Book List for Babies and Pre-Schoolers
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 Baby Book List

Where is the Big Red Doggie? by Norman Bridwell
Giggle Belly by Page Sakelaris
These Hands by Hope Lynne Price
I Like it When by Mary Murphy
Baby Faces by Margaret Miller
Spots, Feathers, and Curly Tails by Nancy Tafuri
Dog's Day by Cabrera
In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming
Spot Goes to the Park by Eric Hill
Seals on the Bus by Lenny Hort
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin
One Bear, One Dog by Paul Strickland
Baby! Talk! by Penny Gentieu
My Very First Mother Goose by Iona Opie
I Can Do It! by Nancy Sheehan
The Big Yawn by Keith Faulkner
Caterpillar's Wish by Mary Murphy
Marc Brown's Favorite Finger Rhymes by Marc Brown
 

Classic Stories for Pre-Schoolers

Ackerman, K.- Song & Dance Man (Caldecott Award winner)
Ahlberg, J. - Each Peach Pear Plum
Aliki - Overnight at Mary Bloom’s
Asch, F - Just Like Daddy
Bemelmans, L. - Madeline (series)
Berger, B. - Grandfather Twilight
Berenstain, S - Berenstain Bears (series)
Bornstein, R. - Little Gorilla
Bouregois, P. – Franklin (series)
Bridwell, N. - Clifford the Big Red Dog
Brown, M. - Arthur books
Brown, M. - Runaway Bunny
Brown, R - The Big Sneeze
Burningham, J. - Mr. Gumpy’s Outing
Burton, V. - The Little House (Caldecott Award winner)
Carle, E. - Very Hungry Caterpillar
Carlstrom, N - Jesse Bear (series)
Davis, L. – P.B. Bear ( series)
De Paola, T. - Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs
Domanska, J. - Busy Monday Morning
Emberly, B - Drummer Hoff (Caldecott Award winner)
Flack, M. - Ask Mr. Bear
Freeman, D. - Corduroy
Gag, W. - Millions of Cats
Goennel, H. - When I Grow Up
Harris, R. - Happy Birth Day
Henkes, K. - Chester’s Way
Hill, E - Spot books (various titles)
Hoban, R. - Bedtime for Frances
Hogrogran, N. - One Fine Day (Caldecott Award winner)
Hughes, S. - Alfie Gets In First
Hutchins, P. - Rosie’s Walk
Isadora, R. - I Hear
Jonas, A. - Round Trip
Jonell, L. – I Need a Snake
Kalan, R. - Blue Sea
Kasza, K. - The Wolf’s Chicken Stew
Keats, E. - The Snowy Day (Caldecott Award winner)
Kellogg, S. - Chicken Little
Leaf, M. - The Story of Ferdinand
Lester, H. - Tacky the Penguin
Lionni, L. - Swimmy
Lowell, S. - Three Little Javelinas
Marshall, J. - Red Riding Hood
Martin, B. - Brown Bear, Brown Bear
Marzollo, J - Close Your Eyes
Marzollo, J. – I Spy (series)
McCloskey, R. - Make Way for Ducklings (Caldecott Award winner)
McCully, E. - Picnic 
McPhail, D. - Pig Pig Grows Up
Micklethwait, L.- I Spy in Art (series)
Mosel, A. - Tikki, Tikki, Tembo
Munsch, R. - Paper Bag Princess
Noble, T. - The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash
Numeroff, L. - If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Pfister, M. - Rainbow Fish (series)
Piper, W. - The Little Engine That Could
Potter, B. - Tales of Peter Rabbit
Rey, H. - Curious George (series)
Rice, E. - Benny Bakes a Cake
Sadler, M. - Alistair’s Elephant
Seeger, P. - Abiyoyo
Sendak, M. - Where the Wild Things Are ( Caldecott Award winner)
Seuss, Dr. - And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
Shannon, D. – A Bad Case of Stripes
Shaw, C. - It Looked Like Spilt Milk
Slobodkin, E. - Caps for Sale
Spier, P. - Noah’s Ark (Caldecott Award winner)
Stevens, J. - Three Billy Goats Gruff
Tafuri, N. - Who’s Counting?
Udry, J. - A Tree is Nice
Van Allsburg, C. - Two Bad Ants
Vaughan, M. - Wombat Stew
Viorst, J. - Alexander & the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Watanabe, S. - I Can Take a Bath!
Wells, R. – McDuff (series)
Wells, R. - Shy Charles
Wilder, L. - My First Little House Books (series)
Wood, A. - The Napping House
Yorinks, A. - Company’s Coming
Zolotow, C. - William’s Doll