Recommended Reading Lists

Picture Books

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle

A Color of His Own by Leo Leonni

The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney

Bear Came Along by Richard T. Morris

Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae & Guy Parker-Rees

What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins

A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Phillip C. Stead

Whose Footprint is That? by Darrin Lunde

One Dark Bird by Liz Garton Scanlon

Wild Symphony by Dan Brown

Joy by Yasmeen Ismall

Pete the Cat: I Love my White Shoes by Eric Litwin & James Dean

Good Dog, Carl by Alexandra Day

Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel

Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Sciezka

Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik

Busy Town by Richard Scarry

Chapter Books

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Hank the Cowdog series by John R. Erickson

Charlotte’s Web by E.B White

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Florence & Richard Atwater

Stuart Little by E.B White

The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

Skunk & Badger by Amy Timberlake

Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Redwall series by Brian Jacques

Warriors series by Erin Hunter

Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Freddy the Pig series by Walter R. Brooks

Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien

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