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Suggested Reading for First Graders

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Favorite Authors:

Eric Carle
Gail Gibbons
Leo Lionni
James Marshall
Bill Martin
Mercer Mayer
Dr. Seuss
Don and Audrey Wood

Series for First Graders:

Berenstain Bears - Jan and Stan Berenstain
Arthur Series - Marc Brown
Clifford Books - Norman Bridwell
Henry and Mudge - Cynthia Rylant
Little Bear - Minarik

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Caps for Sale - Esphyr Slobodkina
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Chicken Soup with Rice - Maurice Sendak
Chester's Way - Kevin Henkes
Chrysanthemum - Kevin Henkes
The Cow That Went OINK - Bernard Most
Drummer Hoff - Barbara Embeley
Five Little Ducks - Raffi
Frog and Toad are Friends - Arnold Lobel
Freight Train - Donald Crews
A Friend for Dragon- Dav Pilkey
Good Work, Amelia Bedelia - Peggy Parish
Guess How Much I Love You - Sam McBratnay
If You Give a Moose a Muffin - Laura Numeroff
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - Laura Numeroff
If the Dinosaurs Came Back - by Bernard Most
If You Give a Moose a Muffin - Laura Numeroff
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - Laura Numeroff
Is This a House for Hermit Crab? - Megan McDonald
Jolly Postman and Other People's Mail - Janet and Alan Ahlberg
Leo the Late Bloomer - Robert Kraus
Lily's Purple Plastic Purse - Kevin Henkes
Little Red Hen, The - Paul Galdone
May I Bring a Friend - Beatrice deRegniers
Millions of Cats - Wanda G'ag
Miss Nelson Has a Field Day - Harry Allard
(and other Miss Nelson books)
Mouse Soup - Arnold Lobel
Napping House - Don and Audrey Wood
More Spaghetti, I Say - Rita Goldman Gelman
Office Buckle and Gloria - Peggy Rathmann
Old Black Fly - Jim Aylesworth
Pancakes for Breakfast - Tomie de Paola
Pig Pig Gets a Job - David McPhail
Piggies - Audrey Wood
Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!- David McPhail
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear - Bill Martin
Popcorn Dragon - Jane Thayer
Quick as a Cricket
Seven Blind Mice - Ed Young
Silly Sally - Audrey Wood
Snowy Day - Ezra Jack Keats
Somebody and the Three Blairs
Teeny Tiny - retold by Jill Bennett
There's a Monster Under My Bed
Very Hungry Caterpillar, The - Eric Carle
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak