100 Books Every Child Should
Hear Before Kindergarten
Check off as you go!
1
Old Black Fly
Aylesworth, Jim
2
Machines at Work
Barton, Byron
3
Madeline
4
Goodnight Moon
5
Bad Kitty
Bruel, Nick
6
Mr. Grumpy's Outing
Burningham,
John
7
Little Cloud
Carle, Eric
8
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Carle, Eric
9
Maisy Goes to the Library
Cousins, Lucy
Bemelmans,
Ludwig
Brown,
Margaret Wise
10 Freight Train
Crews, Donald
11 Click Clack, Moo:Cows That Type
Cronin, Doreen
12 Good Dog, Carl
Day, Alexandra
13 Gossie
Dunrea, Oliver
14 Planting a Rainbow
Ehlert, Lois
15 Color Zoo
Ehlert, Lois
16 Go Away, Big Green Monster
Emberly, Ed
17 Olivia
Falconer, Ian
18 Bark, George
Feiffer, Jules
19 Lunch
Fleming, Denise
20 In the Tall, Tall Grass
Fleming, Denise
21 Mama Cat Had Three Kittens
Fleming, Denise
22 Corduroy
Freeman, Don
23 Millions of Cats
Gag, Wanda
24 The Three Bears
Galdone, Paul
25 If Your Mama a Llama?
Guarino,
Deborah
26 Kitten's First Full Moon
Henkes, Kevin
27 Off to School, Baby Duck!
Hest, Amy
28 Bread and Jam for Frances
Hoban, Russell
29 Rosie's Walk
Hutchins, Pat
30 Juluis
Johnson, Angela
31 Harold and the Purple Crayon
Johnson,
Crockett
32 Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
Johnson, D.B.
33 Hello, Goodbye Window
Juster, Norton
34 The Snowy Day
Keats, Ezra Jack
35 Whistle for Willie
Keats, Ezra Jack
36 Leo the Late Bloomer
Kraus, Robert
37 The Carrot Seed
Kraus, Ruth
38 The Story of Ferdinand
Leaf, Munro
39 Tacky the Penguin
Lester, Helen
40 Swimmy
Lionni, Leo
41 Froggy Gest Dressed
42 The Squeaky Door
London,
Jonathan
MacDonald,
Margaret Read
43 George and Martha
Marshall, James
44 Guess How Much I Love You?
McBratney, Sam
45 Goin' Someplace Special
46 Martha Speaks
McKissack,
Patricia
Meddaugh,
Susan
47 I Kissed the Baby!
Murphy, Mary
48 The Jacket I Wear in the Snow
Neitzel, Shirley
49 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Numeroff, Laura
50 The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Potter, Beatrix
51 Goodnight Gorilla
Rathmann,
Peggy
52 Officer Buckle and Gloria
Rathmann,
Peggy
53 Curious George
Rey, H.A.
54 My Friend Rabbit
Rohmann, Eric
55 We're Going on a Bear Hunt
56 The Line-up Book
57 Where the Wild Things Are
58 Duck on a Bike
59 No, David!
Rosen,
Michael
Russo,
Mariabina
Sendak,
Maurice
Shannon,
David
Shannon,
David
60 Sheep in a Jeep
Shaw, Nancy E.
61 The Stray Dog
Simont, Marc
62 Fire Truck
Sis, Peter
63 Caps For Sale
Slobodkina,
Esphyr
64 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Steig, William
65 Dinosaur Roar
Stickland, Paul
66
There Was An Old Lady Who
Swallowed a Fly
Taback, Simms
67 Have You Seen My Duckling?
Tafuri, Nancy
68 Polar Express
Van Alsburg,
Chris
69
Alexander and the Terrible,
Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
70 Ira Sleeps Over
71 Lyle, Lyle Crocodile
Viorst, Judith
Waber,
Bernard
Waber,
Bernard
72 Jazz Baby
Wheeler, Lisa
73 Tuesday
Wiesner, David
74 Max Cleans Up
Wells,
Rosemary
75 Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
Willems, Mo
76
Knuffle Bunny
Willems, Mo
77
I Went Walking
Williams, Sue
78
A Chair For My Mother
Williams,
Vera B.
79
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe
Wood, Audrey
Strawberry, & the Big Hungry Bear
80
The Napping House
81
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? Yolen, Jane
82
Trashy Town
Zimmerman,
Andrea
83
Harry the Dirty Dog
Zion, Gene
Wood, Audrey
J Alphabet
84
Ten, Nine, Eight
Bang, Molly
85
Ten Black Dots
Crews, Donald
86
Eating the Alphabet
Ehlert, Lois
87
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do
Martin, Bill
You See?
88
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Martin, Bill
89
Mouse Paint
Walsh, Ellen
Stoll
J Easyread
90
Jamberry
Degen, Bruce
91
Are You My Mother?
Eastman, P.D.
92
Go, Dog, Go
Eastman, P.D.
93
Hop On Pop
Dr. Seuss
94
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue
Fish
Dr. Seuss
J Nonfiction
95
The Mitten: a Ukrainian Folktale
Brett, Jan
96
Favorite Nursery Rhymes from
Mother Goose
Gustafson, Scott
97
The First Egg
Seeger, Laura
Vaccaro
J Baby Books
98
Hug
Alboroigh, Jez
99
It Looked Like Spilt Milk
Shaw, Charles
G.
J Pop-up
100 Where's Spot?
Hill, Eric