Books and Activities that promote Early Literacy Skills

Alphabetical by Title

 

 

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A is for Salad by Mike Lester (1999) (K-1)

 

Aaaarrgghh! Spider! by Lydia Monks (2004)  

 

Actual Size by Steve Jenkins (2004)   

 

All the World by Liz Garton (2009) NEW!

 

Alphabet City by Stephen Johnson (1995)   

 

Alphabet Under Construction by Denise Fleming (2002)   

 

Angus and the Ducks by Marjorie Flack (1930)

 

Animals Aboard! by Andrew Fusek Peters (2007)

 

April Wilson's Magpie Magic: A Tale of Colorful Mischief by April Wilson (1999) 

 

Babies in the Bayou by Jim Arnosky (2007)

 

Baby! Baby! by Vicky Ceelen (2008)   

 

The Baby Goes Beep by Rebecca O'Connell (2003)  

 

Baby Happy Baby Sad by Leslie Patricelli (2008)   

 

Ballerina! by Peter Sis (2000)   

 

Bark George by Jules Feiffer (1999)

 

Bears on Chairs by Shirley Parenteau. Illustrated by David Walker (2009) NEW!

 

Beetle Bop by Denise Fleming (2007)

 

The Best Time of Day by Eilleen Spinelli (2005)

 

Beware of the Frog by William Bee (2008)

 

Big and Small, Room for All  by Jo Ellen Bogart and Gillian Newland (2009)   

 

Big, Bigger, Biggest by Nancy Coffelt (2009)   

 

Blue Sea  by Robert Kalan (1979)

 

The Bridge is Up by Babs Bell (2004)

 

Bruno Munari's Zoo by Bruno Munari (1963, republished 2005)

 

Bugs For Lunch by Margery Facklam (1999)

 

Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells (1997)

 

Butterfly Butterfly: A Book of Colors by Petr Horacek (2007)

 

Cha Cha Chimps by Julia Durango (2006)

 

Chameleon, Chameleon by Joy Cowley (2005)

 

Chicken Cheeks by Michael Ian Black, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes (2009)  

 

Chicky Chicky Chook Chook by Cathy MacLennan (2007)   

 

Close to You by Kimiko Kajikawa (2008)

 

A Closer Look by Mary McCarthy (2007)

 

The Day Leo Said I Hate You! by Robbie Harris (2008)

 

Dinosaur vs. Bedtime by Bob Shea (2008)    

 

The Doghouse by Jan Thomas (2008) 

 

Eats by Marthe Jocelyn, illustrated by Tom Slaughter (2007)  NEW!

 

El Globito Rojo by Iela Mari (2006)

 

Elizabeti's Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen (1998)

 

The End by David LaRochelle (2007)   

 

The First Music by Dylan Pritchett (2006)

 

First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (2007)

 

Flip, Flap, Fly! by Phillis Root (2009)   

 

The Foggy Foggy Forest by Nick Sharratt (2008)   

 

Frog by Susan Cooper (2002)

 

A Girl and Her Gator by Sean Bryan (2006)  

 

Go To Bed, Monster! by Natasha Wing (2008)

 

Green as a Bean by Karla Kuskin (2007)

 

The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson (1999)

 

Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard (2007)   

 

Guess Who I Am by Liebet Slegers (2008)   

 

Harry Hungry by Steven Salerno (2009)   

 

Hello Day! by Anita Lobel (2008)   

 

Higher! Higher!  by Leslie Patricelli (2009)  

 

I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont (2005) 

 

I Got Two Dogs by John Lithgow (2008)      

 

I Stink! by Kate and Jim McMullan (2002)

 

I Went Walking by Sue Williams (1989)

 

If My Dad Were a Dog by Annabell Tellis (2007)     

 

I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry (2007)

 

In a Blue Room by Jim Averbeck (2008)    

 

In the Snow by Sharon Denslow (2005)

 

Is This My Nose? by Georgie Birkett (2008)  

 

Jingle Jingle by Nicola Smee (2008)      

 

John Willy and Freddy McGee by Holly Meade (1998)

 

Kitty's Cuddles by Jane Cabrera (2007)   

 

Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems (2004)   

 

La Primera Luna llena de Gatita  by Kevin Henkes (2006)   

 

Lemons are Not Red by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (2004)

 

Let's Play in the Forest (While the Wolf is Not Around) by Claudia Rueda (2006)

 

Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni (1959)  

 

Little Hoot by Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2008)     

 

The Little Rabbit Who Liked to Say MOO by Jonathan Allen (2008)     

 

Little White Duck by Walt Whippo (2000)

 

Little Yoga by Rebecca Whitman and Martina Selway (2005)

 

Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney (2005)   

 

Lunch by Denise Fleming (1992)      

 

Maybe a Bear Ate It by Robie Harris (2007)

 

Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett (2007)

 

Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett (2008)

 

Mouse Mess by Linnea Riley (1997)     

 

Nobody Notices Minerva by Wednesday Kirwan (2007)

 

Not a Box by Antoinette Portis (2006)   

 

The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett (2009)   

 

OK Go by Carin Berger (2009)  

 

One-Dog Canoe by Mary Casanova (2003)

 

Orange Pear Apple Bear  by Emily Gravett (2007)

 

Owl Babies by Martin Waddell (1992)     

 

Penguin by Polly Dunbar (2007)

 

Posy by Linda Newbery & Catherine Rayner (2009)   

 

Pouch!  by David Ezra Stein  (2009) NEW!

 

Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas (2009)   

 

Roar: A Noisy Counting Book by Pamela Edwards (2000)   

 

Same Same by Marthe Jocelyn (2009)  

 

The Scariest Monster in the World  by Lee Weatherly and Algy Craig Hall (2009)  NEW!

 

Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban (1986)     

 

Shark in the Park by Nick Sharratt (2002)    

 

The Singing Chick by Victoria Stenmark, illustrated by Randy Cecil (1999) 

 

Snowballs by Lois Ehlert (1995)

 

Snowy, Blowy Winter by Bob Raczka (2008)    

 

Superhero ABC  by Bob McLeod (2006)

 

Tall by Jez Alborough  (2005)

 

Tanka Tanka Skunk by Steve Webb (2004)    

 

Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox (2008)    

 

Termites on a Stick by Michele Coxon (2008)   

 

There are Cats in This Book by Viviane Schwarz (2008)   

 

The Three Bears  by Byron Barton (1991)

 

Tip Tip Dig Dig by Emma Garcia (2007)

 

To Market To Market by Anne Miranda (1997) 

 

To the Beach by Thomas Docherty (2009)  

 

Toot Toot Beep Beep by Emma Garcia (2008)

 

Toot Toot Zoom by Phyllis Root (2009)   

 

Treasure by Suzanne Bloom (2007)

 

Trucks Go by Steve Light (2008)   

 

Uh-Oh! by Rachel Isadora (2008)  NEW!

 

Vegetables by Sara Anderson (2007)

 

Very Hairy Bear by Alice Schertle (2007)

 

A Visitor For Bear by Bonny Becker (2008)

 

What Do Wheels Do All Day? by April Jones Prince (2006)

 

What Is This? by Antje Damm (2009)  

 

What Pet to Get by Emma Dodd (2008)

 

What Will Fat Cat Sit On? by Jan Thomas (2007)

 

What's Up Duck?  A Book of Opposites by Tad Hills (2008) 

 

The Wheels on the Bus by Paul Zelinsky (1990)

 

Where is the Green Sheep by Mem Fox (2004)     

 

White Rabbit's Color Book by Alan Baker (1997)

 

Whose Toes are Those?  by Joanne Randolph (2009)  NEW!

 

Wolf's Coming by Joe Kulka (2007)