Great Stories to Read

Look for these stories in the local library. They are great stories to read with your child each night.

FIRST GRADE

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.

Quick As A Cricket by Don Wood

Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles by Leo Dillon

Junie B. Jones (series) by Barbara Park

In a Dark, Dark Wood by David Carter

In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming

 Hattie and the Fox by Mem Fox

Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant

Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus

Swimmy by Leo Lionni

Amelia Bedilia (series) by Peggy Parish

Mouse Tales by Arnold Lobel

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Night Sounds, Morning Colors by Rosemary Wells

Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McLerran

Armadillo Rodeo by Jan Brett

Alexander and the Wind Up Mouse by Leo Lionni

Blueberries for Sal by Robert McLerran

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

 SECOND GRADE

Freckle Juice by Judy Blume

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

The Chalkbox Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla

 Gooney Bird Greene by Paula Danzinger

Magic Treehouse (series) by Mary Pope Osborne

The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch

The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant

Stellaluna by Jannell Cannon

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

You Read To Me, I'll Read To You by Mary Ann Hoberman

Alexander, and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

My Mama Had a Dancing Heart by Libba Moore Gray

Seven Kisses in a Row by Patricia MacLachlan

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

Eloise by Kay Thompson

   Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes

Heckedy Peg Audrey Wood

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

The Popcorn Book by Tomie dePaola

 THIRD GRADE

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Tales of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

Stuart Little by E.B. White

The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling

The Pain and the Great One by Judy Blume

Sleeping Ugly by Jane Yolen

Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman

Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

The Wednesday Surprise by Eve Bunting

The Wise Woman and Her Secret by Eve Merriam

When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant

Barn Dance by John Archambault

   The War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith

Island of the Skog by Steven Kellogg

Hank the Cowdog (series) by John Ericson

Bunnicula by James Howe

Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg

How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague