ASM Summer Reading: Grade K1, K2 & K3

• Ahlberg, Janet. (E Ahl) Each Peach Pear Plum: an "I spy" story
• Aliki, (E Ali) We are Best Friends
• Alborough, Jez. (E Alb) Duck in the Truck
• Beaton, Clare. (E Bea) How Big Is a Pig?
• Beaton, Clare. (E Bea) Zoë and Her Zebra
• Bourgeois, Paulette. (E Bou) Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Series)
• Bridwell, Norman. (E Bri) Clifford the Big Red Dog (Series)
• Briggs, Raymond. (E Bri) Snowman
• Brown, Marcia. (E Bro) Once A Mouse
• Brown, Margaret Wise. (E Bro) Goodnight Moon
• Burton, Virginia. (E Bur) The Little House (Caldecott Medal)
• Capucilli, Alyssa. (E Cap) Biscuit (Series)
• Carle, Eric. (E Car) The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Carle, Eric. (E Car) 1, 2, 3, to the Zoo
• Christelow, Eileen. (E Chr) Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed (Series)
• DeBrunoff, Jean. (E DeB) The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant (Series)
• De Paola, Tomie (E DeP) Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs
• Eastman, P.D. (E Eas) Are You My Mother?
• Galdone, Paul. (E Gal) Hattie and the Fox
• Guarino, Deborah. (E Gua) Is Your Mama A Llama?
• Hest, Amy. (E Hes) Baby Duck and the Bad Eyeglasses (Series)
• Hillert, Margaret. (E Hil) The Three Bears
• Hoban, Russell. (E Hob) Bedtime for Frances (Series)
• Hoberman, Mary Ann. (E Hob) Miss Mary Mack
• Hutchins, Pat. (E Hut) The Doorbell Rang
• Keats, Ezra Jack. (E Kea) Peter’s Chair
• Keller, Holly. (E Hol) Geraldine’s Blanket
• Langstaff, John. (E Lan) Frog Went ACourtin’ (Caldecott Medal)
• Lobel, Arnold. (E Lob) Frog and Toad All Year (Series)
• London, Jonathan. (E Lon) Froggy Gets Dressed (Series)
• Marshall, James (E Mar) George and Martha
• Martin, Bill and John Archambault (E Mar) Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
• McGrath, Barbara Barbieri. (E McG) The Cheerios Counting Book
• Numeroff, Laura Joffe. (E Num) If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
• Rey, H. L. (E Rey) Curious George (Series)
• Seuss, Dr. (E Seu) Green Eggs and Ham
• Seuss, Dr. (E Seu) Hop on Pop
• Sharmat, Mitchell. (E Sha) Gregory, the Terrible Eater
• Taback, Simms. (E Tab) There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
• Tafuri, Nancy. (E Taf) Have You Seen My Duckling?
• Waber, Bernard. (E Wab) Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
• Wells, Rosemary. (E Wel) Max’s Dragon Shirt
• Winthrop, Elizabeth. (E Win) Shoes
• Wood, Audrey. (E Woo) The Napping House
• Yolen, Jane. (E Yol) Owl Moon (Caldecott Medal)
• Zion, Gene. (E Zio) Harry the Dirty Dog

Nonfiction Series/Authors
Gail Gibbons
Steve Jenkins
National Geographic Readers
Britta Teckentrup

Fiction Series
Angelina Ballerina – Katherine Holabird
Pete the Cat – Eric Litwin / James Dean
You Are (Not) Small – Anna Kang
Little Critter – Mercer Mayer
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – Laura Numeroff
Fancy Nancy – Jane O’Connor
Knuffle Bunny – Mo Willems

Authors

David Adler
Mac Barnett
Jan Brett
Eric Carle
Mem Fox
Chris Haughton
Kevin Henkes
Tad Hills
Jon Klassen
​Ethan Long
Kate Mc Mullan
Bob Shea
​Chris Raschka
Mo Willems

Books About Me
• I Like Me! by Nancy L. Carlson
• I Like to Be Little by Charlotte Zolotow
• The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle
• My Five Senses by Aliki
• Owen by Kevin Henkes
• When I Get Bigger by Mercer Mayer

Family Stories
• Just Me Books by Mercer Mayer
• Mama Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse

Predictable Books
(Stories with a pattern using rhyme or rhythm.)
• Curious George by H. A. Rey
• Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
• The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone
• Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
• What’s in Fox’s Sack? by Paul Galdone

Beginning, Middle, and End Concept
• Bony-Legs by Joanna Cole
• A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee by Chris Van Dusen
• Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
• Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins
• The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Color and Counting Books
• Each Orange Had Eight Slices: A Counting Book by
Paul Giganti Jr.
• Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On by Lois Ehlert
• Frog Counts to Ten by John Liebler
• Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni
• Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue? by Tana Hoban
• Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
• Ten Bears in My Bed: A Goodnight Countdown by
Stanley Mack
• Ten Little Fish by Audrey Wood
• 26 Letters and 99 Cents by Tana Hoban

Caldecott Winners (Best Illustrator)
See list here or the poster in the Learning Commons!

Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes
• James Marshall’s Mother Goose by James Marshall
• My Very First Mother Goose by Iona Opie and Rosemary Wells
• Tomie dePaola’s Mother Goose by Tomie dePaola

Folktales and Fairy Tales
• Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg
• Cinderella by Marcia Brown
• The Hare and the Tortoise by Brian Wildsmith
• Henny Penny by H. Werner Zimmermann
• The Little Red Hen by Margot Zemach
• The Three Bears by Paul Galdone
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Peter Christen Asbjornsen
• Three Little Pigs by James Marshall
• The Three Little Pigs by Rodney Peppé
• The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen

Stories in Rhyme
• All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka
• Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema
• Miss Spider’s Tea Party by David Kirk

Friends
• Benjamin and Tulip by Rosemary Wells
• We Are Best Friends by Aliki
• Who Will Be My Friends? by Syd Hoff