Kindergarten Book List 2016-17

Book list by subject

  Literature

Flat Stanley

·         Animal Folk tales of America
      Billy and Blaze series

·         Prairie School

·         Courage of Sarah Noble

·         Little House in the Big Woods

·         Bears on Hemlock Mountain

·         Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Tom Kitten, Johnny Town Mouse

·         Boxcar Children #1 & 2
      Ivy and Bean & others
      Betsy Tacy
      Twig
      B is for Betsy
      George and the Marvelous Medicine 
      The Chocolate Touch
      Velveteen Rabbit 
      Pathway Readers:  Busy Times, More Busy Times, Climbing Higher 
      Matilda

·         James and the Giant Peach

·         Lion Witch and the Wardrobe

·         Penderwicks- Spring

      Penderwicks- Garden Street
      Penderwicks - Pt. Mouette
      Little House and the Long Winter
      The Water Horse
      Five Little Peppers and How they Grew
      My Side of the Mountain
      Heidi
      Enormous Crocodile - Dahl  
      Fairy Tales - Anderson  
      Now We are Six - Milne
      When We Were Very Young - Milne
       Pioneer Girl - Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder- Anderson
      The True Story of Peter Rabbit- Johnson
      The Perfect Wizard:  Hans Christian Anderson - Yolen
      Aesop for Children - Winter
      Tales from Odyssey -(6 volumes) Osborne
      Along Came a Dog 
 

      Picture Books    

 

      Stone Soup
      Henny Penny
      Butterfly House
      Ivy Cottage ** 
      Miss Rumphus
      George Shrinks
      Caboose Who Got Loose - Peet
      A Sick Day Amos McGee
      Dogger - Hughes
      Dear Rebecca Winter is Here - George
      Johnny Appleseed - Lindbergh
      The Boy who Drew Birds - Davies
      McElligot's Pool
      The Monkey and the Crocodile -Galdone
      Ant and the Elephant- Peet
      One Morning in Maine- McCloskey
      Amos and Boris
      Cinderella - Brown
      The Emperor's New Clothes - Anderson
      The Big Snow - Hader
      A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart- Adler
      Farewell to Shady Glade - Peet
      Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent- Peet
      Emily - Bedard
      Sam, Bangs and Moonshine
      Island Boy - Cooney
      Verdi- Cannon
      The Gift of the Tree - Tresselt
       The Gardener- Stewart
       Lucy's Summer- Hall 

 History/Geography 

Missionary Stories with the Millers
 Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air
 Children's Picture Atlas of the World
Children Like Me
50 Famous Stories Retold

ASIA
Twin Books- Japanese (Perkins)
The Girl Who Wore Too Much
Peeps at Many Lands - Japan
Hok-Hwa of the Waterfront (The Children's Hour)
Monkey Spirit (The Children's Hour)
Bim's Gift from the Forest (The Children's Hour)
Rikki Tiki Tavi
Fairy Tales from Russia (Junior Classics)
Fairy Tales from India (Junior Classics)
Monsoon by Akib
Same, Same, but Different - Kostecki
The Five Chinese Brothers- Bishop
Tigers - Marsh
Living in India - Perkins
How My Parents Learned to Eat - Freedman
The Crow Boy- Yashima
What Comes from China - Harvey
Count Your Way Through China & India - Hastins
Ming Lo Moves the Mountain - Lobel
Earthquakes - Simon
Thailand - Freedman
Pet Dragon - Nieonom
Thailand- MinOrgtto
Little Pear
Balarama - Lewin
Asia- Fowler
Count Your Way through Israel- Haskins
Christmas Around the World - Kelley

ANTARTICA/ARCTIC
Dinty (Children's Hour)
Twin Seals (Children's Hour)
Snowflake (Bentley)
North - Amazing Story Arctic Migration- Dowson
Antarctica- Fowler
Building an Igloo - Steltzer
Lost and Found - Jeffers
Kumak's Fish - Bania
MTH Polar Bears and the Arctic- Osborne
MSB Arctic Adventures
A Mother's Journey - Markle
Arctic Son- George
Bravest Dog Story of Balto - Standiford

EUROPE
Twin Series - Dutch, French, Italian & Swiss
Children of the Noisy Village
 Boxes for Katje
Adele and Simon
Anatole
The Cat Who Walked Across France- Banks
This is Venice - Lasek

AUSTRALIA

Audrey of Outback
Boiling the Billy Book ( The Children's Hour)
Koalo Lou- Fox
Are We there Yet
Diary of a Wombat
Biggest Frog in Australia

AFRICA
Anna Hibiscus
Jambi and the Tiger (Children's Hour)
Monkey Crocodile
Jambo Means Hello 
My Rows and Piles of Coins- Lewis
Africa- Fowler
Where Are You Going Manyoni
Galimoto- Williams
My Painted House Friendly Chicken and Me
I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Gift of Sun - Stewart
African Critters - Haas
For You are a Kenyan Child - Cunnane
Uncommon Traveler- Mary Kingsley in Africa- Brown
Rain School- Rumford


SOUTH AMERICA

South America - Fowler
Abuela's Weave- Castaneda
Biblioburro - Winter
The Great Kapok Tree- Cherry
The Umbrella - Brett
Magic Tree House Research- Rain Forests- Osborne
The Rainforest Grew All Around - Mitchell

National Geographic Kids- Wild Animal Atlas (for all countries studied)

Science (not integrated in the geography)

 

See Through the Forest - Selsam
Among the Forest People
Backyard Birds
Frozen Wild - Arnosky
It's Snowing - Gibbons
Apples- Gibbons
How to Draw Birds- Green
Follow the Water From Brook to Ocean
Water Dance
Wish for a Fish
Ant Cities
Clam I Am
Is a Camel a Mammal
Let's Go Rock Collecting
Rocks and Minerals
Oceans - Simon
Lungs - Simon
From Seed to Plant - Gibbons
Oh Say Can You Seed?
How People Learned to Fly
Snakes - Gibbons
A Snake's Year - Gove
Where they Go in Winter - Buck

Community Helpers/Holidays

Flying Firefighters
Pumpkin Pumpkin
 Four Friends in Autumn DePaola
Life in a Farming Community - Flatt
Farming - Gibbons
Apples and Pumpkins- Rockwell
Let's Visit a Dairy Farm - Sweeney
Milk Makers- Gibbons
Scarecrow's Dance
Fletcher and Falling Leaves
Earl the Squirrel
Surrounded by Sea
Amelia Earnhart
My Friend Doctor - Cole
Ben Franklin Magic Squares- Murphy
Anasi and the Moss Covered Rock
Mushroom in the Rain - Ginsburg
The Thanksgiving Story - Dalgiesh
Lucy's Christmas - Hall
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
Saint Valentine- Sabuda
The Easter Egg- Brett