A great many thanks to all the people who helped me compile this list. I'm not going to put your names down partly because I don't have permission and partly because I'm lazy and afraid I'll leave someone out, but you know who you are....
Please keep in mind that these books can overlap, depending on your child’s reading abilities!!
0-3 Children’s Fiction (Read to Me)
ABC – Dr. Suess
Baby Einstein (Series)
Black on White – Tana Hoban
Blue Hat, Green Hat – Sandra Boyton
Brown Bear, Brown Bear – Eric Carle
But Not the Hippopotamus – Sandra Boynton
Come Here, Cleo! - Caroline Mockford
David Smells – David Shannon
The Foot Book – Dr. Suess
Fuzzy Yellow Duckings – Matthew Van Fleet
The Going to Bed Book – Sandra Boynton
Going to Sleep on the Farm – Wendy C. Lewison
Good Night, Gorilla – Peggy Rathmann
Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
The Grouchy Ladybug – Eric Carle
Guess How Much I Love You – Sam McBratney
Horns to Toes– Sandra Boynton
I Love You, Goodnight – Jon Buller
I Love You Stinky Face – Lisa McCourt
Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is It Blue? – Tana Hoban
Moo, Baa, La La La! – Sandra Boyton
No Biting! - Karen Katz
No, David! – David Shannon
Opposites – Sandra Boynton
On the Day You Were Born – Lois Rock
Peek-a Who? – Nina Laden
Strega Nona – Tomie De Paola
Tails – Matthew Van Fleet
The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle
The Very Quiet Cricket – Eric Carle
This is My Hair – Todd Parr
The Velveteen Rabbit – Margery Williams
When I’m Sleepy - Jane R. Howard
Yummy Yucky – Leslie Patricelli
The Z was Zapped – Chris Van Allsburg
4-8 Children’s Fiction
(Read to Me & Beginning Reader)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Judith Viorst
Ben’s Dream – Chris Van Allsburg
The Big Tidy Up - Norah Smaridge
The Biggest Sandwich Ever – Rita G. Gelman
Billy Beg and His Bull: An Irish Tale - Ellin Greene
Blueberries for Sal – Robert McCLoskey
The Bunyans – Audrey Wood
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom – Bill Martin Jr.
Chocolate Fever – Robert Kimmel Smith
Chrysanthemum – Kevin Henkes
Cinder Edna – Ellen Jackson
Clementine (Series) – Sara Pennypacker
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Judi Barrett
Cuddly Dudley - Jez Alborough
Dragon Scales and Willow Leaves – Terri L. Givens
Fair Brown and Trembling: An Irish Cinderella Story - Jude Daly
Fanny’s Dream - Caralyn Buehner
The Five Chinese Brothers – Claire Huchet Bishop
Flotsam – David Weisner
Frog & Toad are Friends – Arnold Lobel
The Froggy Books (Series) – by Jonathan London
George and Martha (series) – James Marshall
Gingerbread Baby – Jan Brett
Good Night, Good Knight – Shelly Moore Thomas
The Grandad Tree – Trishe Cooke
The Great Brain Series – John D. Fitzgerald
The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson
Harold and the Purple Crayon – Crocket Johnson
Harry the Horrible (Series) – Suzy Kline
Hooway for Wodney Wat! – Helen Lester
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – Laura Numeroff
If You Give a Pig a Pancake – Laura Numeroff
I’ll Do Better Tomorrow, I Promise – Maurine Adamek
In the Night Kitchen – Maurice Sendak
Ira Sleeps Over – Bernard Waber
The Island of the Skog – Steven Kellogg
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat - Simms Taback
Jumanji – Chris Van Allsburg
Junie B. Jones (Series) - Barbara Park
King Bidgood’s In the Bathtub – Audrey Wood
The Kissing Hand - Audrey Penn
The Knight Who Took All Day - James Mayhew
The Korean Cinderella - Shirley Climo
I Like Myself – Karen Beaumont
The Little Enginge That Could – Watty Piper
Love You Forever – Robert N. Munsch
Magic Tree House (Series) - Mary Pope Osborne
Make Way for Ducklings – Robert McCloskey
Mrs. Nelson is Missing – Harry Allard
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle (Series) – Betty MacDonald
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale - John Steptoe
My Father’s Dragon – Ruth Stiles Gannett
My Nasty Backpack – Allia Zobel Nolan
The Napping House – Audrey Wood
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish– Dr. Seuss
Owl Moon – Jane Yolen
The Paper Bag Princess – Robert N. Munsch
Parts – Tedd Arnold
Pirates Don’t Change Diapers – Melinda Long
The Polar Express – Chris Van Allsburg
Quick as a Cricket – Audrey Wood
The Quiltmaker's Gift - Jeff Brumbeau
The Rainbabies - Laura Krauss Melmed
Red, Red, Red – Valeri Gorbachev
The Relatives Came - Cynthia Rylant
Rumpelstiltskin - Paul O. Zelinsky
Skippyjon Jones (series) – Judy Schachner
Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella - Alan Schroeder
Snowmen at Night – Caralyn Buehner
Some Answers Are Loud, and Some Answers Are Soft - Barbara J. Porter
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon – Patty Lovell
Stone Soup – Jon Muth
The Three Pigs – David Weisner
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
The Widow’s Broom – Chris Van Allsburg
Will You Still Love Me - Rick Walton
Zoom – Istvan Banyai (wordless)
9-12 Children’s Fiction
*some of these are great YA Reads as well
39 Clues (series)* – Rick Riordan
American Girl (Series) – Various Authors
Anne of Green Gables* – L.M. Montgomery
Belle Prater’s Boy – Ruth White
THE BFG – Roald Dahl
Boston Jane (Series) – Jennifer L. Holm
Bridge to Teribithia – Katherine Patterson
Caddie Woodlawn – Carol Ryrie Brink
The Cay – Theodore Taylor
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
Charlie Bone (Series)* – Jenny Nimmo
Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
City of Ember (Series)* – Jeanne DuPrau
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Series)– Jeff Kinney
Dragon Rider* – Cornelia Funke
Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
Encyclopedia Brown (Series) – Donald J. Sobol
Esperanza Rising – Pam Munoz Ryan
The Eyes of the Amaryllis – Natalie Babbit
Fablehaven (Series)* – Brandon Mull
Fairest – Gail Carson Levine
Frindle – Andrew Clemens
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg
Fudge (Series) – Judy Blume
The Giver* – Lois Lowry
Hardy Boys (Series) – Franklin W. Dixon
Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
Holes – Louis Sachar
The House of Dies Drear – Virginia Hamilton
House of Mirrors – Ulysses Moore
How Angel Peterson Got His Name – Gary Paulsen
How to Eat Fried Worms – Thomas Rockwell
Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
The King’s Equal - Katherine Paterson
Leven Thumps (Series)* – Obert Skye
The Lightning Thief (Series)* – Rick Riordan
The Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little House (Series)* - Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Long Way from Chicago – Richard Peck
Mailing May –Michael O. Tunnell
Maniac Magee – Jerry Spinelli
Matilda – Roald Dahl
Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism* – Georgia Byng
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM – Robert O’Brien
Nancy Drew (Series) – Carolyn Keene
Number the Stars – Lois Lowry
On to Oregon – Honore Morrow
Peter and the Starcatchers (Series)* – D. Barry & R. Pearson
Ramona (Series)– Beverly Cleary
Redwall (Series) – Brian Jacques
Ribsy – Beverly Cleary
Sarah, Plain and Tall – Patricia MacLachlan
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shadow Spinner - Susan Fletcher
Socks – Beverly Cleary
The Spiderwick Chronicles (Series) – Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi
Tale of Despereaux – Kate DiCamillo
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing – Judy Blume
Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke
The Tripod Trilogy (Series) - John Christopher
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – Avi
Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbit
The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
The Whipping Boy – Sid Fleishman and Peter Sis
The Willoughbys – Lois Lowry
A Wrinkle in Time (Series) – Madeleine L’Engle
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze – Elizabeth Lewis
Young Adult Fiction
(little to no language or sexual content)
1984 – George Orwell
Beauty – Robin McKinley
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
Book of a Thousand Days – Shannon Hale
Children of the River – Linda Crew
The Chronicles of Narnia (Series) – C.S. Lewis
The Convict and the Stained Glass Windows – Carmelo Soraci
Countess Below Stairs – Eva Ibbotson
The Dark is Rising (Series) – Susan Cooper
Enders Game (Series) – Orson Scott Card
The Face on the Milk Carton – Caroline B. Cooney
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Goose Girl (series) - Shannon Hale
Graceling – Kristin Cashore
Harry Potter (Series)– J.K. Rowling
The House of the Scorpion – Nancy Farmer
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
Once Upon a Time (Series) - Cameron Dokey
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Princess Academy - Shannon Hale
Just Ella – Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Secret Journal of Brett Colton – Kay L. Mangum
Song of the Lioness (Series) – Tamora Peirce
Stardust – Neil Gaiman
Summers at Castle Auburn – Sharon Shinn
Twilight (Books 1-3) – Stephenie Meyer
Uglies (Series) – Scott Westerfeld
Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech
The Watcher – James Howe
Wings – Aprilynne Pike
The Witch of Blackbird Pond – Elizabeth George
Eragon (Series) – Christopher Paoulini
If you are DYING right now because we are missing your favorite book then feel free to comment with your own suggestion. Just make sure to leave the title, author, and age category of your book suggestion!!
Let's make sure to keep it clean in the YA section (and all of the others really, though I find it less likely to be a problem) -- we're only interested in recommendations that contain very little sexual content or profanity.
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