Kindergarten Reading List
Mr.
Gumpy’s Outing
by John Burningham – E BURNING
Mr.
Gumpy accepts more and more riders on his boat
until the inevitable occurs.
Whose Mouse Are You?
By Robert Kraus – E KRAUS
A lonely little mouse has to be resourceful in
order to bring his family back together.
Henry and Mudge and the Wild Wind
by Cynthia Rylant – BR RYLANT
Henry and his big dog Mudge try to keep busy
inside the house during a thunderstorm.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
by Bill Martin, Jr. – E MARTIN
On each page, we meet a new animal that nudges
us onward to discover who will show up next.
This is repeated over and over, until the
pre-reader can chime in with the reader, easily
predicting the next rhyme.
Abuela
by Arthur Dorros – E DORROS
A small girl imagines that she and her
grandmother are flying high above Manhattan.
Since Abuela speaks “mostly Spanish,” Rosalba
mentions many Spanish words for what they see,
and in their conversations.
Owen
by Kevin Henkes – E HENKES
Owen’s parents try to get him to give up his
favorite blanket before he starts school, but
when their efforts fail, they come up with a
solution that makes everyone happy.
Rosie’s Walk
by Pat Hutchins – E HUTCHIN
Although unaware that a fox is after her as she
takes a walk around the farmyard, Rosie the hen
still manages to lead him into one accident
after another.
If
You Give a Pig a Pancake
by Laura Joffe Numeroff – E NUMEROF
One thing leads to another if you give a pig a
pancake.
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten
by Joseph Slate – E SLATE
Introduces the letters of the alphabet as Miss
Bindergarten and her students get ready for
kindergarten.
The
Napping House
by Don and Audrey Wood – E WOOD
A story about a "napping house" that tells of a
cozy bed, a snoring granny, a dreaming child, a
dozing dog, and a surprise…
Froggy Goes to School
by Jonathan London – E LONDON
The fourth book about Froggy begins with a
nightmare many kids will recognize: he finds
himself at school in only his underwear. Is
Froggy nervous about the first day of school?
Well, just a little.
The
Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle – E CARLE
Follows the progress of a hungry little
caterpillar as he eats his way through one apple
(and the pages of the book itself) on Monday,
two pears on Tuesday, three plums on Wednesday,
and so on, through cherry pie and sausage--until
he is really fat and has a stomachache. And no
doubt you know what happens next!
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak – E SENDAK
Max is sent to bed without supper and imagines
sailing away to the land of Wild Things, where
he is made king.
