Suggested Book List for Repeated Read Alouds
Animals
Animals Born Alive and Well – Ruth Heller (NF)
Annie and the Wild Animals – Jan Brett (F)
Dog Who Had Kittens, The – Polly Robertus (F)
Frog – Susan Cooper (F)
Good Night, Gorilla – Peggy Rathman (NF)
Good Night, Owl! – Pat Hutchins (F)
Let’s Go Home, Little Bear – Martin Waddell
Mama, Why? – Karma Wilson (F)
Moose Tracks! – Karma Wilson (F)
Mouse Count – Ellen Stoll Walsh (F)
Oh, Tucker! – Steven Kroll (F)
One Monkey Too Many – Jackie French Koller (F)
Uh-Oh Calico! – Jan Brett (F)
Magic Thinks Big - Elisha Cooper (F)
Mouse Count – Ellen Stoll Walsh (F)
Umbrella, The – Jan Brett (F)
Classics
A Pocket for Corduroy- Don Freeman (F)
Caps for Sale – Esphyr Slobodkina (F)
Corduroy – Don Freeman (F)
Diversity
Abiyoyo - Pete Seeger (F)
Baboushka and the Three Kings –
Colors of Us, The – Karen Katz (F)
Crayon Box that Talked – Shane De Rolf
How the Stars Fell Into the Sky: A Navajo Legend – Jerrie Oughton
We Are All Alike…We Are All Different – Cheltenbam Elementary School Kindergarten
Whoever You Are – Mem Fox
Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky – Elphinstone Dayrell (F)
Emotions
Alexandra and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Judith Viorst (F)
A Pocket Full of Kisses – Audrey Penn (F)
Bear Feels Scared – Karma Wilson (F)
Cuckoo – Lois Ehlert (F)
Creepy Things Are Scaring Me – Jerome & Jarrett Pumphrey (F)
Full, Full, Full of Love – Trish Cooke (F)
I Was So Mad – Norma Simon (F)
Jamaica’s Find – Juanita Havill (F)
Jamaica Tag-Along – Juanita Havill (F)
Kissing Hand, The – Audrey Penn (F)
Llama Llama Mad at Mama – Anna Dewdney (F)
Llama Llama Misses Mama – Anna Dewdney (F)
Owl Babies – Marten Waddell
Sheila, the Brave – Kevin Henkes (F)
That Makes Me Mad! – Steven Kroll (F)
There’s a Nightmare in My Closet – Mercer Mayer (F)
That’s Mine, Horace – Holly Keller (F)
Oliver Finds His Way – Phyllis Root (F)
Mean Soup – Betsy Everitt (F)
There’s A Nightmare in My Closet – Mercer Mayer
Wemberly Worried – Kevin Henkes
When Sophie Gets Angry Really, Really Angry – Molly Bang (F)
Who’s Mouse Are You – Robert Kraus (F)
Family
Aaron’s Shirt – Deborah Gould (F)
Abuelita, Full of Life – Amy Costales (F)
A Chair for My Mother – Vera Williams (F)
A Mother for Choco – Kerksao Kasza (F)
A Perfect Home – Charlene Costanzo (F)
A Place for Ben – Jeanne Titherington (F)
Boomer’s Surprise – Constance McGeorge (F)
Do You Still Love Me? – Charlotte Middleton (F)
Full, Full, Full of Love – Trish Cooke (F)
Go Away Big GREEN Monster! – Ed Emberley (F)
Granpa and Bo – Kevin Henkes (F)
I’ll Fix Anthony – Judith Viorst (F)
It’s All About Me! – Nancy Cote (F)
My Sister Celia – Judith Casely (F)
Napping House, The – Audrey Wood (F)
Oonga Boonga - Frieda Wishinsky (F)
Peter’s Chair – Ezra Jack Keats (F)
Relatives Came, The – Cynthia Rylant (F)
What Will Mommy Do? – Dolores Johnson (F)
Will There Be A Lap for Me? – Dorothy Corey (F)
Whose Mouse Are You? – Robert Kraus (F)
Farm
Barnyard Banter – Denise Fleming (F)
The Cow that Went Oink! – Bnard Most (F)
Cuckoo/Cucu – Lois Ehlert (NF)
Farming – Gail Gibbons (NF)
Farm Flu – Teresa Bateman (F)
Hedgie’s Surprise – Jan Brett
Pigs – Gail Gibbons (NF)
The Enormous Potato – Aubrey Davis (F)
One Duck Stuck – Phyllis Root
Who Took the Farmer’s Hat? – Joan Nodset (F)
Rosie’s Walk – Pat Hutchins (F) – Anne
Folk Tales
Henny Penny – Paul Galdone
The Gingerbread Man – Paul Galdone
Mary Had A Little Lamb
The Three Little Pigs –
The Three Little Kittens – Paul Galdone
Chicken Little – Laura Rader
The Three Billy Goats Gruff –
The Little Red Hen – Byron Barton
Seven Blind Mice – Ed Young
Town Mouse, Country Mouse – Jan Brett
Strega Nona – Tomie de Paola
Food
Cow Loves Cookies, The – Karma Wilson (F)
Doorbell Rang, The – Pat Hutchins (F)
Don’t Forget the Bacon – Pat Hutchins (F)
Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear, The – Audrey Wood (F)
Feast for Ten – Cathryn Falwell (F)
Grandma’s Latkes – Malka Drucher (F)
It’s the Bear – Jez Alborough (F)
Little Red Hen Makes A Pizza, The – Philemon Sturges (F)
Lunch – Denise Fleming
Making Minestrone – Stela Blodstone (F)
Mouse Went Out to Get a Snack – Lyn Rossiter McFarland (F)
Sheep Out to Eat – Nancy Shaw (F)
Bread and Jam for Frances – Russell Hoban (F)
Bread Bread Bread – Ann Morris (NF)
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present – Charlotte Zolotow (F)
No Peas for Nellie – Chris L. Chadwick (F)
Pete’s A Pizza – William Steig (F)
At the Supermarket – David Hautzig (NF)
Tommy at the Grocery Store – Bill Grossman (F)
Very Hungry Caterpillar, The – Eric Carle (F)
Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? – Bonnie Lass
Friendship
Bear Feels Sick – Karma Wilson (F)
A Weekend with Wendall – Kevin Henkes (F)
Chubbo’s Pool – Betsy Lewin (F)
Will I Have A Friend? - Miriam Cohen (F)
Friends - Helme Heine (F)
George and Martha – James Marshall (F)
Margaret/Margarita – Lynn Reiser (F)
My Best Friend – Mary Ann Rodman (F)
Frog and Toad Are Friends – Arnold Lobel (F)
That’s What Friends Are For – Valeri Gorbachev (F)
Garden/Growing
Big Turnip, The – Aliksey Nikolayevich (F)
Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones – Ruth Heller (NF)
Flower Garden – Eve Bunting (F)
Growing Vegetable Soup
Little Red Hen and the Ear of Wheat, The – Mary Finch (F)
Mouse and the Potato, The – Thomas Berger (F)
Mrs. Rose’s Garden – Elaine Greenstein (F)
Reason for a Flower, The – Ruth Heller (NF)
Stone Soup – Marcia Brown (F)
Tiny Seed, The – Eric Carle (F)
Two Old Potatoes and Me – John Coy (F)
Insects & Creepy Crawlers
Little Red Ant & The Great Big Crumb, The – Shirley Climo (F)
Inch by Inch – Leo Lionni (F)
Miss Spider’s Tea Party – David Kirk (F)
Spider and the Fly, The – Mary Botham Howitt
Very Busy Spider, The – Eric Carle (F)
Very Lonely Firefly, The – Eric Carle (F)
Very Quiet Cricket, The – Eric Carle (F)
Nursery Tales
Baa Baa Black Sheep - Iza Trapani
To Market, To Market – Anne Miranda
Relationship With Others/Self
A Color of His Own – Leo Lionni
A Letter for Amy – Ezra Jack Keats (F)
Amazing Grace A Perfect Name – Charlene Costanzo
Big Black Bear – Wong Herbert Yee
Cool Ali – Nancy Poydar
Cuckoo Cucú – Lois Ehlert (F)
Dance Away – George Shannon
Emma’s Rug – Allen Say
Geraldine’s Blanket – Holly Keller (F)
Goggles! – Ezra Jack Keats (F)
Ira Sleeps Over – Bernard Waber (F) Bernard Waber (F) Bernard Waber (F)
Jamaica’s Find - Juanita Haveill
Leo the Late Bloomer – Robert Kraus (F)
Louder, Lili – Gennifer Choldenko
Max – Rachel Isodora
My Name is Yoon – Helen Recorwits
My Own Big Bed – Anna Grossnickle
No David, No! – David Shannon (F)
Owl Moon – Jane Yolen (F)
Stellaluna – Janell Cannon (F)
William’s Doll – Charlotte Zolotow
Yoko Writes Her Name – Rosemary Wells (F)
School
Boom Goes to School – Constance McGeorge
Arthur’s Teacher Moves In – Marc Brown
David Goes to School – David Shannon (F)
Miss Nelson is Back – Harry Allard
Miss Nelson is Missing – Harry Allard
If You Take A Mouse to School –
Splat the Cat – Rob Scotton (F)
Sea Life
A House for Hermit Crab – Eric Carle
Coral Reef Hideaway – Doe Boyle (F)
Fish is Fish – Leo Lionni
Otter On His Own – Doe Boyle (F)
Rainbow Fish, The – Marcus Pfister
Swimmy – Leo Lionni
Whales – Gail Gibbons (NF)
Seasons
Any Room for Me? - Loek Koopmans
Backyard Bear – Anne Rockwell (F)
Bear Shadow – Frank Asch
Bear Shadow – Frank Asch
Bear Snores On – Karma Wilson
Bear Wants More – Karma Wilson
Biggest Pumpkin Ever, The – Steven Kroll (F)
Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Spring, The – Lucille Clifton (F)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Judi Barrett
Every Autumn Comes the Bear – Jim Aronosky (F)
Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night – Peter Spier (F)
Gilberto and the Wind – Marie Hall Ets (F)
Grow A Pie – Jane Gerver
Happy Birthday, Moon – Frank Asch (F)
Hat, The – Jan Brett
Henrietta’s First Winter – Jan Brett (F)
I Love the Rain – Margaret Bridges (F)
Jessica – Kevin Henkes (F)
Katy and the Big Snow – Virginia Lee Burton
Kitten’s First Full Moon –
Mitten, The – Jan Brett
Moon Cake – Frank Asch (F)
Lonely Scarecrow, The – Tim Preston (NF)
Pumpkin Pumpkin – Jeanne Titherington
Rain – Manya Stojic
Rain Comes Down, The – David Shannon (F)
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf – Lois Ehlert (NF)
Snowy Day – Ezra Jack Keats
Storm is Coming – Heather Tekavec (NF)
Time to Sleep – Denise Fleming
Wind and the Sun, The – Tomie de Paola (F)
Wind Blew, The – Pat Hutchins (F)
Pumpkin Day – Nancy /E. Wallace (F)
Pumpkin Circle – George Levenson
When Will It Be Spring? – James Stevenson
Transportation
Blueberry Train, The – C.L.Martin (F)
Harbor – Donald Crews (NF)
I Stink! – Kate Nd Jim McMullan (F)
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel – Virginia Lee Burton (F)
My Bike Ride – Donna Jakob (F)
Red Truck – Kersten Hamilton (F)
Rattletrap Car – Phyllis Root (F)
Sheep in A Jeep – Nancy Shaw (F)
Sheep in a Ship – Nancy Shaw (F)
Ship Blast Off! – Nancy Shaw (F)
Short Cut – Donald Crews
Duck in the Truck – Jez Alborough
Who Goes There? - Jennifer Ericsson (F)