Read Aloud America Book List 2007

Recommended books to read aloud to children, from infants to teens and beyond. The criteria for selecting the titles on this list are:
· Excellent read-aloud appeal
· Cross-section of male/female main characters, genres, and popular authors
· Strong development of characters, plot, themes, and subtle character- building messages
· Age group appropriateness

This list was compiled under the direction of Marci Prins, Book Committee Chair, and includes the following contributors:
Berry Andelin – Librarian, Kaimuki Public Library
Dan Bent – Board Chair, Read Aloud America
Arlene Ching, Librarian, Aiea Public Library
Marion Coste, Children’ book Author, Consultant
Jed Gaines – Founder and President, Read Aloud America
Marci Prins - Book Committee Chair

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Read-Alouds for Infants and Toddlers

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Featured books for 2007

Baby Animals Black and White Tildes, Phyllis Limbacher

Baby Cakes Wilson, Karma

Belly Button Book! Boynton, Sandra

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Martin, Bill Jr.

Clifford’s Bedtime Bridwell, Norman

Eating the Alpahbet Ehlert, Lois

Good Dog, Carl Day, Alexandra

Green Eggs and Ham Suess, Dr.

How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors? Yolen, Jane

In the Small, Small Pond Fleming, Denise

Maisy’s Fire Engine Cousins, Lucy

Max’s ABC Wells, Rosemary

Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Suess, Dr.

Oh, Baby! Hathon, Elizabeth

Olivia Counts Falconer, Ian

Peekaboo Bugs Hide and Seek Book Carter, David A.

Ruby’s Rainy Day Wells, Rosemary

Snug as a Bug Ross, Michal Elsohn

Ten Apples Up on Top! Le Sieg, Theo

The Daddy Book Parr, Todd

The Grouchy Ladybug Board Book Carle, Eric

The Very Busy Spider Carle, Eric

Time For Bed Fox, Mem

Who’s Under That Hat? Weeks, Sarah and David A. Carter

Read-Alouds for Preschoolers

Don’t Forget to Come Back! Harris, Robie H.

Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Seuss, Dr.

Duck and Goose Hills, Tad

Ella Sarah Gets Dressed Chodos-Irvine, Margaret

Fancy Nancy O’Connor, Jane

Fox in Socks Seuss, Dr.

Good Boy, Fergus! Shannon, David

Hondo & Fabian McCarty, Peter

How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? Yolen, Jane

Kiss Kiss Wild, Margaret, and B. Strevens-Marzo

Lilly’s Big Day Henkes, Kevin

Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose: One Hundred Best-Loved Verses Engelbreit, Mary

Move! Page, Robin

Not a Box Portis, Antoninette

Richard Scarry’s What Do People Do All Day? Scarry, Richard

Silly Suzy Goose Horacek, Petr

The Feel Good Book Parr, Todd

The Gift of Nothing McDonnell, Patrick

The Hello, Goodbye Window Juster, Norton

Today I Will Fly Willems, Mo

Trouble on the Tracks Mallat, Kathy

Violet Comes to Stay Karon, Jon

Yellow Elephant Larios, Julie

Read-Alouds for Grades K –1

Bebe Goes Shopping Elya, Susan

Bunnicula and Friends Howe, James

Cork and Fuzz: Short and Tall Chaconas, Dori

Cuckoo Feathers Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

Fast Food Freymann, Sexton

Hanne’s Quest Dunrea, Olivier

Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride (Caldecott Honor Book) Priceman, Marjorie

I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More! Beaumont, Karen

My Friend Rabbit Rohmann, Eric

Owen & Mzee, The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship Hatkoff, Isabella, Craig Hatkoff, and Dr. Paula Kahumbu

Pretend Soup, and other real recipes Katzen, Mollie and Ann Henderson

Sea Horse Butterworth, Chris

Skippyjon Jones Schachner, Judy

Suki’s Kimono Uegaki, Chieri

Superhero ABC McLeod, Bob

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins Kerley, Barbara

The High-Rise Private Eyes: The Case of the Climbing Cat Rylant, Cynthia

The Red Book Lehman, Barbara

The Stray Dog (from a true story by Reiko Sassa) Simont, Marc

The Yellow Balloon Dematons, Charlotte

Three Good Deeds Velde, Vivian Vande

What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? Page, Robin

Read-Alouds for Grades 2-3

Aldo Applesauce Hurwitz, Johanna

Boy, were we wrong about dinosaurs! Kudlinski, Kathleen, V.

Crossing Bok Chitto Tingle, Tim

Dirty Laundry Pile Janeczko, Paul

Do Not Open This Book Muntean, Michaela

Elephants can paint too! Arnold, Katya

Flotsam Wiesner, David

Hanne’s Quest Dunrea, Olivier

Horrible Harry and The Goof Kline, Suzy

Ivy and Bean Barrows, Annie

Little Lost Bat Markle, Sandra

Martin Bridge: Ready for Takeoff Kerrin, Jessica Scott

Merry Watson Goes for a Ride DiCamillo, Kate

Museum Trip Lehman, Barbara

Mysteries in Space, A Chapter Book Hansen, Rosanna

One Bright Penny McCaughrean, Geraldine

Pink and Say Polacco, Patricia

Probuditi Van Allsburg, Chris

Stink and the Incredible Super-Galactic Jawbreaker McDonald, Megan

Surf’s Up, Geronimo Stilton, Geronimo

The Children Who Smelled A Rat Ahlberg, Allan

The Most Beautiful Place in the World Cameron, Ann

Three Good Deeds Vande Velde, Vivian

Ugly Napoli, Donna Jo

Read-Alouds for Grades 4-5

A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears Feiffer, Jules

Across the Blue Pacific Borden, Louise

All Alone in the Universe Perkins, Lynne Rae

Barry, Boyhound Spearman, Andy

Bluish Hamilton, Virginia

Danitra Brown, Class Clown Grimes, Nikki

Fig Pudding Fletcher, Ralph

Invisible Allies, Microbes That Shape Our Lives Farrell, Jeanette

Jackie’s Bat Lorbiecki, Marybeth

Morning Girl Dorris, Michael

Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money Curtis, Christopher Paul

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh O’Brien, Robert C.

My Name is Bilal Mobin-Uddin, Asam

Rescues! Markle, Sandra

Room One Clements, Andrew

Shanghai Messenger Cheng, Andrea

Squirt Romanek, Trudee

The Ancestors: Snake Stone, Jeff

The Homework Machine Gutman, Dan

The Old African Lester, Julius

The Thief of Always Barker, Clive

The Wreckers Lawrence, Iain

The Year of the Dog Lin, Grace

Victory Susan Cooper

Read-Alouds for Grades 6-8

Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor Mazer, Harry

Bras and Broomsticks Mlynowski, Sarah

Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery Abrahams, Peter

Fly By Night Hardinge, Frances

Go Figure! A totally cool book about numbers Ball, Johnny

Inkheart Funke, Cornelia

Invisible Allies, Microbes That Shape Our Lives Farrell, Jeanette

Journey to the Bottomless Pit Mitchell, Elizabeth

Locomotion Woodson, Jacqueline

Peter and the Starcatchers Barry, Dave and Ridley Pearson

Satch & Me Gutman, Dan

Skinny Melon and Me Ure, Jean

Skybreaker Oppel, Kenneth

Spy X: Hide and Seek Korman, Gordon

Strange Happenings Avi

The Falcon’s Malteser Horowitz, Anthony

The Hero Project Hatch, Robert and William Hatch

The Lightning Thief Riordan, Rick

The Naked Mole-Rat Letters Amato, Mary

The Shakespeare Stealer (Series) Blackwood, Gary

The Winter People Bruchac, Joseph

The Wright 3 Balliett, Blue

Read-Alouds for Grades 9-12

Aleutian Sparrow Hesse, Karen

Beka Cooper. Terrier: A Tortall Legend Pierce, Tamora

Code Talker Bruchac, Joseph

Every Man for Himself, Ten Short Stories about being a guy Mercado, Nancy E., Ed.

Kiki Strike, Inside the Shadow City Miller, Kirsten

Looking for Alaska Green, John

Megan Meade’s Guide to the McGowan Boys Brian, Kate

Mimus Thal, Lilli

Mirror Mask (based on the Mirror Mask motion picture) Gaiman, Neil, author and Dave McKean, artist/illustrator

No Right Turn Trueman, Terry

One of those hideous books where the mother dies Sones, Sonya

Persepolis 2 Satrapi, Marjane

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea Delisle, Guy

Scorpia Horowitz, Anthony

Sky Townley, Roderick

Special Topics in Calamity Physics Pessl, Marisha

Tending to Grace Dusco, Kimberly Newton

The Book Thief Zusak, Markus

The Uglies Westerfeld, Scott

The Voyage of the Frog Paulsen, Gary

True Notebooks Salzman, Mark

Who Am I Without Him? Flake, Sharon G.

Adults

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Boxall, Peter

A Hand to Guide Me Washington, Denzel

A History of the American People Johnson, Paul M.

A Live Coal in the Sea L’Engle, Madeleine

Broken Trust King, Samuel and Randall Roth

Finding Noel Evans, Richard Paul

Iz, The Voice of the People Carroll, Rick

Luckiest Man, The life and death of Lou Gehrig Eig, Johnathan

Night Wiesel, Elie

Oblivion Abrahams, Peter

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea Delisle, Guy

Suite Francaise Nemirovsky, Irene

Teacher Man McCourt, Frank

Team of Rivals Goodwin, Doris

The Innocent Man Grisham, John

The Shadow of the Wind Zafon, Carlos Ruiz

True Notebooks Salzman, Mark

Under and Alone Queen, William

Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy Eire, Carlos

Zorro Allende, Isabel

Family Favorites, Ageless Read-Alouds

Brothers in Hope: The story of the lost boys of Sudan Williams, Mary

Mice, Morals, & Monkey Business: Lively Lessons from Aesop’s Fables Wormell, Christopher

Once I Ate a Pie MacLachlan, Patricia & Emily MacLachlan Charest

Sketches from a Spy Tree Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn

The Journey: Stories of Migration Rylant, Cynthia

The Sound of Colors, A Journey of the Imagination Liao, Jimmy

The Treasures of Tutankhamen and the Egyptian Museum of Cairo Amenta, Alessia

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor, Mildred

Bridge to Terabithia Paterson, Katherine

The Giver Lowry, Lois

Horton Hears a Who Seuss, Dr.

The Frog and Toad Treasury Lobel, Arnold

The New Way Things Work Macaulay, David

The Giving Tree Silverstein, Shel

Chrysanthemum Henkes, Kevin

Where the Wild Things Are Sendak, Maurice

The Story of Ferdinand Leaf, Munro

The Complete Adventures of Curious George Rey, H.A.

The Five Chinese Brothers Bishop, Claire Huchet

A Wrinkle in Time L’Engle, Madeline

The Hobbit Tolkein, J.R.R.

Resources for Parents and Teachers

A Garth Williams Treasury of Best-Loved Golden Books Williams, Garth

Best Books for Beginning Readers Gunning, Thomas G.

Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read: 125 Books That Will Turn Any Child Into a Lifelong Reader Backes, Laura

Great Books About Things Kids Love: More than 750 Recommended Books for Children 3 to 14 Odean, Kathleen

Great Books for Babies and Toddlers: More Than 500 Recommended Books for Your Child’s First Three Years Odean, Kathleen

How Reading Changed My Life Quindlen, Anna

How to Get Your Child to Love Reading
(for Ravenous and Reluctant Readers Alike) Codell, Esme Raji

John Rosemond’s Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children Rosemond, John K.

New York Times Parents’ Guide to the Best Books for Children Lipson, Eden Ross

Read All About It!: Great Read-Aloud Stories, Poems, and Newspaper Pieces for Preteens and Teens Trelease, Jim (ed.)

Read It Aloud! A Parent’s Guide to Sharing Books with Young Children Haas, Monty & Laurie Joy Haas

Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever Fox, Mem

The 20^th Century Children’s Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud Schulman, Janet

The Call of Stories Coles, Robert

The Read- Aloud Handbook (sixth edition) Trelease, Jim

Why Read Edmundson, Mark

Copyright 2007 - Read Aloud America - all rights reserved

Click on a book image to order from Barnes & Noble and help Read Aloud America receive credit for the purchase. Featured books for 2007	Baby Animals Black and White	Tildes, Phyllis Limbacher
	Baby Cakes	Wilson, Karma
	Belly Button Book!	Boynton, Sandra
	Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?	Martin, Bill Jr.
	Clifford’s Bedtime	Bridwell, Norman
	Eating the Alpahbet	Ehlert, Lois
	Good Dog, Carl	Day, Alexandra
	Green Eggs and Ham	Suess, Dr.
	How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors?	Yolen, Jane
	In the Small, Small Pond	Fleming, Denise
	Maisy’s Fire Engine	Cousins, Lucy
	Max’s ABC	Wells, Rosemary
	Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?	Suess, Dr.
	Oh, Baby!	Hathon, Elizabeth
	Olivia Counts	Falconer, Ian
	Peekaboo Bugs Hide and Seek Book	Carter, David A.
	Ruby’s Rainy Day	Wells, Rosemary
	Snug as a Bug	Ross, Michal Elsohn
	Ten Apples Up on Top!	Le Sieg, Theo
	The Daddy Book	Parr, Todd
	The Grouchy Ladybug Board Book	Carle, Eric
	The Very Busy Spider	Carle, Eric
	Time For Bed	Fox, Mem
	Who’s Under That Hat?	Weeks, Sarah and David A. Carter

	Don’t Forget to Come Back!	Harris, Robie H.
	Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book	Seuss, Dr.
	Duck and Goose	Hills, Tad
	Ella Sarah Gets Dressed	Chodos-Irvine, Margaret
	Fancy Nancy	O’Connor, Jane
	Fox in Socks	Seuss, Dr.
	Good Boy, Fergus!	Shannon, David
	Hondo & Fabian	McCarty, Peter
	How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?	Yolen, Jane
	Kiss Kiss	Wild, Margaret, and B. Strevens-Marzo
	Lilly’s Big Day	Henkes, Kevin
	Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose: One Hundred Best-Loved Verses	Engelbreit, Mary
	Move!	Page, Robin
	Not a Box	Portis, Antoninette
	Richard Scarry’s What Do People Do All Day?	Scarry, Richard
	Silly Suzy Goose	Horacek, Petr
	The Feel Good Book	Parr, Todd
	The Gift of Nothing	McDonnell, Patrick
	The Hello, Goodbye Window	Juster, Norton
	Today I Will Fly	Willems, Mo
	Trouble on the Tracks	Mallat, Kathy
	Violet Comes to Stay	Karon, Jon
	Yellow Elephant	Larios, Julie

	Bebe Goes Shopping	Elya, Susan
	Bunnicula and Friends	Howe, James
	Cork and Fuzz: Short and Tall	Chaconas, Dori
	Cuckoo Feathers	Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
	Fast Food	Freymann, Sexton
	Hanne’s Quest	Dunrea, Olivier
	Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride (Caldecott Honor Book)	Priceman, Marjorie
	I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!	Beaumont, Karen
	My Friend Rabbit	Rohmann, Eric
	Owen & Mzee, The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship	Hatkoff, Isabella, Craig Hatkoff, and Dr. Paula Kahumbu
	Pretend Soup, and other real recipes	Katzen, Mollie and Ann Henderson
	Sea Horse	Butterworth, Chris
	Skippyjon Jones	Schachner, Judy
	Suki’s Kimono	Uegaki, Chieri
	Superhero ABC	McLeod, Bob
	The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins	Kerley, Barbara
	The High-Rise Private Eyes: The Case of the Climbing Cat	Rylant, Cynthia
	The Red Book	Lehman, Barbara
	The Stray Dog (from a true story by Reiko Sassa)	Simont, Marc
	The Yellow Balloon	Dematons, Charlotte
	Three Good Deeds	Velde, Vivian Vande
	What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?	Page, Robin

	Aldo Applesauce	Hurwitz, Johanna
	Boy, were we wrong about dinosaurs!	Kudlinski, Kathleen, V.
	Crossing Bok Chitto	Tingle, Tim
	Dirty Laundry Pile	Janeczko, Paul
	Do Not Open This Book	Muntean, Michaela
	Elephants can paint too!	Arnold, Katya
	Flotsam	Wiesner, David
	Hanne’s Quest	Dunrea, Olivier
	Horrible Harry and The Goof	Kline, Suzy
	Ivy and Bean	Barrows, Annie
	Little Lost Bat	Markle, Sandra
	Martin Bridge: Ready for Takeoff	Kerrin, Jessica Scott
	Merry Watson Goes for a Ride	DiCamillo, Kate
	Museum Trip	Lehman, Barbara
	Mysteries in Space, A Chapter Book	Hansen, Rosanna
	One Bright Penny	McCaughrean, Geraldine
	Pink and Say	Polacco, Patricia
	Probuditi	Van Allsburg, Chris
	Stink and the Incredible Super-Galactic Jawbreaker	McDonald, Megan
	Surf’s Up, Geronimo	Stilton, Geronimo
	The Children Who Smelled A Rat	Ahlberg, Allan
	The Most Beautiful Place in the World	Cameron, Ann
	Three Good Deeds	Vande Velde, Vivian
	Ugly	Napoli, Donna Jo

	A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears	Feiffer, Jules
	Across the Blue Pacific	Borden, Louise
	All Alone in the Universe	Perkins, Lynne Rae
	Barry, Boyhound	Spearman, Andy
	Bluish	Hamilton, Virginia
	Danitra Brown, Class Clown	Grimes, Nikki
	Fig Pudding	Fletcher, Ralph
	Invisible Allies, Microbes That Shape Our Lives	Farrell, Jeanette
	Jackie’s Bat	Lorbiecki, Marybeth
	Morning Girl	Dorris, Michael
	Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money	Curtis, Christopher Paul
	Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh	O’Brien, Robert C.
	My Name is Bilal	Mobin-Uddin, Asam
	Rescues!	Markle, Sandra
	Room One	Clements, Andrew
	Shanghai Messenger	Cheng, Andrea
	Squirt	Romanek, Trudee
	The Ancestors: Snake	Stone, Jeff
	The Homework Machine	Gutman, Dan
	The Old African	Lester, Julius
	The Thief of Always	Barker, Clive
	The Wreckers	Lawrence, Iain
	The Year of the Dog	Lin, Grace
	Victory	Susan Cooper

	Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor	Mazer, Harry
	Bras and Broomsticks	Mlynowski, Sarah
	Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery	Abrahams, Peter
	Fly By Night	Hardinge, Frances
	Go Figure! A totally cool book about numbers	Ball, Johnny
	Inkheart	Funke, Cornelia
	Invisible Allies, Microbes That Shape Our Lives	Farrell, Jeanette
	Journey to the Bottomless Pit	Mitchell, Elizabeth
	Locomotion	Woodson, Jacqueline
	Peter and the Starcatchers	Barry, Dave and Ridley Pearson
	Satch & Me	Gutman, Dan
	Skinny Melon and Me	Ure, Jean
	Skybreaker	Oppel, Kenneth
	Spy X: Hide and Seek	Korman, Gordon
	Strange Happenings	Avi
	The Falcon’s Malteser	Horowitz, Anthony
	The Hero Project	Hatch, Robert and William Hatch
	The Lightning Thief	Riordan, Rick
	The Naked Mole-Rat Letters	Amato, Mary
	The Shakespeare Stealer (Series)	Blackwood, Gary
	The Winter People	Bruchac, Joseph
	The Wright 3	Balliett, Blue

	Aleutian Sparrow	Hesse, Karen
	Beka Cooper. Terrier: A Tortall Legend	Pierce, Tamora
	Code Talker	Bruchac, Joseph
	Every Man for Himself, Ten Short Stories about being a guy	Mercado, Nancy E., Ed.
	Kiki Strike, Inside the Shadow City	Miller, Kirsten
	Looking for Alaska	Green, John
	Megan Meade’s Guide to the McGowan Boys	Brian, Kate
	Mimus	Thal, Lilli
	Mirror Mask (based on the Mirror Mask motion picture)	Gaiman, Neil, author and Dave McKean, artist/illustrator
	No Right Turn	Trueman, Terry
	One of those hideous books where the mother dies	Sones, Sonya
	Persepolis 2	Satrapi, Marjane
	Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea	Delisle, Guy
	Scorpia	Horowitz, Anthony
	Sky	Townley, Roderick
	Special Topics in Calamity Physics	Pessl, Marisha
	Tending to Grace	Dusco, Kimberly Newton
	The Book Thief	Zusak, Markus
	The Uglies	Westerfeld, Scott
	The Voyage of the Frog	Paulsen, Gary
	True Notebooks	Salzman, Mark
	Who Am I Without Him?	Flake, Sharon G.

	1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die	Boxall, Peter
	A Hand to Guide Me	Washington, Denzel
	A History of the American People	Johnson, Paul M.
	A Live Coal in the Sea	L’Engle, Madeleine
	Broken Trust	King, Samuel and Randall Roth
	Finding Noel	Evans, Richard Paul
	Iz, The Voice of the People	Carroll, Rick
	Luckiest Man, The life and death of Lou Gehrig	Eig, Johnathan
	Night	Wiesel, Elie
	Oblivion	Abrahams, Peter
	Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea	Delisle, Guy
	Suite Francaise	Nemirovsky, Irene
	Teacher Man	McCourt, Frank
	Team of Rivals	Goodwin, Doris
	The Innocent Man	Grisham, John
	The Shadow of the Wind	Zafon, Carlos Ruiz
	True Notebooks	Salzman, Mark
	Under and Alone	Queen, William
	Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy	Eire, Carlos
	Zorro	Allende, Isabel

	Brothers in Hope: The story of the lost boys of Sudan	Williams, Mary
	Mice, Morals, & Monkey Business: Lively Lessons from Aesop’s Fables	Wormell, Christopher
	Once I Ate a Pie	MacLachlan, Patricia & Emily MacLachlan Charest
	Sketches from a Spy Tree	Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn
	The Journey: Stories of Migration	Rylant, Cynthia
	The Sound of Colors, A Journey of the Imagination	Liao, Jimmy
	The Treasures of Tutankhamen and the Egyptian Museum of Cairo	Amenta, Alessia
	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Taylor, Mildred
	Bridge to Terabithia	Paterson, Katherine
	The Giver	Lowry, Lois
	Horton Hears a Who	Seuss, Dr.
	The Frog and Toad Treasury	Lobel, Arnold
	The New Way Things Work	Macaulay, David
	The Giving Tree	Silverstein, Shel
	Chrysanthemum	Henkes, Kevin
	Where the Wild Things Are	Sendak, Maurice
	The Story of Ferdinand	Leaf, Munro
	The Complete Adventures of Curious George	Rey, H.A.
	The Five Chinese Brothers	Bishop, Claire Huchet
	A Wrinkle in Time	L’Engle, Madeline
	The Hobbit	Tolkein, J.R.R.

	A Garth Williams Treasury of Best-Loved Golden Books	Williams, Garth
	Best Books for Beginning Readers	Gunning, Thomas G.
	Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read: 125 Books That Will Turn Any Child Into a Lifelong Reader	Backes, Laura
	Great Books About Things Kids Love: More than 750 Recommended Books for Children 3 to 14	Odean, Kathleen
	Great Books for Babies and Toddlers: More Than 500 Recommended Books for Your Child’s First Three Years	Odean, Kathleen
	How Reading Changed My Life	Quindlen, Anna
	How to Get Your Child to Love Reading (for Ravenous and Reluctant Readers Alike)	Codell, Esme Raji
	John Rosemond’s Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children	Rosemond, John K.
	New York Times Parents’ Guide to the Best Books for Children	Lipson, Eden Ross
	Read All About It!: Great Read-Aloud Stories, Poems, and Newspaper Pieces for Preteens and Teens	Trelease, Jim (ed.)
	Read It Aloud! A Parent’s Guide to Sharing Books with Young Children	Haas, Monty & Laurie Joy Haas
	Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever	Fox, Mem
	The 20^th Century Children’s Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud	Schulman, Janet
	The Call of Stories	Coles, Robert
	The Read- Aloud Handbook (sixth edition)	Trelease, Jim
	Why Read	Edmundson, Mark