Monday, May 21, 2012

1st-2nd Grade (6-8 year old) Book List

Alpha by author; likely location in library noted for your convenience ☺. If your child is a strong reader already and/or you need more read aloud ideas, check the 2nd-3rd grade list.

398.2 refers to a common location for many fables/fairy tales/folk lore in the juvenile Dewey shelves
398.8 refers to a common location for poetry anthologies in the juvenile Dewey shelves

Atinuke. Anna Hibiscus. 2010. (Early Chapter book/juvenile fiction).
Atinuke. The No. 1 Car Spotter. 2011 (Early Chapter Book/juvenile fiction). 

Brown, Marcia. Cinderella (398.2)
Brown, Marcia. Stone Soup (picture book)
Burton, Virginia Lee. The Little House (picture book)
Cooney, Barbara. Miss Rumphius (picture book)
DePaola, Tomie. The Clown of God (picture book)
DePaola, Tomie. Helga’s Dowry (picture book)
DiCamillo, Kate. Bink and Gollie (early chapter book--may also be in easy reader or even picture book)
DiCamillo, Kate. Mercy Watson Series. 2000's. (Early chapter book series/juvenile fiction)
Estes, Eleanor. The Hundred Dresses (early chapter book/juvenile fiction)

Gannett, Ruth Stiles. My Father’s Dragon (chapter book/juvenile fiction)
Farjeon, Eleanor. Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep
Galdone, Paul. (any folk/fairy tale) (398.2)
Hoban, Russell. How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen (picture book)
Kellogg, Steven. Pinkerton, Behave (picture book)
Kimmel, Eric A. Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins (picture book)
Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories (Juvenile fiction)
McCloskey, Robert. Make Way for Ducklings (picture book)
McCloskey, Robert. One Morning in Maine. (picture book)
McKissack, Patricia. Flossie and the Fox (picture book)
McPhail, David. The Magical Drawings of Mooney B. Finch (picture book)
Noble, Trina Hakes. The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash (picture book)
Opie, Iona. I Saw Esau (poetry; 398.8)
Pennypacker, Sara. Clementine. 2006. (Early chapter book)
Parish, Peggy. Amelia Bedelia (easy reader)
San Souci, Robert D. The Red Heels (picture book)
San Souci, Robert D. Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow. (picture book or 398.2)
Seuss, Dr. Bartholemew and the Oobleck (picture book)
Seuss, Dr. The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins (picture book)
Seuss, Dr. Horton Hatches the Egg (and other Seuss) (picture book)
Seuss, Dr. The King’s Stilts (picture book)
Silverstein, Shel. The Giving Tree.(picture book)
Silverstein, Shel. Where the Sidewalk Ends (poetry; 398.8)
Steig, William. Dr. DeSoto (picture book)
Steig, William. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (picture book)
Titus, Eve. Anatole (picture book)
Trivizas, Eugene. The Three Little Wolves and the Big, Bad Pig (picture book)
Viorst, Judith. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (picture book)
Waber, Bernard. Ira Sleeps Over (picture book)
Zelinsky, Paul O. The Lion and the Stoat (picture book)
Zelinsky, Paul O. Rapunzel (398.2)
Zemach, Harve. Duffy and the Devil (picture book)

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