You can find more titles for this age group on the Classic Picture Book list, in the JE/ER section for Early Readers, and among the Fairy and Folk Tales in nonfiction J/Y 398.2. Click here for a print-friendly version of this list.
Barnett | Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (Sam and Dave dig to discover something spectacular.) |
Bingham | Z Is for Moose (Moose misses his turn in an alphabet game, but Zebra finds a spot for him.) |
Bledsoe | Hammer and Nails (After her playdate is cancelled, a girl and her dad have a fun day tackling their to-do lists together.) |
Cannon | Stellaluna (After she falls into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised there until she is reunited with her mother.) |
Daywalt | The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors (Chronicles the legendary battle behind the game.) |
Eaton | Great, Now We've Got Barbarians! (Why fuss about tidiness? Because Barbarians love messes!) |
Feiffer | Meanwhile . . . (Raymond discovers a way to skip from one adventure to another.) |
Gay | Fern and Horn ( Fern and Horn have different ways of seeing the world. What happens when their visions collide? ) |
Graham | How to Heal a Broken Wing (Will finds a bird with a broken wing, so he takes it home and cares for it.) |
Hatke | Julia's House for Lost Creatures (Julia invites all kinds of lost creatures into her house--and then she has to make it work.) |
Howell | Whale in a Fishbowl (Wednesday the whale is inspired by a little girl named Piper to try to reach the sea.) |
Johnson | Palazzo Inverso (An apprentice to a master builder causes trouble. Inspired by the work of M.C. Escher.) |
Jonker | The Very Last Castle (Despite warnings about something fearful inside, Ibbs accepts an invitation to enter the last castle in her village.) |
Lucas | The Robot and the Bluebird (A broken robot makes a home for a bluebird trying to fly south for the winter.) |
Je Meddour | Lubna and Pebble (Arriving in a strange new place, Lubna turns a pebble into a friend she can share with others. ) |
Mollel | Kele's Secret (A young African boy follows the family's hen to find out where she is hiding her eggs.) |
Novak | The Book with No Pictures (In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every single silly word.) |
Park | Gondra's Treasure (Gondra, who is a little dragon, celebrates her father's homeland in the East and her mother's in the West.) |
Perry | The Book That Eats People (The reader is warned to be careful around this book, which is always hungry and has already eaten several people.) |
Ray | The Apple-Pip Princess (A king challenges his daughters to make his barren kingdom bloom again. ) |
Reibstein | Wabi Sabi (Wabi Sabi, a cat in Kyoto, learns the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity.) |
Santat | Adventures of Beekle (An imaginary friend sets out on a quest to find a boy to imagine him.) |
Scott | Brave as a Mountain Lion (Spider has stage fright, but he decides to be as brave as his Shoshone ancestors.) |
Stevenson | Don't Make Me Laugh (Readers are requested not to influence the behavior of animal characters in this book.) |
Vagin | Peter and the Wolf (Retells the story behind Prokofiev's classical music composition.) |
Willems | Because (One small event at a time leads a young child to become an accomplished musician.) |
Tsarfati | The Neighbors (As she climbs the seven stories to her apartment, a girl imagines what happens behind the other doors.) |
Last Updated: 11/19
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