This list is from PUBYAC -- Still needs to be cleaned up and organized:
"One Grain of Rice" by Demi, "How the Fisherman Tricked the Genie" by Kitoba Sunami, "Actual Size" by Steve Jenkins, "Unbearable! More Bizarre Stories"
by Paul Jennings (a collection of stories but the first one LICKED is the best but make sure you have the fly swatter as a prop).
The Purple Kangaroo by Michael Ian Black Chicken Cheeks by Michael Ian Black Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road - various authors / illustrators Knock Knock - various authors / illustrators The Happy Hocky Family by Lane Smith Squids Will Be Squids by Jon Sceiszka The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss Arlene Sardine by Chris Raschka
PICTURE BOOKS FOR OLDER KIDS
Bluthenthal, Diana. Matilda the Moocher. What do you do with a friend who always
wants your stuff?
Brown. What’s the Time, Grandma Wolf? Creeping closer each time, different animals
ask Grandma Wolf what time it is. Well, it’s dinnertime!
Cole, S. The Hen that Crowed. No roosters are allowed in town, so when one of the
farmer’s baby chicks starts to crow, he tries all sorts of things to stop him.
Collicott. Toestomper and the Caterpillars. Mean, rude Toestomper is overrun with
little blue caterpillars after he destroys their house.
Creech. A Fine, Fine School. Mr. Keene loves his teachers and students so much that
he wants school to meet all the time.
Cronin. Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type. Farmer Brown’s cows have found his old
typewriter and are demanding electric blankets.
Deedy, Carmen. Martina, the Beautiful Cockroach. Martina the cockroach must pick a
husband. Grandma’s advice -- pour coffee on your suitor’s shoes – has surprising
results. 2007.
Derby, Sally. Woosh Went the Wind! A little boy tells his teacher about how the wind
made him late for school. She’s skeptical, until.....
Dewan. Crispin, the Pig Who had it All. Spoiled Crispin gets the one gift he doesn’t
have: an empty box.
Donaldson. Room on the Broom. A witch finds room on her broom for a variety of
animals, until it breaks, and a mean dragon enters the picture.
Ericsson. The Most Beautiful Kid in the World. A little girl and her mother differ wildly
on what outfit she should wear for a grandmother’s visit.
Franklin. The Wolfhound. Beautifully illustrated story about a little boy who rescues one
of the Tsar’s wolfhounds, but has to get her back home before he is discovered.
Greenstein. Mattie’s Hats Won’t Wear That! Mattie loves to decorate her hats, but the
hats finally revolt.
Grossman, B. Donna O’Neeshuck Was Chased by some Cows. Why is everyone chasing
poor Donna? A silly, rollicking poem.
Henkes, Kevin. Chrysanthemum. Chrysanthemum loves her name – until she gets to
school and gets teased by everyone else.
Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse. The only thing Lily loves more than her new purse is her teacher. Then she brings her purse to school……
Owen. Little Owen just isn’t ready to give up his blanket, no matter what his parents or the neighbors try.
Hoberman. The Two Sillies. Two silly people help each other get a house and get rid of a
mouse.
Holder, Heidi. Carmine the Crow. Lovely illustrations. Carmine is rewarded for a good
deed with some magic stardust, then gives too much of it away before he has a
Chance to try it.
Howard. Hoodwinked. Mitzi the witch wants a pet, but she only wants creepy ones.
Ketteman. Bubba the Cowboy Prince. A Goofy, western version of Cinderella.
Lester, Helen. Batter Up, Wombat. Wombat joins the baseball team, even though he
doesn’t know anything about the game, and becomes the surprise hero.
Melmed, Laura. Rainbabies. A lovely story about a couple who rescue some tiny babies
in the rain and care for them until a stranger appears.
Munsch, Robert. Alligator Baby. Kristen’s parents keep bringing the wrong babies
home after they accidentally drive to the zoo for the delivery
Olson, David J. The Thunderstruck Stork. When Webster the stork collides with a
hot air balloon and his brain is knocked out whack, he starts delivering babies
to the wrong animal parents all over the world, with surprising results.
Palatini, Mooseltoe. Moose is so organized for Christmas that he has everything……
Phillips, J.C. Wink: the Ninja Who Wanted to be Noticed. Wink’s enthusiasm & desire
to be noticed get him into trouble at Ninja school.
Rathmann, P. Officer Buckle and Gloria. Officer Buckle thinks he and his dog make a
great team.
Rylant, Cynthia. The Old Woman Who Named Things. She’s outlived all her friends, so
an old woman names her belongings, knowing they will never leave her. Then a
puppy shows up, determined to be adopted.
Scieszka, Jon. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. The wolf’s side of the story.
Seymour. I Love My Buzzard. A boy’s collection of pets is more than his mother can
stand.
Sierra, Judy. The Dancing Pig. Can a pig save two girls from a witch? Fun tale from Bali.
Trivizas, E. The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig. A fun twist on the classic tale.
Van Allsburg, Chris. Probuditi. Calvin and his friend imitate a famous hypnotist by
hypnotizing Calvin’s little sister, with unexpected results.
Wallace. City Pig. She has everything: cell phone, job, fancy shoes – so why isn’t this pig
happy?
Wilson, Karma. Sakes Alive! A Cattle Drive! Two cows steal the farmer’s truck in this
silly rhyming book, leading the police on a merry chase through town.
Wilson, Karma. Moose Tracks! A silly rhyming mystery in which the house owner tries
to figure out how moose tracks got all over his house.
Zelinsky. Rumpelstiltskin. A beautifully illustrated version of the fairy tale.
Kindergarten Read-a-Louds, just title and/or author
Recommended:
Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas
Mo Willems
Wide Mouthed Frog / Faulkner
The Doorbell Rang / Hutchins (we have felt plates and cookies on the
feltboard to use with the story)
Put Me In The Zoo / Lopshire
The King the Mice and the Cheese / Gurney
Baby Beebee Bird / Massie
Karma Wilson's Bear books
Silly Sally / Wood
A Fish Out of Water / Palmer
Round Robin / Kent
Caterpillar and the Polliwog / Kent
Froggy Gets Dressed / London
One Duck Stuck by Root
Fortunately by Remy Charlip
Munsch books
Patricia Polacco
Margie Palatini (Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes, Sweet Tooth)
Dav Pilkey's books
Lane Smith's Happy Hocky family
Scieszka's books
Superdog: heart of a hero
Kevin O'malley's books (Once Upon a cool motorcycle dude)
Hoffman's Grace books
Kimmel's Anansi stories
Non-fiction picture books
The Best Book to Read by Debbie Bertram
The Shelf Elf by Jackie Hopkins
Winston the Book Wolf by Marni McGee
A Book by Mordicai Gerstein
My Little Sister Ate One Hare by Bill Grossman.
Bark George Jules Feiffer
Stephanie's Ponytail (Munsch)
Aaaarrgghh! Spider (Monks)
Epossumondas (Salley)
Never Tease a Weasel by Jean Conder Soule,
Miss Suzy by Miriam Young
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
Porkenstein by Kathryn Lasky
Clifford, Curious George, and Amelia Bedelia.
Minerva series of picture books
The Mitten (Aylesworth and Brett)
Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch
Higher, Higher by Leslie Patricelli
Duck, Rabbit by Amy Rosenthal
Birds by Kevin Henkes
All God's Critters by Bill Staines
The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
Moonshot by Brian Floca
Princess Hyacinth by Florence Perry Heide
Mary Louise loses her manners by Diane Cuneo ; illustrated by Jack E. Davis
Ivan the Terrier by Peter Catanlano (spelling)
Almost anything by William Steig
A Bad case of Stripes by Shannon
The Library by Stewart
Story of Little Babaji by Bannerman
Tree of Birds by Susan Meddaugh
Birdfeeder Banquet by Michael Martchenko
Two Frogs by Christopher Wormell – this may appear like a very simple
picture book but it has a twist at the end which younger children won’t
get, I use it for kids up to Grade 3
Discovery Kinder Books Read
Put on hold: Children Make Terrible Pets
Waking Beauty (liked)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible… (ok)
I know an old teacher… (liked)
Parts by Arnold (ok)
Scaredy Squirrel (had already read it)
Frog Prince (ok)
Perfect Nest (liked)
Gunniwolf (liked)
Book Eating Boy (ok)
Falling for Rapunzel (ok-didn’t get the rhymes)
Ivan the Terrier (liked)
Small Friends Kinders Read
Gunniwolf (liked)
Falling for Rapunzel (liked)
Squeaky Door (really liked)
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything (liked, but had read before)
Some classics I've read to 2nd grade classes: Strega Nona, Tikki Tikki
Tembo, and Alexander and the...Day
My new favorite book for K-2: Purple Kangaroo. LOVE it!
Have you read any chapter books, like Stories Julian Tells where each
chapter is generally a stand-alone story? Maybe something like the
Sideways School stories?
Any Robert Munsch stories
Once Upon a Motorcycle Dude by O'Malley (he has a new one that is a sequal
that is also very good)
Knock Knock jokes for 3rd graders!
Any Steve Jenkins books
Have you ever done any of the older folklore-type picture books? I'm
thinking of Molly Whuppie (the one I used was by Walter de la Mare with
illustrations by Cain) or Tailypo by Joanne Galdone. Or The Fool of the
World and the Flying Ship - the Arthur Ransome version is gorgeous with art
by Uri Shulevitz.
The book that eats people by John Perry, Mac Barnett's picturebooks (be
prepared for hysterical laughter), anything by Sarah Campbell or Nic Bishop.
"Once upon a cool motorcycle dude" and the sequel "Once upon a royal
superbaby" both my O'Malley
"Two bobbies: a true story of hurricane Katrina, friendship and survival" by Larson
"I ain't gonna paint no more" by Beaumont
"The great fuzz frenzy" by Stevens
"Take me out of the bathtub and other silly dilly songs" by Catrow (but you
do have to sing these to be really funny)
"I wanna iguana" by Orloff
"Dear Mrs Larue: Letters from obedience school" by Teague
any of the "SkippyJon Jones" by Schachner
Also, Mo Willems, "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus"
A book that works well with ALL ages (even 6th graders) is Once Upon a Cool
Motorcycle Dude by Kevin O'Malley. It doesn't take 15 min. to read, but
you can pair it with another book to fill the time.
Some favorites that the 3rd graders here have are A Bad Of Stripes by David
Shannon, Cinderella’s Rat by Susan Meddaugh, and Library Lion by Michelle
Knudsen.
Henry's Freedom Box
Skunk Dog
Bad Case of Stripes
The Beckoning Cat
Four Feet, Two Sandals
An Outlaw for Thanksgiving
I have these classes separately so don't read the same to both. I read a
couple chapters to introduce series, like Dragon Slayer Academy, Hank the
Cowdog, etc.
I have had good luck with that age group with "The Wolves in the Walls" by
Neil Gaiman and any of the Anansi books by Kimmel. Hope this helps!
I almost forgot, if your kids liked Nubs, be sure to read The Two Bobbies
(Larsen), Owen and Mzee (Hatkoff)and Hero Cat (Spinelli). You may find
some other "remarkable pet" books.
I suggest longer, picture book folk and fairy tales; fairy or folk tales
from an anthology of tales; "scary" stories from scary story anthologies
(such as "Short & Shivery" or "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" or "Ask
the Bones", etc.)
I often read to K - 4th graders, and with the 3rd & 4th graders, I’ll
usually read a chapter from a book – which will last about the time you
mentioned, and promote the book for them to continue reading. Some of the
usual (and bestJ) choices are: The hard-boiled egg chapter in Ramona
Quimby, Age 8; the Dribble chapter in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing; any
chapter from Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (but the Radish Cure is the fav); chapters
1 – 5 of the Chocolate Touch; the first chapter of Soup – the first in
Peck’s Soup books (although there are occasional references to God since he
breaks a window in a church – deal with that as you choose); chapter 1 of
The Bad Luck Chair; and as much as you can get through of Moxy Maxwell Does
Not Love Stuart Little (I love Moxy Maxwell!).
I usually take one picture book also, so I can stop the longer book if
they’re not with me and go to the shorter book. Like you, I love Shark Vs
Train! Others I’ve used include: Meanwhile . . .by Feifer, Undone Fairy
Tale by Lendler, The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Stevens, Jacques and Spock by
Slater, The Dancing Skeleton by DeFelice, What Are You so Grumpy About by
Lichtenheld, Nanta’s Lion by MacDonald, the Waterhole by Base, Slow Loris
by Deacon, Righty & Lefty by Vail, Duck, Duck Moose by Horowitz, Panda
Kindergarten by Ryder, and Velcome by O’Malley,
Here are some of my favorites to read to 3rd and 4th graders:
Henry and the Kite Dragon by Bruce Edward Hall
The Hungry Coat by Demi
Enemy Pie by Derek Munson
The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin
Definitely "The Secret Knowledge of Grown Ups"
For humor, your kids would probably like Once Upon a Royal Motorcycle Dude
or Once Upon a Royal Superbaby by O'Malley. They are at just the right age
to appreciate the humor and be able to follow the two viewpoints.
And the books by Mark Teague: Dear Mrs. LaRue, Letters from Obedience
School; Detective LaRue; or LaRue for Mayor
We've been visiting our local afterschool groups and all the kids looooove
MISS NELSON IS MISSING by Harry Allard. Most of them have heard it before,
but they love hearing it again (and commenting throughout that Miss Nelson
is just dressing up in a costume!).
I've also had success with:
IF I BUILT A CAR by Chris Van Dusen
TWO BAD ANTS by Chris Van Allsburg (one of my very favorites)
ACTUAL SIZE by Steve Jenkins
HOW MUCH IS A MILLION by Charles Schwartz
VELCOME by Kevin O'Malley (we read just a couple of the stories)
STORIES TO SOLVE by George Shannon (and others - I'd read one or two of
these stories per visit - there is a riddle in each story that the kids
have to solve).
And I don't know if you do seasonal/holiday books, but they've been loving
'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING by Dav Pilkey
and we're planning on
MERRY UN-CHRISTMAS by Mike Reiss for our next round.
I've also had success with reading trivia questions from a Scholastic
Trivia Challenge book and using books from the WHICH CAME FIRST series
(published by Bearport). For WHICH CAME FIRST, I bring along one of the
books and each spread has a question, like "Which came first, basketball or
baseball?" I have them raise their hand if they think basketball, then
raise their hand if they think baseball, then go to the next page where it
has the answer. It's a fun stretcher to mix things up a bit!
Hope this helps!
Try "Love and Roast Chicken". Tell them you think they will enjoy a love
story for a change. Barbara Knutson.
"Sam and the Tigers" by Julius Lester
The Cheese by Margie Palatini Or any of her other books.
Anansi stories
Beware of story book wolves and Who's afraid of the big bad book? By
Lauren Child
Too many Frogs by Sandy Asher
I've been taking THE BOY OF A THOUSAND FACES by David Selznick to
those age groups at one of our schools for the last couple of years. It's
a really good Halloween-style story & could probably be used even now,
just past Halloween. I love it when I get the kids to yell out "THE BEAST!".
I went to the same Afterschool Program grade last week as I did when
I read this to them 2 weeks before Halloween, & many of them remembered
it & alluded to it.
I love 12 TERRIBLE THINGS. It's not a long book, but the illustrations are
wonderful. HTH!
Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude by Kevin O'Malley
Humpty Dumpty Explodes by kevin O'Malley
The Three Little Wolves and the Big, Bad Pig by Eugenios Trivizas
Mr. and Mrs. Pig's Evening Out by Mary Rayner
Two of Everything by Lily Toy Hong
I'd Really Like to Eat a Child by Sylviane Donnio
Stories to Solve by George Shannon (pick a few--the kids love to guess)
Patricia Polacco books
Margie Palatini books
My current faves are chapters from:
We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes
Trolls Go Home
Three Good Deeds
Jack Plank Tells Tales
I have actually started keeping a list of read-alouds for older children.
Here are a few titles that have been a hit with my groups -
Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude by O'Malley
King Midas and the Golden Touch - any version
Let's Do Nothing by Fucile
Billy Twitters and his Blue Whale Problem – Barnett
The Hungry Ghosts – Lester
Seven Sneezes – Cabral
Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective – Biedrzycki
The Sandman – Fletcher
Imogene’s Last Stand – Fleming
Skunkdog – Jenkins
Uncle Bigfoot – O’Connor
If you are going on a regular basis, could you do a chapter book and read a
chapter every visit? Maybe do a quick recap at the beginning of each visit
to refresh their memories.
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Hello Little Ant by Phillip and Hannah Hoose - this is a fun one to read to
older children and then ask them to vote on whether or not they think the
ant should live or go free at the end (you could vote by secret ballot).
Some other fun books to try are:
365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental
Help Me, Mr. Mutt: Expert Answers for Dogs with People Problems by Janet
Stevens (love this one!)
Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School by Mark Teague
Any books in the Elephant and Piggie readers series by Mo Willems just for
the fun cartoon, comic value
The Three Questions by Jon J. Muth - a thought provoking story that could
inspire some good discussion
Here are a few of my favorites...
Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter Diane Stanley
Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm Jerdine Nolen
Sweet Dream Pie Audrey Wood
Falling for Rapunzel Leah Wilcox
Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum Meghan McCarthy
Saving Sweetness Diane Stanley
Raising Sweetness Diane Stanley
Almost anything by Patricia Polacco or Chris Van Allsburg.
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