KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST - Level 7A ~ Level 3A
These are read-aloud books to be used by a parent when reading to the student.
LEVEL 7A
1
LEVEL 6A
Barnyard Banter
Denise Fleming
1
LEVEL 5A
Hop on Pop
Dr. Seuss
Jesse Bear, What Will
You Wear?
Nancy White Carlstrom
Eating the Alphabet: Fruits
and Vegetables from A to Z
Lois Ehlert
1
LEVEL 4A
Mean Soup
Betsy Everitt
1
LEVEL 3A
Henny Penny
retold by Paul Galdone
1
A My Name is Alice
Jane Bayer
Each Orange Had Eight
Slices: A Counting Book
Paul Giganti Jr.
2
Each Peach Pear Plum
Janet and Allen Ahlberg
2
3
Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown
3
4
Here Are My Hands
Bill Martin Jr. and
John Archambault
4
Black? White! Day? Night!
Laura Vaccaro Seeger
4
The Icky Bug Alphabet Book
Jerry Pallotta
4
5
I Heard A Little Baa
Elizabeth MacLeod
5
Big Red Barn
Margaret Wise Brown
5
My Very First Mother Goose
edited by Iona Opie
5
6
A Rainbow of My Own
Don Freeman
6
Nancy Shaw
7
The Listening Walk
Paul Showers
7
Audrey Wood
8
The Little Red Hen
retold by Paul Galdone
8
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
P.C. Asbjornsen and J.E. Moe
8
9
The Runaway Bunny
Margaret Wise Brown
9
Tikki Tikki Tembo
retold by Arlene Mosel
9
10
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Michael Rosen
10
A House is a House for Me
Mary Ann Hoberman
10 Pebble
Leo Lionni
11
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Bill Martin Jr. and
John Archambault
11
Chicken Soup with Rice:
A Book of Months
Maurice Sendak
11
12
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Laura Numeroff
12
12
Fireman Small
Wong Herbert Yee
12
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
13
Alligators All Around
Maurice Sendak
13
13
A Giraffe and a Half
Shel Silverstein
14
Horton Hatches the Egg
Dr. Seuss
Read Aloud Rhymes for the
6 Very Young
6
Noisy Nora
Rosemary Wells
collected by Jack Prelutsky
Quick as a Cricket
Audrey Wood
7
8
Three Little Kittens
retold by Paul Galdone
8
9
Where’s My Teddy?
Jez Alborough
9 Goodnight?
7
10
Whose Mouse Are You?
Robert Kraus
All the Colors of the Earth
11
Sheila Hamanaka
10
11
14
15
Have You Seen My Duckling?
Nancy Tafuri
Lunch
Denise Fleming
18
19
20
Swimmy
Feast for 10
Cathryn Falwell
Ruth Krauss
The Napping House
Audrey Wood
On Market Street
15 Book
14
15
Ten Nine Eight
Molly Bang
16
Harold and the Purple
17 Crayon
17
Jim Aylesworth
One Hundred Hungry Ants
Elinor J. Pinczes
The ABC Bunny
Wanda Gag
18
In the Tall, Tall Grass
Denise Fleming
18
Donald Crews
19
Mr. Gumpy’s Outing
John Burningham
19
Ten Terrible Dinosaurs
Paul Stickland
20
Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney
20
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Bat Jamboree
2
3
H.A. Rey
4
Bread and Jam for Frances
Russell Hoban
Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey
5
Little Bear
Else Holmelund Minarik
6
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile
Bernard Waber
Curious George
Millions of Cats
Wanda Gag
Gene Zion
The Gigantic Turnip
Aleksei Tolstoy
Green Eggs and Ham
Marcia Brown
7 Shovel
Virginia Lee Burton
Mother Goose Numbers on
Leo and Diane Dillon
Possum Come A-Knockin’
Nancy Van Laan
Strega Nona
Tomie dePaola
William Steig
The Story of Babar: the Little
Elephant
Jean de Brunhoff
Mr. Rabbit and the
15 Built
15 Lovely Present
Simms Taback
There Was an Old Lady Who
16 Swallowed a Trout!
Teri Sloat
Charlotte Zolotow
One Grain of Rice:
16 A Mathematical Folktale
Demi
17
Leo the Late Bloomer
Robert Kraus
17
Miss Spider’s Tea Party
David Kirk
18
Sheila Rae, the Brave
Kevin Henkes
18
Marjorie Flack
19
Uri Shulevitz
20
The Treasure
Ming Lo Moves the Mountain
Arnold Lobel
Sylvester and the Magic
Dr. Seuss
Ask Mr. Bear
Joy N. Hulme
Mike Mulligan and His Steam
Stone Soup
13 the Loose
14
Sea Squares
Kathi Appelt
This Is the House that Jack
Harry the Dirty Dog
Crockett Johnson
Arnold Lobel
Ten Black Dots
Old Black Fly
Maurice Sendak
16
3
Alphabears: An ABC Book
Kathleen Hague
Mercer Mayer
One Was Johnny: A Counting
The Carrot Seed
Kitten’s First Full Moon
16
Kevin Henkes
17
14
Angus and the Cat
Marjorie Flack
2
What do you do with a
Jane Yolen
Judi Barrett
13
Silly Sally
The Doorbell Rang
Pat Hutchins
3 kangaroo?
How Do Dinosaurs Say
Animals Should Definitely
12 Not Wear Clothing
Sheep in a Jeep
2
The Empty Pot
Demi
Too Much Noise
Ann McGovern
19
Six-Dinner Sid
Inga Moore
The Salamander Room
Anne Mazer
Umbrella
Taro Yashima
Bringing the Rain to
20 Kapiti Plain
Verna Aardema
KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST - Level 7A ~ Level 3A
These are books for the student to practice on his or her own.
Parents should offer help when needed.
LEVEL 7A
1
LEVEL 6A
Truck
Donald Crews
1
2
Pancakes for Breakfast
Tomie dePaola
2
3
Changes, Changes
Pat Hutchins
3
4
5
6
7
The Red Book
Barbara Lehman
4
Anno’s Counting Book
Mitsumasa Anno
Clown
Quentin Blake
Orange Pear Apple Bear
Emily Gravett
Frog Goes to Dinner
Mercer Mayer
1
2
4
5
David Wiesner
6
The New Alphabet of Animals
Christopher Wormell
6
The Everything Book
Denise Fleming
7
Alphabet City
Stephen T. Johnson
7
2
Suse MacDonald
8
My Very First Book of Words
Eric Carle
8
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LEVEL 3A
Brown Bear, Brown Bear,
What Do You See?
Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
I Went Walking
Sue Williams
It Looked Like Spilt Milk
Charles G. Shaw
4 Henry Wore His Green Sneakers
John Nickle
Merle Peek
Yo! Yes?
Chris Raschka
5
Have You Seen My Cat?
Eric Carle
6
Rain
7
Robert Kalan
Mice Squeak, We Speak
Arnold Shapiro
1
2
3
Mary Wore Her Red Dress and
Alphabet Explosion! Search and
Count from Alien to Zebra
Alison Jay
Do You Want to Be My
Eric Carle
Alphabatics
Lisa Campbell Ernst
5 Book
8 Friend?
1
The Turn-Around,
David Wiesner
Tuesday
Museum ABC
The Metropolitan Museum
of Art
3 Upside-Down Alphabet Book
ABC: A Child’s First Alphabet
Free Fall
LEVEL 4A
LEVEL 5A
8
Not a Box
4
Here Are My Hands
Bill Martin Jr. and
John Archambault
Cookie’s Week
Cindy Ward
The Lady with the Alligator
Purse
Nadine Bernard Westcott
Freight Train
Donald Crews
5
Drummer Hoff
Barbara Emberley
Mem Fox
6
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Michael Rosen
Pat Hutchins
7
More Spaghetti, I Say
Rita Golden Gelman
In the Tall, Tall Grass
Denise Fleming
8
Antoinette Portis
Hattie and the Fox
Rosie’s Walk
You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You:
Very Short Stories to Read Together
Mary Ann Hoberman
KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Level 2A ~ Level BII
LEVEL 2A
LEVEL AI
1
The Chick and the Duckling
Mirra Ginsburg
1
2
A Hat for Minerva Louise
Janet Morgan Stoeke
2
3
The Easy-to-Read Little
Engine That Could
Watty Piper and Walter Retan
3
4
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
5
Jump, Frog, Jump!
Robert Kalan
6
The Cat in the Hat
4
5
LEVEL AII
little blue and little yellow
Leo Lionni
1
May I Bring A Friend?
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
Ezra Jack Keats
2 Snowy Trail
Janice May Udry
3
A Tree Is Nice
The Fire Cat
Esther Averill
A Chair for My Mother
Vera B. Williams
2
The Josefina Story Quilt
Eleanor Coerr
3
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
3 Dragon
5
5
Marc Brown
6
Purple, Green and Yellow
Robert Munsch
6
Ludwig Bemelmans
Arthur’s Eyes
7
Martin Waddell
8
Curious George Flies a Kite
Margret Rey
8 Partridge
9
Herman the Helper
Robert Kraus
9
Little Bear’s Friend
Else Holmelund Minarik
9
10
Baby Bear, Baby Bear,
What Do You See?
Bill Martin Jr.
10
11
The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats
11 Book
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
12
Caps for Sale
Esphyr Slobodkina
If You Give a Moose a Muffin
Laura Numeroff
13
Good Night, Good Knight
Shelley Moore Thomas
14
The Adventures of Taxi Dog
Debra and Sal Barracca
14
Ira Sleeps Over
Bernard Waber
15
Here’s a Little Poem
compiled by Jane Yolen and
Andrew Fusek Peters
15
The Hat
Jan Brett
Arthur’s Pen Pal
Lillian Hoban
Judy Blume
7
8
The Golly Sisters Go West
Betsy Byars
The Gardener
Sarah Stewart
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Dr. Seuss
Lon Po Po
Ed Young
Mem Fox
Martha Speaks
Susan Meddaugh
The Story About Ping
Herb Caen
4
5
6
7
8
9
Mercer Mayer
One of Each
Mary Ann Hoberman
10
11
Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey
11
12
The Story of Ferdinand
Munro Leaf
12 Downstairs
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in
13 People’s Ears
Verna Aardema
Cloudy With a Chance of
14 Meatballs
Judi Barrett
The Magic School Bus:
15 Inside the Earth
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
The Cable Car and the
There’s a Nightmare in My
9 Closet
10 Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese
Cynthia Rylant
13
Freckle Juice
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald
Henry and Mudge: The First
Amelia Bedelia Helps Out
Peggy Parish
4
Dori Chaconas
All Kinds of Families
Norma Simon
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2
Days With Frog and Toad
Arnold Lobel
Madeline
7
12
The One in the Middle Is the
Green Kangaroo
Judy Blume
4
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Nadine Bernard Westcott
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Norman Bridwell
Farmer Duck
1
Cork & Fuzz:
Short and Tall
6
8
Curious George Takes a Job
H.A. Rey
Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Dr. Seuss
7
1
Nate the Great and the
Peter’s Chair
LEVEL BII
LEVEL BI
Corduroy
Don Freeman
10
11
The Little House
Virginia Lee Burton
The Biggest Bear
Lynd Ward
Aliens for Breakfast
Jonathan Etra and
Stephanie Spinner
Paul Bunyan
Steven Kellogg
The Drinking Gourd
F.N. Monjo
The New Kid on the Block
Jack Prelutsky
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Roald Dahl
Fables
Arnold Lobel
Snowed In with
Nana Upstairs & Nana
12 Grandmother Silk
Tomie dePaola
13
14
Doctor De Soto
William Steig
The Mitten
Alvin Tresselt
The Boy Who Didn’t Believe
Carol Fenner
13
14
Amos & Boris
William Steig
The Littles
John Peterson
Flat Stanley: His Original
15 Adventure
15 in Spring
Lucille Clifton
Jeff Brown
KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Level CI ~ Level F
LEVEL CI
1
LEVEL CII
Owl Moon
Jane Yolen
1
2
Eleanor Batezat Sisulu
3
Amazing Grace
My Diary from Here to There
Amada Irma Pérez
When Jessie Came Across
the Sea
Amy Hest
Maple Moon
Connie Brummel Crook &
Scott Cameron
Kate Shelley and the
Midnight Express
Margaret K. Wetterer
Mary Hoffman
3
4
The Snow Walker
Margaret K. and Charles M.
Wetterer
4
5
The Hundred Dresses
Eleanor Estes
5
6
My Father’s Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett
6
7
The Shrinking of Treehorn
Florence Parry Heide
7
8
Action Jackson
Jan Greenberg and
Sandra Jordan
8 Voices
Star of Fear, Star of Hope
Jo Hoestlandt
9
10
The Rough-Face Girl
Rafe Martin
10
11
Judy Moody Gets Famous
Megan McDonald
11
A New Coat for Anna
Harriet Ziefert
12
Bunnicula
13
Deborah and James Howe
9
12
14
The Orchestra
Mark Rubin
Knights in Shining Armor
15
Gail Gibbons
1
LEVEL E
Jumanji
Chris Van Allsburg
Demi
The Day Gogo Went to Vote:
2 South Africa, April 1994
LEVEL D
Liang and the Magic
Paintbrush
1
The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
1
The Princess and the Goblin
George MacDonald
2
Li Lun, Lad of Courage
Carolyn Treffinger
2
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
The Girl Who Loved Wild
2 Horses
Paul Goble
3
4
5
Sam, Bangs & Moonshine
Evaline Ness
Many Moons
3
E.B. White
Frindle
Andrew Clements
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two
Paul Fleischman
McBroom’s Wonderful
One-Acre Farm
Sid Fleischman
Cinderella
Charles Perrault
4
Secret of the Andes
Ann Nolan Clark
5
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O’Dell
5
The Shakespeare Stealer
Gary Blackwood
6
James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
6
The House of Dies Drear
Virginia Hamilton
7
The Enormous Egg
Oliver Butterworth
7
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
It’s Like This, Cat
Emily Cheney Neville
8
Homesick: My Own Story
Jean Fritz
Eleanor Coerr
The Fool of the World and
the Flying Ship
Arthur Ransome
The Hundred Penny Box
Sharon Bell Mathis
8
9
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan
9 Factory
The Big Wave
Pearl S. Buck
Charlie and the Chocolate
Cynthia Voigt
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
10
Thimble Summer
Elizabeth Enright
11
…and now Miguel
Joseph Krumgold
11
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
12
The Wheel on the School
Meindert DeJong
One Day in the Prairie
Jean Craighead George
12
13
The Chalk Box Kid
Clyde Robert Bulla
13
Mama’s Bank Account
Kathryn Forbes
14
Stone Fox
John Reynolds Gardiner
14
Henry Reed, Inc.
Keith Robertson
14
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats
15 of NIMH
Robert C. O’Brien
15
16
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster
16
17
The Doll’s House
Rumer Godden
Eth Clifford
Encyclopedia Brown Shows
12 the Way
Donald J. Sobol
The Lion, the Witch and the
13 Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Sounder
William H. Armstrong
From the Mixed-up Files of
14 Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg
15
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
Mary Norton
16
Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh
17
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
17
18
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
18
Brian Selznick
Maniac Magee
13
Jerry Spinelli
The Invention of
18 Hugo Cabret
Dicey’s Song
10
Help! I’m a Prisoner in the
Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine
9
Roald Dahl
11 Library!
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Fred Gipson
John Steinbeck
Kay Thompson
Eloise
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Richard and Florence Atwater
Old Mother West Wind
15
Thornton W. Burgess
3
Old Yeller
8
10
The Red Pony
Anna Sewell
4
6 Paper Cranes
7
Black Beauty
James Thurber
Sadako and the Thousand
Charlotte’s Web
LEVEL F
The Borrowers
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Strawberry Girl
Lois Lenski
19
My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George
19
By the Great Horn Spoon!
Sid Fleischman
19
20
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
20
Tatterhood and Other Tales
Ethel Johnston Phelps
20 Great Houdini
Black Ships Before Troy
Rosemary Sutcliff
Escape: The Story of the
Sid Fleischman
KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Level G ~ Level I
LEVEL G
1
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle
1
2
Caddie Woodlawn
Carol Ryrie Brink
2
3
LEVEL I
LEVEL H
Boy
Roald Dahl
3
4
The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
5
Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson
1
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
2
The Hobbit
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Code Talker
Joseph Bruchac
The Time Machine
J.R.R. Tolkien
3
4
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
4
The Color of Magic
Terry Pratchett
5
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
5
Watership Down
Richard Adams
Lois Lowry
6
King of the Wind
Marguerite Henry
6
Isaac Asimov
7
Fever, 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson
7
8
Song of the Buffalo Boy
Sherry Garland
8
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
8 Baskervilles
9
Amos Fortune: Free Man
Elizabeth Yates
9
The Extraordinary
Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Maurice Leblanc
9
10
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
10
11
So Much to Tell You
John Marsden
11
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
12
archy and mehitabel
Don Marquis
13
I, Juan de Pareja
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
6
7
The Giver
I, Robot
The Adventures of
10 Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
11
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
The Race to Save the
12 Lord God Bird
Phillip Hoose
13
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Chinese Cinderella
14
Adeline Yen Mah
15
The Other Side of Truth
Beverley Naidoo
Shipwreck at the
Jennifer Armstrong
14
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
14
15
Daddy-Long-Legs
Jean Webster
15
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Charlotte Brontë
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
Laurie R. King
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Jules Verne
13 Bottom of the World
Jane Eyre
The Hound of the
Around the World in
12 Eighty Days
H.G. Wells
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Across Five Aprils
Irene Hunt
Farewell to Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
& James D. Houston
KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Level J ~ Level L
LEVEL J
LEVEL K
1
A White Heron and Other
Stories
Sarah Orne Jewett
1
2
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
2
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
3
3
The Strange Case of
4 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
5
6
7
8
Robert Louis Stevenson
20,000 Leagues Under
the Sea
Jules Verne
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
4
5
6
The Spy Who Came In from
the Cold
John Le Carré
Great Tales and Poems of
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth and
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Sophocles
Jamaica Kincaid
7
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
8
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare
Annie John
The Adventures of
9
Night
Elie Wiesel
Mark Twain
A Separate Peace
John Knowles
10
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
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101 Great American Poems
Various authors
Songs of Innocence and
2 Songs of Experience
3
4
5
William Blake
The World’s Greatest Short
Stories
Various authors
The Awakening and Selected
Stories of Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Waste Land
King Oedipus
The Importance of Being
Earnest and Other Plays
Oscar Wilde
9 Huckleberry Finn
10
LEVEL L
6 and Other Poems
T.S. Eliot
7
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
8
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
9
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
The French Lieutenant’s
10 Woman
John Fowles