives a Tractor by Don Carter
- Olivia by Ian Falconer
- Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
- Piggie Pie by Margie Palatini
- Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
- Pretty Salma: A Little Red Riding Hood Story from Africa by Niki Daly
- Ready For The Heat by Bruce Larkin
- Rumpelstiltskin by Paul Zelinsky
- Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young
- Smash! Crash! by Jon Scieszka
- Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
- SuperHero ABC by Bob McLeod
- Swimmy by Leo Lionni
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
- Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester
- Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
- Ten Naughty Little Monkeys by Suzanne Williams
- The Baby Beebee Bird by Diane Massie
- The big kick by Beverly Randell
- The Bridge is Up! by Babs Bell
- The Bus Stop by Janet Morgan Stoeke
- The Gingerbread Boy retold by Richard Egielski
- The Great Gracie Chase by Cynthia Rylant
- The Jacket I Wear in the Snow by Shirley Neitzel
- The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
- The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) by Philemon Sturges
- The Little Red Hen by Jerry Pinkney
- The Magic Hat by Mem Fox
- The Mitten by Jan Brett
- The New Girl– and Me by Jacqui Robbins
- The Rose in My Garden by Arnold Lobel
- The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
- The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
- The Stray Dog retold by Marc Simont
- The Three Bears retold by Paul Galdone
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff retold by Paul Galdone
- The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
- The Twelve Days of Kindergarten by Deborah Rose
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Thelonius Monster’s Sky-High Fly Pie by Judy Sierra
- There’s a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer
- Tiger, Tiger by Dee Lillegard
- Tikki Tikki Tembo retold by Arlene Mosel
- When a Monster Is Born by Sean Taylor
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
- White Is for Blueberry by George Shannon
- Widget by Lynne McFarland
- Zomo the Rabbit: A Trickster Tale from West Africa retold by Gerald McDermott

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Celebrate National Reading Day On January 23, 2023.