READ ALOUDS:

Allard - Miss Nelson is missing
Adler - Cam Jansen mysteries
Atwater - Mr. Popper’s penguin
Avi - Poppy (and others)
Blume - Freckle juice
Bond - Paddington bear
Brooks - Freddy the pig series
Brown - Flat Stanley
Burnford - Incredible journey
Burton - Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel
Butterworth - Enormous egg
Cannon - Stellaluna (and others)
Catling - Chocolate touch
Cleary - Mouse and the motorcycle
Clifford - Help, I’m prisoner in the library
Dahl - Fantastic Mr. Fox/Charlie and the chocolate factory
Flack - Story of Ping
Gannett - My father’s dragon
Grahame - Wind in the willows/Reluctant dragon
Hoff - Danny and the dinosaur
Howe - Bunnicula
Kellogg - Anything
King-Smith - Babe the gallant pig
Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking
MacDonald - Mrs. Pigglewiggle
McDonald - Judy Moody stories
McCloskey - Lentil/Homer Price
Milne - Winnie the Pooh
Norton - Borrowers
Parrish - Amelia Bedelia
Peet - Anything
Peterson - The Littles
Polacco - Anything
Rey - Curious George
Rylant - Gooseberry Park
Scieszka - Stinky cheese man (and others)
Selden - Cricket in Times Square (and others)
Seuss - Anything
Sharmat - Nate the great
Silverstein - Where the sidewalk ends (and others)
Steig - Amos and Boris/Dominic
White - Charlotte’s web/Stuart Little
Wilder - Little House series
Williams - Velveteen rabbit

Any good longer folktale:
Tikki Tikki Tembo
Tale of tricky fox
Hatseller and the monkeys
Folktales by Gerald McDermott
Why mosquitoes buzz in peoples ears
Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain
Fool of the world and his flying ship
Andy and the lion
Lon Po Po
Sam and the tigers
Many versions of Cinderella story (multicultural or fractured)
...and many, many others

FOR INDEPENDENT READING:
Allard - Miss Nelson is back (and others)
Asch - Moon Bear (and others)
Berenstain - Berenstain bears series
Brett - Annie and the wild animals (and others)
Bridwell - Clifford series
Carle - Very hungry caterpillar (and others)
Cowly - Agapanthas Hum stories
Cushman - Aunt Eater mysteries
Eastman - Are you my mother?
Ernst - Zinnia and Dot (and others)
Farley - Little Black, a pony
Fox - Anything
Freeman - Corduroy (and others)
Gibbons - Any nonfiction titles
Guest - Iris and Walter series
Henkes - Owen (and others)
Hoban - Frances/Arthur stories
Hoff -  Danny and the dinosaur (and others)
Hutchins - Doorbell rang (and others)
Keats - Peter’s chair (and others)
Kraus - Leo the late bloomer (and others)
Lionni - Swimmy (and others)
Livingstone - Harley
Lobel - Frog and Toad stories
Marshall - George and Martha stories (and others)
Martin - Brown bear, brown bear (and others)
McCloskey - Make way for ducklings
McMullan - Fluffy series
McPhail - Pig stories
Milne - Winnie the pooh
Minarek - Little Bear series  
Munsch - Paper bag princess (and others)
Noble -  Day Jimmy’s boa ate the wash
Numeroff -  If you give a mouse a cookie (and others)
Park - Junie B. Jones series
Parish - Amelia Bedelia series
Pinkwater - Big orange splot
Potter -  Peter Rabbit (and others)
Rey -  Curious George series
Rylant - Henry and Mudge/Poppleton series (and others)
Seuss - Cat in the hat (and others)
Shannon - No David (and others)
Sharmat - Nate the Great series
Stewart - The gardener (and others)
Swoop - Araboolies of liberty street
Van Leeuwen - Oliver pig stories
Viorst - Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
Wiseman - Morris and Boris stories
Wood - Napping house (and others)
Yolen - Commander Toad series
Zion - Harry the dirty dog series