Good Reading for Kindergarten and First Grade
These books are fun to read aloud to young children. Some of them have rhymes and repetition that make them easy to read. Some are guessing games. Others have circular plots with a surprise at the end. Kindergarten and first grade children will like to hear them read aloud, and beginning readers will want to try reading these books alone.
Most of these books are shelved in the picture book section, alphabetically by author’s last
name. If you need help finding a book, please ask the librarian.
- Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.
- A nursery rhyme puzzle book.
- Just Like Daddy by Frank Asch.
- A funny twist at the end!
- Ten Nine Eight by Molly Bang.
- A goodnight counting book.
- A Dark Dark Tale by Ruth Brown.
- If you like scary stories.
- Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell.
- A funny lift-the-flap book.
- Have You Seen My Cat? by Eric Carle.
- An animal guessing game.
- Today is Monday by Eric Carle.
- A rhyming story.
- Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow.
- Silly!
- Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews.
- A very beginning reader.
- Across the Stream by Mirra Ginsburg.
- An animal tale.
- The Chick and the Duckling by Mirra Ginsburg.
- A copycat gets in trouble.
- The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins.
- A cookie counting story.
- Titch by Pat Hutchins.
- The youngest child never seems to get what he wants.
- Old Macdonald Had a Farm.
- A favorite animal song with silly noises.
- Now We Can Go by Ann Jonas.
- We can’t leave the house without our favorite things!
- Rain by Robert Kalan.
- Just a few words tell the story.
- Whose Mouse Are You? by Robert Kraus.
- A brave mouse rescues his family.
- The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss.
- Persistence pays off.
- Sam's Cookie (and others in series) by Barbro Lindgren.
- Sam and Doggie get in trouble.
- Growing Colors by Bruce McMillan.
- Beautiful color photographs illustrate this book.
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin, Jr.
- Repetition and rhyme make these books all-time favorites.
- Whose Hat? by Margaret Miller.
- A guessing game.
- Bread Bread Bread by Ann Morris.
- People everywhere eat different kinds of bread.
- Mary Wore Her Red Dress by Merle Peek.
- A counting song.
- Roll Overby Merle Peek.
- "There were ten in the bed and the little one said"
- Five Little Ducks by Raffi.
- A familiar song, in a picture book format.
- The Cake That Mack Ate by Rose Robart.
- A new version of The House That Jack Built.
- Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw.
- Beep! Beep! Here they come!
- It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw.
- But it wasn’t spilt milk...
- Fiddle-i-fee by Melissa Sweet.
- An animal parade in song.
- Have You Seen My Duckling? by Nancy Tafuri.
- Sharp eyes can spot the duckling on every page.
- Spots, Feathers and Curly Tails by Nancy Tafuri.
- An animal guessing game.
- Possum Come A-Knockin' by Nancy Van Laan.
- A silly rhyming story about a mysterious stranger.
- I Went Walking by Sue Williams.
- A young child sees lots of different animals on a walk.
- King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Don Wood.
- "...and he won’t come out!"
- The U.S. Department of Education offers more suggestions for helping your child learn to read at http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Reading/
- A nursery rhyme puzzle book.
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