Recommended Reading for Kindergartners

Title

Author

Description

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Judi Barret

Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow. It rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes and blows hamburgers.

Old Black Fly

Jim Aylesworth

Follow a mischevious old black fly through the alphabet with rhymes and illustrations.

StellaLuna

Janell Cannon

Warm and sensitive story of a bat who gets lost and is raised by birds. He thinks he is a bird until he gets lost again.

Angelina Ballerina

Katharine Holabird

A little mouse wants to become a ballerina.

The Secret Birthday Message

Eric Carle

A message in a code starts Tim off on a hunt to find his birthday surprise.

What's the Matter with Herbie Jones?

Suzy Kline

When Herbie Jones gets the dreaded girl disease and becomes lovesick for Annabelle Hodgekiss, it threatens to break up his friendship with his good pal Raymond.

Recommended Series for Kindergartners

David Adler Cam Jansen series
Judy Blume Freckle Juice
Fudge
Superfudge
Ann Cameron The Stories Julian Tells
Paula Danziger Amber Brown series
Barbara Park Junie B. Jones series
Patricia Giff Kids of the Polk Street School series
Mary Pope Osborne Magic Tree House series
 

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