List of 100 books to read before school
Listed in alphabetical order by author.
Format: title of book; last name of author, first name of author.
My very first Mother Goose
The Little Red Hen
The three billy goats gruff; Asbjornsen, Peter Christen
Old black fly; Aylesworth, Jim
Big Fat Hen; Baker, Keith
Madeline; Bemelmans, Ludwig
Stone Soup; Brown, Marcia
Goodnight Moon; Brown, Margaret Wise
The story of Babar; Brunhoff, Jean de
Mr. Gumpy's Outing; Burningham, John
Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel; Burton, Virginia Lee
The very hungry caterpillar; Carle, Eric
Five little monkeys jumping on the bed; Christelow, Eileen
Miss Rumphius; Cooney, Barbara
Freight train; Crews, Donald
Strega Nona; DePaola, Tomie
The Gruffalo; Donaldson, Julia
Are you my mother?; Donaldson, Julia
Eating the alphabet: fruits and vegetables from A to Z; Ehlert, Lois
Olivia; Falconer, Ian
The velveteen rabbit, or, how toys become real; Fancher, Lou
Lunch; Fleming, Denise
Corduroy; Freeman, Don
Millions of cats; Gag, Wanda
Henny Penny; Galdone, Paul
My little sister ate 1 hare; Grossman, Bill
Chrysanthemum; Henkes, Kevin
Lilly's purple plastic purse; Henkes, Kevin
Guess who, Baby Duck!; Hest, Amy
Where's Spot?; Hill, Eric
Down by the station; Hillenbrand, Will
Bread and jam for Frances; Hoban, Russell
Angelina ballerina; Holabird, Katharine
Rosie's walk; Hutchins, Pat
Harold and the purple crayon; Johnson, Crockett
Jump, frog, jump!; Kalan, Robert
The wolf's chicken stew; Kasza, Keiko
The snowy day; Keats, Ezra Jack
Pinkerton, behave!; Kellogg, Steven
Anansi and the moss-covered rock; Kimmel, Eric A
Whose mouse are you?; Kraus, Robert
The carrot seed; Krauss, Ruth
The story of Ferdinand; Leaf, Munro
Swimmy; Lionni, Leo
Frog and toad are friends; Lobel, Arnold
Froggy gets dressed; London, Jonathan
George and Martha; Marshall, James
Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?; Martin, Bill
There's a nightmare in my closet; Mayer, Mercer
Guess how much I love you; McBratney, Sam
Blueberries for Sal; McCloskey, Robert
Make way for ducklings; McCloskey, Robert
Anansi the spider: a tale from the Ashanti; McDermott, Gerald
I stink!; McMullan, Kate
Pigs aplenty, pigs galore; McPhail, David M
Bark, George; Feiffer, Jules
Martha speaks; Meddaugh, Susan
Tomas and the library lady; Mora, Pat
The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash; Noble, Trinka Hakes
Who took the farmer's hat?; Nodset, Joan L
If you give a mouse a cookie; Numeroff, Laura Joffe
Amelia Bedelia; Parish, Peggy
The little engine that could; Piper, Watty
The tale of Peter Rabbit; Potter, Beatrix
Curious George; Rey, H A Hans Augusto
We're going on a bear hunt; Rosen, Michael
When I was young in the mountains; Rylant, Cynthia
Henry and Mudge; Rylant, Cynthia
Where the wild things are; Sendak, Maurice
The cat in the hat; Suess, Dr.
Green eggs and ham; Seuss, Dr.
Duck on a bike; Shannon, David
No, David!; Shannon, David
It looked like spilt milk; Shaw, Charles Green
Sheep in a jeep; Shaw, Nancy
Caps for sale; Slobodkina, Esphyr
Imogene's antlers; Small, David
Doctor De Soto; Steig, William
Pete's a pizza; Steig, William
Dinosaur roar!; Stickland, Paul
Minerva Louise and the red truck; Stoeke, Janet Morgan
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly; Taback, Simms
The three little pigs
A tree is nice; Udry, Janice May
The Polar Express; Van Allsburg, Chris
Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day; Viorst, Judith
Ira sleeps over; Waber, Bernard
Mouse paint; Walsh, Ellen Stoll
Tuesday; Wiesner, David
Don't let the pigeon drive the bus; Willems, Mo
Pigeon finds a hot dog!; Willems, Mo
I went walking; Williams, Sue
Bear snores on; Wilson, Karma
The little mouse, the red ripe strawberry, and the big hungry bear; Wood, Don
The napping house; Wood, Audrey
Owl moon; Yolen, Jane
Seven blind mice; Young, Ed
The wheels on the bus; Zelinsky, Paul O
Harry the dirty dog; Zion, Gene