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Read Aloud America Book List 2004
Read-Alouds for Infants & Toddlers:
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Bear In A Square |
Blackstone, Stella |
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Bear on the Bed |
Miller, Ruth |
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Big Red Barn |
Brown, Margaret Wise |
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Color Zoo |
Ehlert, Lois |
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Finger Rhymes |
Brown, Marc |
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Fuzzy Fuzzy Fuzzy! |
Boynton, Sandra |
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Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings |
Van Fleet, Matthew |
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Good-Night Owl |
Hutchins, Pat |
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Guess How Much I Love You |
McBratney, Sara |
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How A Baby Grows |
Buck, Nola |
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Hushabye |
Burmingham, John |
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Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? An Adventure in Color |
Hoban, Tana |
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Just For Me, Just For You |
Nick, Jr. Family Magazine |
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My Truck Is Stuck! |
Lewis, Kevin |
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My Very First Mother Goose |
Opie, Iona |
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My World: A Companion to Goodnight Moon |
Brown, Margaret Wise |
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Pat the Bunny |
Kunhardt, Dorothy |
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Red Rhino |
Rogers, Alan |
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Some Dogs Do |
Alborough, Jez |
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Tails |
Van Fleet, Matthew |
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The Everything Book |
Fleming, Denise |
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The Lucy Cousins Book of Nursery Rhymes |
Cousins, Lucy |
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What James Likes Best |
Schwartz, Amy |
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Where’s Spot? |
Hill, Eric |
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Whose Baby Am I? |
Butler, John |
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Read-Alouds for PreSchoolers: |
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| A House for Hermit Crab | Carle, Eric |
| Barnyard Dance | Boynton. Sandra |
| Bear Snores On | Wilson, Karma |
| Buster | Fleming, Denise |
| Captain’s Purr | Floyd, Madeline |
| Car Wash | Steen, Sandra |
| Close Your Eyes | Banks, Kate |
| Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Barnyard Hullabaloo | Andreae. Giles |
| Five Little Monkeys Sitting In A Tree | Christelow, Eileen |
| Gaspard and Lisa Friends Forever | Gutman, Anne |
| Harold and the Purple Crayon | Johnson, Crockett |
| Hondo and Fabian | McCarty, Peter |
| Madlenka’s Dog | Sis, Peter |
| Mole and the Baby Bird | Newman, Marjorie |
| My Friend Rabbit | Rohmann, Eric |
| Rumble in the Jungle | Andreae, Giles |
| Stray Dog | Simont, Marc |
| Sun Bread | Kleven, Elisa |
| Ten, Nine, Eight | Bang, Molly |
| The Day the Babies Crawled Away | Rathmann, Peggy |
| The Little Chick | Lawrence, John |
| The Wonderful House | Brown, Margaret Wise |
| Toot and Puddle | Hobbie, Holly |
| When Moon Fell Down | Smith, Linda |
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Read-Alouds for Kindergarten & First Grade: |
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| A Bad Case of Stripes | Shannon, David |
| Baby Alligator | Clarke, Ginjer |
| Baby Honu Saves the Day | Yee, Tammy |
| Bebe’s Bad Dream | Karas, G. Brian |
| Calabash Cat | Rumford, James |
| Dahlia | McClintock, Barbara |
| Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! | Willems, Mo |
| Dot and Jabber and the Mystery of the Missing Stream | Walsh, Ellen Stoll |
| Duck On A Bike | Shannon, David |
| Giant Children (Poems) | Bagert, Brod |
| I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato | Child, Lauren |
| I’ll Never Share You, Blackboard Bear | Alexander, Martha |
| Let’s Get A Pup! Said Kate | Graham, Bob |
| Nergal and the
Great Space Race (First Graders From Mars: Episode 3) |
Corey, Shana |
| Platypus and the Lucky Day | Riddell, Chris |
| Rattletrap Car | Root, Phyllis |
| She Did It! | Ericsson, Jennifer |
| The Elephants’ Wrestling Match | Sierra, Judy |
| The Great Pancake Escape | Many, Paul |
| The Old Woman Who Named Things | Rylant, Cynthia |
| The Snail House | Ahlberg, Allan |
| Tippy-Toe Chick, Go! | Shannon, George |
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Read-Alouds for Second & Third Grades: |
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| A Is For Abigail | Cheney, Lynne |
| Anansi and the Talking Melon | Kimmel, Eric |
| Clarice Bean, That’s Me | Child, Lauren |
| Freedom Summer | Wiles, Deborah |
| Girl Wonder | Hopkinson, Deborah |
| It’s Me, Marva: A Story About Color and Optical Illusions | Priceman, Marjorie |
| Junie B. Jones (series) | Park, Barbara |
| Kamehameha: The Boy Who Became a Warrior King | Crowe, Ellie |
| Lullaby Moon | Masters, Elaine |
| Martha Speaks (series) | Meddaugh, Susan |
| Milo’s Hat Trick | Agee, Jon |
| Moonsilver | Duey, Kathleen |
| More Than Anything Else | Bradby, Marie |
| My Father’s Dragon (series) | Gannett, Ruth Stiles |
| Nine Animals and the Well | Rumford, James |
| The Adventures of Captain Underpants | Rilkey, Dav |
| The Bicycle Man | Say, Allen |
| The Cats of Mrs. Calamari | Stadler, John |
| The Man Who Wore All His Clothes | Ahlberg, Allan |
| The Royal Waker-Upper | Masters, Elaine |
| The Woman Who Won Things | Ahlberg, Allan |
| Titus Rules! | King-Smith, Dick |
| Togo | Blake, Robert J. |
| When Pigasso Met Mootisse | Laden, Nina |
| Who Needs Donuts? | Stamaty, Mark Alan |
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Read-Alouds for Fourth & Fifth Grades: |
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| A Year With Butch and Spike | Gauthier, Gail |
| Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days | Manes, Stephen |
| Dangerous Planet: Natural Disasters That Changed History | Barnard, Bryn |
| Dog-of-the-Sea-Waves | Rumford, James |
| Doll People | Martin, Ann M. and Godwin, Laura |
| Gone-Away Lake | Enright, Elizabeth |
| Inkheart | Funke, Cornelia |
| Kamehameha: The Warrior King of Hawaii | Morrison, Susan |
| Lenny and Mel Holidazed | Kraft, Erik P. |
| Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer | Byrd, Robert |
| Locomotion | Woodson, Jacqueline |
| Midnight for Charlie Bone | Nimmo, Jenny |
| Niagara Falls…Or Does It? (Hank Zipzer Series) | Henry Winkler/Lin Oliver |
| Nim’s Island | Orr, Wendy |
| Sahara Special | Codell, Esme Raji |
| Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch | Spinelli, Eileen |
| The Abracadabra Kid | Fleischman, Sid |
| The Graduation of Jake Moon | Park, Barbara |
| The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail | Miller, Debbie S. |
| The Houdini Box | Selznik, Brian |
| The Kid Who Ran for President | Gutman, Dan |
| The Tale of Despereaux | DiCamillo, Kate |
| To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers | Parker, Robert Anderson |
| Varjak Paw | Said, S.F. |
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Read-Alouds for Sixth through Eighth Grades: |
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| A Poke in the Eye: A Collection of Concrete Poems | Janeczko, Paul B. |
| An American Plague | Murphy, Jim |
| Bleachers | Grisham, John |
| Burger Wuss | Anderson, M.T. |
| Clockwork: Or All Wound Up | Pullman, Philip |
| Daughter of Venice | Napoli, Donna Jo |
| Dog Friday | McKay, Hilary |
| Eragon | Paolini, Christopher |
| Hope Was Here | Bauer, Joan |
| Maggie’s Door | Giff, Patricia Reilly |
| Mightier Than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys | Yolen, Jane |
| Milkweed | Spinelli, Jerry |
| Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls | Yolen, Jane |
| Rio Grande Stories | Meyer, Carolyn |
| Shelf Life: Stories by the Book | Paulsen, Gary |
| Steven Spielberg: Crazy for the Movies | Rubin, Susan Goldman |
| Stones in Water | Di Napoli, Donna Jo |
| Stranger in the Woods, A Photographic Essay | Sams, Carl R. and Stoick, Jean |
| Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems | George, Kristine O’Connell |
| The Exiles | McKay, Hilary |
| The Heart of a Chief | Bruchac, Joseph |
| The Islander | Rylant, Cynthia |
| The Storyteller’s Daughter | Dokey, Cameron |
| What My Mother Doesn’t Know | Sones, Sonia |
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Read-Alouds for Ninth thru Twelth Grades: |
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| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Smith, Betty |
| America | Frank, E.R. |
| Bloomability | Creech, Sharon |
| Cold Mountain | Frazier, Charles |
| Crazy Jack | Napoli, Donna Jo |
| Day of the Jackal | Forsyth, Frederick |
| Eragon | Paolini, Christopher |
| Fresh Girl | Placida, Jaira |
| Interpreter of Maladies | Lahiri, Jhumpa |
| Lord of the Rings (trilogy) | Tolkein, J.R.R. |
| Mystic River | Lehane, Dennis |
| Over to You: Ten Stories of Fliers and Flying | Dahl, Roald |
| Rats Saw God | Thomas, Rob |
| Sabriel, Lyrael, Abhorsen (series) | Nix, Garth |
| Shipwrecked: The True Adventure of a Japanese Boy | Blumberg, Rhoda |
| Son of the Mob | Korman, Gordon |
| The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm | Farmer, Nancy |
| The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Albom, Mitch |
| The Kin (series) | Dickinson, Peter |
| The Maze | Hobbs, Will |
| The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (series) | Smith, Alexander McCall |
| The Same Stuff as Stars | Paterson, Katherine |
| The Second Summer of the Sisterhood | Brashares, Ann |
| The Secret Life of Bees | Kidd, Sue Monk |
| Whirligig | Fleishcman, Paul |
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Read-Alouds for the Ageless: |
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| A Child’s Garden of Verses | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| A Wrinkle in Time | L’Engle, Madeleine |
| All the Places to Love | MacLachlan, Patricia |
| Bonjour! Babar! | De Brunhoff, Jean |
| Chicken Soup From the Soul of Hawaii | Canfield, Jack |
| Curious George | Rey, H. A. |
| Falling Up | Silverstein, Shel |
| Harry Potter (series) | Rowling, J.K. |
| Joyful Noises: Poems for Two Voices | Fleischman, Paul |
| Madeline | Bemelmans, Ludwig |
| Make Way for Ducklings | McCloskey, Robert |
| Oh, The Places You’ll Go | Seuss, Dr. |
| Old Turtle and the Broken Truth | Wood, Douglas |
| The Best School Year Ever | Robinson, Barbara |
| The Boy on Fairfield Street | Krull, Kathleen |
| The Cat in the Hat | Seuss, Dr. |
| The Giggler Treatment | Doyle, Roddy |
| The Hobbit | Tolkein, J.R.R. |
| The Polar Express | Van Allsburg, Chris |
| The Wind in the Willows | Grahame, Kenneth |
| The Wizard of Oz | Baum, L. Frank |
| Tikki Tikki Tembo | Mosel, Arlene |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends | Silverstein, Shel |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Sendak,. Maurice |
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Read-Aloud Resources: |
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| A Garth Williams Treasury of Best-Loved Golden Books | Williams, Garth |
| Great Books About Things Kids Love: More Than 750 Recommended Books for Children 3 to 14 | Odean, Kathleen |
| Help Me I Have a Teenager: The Nitty Gritty Guide to Parental Sanity | Drake, Annie |
| How Reading Changed My Life | Quindlen, Anna |
| How to Get Your Child to Love Reading (For Ravenous and Reluctant Readers Alike) | Codell, Esme Raji |
| New York Times Parents’ Guide to the Best Books for Children | Lipson, Eden Ross |
| Read It Aloud! A Parent’s Guide to Sharing Books with Young Children | Haas, Monty and Laurie Joy |
| Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever | Fox, Mem |
| Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children | Rosemond, John K. |
| The Read-Aloud Handbook | Trelease, Jim |
| The Roller-Coaster Years | Sagarese, Margaret and Giannetti, Charlene G. |
| Who’s Looking Out for You? | O’Reilly, Bill |