Book List - 1st-3rd Grade
1st-3rd
Series
Mercy
Watson Kate DiCamillo
Bink
and Golly Kate DiCamillo
Princess
in Black Shannon Hale
Ivy
and Bean Annie Barrows
Nate
the Great Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
My
Father’s Dragon Ruth Stiles Gannett
Boxcar
Children Gertrude Stein Warner
Time
Warp Trio Jon Sciezka
Hank
the Cowdog John R.
Erickson
Billy
and Blaze C.W Anderson
Gooney
Bird Greene Lois Lowry
Betsy
Tacy Maud Hart Lovelace
Chicken Squad Doreen Cronin
Calpurnia Tate,
Girl Vet Jaqueline Kelly
Mango and Bambang Polly Faber
Time Jumpers Wendy Mass
Animal Adventures
Dolphin Adventure
Wayne Grover
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
Stuart Little
""
Trumpet of the
Swan
""
The Mouse and the
Motorcycle
Beverly Cleary
Mr. Popper's
Penguins
Richard
Atwater
Owls in the Family Farley
Mowat
Cappyboppy Bill Peet
Cappyboppy Bill Peet
Books with Boy
Characters (yes, I know! These aren't just for boys. But I often get
requests for "books for boys" or "books for girls", and
this is the least offensive way I can title this category.)
Nate the Great
Billy and Blaze
Time Warp Trio
Jon Sciezca
The Chalk Box Kid
Robert Bulla
The Bears on
Hemlock Mountain
Alice Dalgliesh
The Miniature
World of Marvin James
Elise Broach
The Amazing World
of Stuart Sarah
Pennypacker
Balto and the
Great Race
Elizabeth
Cody Kimmel
The Stone Fox John Reynolds Gardiner
Never Glue Your
Friends to Chairs Katherine
Applegate
Books with Girl
Characters (see the disclaimer above)
Princess in Black Shannon
Hale
Calpurnia Tate,
Girl Vet
Jaqueline
Kelly
Mango and Bambang Polly Faber
Cowgirl Kate and
Cocoa Erica Silverman
Piper Green and
the Fairy Tree Ellen
Potter
Clementine
Sara Pennypacker
Daisy Dawson is
on Her Way! Steve
Voake
Gooney Bird
Greene Ellen Potter
Caldecott
Medal Winners
This
is a link to some excellent selections - https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/311.Caldecott_Medal_Winners
Fairy
Tales
(check
your local library for many, many more selections...but no Disney versions,
please!)
East O’ The Sun and West O’ the
moon
Naomi Lewis and P.J. Lynch
Sleeping Beauty Mahlon Craft
Cinderella K.Y. Kraft
Beauty and the Beast
Mahlon Craft
The Twelve Dancing Princesses Marianna Mayer
Rapunzel
Paul O. Zelinsky
Usborne Illustrated Grimm’s Fairy
Tales
A First Book of Fairy Tales
DK Books
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale
Collection
The Rainbow Fairy Book Andrew Lang
Jack and the Beanstalk E.
Nesbit
Puss in Boots Charles Perrault and Fred
Marcellino
Hansel and Gretel Brothers Grimm and Sybille Schenker
Little Red Riding Hood Brothers Grimm and Sybille Schenker
Faerie Gold edited
by Kathryn Lindskoog
Fantasy
My
Father's Dragon Ruth Stiles Gannett
Magic
Treehouse (series) Mary Osborne
Time
Jumpers (series) Wendy Mass
The
Amazing World of Stuart Sarah Pennypacker
Folk
Tales
(try
Paul Galdone’s “Folk Tale Classics” for excellent versions of these stories!)
Henny
Penny
The
Little Gingerbread Man
The
Little Red Hen
The
Three Billy Goats Gruff
The
Three Little Pigs
Chicken
Little
Historical
Fiction
(Picture
books, early readers, chapter books. This is just a start! If you need help
finding books on a specific time period, interests, or age level, ask Mrs.
Meester or your local librarian!)
Magic
Tree House series Mary Pope Osborne
Time
Warp trio
Jon
Sciezka
Temple
Cat
Andrew Clements
The
Duchess Bakes a Cake Virginia Kahl
The
Kitchen Knight Margaret
Hodges
King
Bidgood’s in the Bathtub Audrey Woods
The
King's Equal
Katherine Paterson
Marguerite
Makes a Book Bruce Robertson
Castle
Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess Richard
Platt
Leonardo’s
Horse
Jean Fritz
Ox-Cart
Man
Donald Hall
The
Long Way to a New Land Joan Sandin
The
Cabin Faced West
Jean Fritz
Phoebe
the Spy
Judith Griffin
A
Lion to Guard Us
Clyde Robert Bulla
By
the Great Horn Spoon Sid Fleischman
Ride
on, Will Cody Caroline Starr Rose
Mary
on Horseback
Rosemary Wells
Stories
from Grandma’s Attic Arleta Richardson
All-of-a-Kind
Family
Sydney Taylor
Finding
Winnie
Lindsay
Mattick
A New
Coat for Anna Harriet
Ziefert
Boxes
for Katje
Candace Fleming
Informational
Books
“You
Wouldn’t Want to…” series Jacqueline Morley
Books
by Gail Gibbons
Is a
Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?
Robert Wells
(or
any from the Wells of Knowledge series)
Rookie
Read About Science series
Who
Would Win? (series)
Jerry
Pallotta
Mysteries
Cam
Jansen
(series) David Adler
Encyclopedia
Brown (series) Donald J. Sobol
Nate
the Great (series) Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Boxcar
Children (series) Gertrude Warner
Richard
Scarry’s The Great Pie Robbery
The
Missing Mittens Steven Kellogg
Miss
Nelson is Missing Harry G. Allard
The
Eleventh Hour Graeme Base
Newberry
Award Winners https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/115731.Newberry_Medal_Winners
(Below
are a few choices that may be best for younger readers/listeners.)
Good
Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village Laura Amy
Schiltz
The
Tale of Despereaux Kate
DiCamillo
The
Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting
The
Cat Who Went to Heaven Elizabeth
Coatsworth
Roller
Skates Ruth Sawyer
Thimble
Summer Elizabeth Enright
Daniel
Boone James Daugherty
The
Matchlock Gun Walter D. Edmonds
Strawberry
Girl Lois Lensky
The
Wheel on the School Meindert DeJong
Mrs.
Frisby and the Rats of Nihm Robert. C. O’Brien
Non-Fiction
“You
Wouldn’t Want to…” series Jacqueline Morley
Books
by Gail Gibbons
Is a
Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?
Robert Wells
(or
any from the Wells of Knowledge series)
Rookie
Read About Science series
Who
Would Win? (series)
Jerry
Pallotta
5,000 Awesome Facts National Geographic
Poems
A
Child’s Garden of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson
Favorite
Poems of Childhood Philip Smith
The
Random House Book of Poetry
