Home of the Manatees

INCOMING SECOND GRADE

(Other book titles by these authors are excellent choices.)

 

Color Books

My World of Color by Margaret Wise Brown

 

Number Books

The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins

 

Alphabet Books

Animalia by Graeme Base

Edward Lear’s: A Was Once an Apple Pie by Suse MacDonald

 

Rhyme and Repetition

Click, Clack Moo by Doreen Cronin

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff

 

Fairy Tales and Fables

Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Yound

 

Books to Build Story Sense

Just Like Daddy by Frank Asch

Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

Dinosailors by Deb Lund

If the Shoe Fits by Alison Jackson

Paper Bag Princess by Robert Mucsch

Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber

The Napping House by Audrey Wood

Give Yourself to the Rain by Margaret Wise Brown

The Magic Hat by Mem Fox

 

Books in a Series

Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel

Henry and Mudge series by Cynthia Rylant

Arthur or Franklin series by Marc Brown

Amelia Bedelia series by Peggy Parish

Reading List