Preschool Booklist/Reading List
Reading together is a perfect
time to help a toddler appreciate the joys that books have to
offer.
It's a time that your children
will remember for years to come.
The younger your child is when
you begin reading to them, the better reader he will be.
Some mothers start reading to
their babies when they are in the womb and report that this
made a tremendous difference in their child's development.
Research definitely shows that
children whose parents start reading to them as infants have
higher IQs, better test scores and grades, and have an easier
time concentrating and participating in school.
Sharing the joy of books with
your child is one of the greatest gifts you can give them.
The kind of books that
preschoolers love are what I call touchy, feely books; like
lift-the-flap books, board books, cloth & rag books, and
surprise and peek-a-boo books.
Young children love these books.
They love to play and chew all over them.
They are excited by all of the
color and surprises that many of them offer.
The following is a suggested
reading list for young learners/preschoolers that fit the
above descriptions.
It provides suggestions for
touchy, feely, fun books
that you can introduce to children at different ages.
Your preschooler will love these
books because they can really use their senses!
By introducing fun and exciting
books to your preschooler, your child will love books and it
will not be long before they become strong readers.
Many of the books in this list
are displayed throughout this site. So, feel free to click on
any of the links that may be of interest to you.
Babies
Brown, Margaret Wise. Goodnight Moon. Harper
Collins. A little rabbit says goodnight to all the things in
his room and, finally, to the Moon.
Jonnson, Angela. Mama Bird, Baby Birds. Orchard.
Joshua and his sister, two young African–American children,
watch a mother bird feeding its babies.
Wells, Rosemary. Max’s Bedtime. Dial. Even
though Max’s sister offers him her stuffed animals, he cannot
sleep without his red rubber elephant.
Play Books for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Carle, Eric. The Very Busy Spider. Philomel.
Farm animals try to keep a spider from spinning her web, but
she doesn’t give up and she makes a beautiful and useful
creation. Pictures may be felt as well as seen, making this a
great book for visually impaired children.
Hill, Eric. Where’s Spot? Putnam. In an
interactive lift-the-flap book, children help Spot’s mother,
Sally, search the house to find him. This book has been
translated into a number of languages, including a sign
language version.
Kunhardt, Dorothy. Pat the Bunny. Golden Books.
In this touch-and-feel book, Paul and Judy smell the flowers,
feel Daddy’s scratchy face, look in the mirror, play
peek-a-boo, and, of course, pat the bunny.
Lacome, Julie. Seashore. Candlewick, 1995. Small
fingers can poke through the holes in the pages of this board
book about the beach, and seem to change into fins, wings or
crawling legs.
Alphabet Books for Preschooler – First
Grade
Kitamura, Satoshi. From Acorn to Zoo and Everything in
Between in Alphabetical Order. Sunburst. Each page
shows an assortment of things that begin with the same
letter—all clearly labeled. For each page there is a question
(and a clue) that can be answered only by looking clearly at
the picture.
MacDonald, Suse. Alphabatics. Bradbury Press.
The letters of the alphabet are transformed and placed in 26
illustrations so that the hole in b becomes a balloon and
turns into the head of a yak (an ox with long hair).
Rankin, Laura. The Handmade Alphabet. Puffin.
This book presents the handshape for each letter of the manual
alphabet (American Sign Language) accompanied by an object
whose name begins with that letter.
Shannon, George. Tomorrow’s Alphabet. Mulberry
Books,
A is for seed—what's going on here? The seed is tomorrow’s
Apple! An imaginative alphabet puzzle that encourages children
to think and make predictions.
Shelby, Anne. Potluck. Orchard. A multicultural
collection of friends having names starting with A–Z bring a
variety of dishes to a potluck.
Wordless
Picture Books
Carle, Eric. Do You Want to Be My Friend?
HarperCollins. A little mouse asks all kinds of animals, “Do
you want to be my friend?”
dePaola, Tomie. Pancakes for Breakfast. Voyager
Books. A little old lady’s attempts to have pancakes for
breakfast are hindered by a lack of ingredients and the help
of her pets.
Mayer, Mercer. A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog. Econo-Clad
Books. A boy and a dog try unsuccessfully to catch a frog.
McCully, Emily. School. HarperTrophy. The eight
oldest mice in a family prepare for the first day of school.
After everyone leaves, and the house is too quiet, the
youngest mouse decides to go discover what school is all
about.
Wiesner, David. Tuesday. Clarion. One night a
town is invaded by extraterrestrial frogs flying in on their
lily pads.
Rhyming
Books For Toddlers
Christelow, Eileen. Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the
Bed. Clarion. This counting rhyme shows five little
monkeys getting ready for bed and getting sidetracked by some
serious bed-jumping.
Cole, Joanna, and Calmenson, Stephanie. Eentsy, Weensty
Spider: Fingerplays and Action Rhymes. Morrow. This
book, illustrated using children of diverse cultural
backgrounds including finger plays and action rhymes that have
been chanted, sung and loved for generations.
Martin, Bill, Jr., and Archambault, John. Chicka Chicka
Boom Boom. Simon & Schuster, The rhythmical story of
letters of the alphabet climbing and falling from a coconut
tree.
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