Reading to your young child builds vocabulary and lays the foundation for a love of reading and learning. These preschool books are some of our favorites. We enjoyed reading them to our preschoolers and still read many of them to our elementary aged children.
Authors We Enjoy
Allen Say
Barbara Cooney
Beatrix Potter
Bill Peet
Brinton Turkle
Cynthia Ryland
Don Freeman
Eve Bunting
Gail Hartman
Gyo Fujikawa
H.A. Ray
Jan Brett
Ludwig Bemelmans
Maj Lindman
Margaret Wise Brown
Patricia Polacco
Richard Scarry
Robert McCloskey
Shirley Hughes
Thornton Burgess
Tomie dePaola
Virginia Lee Burton
Books We Enjoy
A Pair of Red Clogs
by Masako Matsuno
Albert by Donna Jo Napoli
Amber on the Mountain by Tony Johnston
Anatole by Eve Titus
Angelo by David Macaulay
Another Celebrated Dancing Bear by Gladys Scheffrin-Falk
Arabella by Wendy Orr
Ask Mr. Bear by Marjorie Flack
Be Kind Be Sweet by Tricia Lowenfield and Mary Moore
The Big Green Pocketbook by Candice F. Ransom
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
Climbing Kansas Mountains by George Shannon
Cowboy Charlie by Jeanette Winter
Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende & Harry Devlin
Down, Down the Mountain by Ellis Credle
Egermeier’s Bible Story Book by Elsie E. Egermeier
God’s Wisdom for Little Girls by Elizabeth George
God’s Wisdom for Little Boys by Jim George
Grass Sandals by Dawnine Spivak
Hanna’s Cold Winter by Trish Marx
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
Henry the Castaway by Mark Taylor
Hiawatha by Longfellow, illustrated by Susan Jeffers
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman
How to Make a Cherry Pie and See the U.S.A. by Marjorie Priceman
James Herriot’s Treasury for Children by James Herriot
Jeremy: The Tale of an Honest Bunny by Jan Karon
Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones
Katy No-Pocket by Emmy Payne
Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky
Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnell
Making Plum Jam by John Warren Stewig
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
Mr. Gumpy’s Motor Car by John Burningham
Night of the Moonjellies by Mark Shasha
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
Papa Piccolo by Carol Talley
Poems to Read to the Very Young by Eloise Wilkin
Raggedy Ann and Andy Stories by Johnny Gruelle
Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost illustrated by Susan Jeffers
Stories from Nature, Thirty-one Animal Tales by Jane Werner Watson
Storm in the Night by Mary Stoltz
The Duchess Bakes a Cake by Virginia Kahl
The Giraffe That Walked to Paris
by Nancy Milton
The Glorious Flight by Alice and Martin Provensen
The Gullywasher by Joyce Rossi
The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
The Kite Festival by Leyla Torres
The Jingle in My Pocket by Gary Bower
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde Swift
The Person I Marry by Gary Bower
The Pumpkin Runner by Marsha Diane Arnold
The Raft by Jim LaMarche
The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills
The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
The Saggy Baggy Elephant by Kathryn Jackson
The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer
The Shy Little Kitten by Cathleen Schurr
The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
The Taxi that Hurried by Irma Simonton Black
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Three Names by Patricia MacLachlan
Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
Tootle by Gertrude Crampton
Very Last First Time by Jan Andrews
Warm as Wool by Scott Russell Sanders
We’re Going On a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
Wee Gillis by Munro Leaf
When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant
Who Owns the Sun? by Stacy Chbosky
Yonder by Tony Johnston
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