Summer Reading

May

Infants and Toddlers

• Guess How Much I Love You, Sam McBratney
• Moo, Baa, La La La!, Sandra Boynton
• I Can, Helen Oxenbury
• I See, Helen Oxenbury
• Eating the Alphabet, Lois Ehlert

Two-Year-Old Children

• One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Dr. Seuss
• In the Small, Small Pond, Denise Fleming
• Tumble Bumble, Felicia Bond
• Big Red Barn, Margaret Wise Brown
• We’re Going on A Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen
• The Grouchy Ladybug, Eric Carle
• Rumble in the Jungle, Giles Andreae
• Little Cloud, Eric Carle

Three-Year-Old Children

• Moonbear’s Shadow, Frank Asch
• Noisy Nora, Rosemary Wells
• A Color of His Own, Leo Lionni
• From Head to Toe, Eric Carle
• The Cow That Went Oink, Bernard Most
• The House That Jack Built, Diana Mayo

Four-Year-Old Children

• Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson
• Mrs. Honey’s Tree, Pam Adams
• It Looked Like Spilt Milk, Charles G. Shaw
• The Doorbell Rang, Pat Hutchins
• Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3, Bill Martin Jr
• If The Dinosaurs Came Back, Bernard Most
• My Five Senses, Aliki
• Bigmama’s, Donald Crews
• Lilly’s Big Day, Kevin Henkes

Five-Year-Old Children

• Arthur’s Honey Bear, Lillian Hoban
• Max and Ruby, Rosemary Wells
• Frederick, Leo Lionni
• The Very Lonely Firefly, Eric Carle
• Mirette on the High Wire, Emily Arnold McCully
• Grandfather’s Journey, Allen Say
• When I Was Young in the Mountains, Cynthia Rylant
• The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein

June

Infants and Toddlers

For the youngest children, ages infant to 2 years, summertime is a good time to find water-proof books.  Children spend time in the tub and pools and it is a great time to have them "read" while cooling off.  Several books have been adapted to bath time and are printed for that purpose. Fisher Price publishes a set of books -  Look What I See that are vinyl and perfect for this age.

Eric Hill has a set of vinyl books that children this age love:

• Hello Bee Hello Me
• The Rainbow Fish
• Spot Goes Splash!
• Spot's Bath
• Splish Splash

Beatrix Potter has vinyl books that have been favorites over the years:

• Splash Peter Rabbit
• Jemima Duck
• Peter Rabbit

Two-Year-Old to Five-Year-Old Children

At these ages, children enjoy all the old favorites including:

• The Very Busy Spider, Eric Carle
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
• From Head to Toe, Eric Carle
• Let's Count, Tana Hoban
• In The Meadow, Olive Wadsworth
• Little Blue and Little Yellow, Leo Lionni

Five-Year-Old Children

At this age, a child enjoys a chapter book with parents or teachers sharing the reading with the child.  Art and field trips can also be used to enhance the stories. Some suggestions are:

• Junie B, Jones Series, Barbara Park
• Matilda, Roald Dahl
• John, Paul, George and Ben, Lane Smith
• The Curse of the Bologna Sandwich, Melvin Beederman