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PRIMARY UNIT READING LIST (last updated spring 2006)

Summer Reading Assignment for incoming kindergarten students

Summer Reading Assignment for PU-ABC Students


Aardema, Verna
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears; other titles

Adler, David
Any title

Ackerman, Karen
Song and Dance Man

Aliki
My Visit to the Dinosaurs; other titles

Allard, Harry
Miss Nelson is Missing; other titles

Anderson, Hans C.
The Emperor’s New Clothes; other titles

Andrew-Goebel, Nancy
The Pot That Juan Built

Anno, Mitsumasa
Anno’s Counting Book; other titles

Asch, Frank
Happy Birthday, Moon; other titles

Bang, Molly
Wiley and the Hairy Man; other titles

Barrett, Judith

Animals Should Definitely Not Act Like People; other titles

Bemelmans, Ludwig
Madeline; other titles

Berenstain, Stan & Jan
He Bear, She Bear; other titles

Berger, Melvin
Why I Cough, Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup and Yawn; other titles

Bingham, Mindy
Minou

Branley, Franklyn
Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll; other titles

Brett, Jan
The Mitten; other titles

Brown, Marcia
Once a Mouse; other titles

Browne, Anthony
The Shape Game

Brunhoff, Jean de
The Story of Babar the Little Elephant; other Babar Books

Bryan, Ashley
All Night, All Day-A Child’s First Book of African American Spirituals

Buckley, Helen
Grandfather and I

Bunting, Eve
Smoky Night; other titles

Burton, Virginia

Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel; other titles

Calhoun, Mary
Cross Country Cat; other titles

Cannon, Jewell
Stellaluna

Carrick, Carol
What Happened to Patrick’s Dinosaurs?

Caseley, Judith
Dear Annie; Mama, Coming and Going; other titles

Cohen, Barbara
The Carp in the Bathtub

Coles, Robert
The Story of Ruby Bridges

Cooper, Floyd
Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes

Cooper, Susan
The Silver Cow: A Welsh Tale

Cowen-Fletcher, Jane
It Takes a Village

Cronin, Doreen
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

Curtis, Gavin
The Bat Boy & His Violin

Cushman, Doug
Aunt Eater’s Mystery Vacation; other titles

Daugherty, James
Andy and the Lion

d’Aulaire, Ingri & Edgar
Abraham Lincoln; other titles

Davies, Nicola
Surprising Sharks

De Felice, Cynthia
Cold Feet

de Paola, Tomie
Strega Nona; other titles

de Regniers, Beatrice

May I Bring a Friend?

DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne
Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen; City Green

Ehlert, Lois
Cuckoo=Cuco: A Mexican Folktale; other titles

Emberly, Barbara

Drummer Hoff; other titles

Ets, Marie H.
Nine Days to Christmas; Gilberto and the Wind

Falaner, Ian
Olivia

Feelings, Muriel
Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book; other titles

Flack, Marjorie
The Story about Ping

Fleming, Denise
In the Small, Small Pond

Fox, Paula
The Little Swineherd and Other Tales

Freeman, Don
Corduroy; other titles

Gag, Wanda
Millions of Cats

Galdone, Paul
Henny Penny; other titles

Giff, Patricia
Today Was a Terrible Day; other titles

Goble, Paul
The Gift of the Sacred Dog; other titles

Greenfield, Eloise
Rosa Parks (biography); For the Love of the Game: Michael Jordan and Me

Grifalconi, Ann
The Village of Round and Square Houses

Griffith, Helen V.
Mine Will, Said John; other titles

Grimm, Jacob & Grimm, Wilhelm K.

any title

Haley, Gail E.
A Story, A Story

Hamilton, Virginia
All Jahdu; Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales; other titles

Henkes, Kevin

Kitten's First Full Moon

Hest, Amy
The Purple Coat

Hill, Donald
Ox-Cart Man

Hoffman, Mary
A Twist in the Tail: Animal Stories from Around the World

Hogrogian, Nonny
One Fine Day

Holling, Holling C.
Paddle to the Sea

Hyman, Trina S.
St. George and the Dragon; other titles

Isaacs, Anne
Swamp Angel

Isadora, Rachel
City Seen from A to Z; other titles

Jaffe, Nina
The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico

Jeffers, Susan
any title

Jenkins, Emily
Five Creatures

Johnson, Crockett
Harold and the Purple Crayon

Johnson, James Weldon
The Creation

Johnson, Stephen T.
Alphabet City

Keats, Ezra
Whistle for Willie; The Snowy Day; other titles

Keller, Holly
Jacob’s Tree; Geraldine’s Baby Brother; other titles

Kellogg, Steven
The Mystery of the Flying Orange Pumpkin; A Rose for Pinkerton; other titles

Kerley, Barbara
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins

King Perez, L.
First Day in Grapes

Krull, Kathleen
Wilma Unlimited

Kuskin, Karla
The Philharmonic Gets Dressed; other titles

Leaf, Munro
The Story of Ferdinand

Lear, Edward
An Edward Lear Alphabet; The Owl and the Pussycat

Lehman, Barbara
The Red Book

Leodhas, Sorche Nic
Always Room for One More

Lester, Julius
John Henry; Sam and the Tigers

Lioni, Leo
Inch by Inch; Swimmy; other titles

Lipkind, William & Mordinoff, Nicolas
Finders Keepers

MacDonald, Suse
Alphabatics; Nanta’s Lion; other titles

Martin Jr., Bill
Chicka, Chicka ABC; Chicka Chicka Boom Boom; other titles

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs
Snowflake Bentley

Mayer, Mercer
There’s a Nightmare in My Closet; other titles

McCloskey, Robert
Make Way for Ducklings; One Morning in Maine; Blueberries for Sal

McCully, Emily Arnold

Mirette on the High Wire; other titles


 

McDermott, Gerald
Arrow to the Sun; Raven; other titles

McKissack, Pat
Nettie Jo’s Friends; Mirandy and Brother Wind; other titles

Mike, Jan M.
Gift of the Nile: An Ancient Egyptian Legend; other titles

Miles, Miska
Annie and the Old One

Miller, William
Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree

Mosel, Arlene
The Funny Little Woman

Musgrove, Margaret
Ashanti to Zulu

Ness, Evaline
Sam, Bangs and Moonshine

Oakley, Graham
Hetty and Harriet; other titles

Patz, Nancy
Moses Supposes His Toeses are Roses and Seven Other Silly Old Rhymes

Pelletier, David
The Graphic Alphabet

Perkins, Lynn Rae
Snow Music

Platt, Kim
Big Max in the Mystery of the Missing Moose; other titles

Polacco, Patricia
Chicken Sunday; Mrs. Katz and Tush; other titles

Potter, Beatrix
A Tale of Peter Rabbit; other titles

Prokofiev, Sergei
Peter and the Wolf

Provensen, Alice
The Glorious Flight; other titles

Rackham, Arthur
The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book

Ransome, Arthur
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship: A Russian Tale

Rappapart, Doreen
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Raschka, Chris
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop

Raskin, Ellen
Spectacles; other titles

Rathmann, Peggy
Officer Buckle and Gloria

Rey, H.A.
The Adventures of Curious George; other titles

Ringold, Faith
Tar Beach; other titles

Robbins, Ruth
Baboushka and the Three Kings

Rylant, Cynthia
When I Was Young and in the Mountains; The Relative Came; other titles

San Souci, Robert D.
The Faithful Friend; Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella; other titles

Say, Allen
The Bicycle Man; How My Parents Learned to Eat; other titles

Scott, Ann Herbert
Sam

Sheldon, Dyan
Whales Song

Silverstein, Shel
The Giving Tree; Giraffe and a Half; other titles

Simont, Marc
The Stray Dog

Steig, William
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble; other titles

Steptoe, John
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale; other titles

Stevenson, James
Could Be Worse; other titles

Strand, Mark
Rembrandt Takes a Walk

Surat, Michelle Maria
Angel Child, Dragon Child

Taback, Simms
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Thayer, Ernest Lawrence
Casey at Bat

Titus, Eve
Anatole and the Cat

Tresselt, Alvin
White Snow, Bright Snow; other titles

Turkle, Brinton
Do Not Open; other titles

Udry, Janice
A Tree is Nice

Ungerer, Tomi
The Three Robbers; other titles

Van Allsburg, Chris
Just a Dream; The Polar Express; other titles

Viorst, Judith
I’ll Fix Anthony; other titles

Walter, Mildred Pitts
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World

Wells, Rosemary
Stanley and Rhoda; other titles

Westcott, Nadine (retold)
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Wiesner, David
The Three Pigs

Willems, Mo
Knuffle Bunny

Williams, Vera
A Chair for My Mother; other titles

Winthrop, Elizabeth
any title

Wood, Audrey
any title

Yarbrough, Camille
Cornrows

Yashima, Taro
Crow Boy

Yolen, Jane H.
Sleeping Ugly; All Those Secrets of the World; other titles

Yorinks, Arthur
Hey, Al

Zelinsky, Paul O. (retold)
Rapunzel; Rumpelstiltskin

Zemach, Margot
It Could Always Be Worse

Zolotow, Charlotte
The Quarreling Book; other titles

Longer Books (“Chapter Books”)

Adler, David
Cam Jansen Series

Atwater, Richard
Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Banks, Lynne Reid
Harry the Poisonous Centipede

Barrie, J.M.
Peter Pan

Bianco, Margery Williams
The Velveteen Rabbit

Blume, Judy
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing; Superfudge; The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo; other titles

Bomans, Godfried
Eric in the Land of the Insects

Bond, Michael
A Bear Called Paddington; other titles

Cameron, Ann
The Stories Julian Tells

Cameron, Eleanor
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet

Christopher, Matt
The Kid Who Only Hit Homers; other titles

Cleary, Beverly
any title

Clifton, Lucille
The Lucky Stone

Dahl, Roald
any title

De Angeli, Marguerite
any title

Estes, Eleanor
The Hundred Dresses; other titles

Fleming, Ian
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Fritz, Jean
What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?; Why Don’t You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?; Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?; other titles

Gannett, Ruth S.
My Father’s Dragon; other titles

Giff, Patricia Reilly
Polk Street School Series; other titles

Haywood, Carolyn
B is for Betsy; other titles

Hurwitz, Johanna
any title

Kipling, Rudyard
Just So Stories; other titles

Lawson, Robert
any title

Lindgren, Astrid
The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking; other titles

Milne, A.A.
The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner

Norton, Mary
Bed-Knob and Broomstick; other titles

Osborne, Mary Pope
Magic Tree House Series

Selden, George
any title

Spyri, Johanna
Heidi

Todd, Ruthven

Space Cat

Warner, Gertrude C.
The Boxcar Children Series

White, E.B.
Charlotte’s Web; other titles

Wilder, Laura Ingalls
The Little House Series