Suggested Children's Reading List
By Age
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AGES
0 TO 18 MONTHS
- Big
Fat Hen by Keith Baker
- Black on White by Tana Hoban
- Clap Hands by Helen Oxenbury
- Count with Maisy by Lucy Cousins
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise
Brown
- I Touch by Rachael Isadora
- More, More, More Said the Baby by
Vera Williams
- My Very First Mother Goose by
Iona Opie
- Piggies by Don and Audrey Wood
- Where's Spot by Eric Hill

AGES 18
MONTHS TO 3
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You
See? by Bill Martin, Jr.
- Freight Train by Donald Crews
- Hattie and the Fox by Mem Fox
- Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?
by Nancy Carlstom
- Lunch by Denise Fleming
- Mr. Gumpy's Outing by John
Burningham
- Mouse Paint by Ellen Walsh
- Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins
- Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric
Carle

AGES 3 TO 5
- Alfie Gives a Hand Shirley Hughes
- Are You My Mother?
By P.D. Eastman (see also Go, Dog, Go by the same author)
-
Brown Bear,
Brown Bear, What Do You See? by
Bill Martin Jr.
-
Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?
by Martin Waddell
- Caps for Sale by Esphyr
Slobodkina
- Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
- Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type
by Doreen Cronin
- Clifford, the Big Red Dog by Norman
Bridwell
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- Curious George by H.A. Rey
- Duck on a Bike by David Shannon
-
Freight Train by Donald
Crews
-
Frog and Toad Are
Friends by Arnold Lobel
- Goodnight, Moon by Margaret W.
Brown
- Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
-
How Big Were the Dinosaurs?
by Bernard Most
- Ira Sleeps Over Bernard Waber
- If You Give a Mouse a
Cookie By Laura Joffe Numeroff
- Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmens
- Make Way for
Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
-
Max's Breakfast by Rosemary Wells
- Mike Mulligan and His
Steam Shovel By Virginia Lee Burton
- Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
- Miss Nelson Is
Missing! by Harry Allard
- Olivia by Ian Falconer
-
Rain Forest
by Helen Cowcher
-
Raven: A
Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest
by Gerald McDermott
- Richard Scarry's Best
Word Book Ever By Richard Scarry
-
Seven Blind Mice by
Ed Young
- Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
-
So Much! by Trish Cooke
- The
Berenstain Bears by Jan and Stan
Berenstain
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Suess
- The Little Engine That
Could by Watty Piper
- The Tale of Peter
Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
- The Very Hungry
Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- The Wheels on the Bus
By Paul Zelinsky
- There's a Nightmare in My Closet by
Mercer Mayer
-
Tomie dePaola's
Mother Goose by Tomie dePaola
- Tuesday by David Wiesne
-
Yo! Yes? by Chris
Raschka
- Wemberly Worried
By Kevin Henkes
- When Sophie Gets
Angry -- Really, Really Angry By Molly Bang
- Where the Wild Things Are by
Maurice Sendak

AGES
5 TO 8
-
A Bear Called
Paddington by Michael Bond
- Alexander and the
Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day By Judith Viorst
- Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parrish
- Arthur by Marc Brown
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
- Bedtime for Frances by Russell
Hoban
- Boxcar Children by Gertrude Warner
- Cassie Loves
Beethoven By Alan Arkin
- Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory by Roald Dahl
-
Chato's Kitchen by
Gary Soto
-
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
- Clifford, the Big Red Dog by Norman
Bridwell
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- Curious George by H. A. Rey
- Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
by Donald J. Sobol
- Frog and Toad are Friends by
Arnold Lobel
- Franklin by Paulette Bourgeois
- Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
- George and Martha by James
Marshall
-
Grandfather's
Journey by Allen Say
- Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant
- Horton Hatches an Egg by Dr.
Seuss
- I Will Never Not Ever
Eat a Tomato By Lauren Child
- Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
- Little Bear By
Else Holmelund Minarik
- Little Critter by Mercer Mayer
- Little House on the
Prairie by Laura I. Wilder
- Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
by Edward Ardizonne
- Lyle the Crocodile by Bernard Waber
- Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Magic Tree House by Mary Pope
Osborne
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert
McCloskey
- Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry
Allard
- Moon Bear by Frank Åsch
- Nate the Great by Marjorie Sharmat
- Officer Buckle and Gloria by
Peggy Rathmann
-
Patrick's
Dinosaurs by
Carol Carrick
-
The Polar
Express by Chris Van Allsburg
-
Poppa's
New Pants by Angela Shelf
Medearis
- Ramona the Pest
By Beverly Cleary
- Ramona Quimby, Age
Eight by Beverly Cleary
-
Red Leaf, Yellow
Leaf by Lois Ehlert
-
Sam and the
Tigers by Julius Lester
-
Stellaluna by Janell
Cannon
- Strega Nona by Tomie DePaola
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by
William Steig
- The
Berenstain Bears Nursery Tales by Stan
and Jan Berenstain
- The Cat in the Hat
By Dr. Seuss
-
The Magic School
Bus Lost in the Solar System
by
Joanna Cole
- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
- The Velveteen
Rabbit by Margery William
- Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arelene Mosel
-
Uncle
Jed's Barbershop by Margaree King
Mitchell
-
Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
- Where the Sidewalk
Ends by Shel Silverstein
- Where the Wild Things Are by
Maurice Sendak
- Where's Spot? by Eric Hill

AGES
8 TO 10
- Anastasia by Lois Lowry
- Animorphs by K.A. Applegate
- Amber Brown by Paula Danziger
- American Girls
- Babysitter's Club byAnn Martin
- Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate
Dicamillo
- Betsy-Tacy By
Maud Hart Lovelace
- Bingo Brown by Betsy Byars
- Bunnicula by James Howe
- Cam Jansen by David Adler
- Casebusters by Joan L. Nixon
- Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
-
Chrysanthemum
by Kevin Henkes
- Double Fudge by Judy Blume
- Encyclopedia Brown by Donald Sobol
- Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
- Fourth Grade Rats
By Jerry Spinelli
- Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia
de Felice
- Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park
- Little House in the Big Woods by
Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Little House on the Prairie by
Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen
- Mrs. Frisby and the
Rats of NIMH By Robert C. O'Brien
- Much Ado about Aldo by Johanna
Hurwitz
- Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
- Nate the Great by Marjorie Sharmat
- Pee Wee Scouts by Judy Delton
- Polk Street Kids by Patricia Reilly
Giff
- Ramona by Beverly Cleary
-
Ramona the
Brave by Beverly Cleary
- Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary
- Ramona's World by Beverly Cleary
- Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia
MacLachlan
- Second Grade Ape by Daniel
Pinkwater
- Shiloh by Phyllis Naylor
- Sideways Stories from Wayside School
by Louis Sacher
- Sports by Matt Christopher
-
The Animal
Family
by Randal Jarreil
- The Bailey School Kids by Debbie
Dadey
- The Boxcar Children by Gertrude
Chandler Warner
-
The
Constitution of the United States
by Peter Spier
- The Great Gilly
Hopkins By Katherine Paterson
- The Hardy Boys by Franklin Dixon
- The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne
Reid Banks
- The Littles by John Peterson
- The Stories Julian Tells by Ann
Cameron
- The Way Things Work
By David Macaulay
- Tuck Everlasting
By Natalie Babbitt
- Wayside School Is
Falling Down By Louis Sachar

AGES 10 AND UP
-
Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis
Carroll
- A Wrinkle in Time
By Madeleine L'Engle
- Absolutely Normal
Chaos By Sharon Creech
- Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine
Patterson
- Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery by James and Deborah Howe
- Boxcar Children by Gertrude Warner
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dah
-
Cross Sections: Castle
by Stephen Biesty and Roger Platt
- Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
-
From the
Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
- Garfield Counts to Ten by Jim Davis
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas
Rockwell
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by
Scott O'Dell
- Lincoln: A
Photobiography by Russell Freedman
-
Little Women by Louisa
May Alcott
- Long Way from Chicago by Richard
Peck
-
Maniac Magee
by Jerry Spinelli
- Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade by
Barthe DeClements
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
- Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
- Ramona Quimby, Age Eight by Beverly
Cleary
- Roll of Thunder,
Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
-
Safari Beneath
the Sea: The Wonder World of the North
Pacific by Diane Swanson
-
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Stepping on the
Cracks By Mary Downing Hahn
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by
Judy Blume
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by
Mark Twain
-
The Always
Prayer Shawl by Sheldon Oberman
- The Battle for the
Castle By Elizabeth Winthrop
- The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
- The Bridge to Terabithia by
Katherine Paterson
-
The Chocolate
War: A Novel by Robert Cormier
-
The Diary of a
Young Girl: the Definitive Edition
by Anne Frank
-
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
-
The Glory
Field by Walter Dan Myers
- The Great Brain by John D.
Fitzgeral
- The Karate Kid by B.B. Hiller
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
by C.S. Lewis
- The Pinballs by Betsy Byars
-
The Story of
Jumping Mouse by John Steptoe
-
The True
Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
-
The Way Things
Work by David Macaulay
- The Wish Giver
By
Bill Brittain
- The Witch of
Blackbird Pond By Elizabeth George Speare
- The Wizard of Oz by Frank L.
Baum
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie
Babbitt
- Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson
Rawls
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel
Siverstein
- Willie Bea and the Time the Martians
Landed by Virginia Hamilton
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