Do you have books at home that you can just grab and engage your children in a storytime? The picture books in this list are meant for just that. These are tried and true titles that our librarians who do storytimes return to often.
In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every silly word, no matter what.
Recommended for grades Pre-Kindergarten-2.
In the rhythm of a familiar folk song, a child cannot resist adding one more dab of paint in surprising places.
Recommended for grades Pre-Kindergarten-2.
A ladybug invites the reader to play a game of “let’s pretend.”
Recommended for grades Pre-Kindergarten-Kindergarten.
Little Mouse worries that the big, hungry bear will take his freshly picked, ripe, red strawberry for himself.
Recommended for grades Pre-Kindergarten-Kindergarten.
Three mice make a variety of things out of different shapes as they hide from a scary cat.
Recommended for grades Pre-Kindergarten-2.
Feeling too grumpy to fly, Bird begins to walk and finds that his mood changes as other animals join him.
Recommended for grades Pre-Kindergarten-Kindergarten.
Encourages the reader to exercise by following the movements of various animals; presented in a question and answer format.
Recommended for grades 1-2.
Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days.
Recommended for grades 1-2.
Brave bear hunters go through grass, a river, mud and other obstacles before the inevitable encounter with the bear forces a headlong retreat.
Recommended for grades Pre-Kindergarten-Kindergarten.
Lola dreads the school assignment to draw her home country because she has no memory of her birthplace on an island. She turns to her family, friends, and neighbors, asking them to share memories that will allow her to create a picture of her Dominican homeland in her mind and on paper.
Recommended for grades Kindergarten-3.
When Gerald the elephant and Piggie realize that they are in a book, they decide to have some fun with the reader.
Recommended for grades Pre-Kindergarten-2.
Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
Recommended for grades Kindergarten-2.
When Alma Sofia Esperanza Jose Pura Candela asks her father why she has so many names, she hears the story of her name and learns about her grandparents.
Recommended for grades Pre-Kindergarten-2.
Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child’s day.
Recommended for grades Kindergarten-1.
Whether you have two mums, two dads, one parent, or one of each, there’s one thing that makes a family a family… and that’s love.
Recommended for babies and toddlers.
This blog post was created by librarians from Park City Library with help of information found in NoveList – a database which is free with your library card. NoveList is a comprehensive reading recommendation resource.