Glen Ridge Elementary School

At the primary level in Glen Ridge, our philosophy for literacy development is that children develop at their own pace. The following reading lists were designed to support various levels of reading.

Encouraging reading can develop the literacy process. Students should be reading at a comfortable level and being read to at a level(s) above. Please peruse our suggested summer reading list to locate books at your child’s reading development level.

Do not forget to visit the local library and consult with the librarian in the children’s section. For added information, click on the link from American Library Association For Children (A division of the American Library Association) for Caldecott Medal winners and honorees. The Caldecott Medal is awarded to the illustrator of the year’s most distinguished children’s picture book.

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/caldecottmedal.htm

Kindergarten Reading List

Author	Title	Summary
Asch, Frank	Milk and Cookies	Baby Bear dreams of feeding milk and cookies to a dragon.
Ashley, Bernard	Cleversticks	Ling Sung unexpectedly discovers the ability to use chopsticks with ease.
Barton, Byron	Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs	How many prehistoric creatures do you know?
Brett, Jan	Goldilocks & the 3 Bears	Fairy tales
Brown, Margaret Wise	Runaway Bunny
Calmenson, Stephanie	It Begins With A	An alphabet book.
Carle, Eric	Do You Want To Be My Friend?	A wordless book.
Carle, Eric	Slowly, Slowly, Slowly, Said the Sloth	A sloth claims he is slow, not lazy – just mellow and calm.
Crews, Donald	Shortcut	African American children take a shortcut along a railroad track.
dePaola, Tomie	Pancakes for Breakfast
dePaola, Tomie	Tomie dePaola’s Mother Goose	Collection of nursery rhymes
Dunrea, Olivier	Gossie	Help Gossie find her bright red boots.
Elhert, Lois	Feathers for Lunch	An escaped housecat has an interesting adventure in the backyard.
Elhert, Lois	Nuts to You	A squirrel goes on an adventure in the city.
Elhert, Lois	Snowballs	Children create a family out of snow.
Feelings, Muriel	Moja Means One	A Swahili counting book.
Flack, Marjorie	Ask Mr. Bear	Danny’s mother is having a birthday and he doesn’t know what to get her.
Fleming, Denise	In the Small, Small Pond	Enjoy the seasons with geese and frogs.
Fox, Mem	Hattie and the Fox
Gray, Libby Moore	Small Green Snake	A Sassy garter snake crosses a garden wall
Harper, Isabel	Our New Puppy
Hill, Eric	Spot Goes to the Park	Play on the swings with Spot and friends.
Hoff, Syd	Sammy the Seal
Hoff, Syd	Danny and the Dinosaur
Hutchins, Pat	Changes, Changes	A wordless book.
Hutchins, Pat	Rosie’s Walk	Does Rosie the Hen know that Fox is following her?
Johnson, Angela	When I Am Old With You	A little girl and grandfather share a day.
Jonas, Ann	The Quilt	Girl spends her first night in a big bed.
Keats, Ezra Jack	Peter’s Chair	A little boy deals with a new sister.
Keates, Ezra Jack	Whistle for Willie	A little boy learns how to whistle
Kellogg, Steven	There Was an Old Woman	Nursery Rhymes
Kraus, Robert	Leo the Late Bloomer	When will a little tiger learn to read?
Lionni, Leo	A Busy Year	Two mice befriend a tree and care for it through the years as it changes
Lionni, Leo	Inch by Inch	A clever inchworm measures things.
Lobel, Arnold	On Market Street	An alphabet book.
Mack, Stan	Ten Bears in My Bed	A goodnight countdown book.
McBratney, Sam	Guess How Much I Love You?
McMillian, Bruce	Mouse Views	What the class pet sees --- up close.
McPhail, David	Pig Pig Grows Up	A little pig insists that he’s still a baby.
Miller, Margaret	My Five Senses	Children play as they see, hear, taste, smeel, and touch.
Morris, Ann	Shoes, Shoes, Shoes	Which are for dancing and which are for walking?
Numeroff, Laura	If You Give a Mouse a Cookie	A little boy befriends an energetic mouse.
Numeroff, Laura	If You Take a Mouse to the Movies
Rathmann, Peggy	Good Night, Gorilla	Who is really in charge at the zoo?
Scarry, Richard	Richard Scarry’s Best Mother Goose Ever	Collection of nursery rhymes.
Seuss, Dr.	And to Think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street	A little boy uses his imagination on the bus.
Shaw, Nancy	Sheep in a Jeep	A humorous rhyming book narrates the adventures of sheep in a jeep.
Walsh, Ellen Stoll	Mouse Paint	Mix red, yellow and blue with three mice.
Wells, Rosemary	Bunny Cakes	Max and Ruby each create the perfect present for Grandma.
Wells, Rosemary	Noisy Nora
Williams, Vera	A Chair for my Mother	The first in a trilogy is about a family of three women who use loose change in a jar to buy a chair for Mama who works long hours as a waitress.
Wood, Don and Aubrey	The Napping House