My Big List of Books
This is a specially curated list of my favorite reads, broken up by age group. Hope it helps you find some new books for the little reader in your life 🙂 I currently only have birth-kindergarten, 1st-5th grade is coming soon! Happy Reading!
Baby (0-18m):
Look, Look! – Peter Linenthal
Hello, Animals – Smriti Prasadam
Hello, Bugs – Smriti Prasadam
Spots and Dots – Chez Picthall
Baby Animals Black and White – Phyllis Limbacher Tildes
Farm Tails – Jellycat Soft Cloth Books
First 100 Words – Priddy Baby
TouchThinkLearn Opposites – Xavier Deneux
Pantone: Colors – Harry N. Abrams
Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
Hello Baby! – Mem Fox
Guess How Much I Love You – Sam McBratney
Dear Zoo – Rod Campbell
That’s Not My Dinosaur – Fiona Watt
Little Cloud – Eric Carle
Peek-a-WHO – Nina Laden
Nest – Jorey Hurley
Toddler (18m-3y):
The Way I Feel – Janan Cain
Love You Forever – Robert Munsch
All Aboard: National Parks– Kevin and Haily Meyers
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons – James Dean and Eric Litwin
Birds – Kevin Henkes
Colors Colors Everywhere – Libby Walden
Technicolor Treasure Hunt – Hvass & Hannibal
Goodnight Gorilla – Peggy Rathmann
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed – Eileen Christelow
The Feelings Book – Todd Parr
Numbers/Numeros: Bright Baby Touch and Feel – Priddy Books
Colors/Colores: Bright Baby – Priddy Books
Animals/Animales:Bright Baby– Priddy Books
Trucks/ Camiones: Bright Baby– Priddy Books
My Food/Mi Comida –Rebecca Emberley
My Clothes/Mi Ropa – Rebecca Emberley
Planes Go – Steve Light
Diggers Go – Steve Light
Charley Harpers ABC’s – Charley Harper
Farm(Touch and Explore) – Xavier Deneux
Making Faces – Abrams Appleseed
1 2 3 Count with Me– Tiger Tales
Preschool (3-5y):
H is For Happy – An Emoji ABC Book – Evan Nimke
The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle
My Mouth is a Volcano – Julia Cook
The Family Book – Todd Parr
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus – Mo Willems
Duck! Rabbit! – Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld
Eating the Alphabet – Lois Ehlert
The Kissing Hand – Audrey Penn
I Spy Books – Jean Marzollo
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
ABC’s – Kate Wilson
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes – James Dean and Eric Litwin
Hop on Pop – Dr. SuessThe Runaway Bunny – Margaret Wise Brown
If You Give A Mouse a Cookie– Laura Numeroff
Curious George Visits the Zoo – Margaret and H.A. Rey
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? – Bill Martin Jr.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom – Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
The Rainbow Fish – Marcus Pfister
Corduroy – Don Freeman
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly – Lucille Colandro
Before & After – Jean Julien
Kindergarten (5-6y):
The Book With No Pictures – B.J. Novak
Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses – Kimberly and James Dean
Oh The Places You’ll Go – Dr. Suess
Mercy Watson series – Kate DiCamillo
Planting a Rainbow – Lois Ehlert
Dino-Baseball (available for other sports as well) – Lisa Wheeler
The Colors of Us – Karen Katz
Interrupting Chicken – David Ezra Stein
I’m A Frog – Mo Willems
The Dot – Pete Reynolds
Don’t Squeel Unless It’s a BIG Deal: A Tale of Tattletales – Jeanie Franz Ransom
The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Hapiness for Kids – Carol McCloud
How Full is Your Bucket? For Kids – Tom Rath
It’s Okay to Be Different – Todd Parr
The Earth Book – Todd Parr
Mrs. Peaknuckle alphabet books – Mrs. Peaknuckle
The Pout-Pout Fish – Deborah Diesen
My Friend Is Sad – Mo Willems
Waiting Is Not Easy – Mo Willems
Beautiful Oops – Barney Saltzberg