Picture Books (History and Biography)

[yucabird]

This is my older daughter’s kinder year, and right now I am forgoing formal science and history; however, we have a number of interesting science-related picture books and read one daily. I would like to do this with history and want to build a collection of biographical and historical picture books.

 

What I am looking for are well-written, interesting, attractive books. I’ll be reading aloud and don’t want easy-readers.

 

To give an idea of the type for which I am looking, here are a few we have on our shelves:

 

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein: http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Walked-Between-Towers/dp/031236878X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315086003&sr=8-1

 

Pocohontas by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire: http://www.amazon.com/Pocahontas-Ingri-Edgar-Parin-dAulaire/dp/1893103285/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315086077&sr=1-1

 

The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau by Dan Yaccarino: http://www.amazon.com/Fantastic-Undersea-Life-Jacques-Cousteau/dp/B004Z8LG6U/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315086142&sr=1-1

 

Any recommendations?

[tammyw]

We love picture books for learning. I did the same with DD who is now 8, and will be doing the same with DS5. This year I just purchased this set from BFbooks to read aloud. I actually read these to my dd8 when she was little, I just never bought them. These are all really good, and I know both will get a lot out of them, especially since this is the year we are focusing on American history!

 

http://www.bfbooks.com/Early-American-History-Primary-Jumbo-Pack

 

We also read a lot of biography books like the following. There are many of these. Also, when we found someone we were interested in, I would find other books on that person to continue the reading.

http://www.amazon.com/Picture-Book-Helen-Keller-Biographies/dp/0823409503/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1315094310&sr=8-3

 

DD loved these You Wouldn't Want to be series:

http://www.amazon.com/You-Wouldnt-Want-Sail-Mayflower/dp/053112391X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315094399&sr=1-1

 

I love the Betsy Maestro books, but depending on your child, they might be a bit much at 5:

http://www.amazon.com/Exploration-Conquest-Americas-Columbus-1500-1620/dp/0688154743/ref=pd_sim_b_37

 

If You Lived... series:

http://www.amazon.com/If-You-Lived-Colonial-Times/dp/059045160X/ref=pd_sim_b_11

 

American Girl books are good, but probably best to wait until your daughter is a bit older and can read them herself, because they're fun for them to read independently.

 

http://www.amazon.com/American-Story-True-Tales-History/dp/0375812563/ref=pd_sim_b_60

Edited September 4, 2011 by tammyw

[tammyw]

Also, I'd love to hear some of your favorite science books you're doing this year! I am always looking for more good ideas :)

[Farrar]

Off the top of my head, a few we've done that I really enjoyed that were shorter, but still rich and informative:

 

Before John Was a Jazz Giant by Carol Weatherford (John Coltrane)

 

You Can't Do That, Amelia by Kimberly Klier (Amelia Earhart)

 

Elizabeth Leads the Way by Tanya Lee Stone (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

 

Fannie in the Kitchen by Deborah Hopkinson (Fannie Farmer)

 

Ahoy, Ahoy, Are You There? by Robert Quackenbush (Alexander Graham Bell)

 

I think it's fun just to browse through the biographies in the children's section. For longer picture book biographies, I really like Diane Stanley and Leonard Everett Fisher.

[Gentlemommy]

We love love love the D'Aulaire books from Beautiful Feet. They are everything I wanted in a children's history book-accurate, well written, and beautifully illustrated. They captivate my six year old, and we are flying through them. They are pricey up front, but well worth it.

[susankenny]

We have a fun book called, "My First Book of Biographies".

 

http://www.amazon.com/First-Book-Biographies-Cartwheel-bookshelf/dp/059045014X/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1315095624&sr=8-6

 

We really enjoyed it when my children were 6.

 

Susan

[susankenny]

We love love love the D'Aulaire books from Beautiful Feet. They are everything I wanted in a children's history book-accurate, well written, and beautifully illustrated. They captivate my six year old, and we are flying through them. They are pricey up front, but well worth it.

:iagree: Definitely a must!!

[tammyw]

Went searching amazon and found a few more dd liked when she was younger:

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0439078199/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_g14_i3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1Q7BDJ0NGS1V6QEE49QC&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

 

http://www.amazon.com/Mermaid-Queen-Spectacular-Kellerman-Swimsuit/dp/0439698359/ref=pd_sim_b_1

 

http://www.amazon.com/Players-Pigtails-Shana-Corey/dp/0439183057/ref=pd_sim_b_2

 

http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Drew-Birds-Outstanding/dp/0618243437/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315097465&sr=1-1

 

http://www.amazon.com/Snowflake-Bentley-Jacqueline-Briggs-Martin/dp/0547248296/ref=pd_sim_b_6

 

http://www.amazon.com/Picasso-Girl-Ponytail-Anholts-Artists/dp/0764138537/ref=pd_sim_b_16 (art related but all the other Anholt books are great)

[yucabird]

Thanks to everyone...I've got some ordering to do!

[yucabird]

Also, I'd love to hear some of your favorite science books you're doing this year! I am always looking for more good ideas :)

 

 

Awhile ago someone posted a link for the NSTA’s Outstanding Trade Books: http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/. It is a GREAT list.

 

Here are some we have enjoyed:

 

Cave, by Diane Siebert (Our hobby is caving, so this book-in-verse is a big hit in our home.): http://www.amazon.com/Cave-Diane-Siebert/dp/0688164471/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315102771&sr=8-1

 

Prehistoric Actual Size by Steve Jenkins (rather fun): http://www.amazon.com/Prehistoric-Actual-Size-Steve-Jenkins/dp/0618535780/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315103364&sr=1-1

 

What Can You Do with a Tail Like This? (another Steve Jenkins book): http://www.amazon.com/What-Tail-Like-Caldecott-Honor/dp/0618256288/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315103394&sr=1-1

 

Finding Home by Sandra Markle (This one brings tears to my eyes.): http://www.amazon.com/Finding-Home-Sandra-Markle/dp/1580891233/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315103433&sr=1-1

 

It’s Not the Stork by Robie Harris (As questions arise I read small sections.): http://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-Stork-Families-Friends/dp/0763633313/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315103498&sr=1-1

 

Life Story by Virginia Lee Burton (This was written in 1962, so I would not use it as a primary source on evolution. However, it is still a wonderful read.): http://www.amazon.com/Life-Story-Virginia-Lee-Burton/dp/0547203594/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315103558&sr=1-1

 

One Small Square books by Donald Silver (I just ordered some more of these.): http://www.amazon.com/One-Small-Square-Night-Sky/dp/0070580456/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315103615&sr=1-7

 

Here is the books by Madeleine Dunphy: http://www.amazon.com/Here-Tropical-Rain-Forest-Life/dp/0977379507/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_5

[FairProspects]

Just a thought, you may want to preview the Pocahontas and Abraham Lincoln books by the D'Aulaires. Personally, I couldn't take them here as they are just too much a product of their times and include references, language, and pictures that could be considered racist and inappropriate to modern audiences. Treading carefully here because we are not super sensitive, but it was way too much for me and required too much editing. Just in case you hadn't read these two, you may want to before you decide to read them aloud and have to edit on the fly.

[Terabith]

I've made up a few lists, if you are interested. I have one for US history, one for biology, and one for general lit for K/1st.

[yucabird]

I've made up a few lists, if you are interested. I have one for US history, one for biology, and one for general lit for K/1st.

 

I'm definitely interested!

[tammyw]

I've made up a few lists, if you are interested. I have one for US history, one for biology, and one for general lit for K/1st.

 

I'm always interested!

[Cindyz]

I've made up a few lists, if you are interested. I have one for US history, one for biology, and one for general lit for K/1st.

 

 

I'm interested! Thank you. :)

[zoo_keeper]

Tammy, I just went and reserved many of your suggested titles. Thanks!

[She Reads a Lot]

Awhile ago someone posted a link for the NSTA’s Outstanding Trade Books: http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/. It is a GREAT list.

 

 

 

Thank you for posting this link! As a newbie, I had no idea this existed. I only went through the 2011 list, and already I want to buy the buffalo and bee books--as much for me as for my son to read!!

 

Re: your original request for books, I think the other ladies covered it nicely. We're d'Aulaire fans, too!

 

christina

[She Reads a Lot]

I've made up a few lists, if you are interested. I have one for US history, one for biology, and one for general lit for K/1st.

 

I'm interested, too (or three or four).

 

thanks!

christina

[Terabith]

Okay. It's big, so I'm going to do it in a few posts. This is just the history one, and it only goes thru the American Revolution. If you want more, I can give you the rest of the list. (It goes thru the space race.) The truth is, I'm a bit afraid of people think I'm an obsessive freak if I show you the whole thing without knowing what you're getting into. If you are interested, let me know and I'll see what I can do about the science and literature ones. If you want and promise not to call me a freak. :001_smile:

 

If You Lived with the Sioux Indians/Iroquoi/ Hopi/ Indians of the Northwest (There are other If You Were There books about various tribes, too, I think)

 

The Discovery of the Americas (Betsy Maestro)

Welcome to Kaya’s World (Kaya American Girl books)

You Wouldn’t Want to Be an Incan Mummy

You Wouldn’t Want to Be an Aztec Sacrifice

You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Mayan Soothsayer

You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Viking Explorer

Montezuma and the Fall of the Aztecs

The Sad Night: The Story of an Aztec Victory

Encounter (Jane Yolen)

Follow the Dream (Peter Sis)

You Wouldn’t Want to Sail with Christopher Columbus

Pilgrim Cat

You Wouldn’t Want to Be an American Colonist

Roanoke: An Unsolved Mystery

A Lion to Guard Us

Pocahontas and the Strangers

Squanto: Friend of Pilgrims

You Wouldn’t Want to Sail on the Mayflower

Magic Tree House Nonfiction guide Pilgrims

If You Sailed on the Mayflower

Mayflower 1620: A New Look at a Pilgrim Journey

Sarah Morton’s Day

Samuel Easton’s Day

Tapenum’s Day

Squanto’s Journey

Finding Providence

You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Salem Witch

The New Americans: Colonial Times (Betsy Maestro)

Three Young Pilgrims (Cheryl Harness)

Witch Hunt: It Happened in Salem Village

If You Lived in Colonial Times

Legend of New Amsterdam

Old Silver Leg Takes Over

Struggle for a Continent (Betsy Maestro)

George vs George

John, Paul, George and Ben

George Washington (Cheryl Harness)

And Then What Happened, Paul Revere

Paul Revere’s Ride

Magic Treehouse Research Guide: Revolutionary War

If You Lived in Colonial Williamsburg

Felicity's World

You Wouldn’t Want to Be at the Boston Tea Party

What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?

Now and Ben

How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning

Saving the Liberty Bell

Many Lives of Benjamin Franklin

The Remarkable Ben Franklin (Cheryl Harness)

Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?

Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George

Paul Revere and the Bell Ringers

Why Don’t You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?

Betsy Ross and the Silver Thimble

Let It Begin Here

Sleds on Boston Commons

Katie’s Trunk

They Called Her Molly Pitcher

The Secret Solider

Phoebe and the General

The Scarlet Stockings Spy

Sybil’s Midnight Ride

If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution

Seven Brave Women

If You Grew Up with George Washington

George Washington’s Breakfast

George Washington and the General’s Dog

George the Drummer Boy

George Did It

George Washington (Harness)

George Washington’s Teeth

George Washington’s Mother

[yucabird]

Wow, Terabith! No name calling....I'm impressed. Yes, I'd love to see rest of your list.

[tammyw]

I say post them all. If you're a freak, then so are we all :)

[Mert]

I say post them all. If you're a freak, then so are we all :)

Yup! Looking forward to seeing the rest of the list... I'm putting together kindy Am Hist right now.

[Terabith]

Okay...... you asked for it. :D

 

If you guys still want science and lit, I'll see what I can do.

 

If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution

The Revolutionary John Adams

We The People: The Story of the Constitution

A New Nation (Maestro) - Might be too complex? We read excerts

John Adams Speaks for Freedom

Shhh…..We’re Writing the Constitution

Thomas Jefferson (Cheryl Harness)

A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution

A New Nation (Maestro)

Lewis and Clark: A Prairie Dog for President

Seaman’s Journal

I Am Sacagewea, I Am York

Meet Thomas Jefferson

As Far as the Eye Can Reach

Thomas Jefferson’s Feast

Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the American West

Supplement: My Name Is York

Sacagawea, Shoshone Trailblazer

The Voyageur’s Paddle

Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog’s Tale

If You Lived When There Was Slavery

Who Let Muddy Boots in the White House?

Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing

If You Lived with the Cherokee

The Amazing, Impossible Erie Canal

A Head Full of Notions

Freedom River

The Star Spangled Banner

Trail of Tears (Step into Reading 5)

Susanna of the Alamo

Davy Crockett: A Life on the Frontier (Step into Reading 3)

Welcome to Josephina’s World

Sam Houston, Texas Hero

Only the Names Remain

Sam Houston: Standing Firm (Mary Wade)

You Wouldn’t Want to Be an American Pioneer

The Buffalo Storm

Wagon Train (All Aboard Reading)

Westward Ho: The Story of the American Pioneers

If You Were a Pioneer on the Prairie

If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon

The Bobbin Girl

A Pioneer Sampler

Welcome to Kirsten’s World

 

good time for Laura Ingalls Wilder books

 

Roughing It on the Oregon Trail

Gold Fever

Covered Wagons

Boom Town

Chang’s Paper Pony

Boom Town

You Wouldn’t Want to Work on the Railroad

The Buffalo Are Back

Ten Mile Day (Building the Transcontinental Railroad

Apples to Oregon

Coolies

Brothers (Yin)

Wagons West (Gerrard)

Trail of Tears

If You Grew Up with Abraham Lincoln

Abe Lincoln’s Hat

Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books

Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek

Abe Lincoln and the Muddy Pig

Abe’s Fish

Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers

The Listeners

Welcome to Addy’s World

If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War

If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad

Mr. Lincoln’s Boys

Abe Lincoln Remembers

A Lincoln and Me

Lincoln and His Boys

Our Abe Lincoln

What Lincoln Said

If You Lived When There Was Slavery

The Last Brother: A Civil War Tale

Dadblamed Union Army Cow

Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington (Cheryl Harness)

Young Abe Lincoln (Cheryl Harness)

A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman

Moses: When Harriet Led Her People

Minty: A Story about Young Harriet Tubman

Almost to Freedom

Under the Cloak of Night

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Sweet Clara’s Quilt

Freedom River

Aunt Harriet’s Railroad in the Sky

The Last Safe House

Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride

I Have Heard of a Land

Friend on Freedom River

Clara Barton: Spirit of the American Red Cross

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Civil War Solider

Pink and Say

Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln (All Aboard Reading)

Henry’s Freedom Box

Freedom’s Gifts

Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys

The Legend of Old Abe: Civil War Eagle

Fields of Fury

Red Legs: a Drummer Boy from the Civil War

Freedom River

If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights

You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Suffragist

Train to Somewhere

Bronco Charlie and the Pony Express

Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express

Riding the Pony Express

You Wouldn’t Want to Live in a Wild West Town

Pappy’s Hankerchief

Dandelions

Eat My Dust: Henry Ford

Wagon Wheels

Listen Up! Alexander Graham Bell

A Wizard from the Start

Alice Ramsey’s Grand Adventure

Picture Book of Helen Keller

You Wouldn’t Want to Sail on a 19th Century Whaling Ship (but hard to find)

If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island

When Jessie Came Across the Sea

Annushka’s Voyage

The Long Way to a New Land

Long Way Westward

Naming Liberty

You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Worker on the Statue of Liberty

You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Skyscraper Builder

Junkman’s Daughter

Welcome to Samantha's World

Coming to America: The Story of Immigration

The Story of the Statue of Liberty

Teddy Roosevelt: The People’s President (Ready to Read)

What to Do About Alice?

Pepe the Lamplighter

My Tour of Europe by Teddy Roosevelt

Don’t You Dare Shoot that Bear

The Memory Coat

You’re On Your Way, Teddy Roosevelt

Teddie: the Story of Young Teddy Roosevelt

Bloomers!

You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!

Who Was Annie Oakley?

America’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle

Nelly Bly’s Monkey

If You Lived at the Time of the San Francisco Earthquake

To Fly! The Story of the Wright Brothers

My Brothers Flying Machine: Wilbur, Orville, and Me

First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers

Into the Air: the Story of the Wright Brothers First Flight

Taking Flight; Will and Orv

Can You Fly High, Wright Brothers?

How People Learned to Fly

Brave Harriet: The First Woman to Cross the English Channel

Amelia Earhart: More than a Flier

If You Lived 100 Years Ago

Potato: A Tale from the Great Depression

Tight Times

Saving Strawberry Farm

Dust for Dinner

Lucky Star

Rudy Rides the Rails

Welcome to Kit's World

Leah’s Pony

If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights

Dust for Dinner

Finding Daddy

Lucky Beans

Who Was Eleanor Roosevelt?

The Donkey of Gallipoli

Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride

Eleanor, Quiet No More

When Esther Morgan Headed West

Eleanor (Barbara Cooney)

Welcome to Molly's World

You Wouldn’t Want to Be a WW 2 Pilot

The Yellow Star

The Butterfly

The Cats in Krasinski Square

Star of Fear, Star of Hope

Boxes for Katje

The Grand Mosque of Paris

The Little Ships: Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II

Dirt on Their Skirts

The Night Crossing

Rebekah’s Journey

You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Secret Agent in World War II

The Greatest Skating Race

Don’t You Know There’s a War On?

So Far from the Sea (Japanese Internment)

Twenty and Ten

Baseball Saved Us

Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot

The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth

Lily’s Victory Garden

I Am Rosa Parks

Freedom on the Menu

Hiding from the Nazis

The Bracelet

The Unbreakable Code

The Little Ships

Nim and the War Effort

When Daddy Was a Soldier

Music for April

Let the Celebrations Begin

Blueberries for the Queen

Rosa

If a Bus Could Talk

The Story of Ruby Bridges

Freedom Summer

White Socks Only

A Sweet Smell of Roses

The Other Side

The School Is Not White

First Day in Grapes

Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down

Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation

Riding to Washington

Finding Lincoln

My Brother Martin

Martin’s Big Words

March On

Jackie Robinson: Baseball’s First Black Major Leaguer

You Wouldn’t Want to Be on Apollo 13

Who Is Neil Armstrong

One Giant Leap

Look to the Stars

Reaching for the Moon

The Wall

If You Decide to Go to the Moon

Harvesting Hope

[tammyw]

Great list Anna, thanks! At first glance, I've gotten many of these for DD8, but never in any particular order (just ordered from the library randomly over the last couple years). It looks like you've got them in order? I'll be keeping this list for use with DS5, as I never kept track of what books I ordered and just poked around various lists and amazon recommendations. Wonderful!

 

I'm definitely interested in the science and literature lists as well. Though we read a ton, I've never been good at making or keeping actual lists, and it will be nice to have some book lists on hand!

[gardenmom5]

Also, I'd love to hear some of your favorite science books you're doing this year! I am always looking for more good ideas :)

 

for slightly younger, the "counting in the biomes" by Fredrick, Jr. McKissack and Lisa Beringer McKissack books are great. even if they are counting well, the exposure of the biome information is good.

[Terabith]

Ok, I have one for bio, one for earth science/ astronomy, literature, and one for ancients. Here's the one for bio up till mammals. Sure I'm not boring anyone?

 

What Is a Living Thing? (Bobbie Kalman)

What's Alive? (Let's Read and Find Out)

Pass the Energy, Please

Where Does the Garbage Go?

Many Biomes, One Earth

What Is a Biome

How Animals Adapt

Weird Friends: Unlikely Allies in the Animal Kingdom

Magic School Bus Hops Home

One Small Square: Swamp

One Small Square Savanna

Eye Wonder Forest

If I Ran the Rainforest

Explore the Tropical Rain Forest

Eye Wonder: Rainforest

Usborne Beginner’s Rainforest

Magic Tree House Research Guide Rainforest

The Great Kapok Tree

Natrue’s Green Umbrella

Over in the Jungle

The Rainforest Bloomed All Around

Stop That Noise!

Rosa Riposa

How Night Came to the Sea

Biblioburro(about Brazil)

Ice Is Nice (Cat in the Hat)

Cactus in the Desert (Let’s Read and Find Out)

One Small Square Arctic

Explore the Tundra

Explore the Desert

Why O Why Is the Desert Dry (Cat in the Hat)

Eye Wonder: Arctic and Antarctic

Magic Tree House Research Guide Polar Bears and the Arctic

Cactus in the Desert

Cactus Hotel

The Seed and the Giant Saguaro

Desert Giant

Antarctica (Cowcher)

Desert (Gail Gibbons)

A Small Tale from the Far, Far North

Amazing Arctic Animals (All Aboard Science Reader)

Building an Igloo

The Desert Is Theirs

Life in a Coral Reef (Let’s Read and Find Out)

Explore the Ocean Biome

Magic Tree House Research Guide Sea Monsters

Oil Spill (Let’s Read and Find Out)

Coral Reefs in Danger (All Aboard Science Reader)

What’s Under the Sea? (Usborne)

Down Down Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea

One Small Square Coral Reef and Seashore

Take a Beach Walk

Greg's Microscope

Magic School Bus Goes Cellular

The Tree of Life

Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad

Magic School Bus in a Pickle

Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie

Mushrooms and Mold (Let's Read and Find Out)

Magic School Bus Gets Ready, Gets Set, Gets Dough

A Jellyfish Is Not a Fish

Sponges Are Skeletons (Let’s Read and Find Out)

Wiggling Worms at Work

Are You an Earthworm?

Twist, Wiggle and Squirm: a Book about Earthworms

A Wish for Fish (Cat in the Hat)

Clam I Am (Cat in the Hat)

Are You a Snail?

An Octopus Is Amazing

Eye Wonder: Ocean

Gentle Giant Octopus (Read and Wonder)

Slugs and Snails (Claire Llewellyn)

Snails (Kevin Holmes)

Earthworms (Claire Llewellyn)

How to Hide an Octopus

Octopus (Melvin Berger)

Starfish (Let's Read and Find Out)

Are You An Insect? (Let's Read and Find Out)

On Beyond Bugs (Cat in the Hat)

Honey In a Hive

Ant Cities

Fireflies in the Night

Cockroaches: Here, There, Everywhere

Usborne Beginner Book: Bugs

Bugs are Insects

The Best Book of Bugs

Starting Life: Ladybug; About Insects

Magic School Bus Gets Ants in Its Pants

Eye Wonder: Bugs

Are You a Ladybug/ Butterfly/ Grasshopper/ Ant/ Bee?

A Pillbug’s Life/ Ant’s Life/ Bee’s Life

Usborne First Book of Nature “Creepy Crawliesâ€

I Didn’t Know that Some Bugs Glow in the Dark

Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home

Bees Live in Hives

Hey Little Ant (Read and Wonder)

Insectlopedia (Douglas Florian)

Magic School Bus in a Hive

I Didn’t Know Spiders Have Fangs

Are You a Spider?

Spinning Spiders (Let's Read and Find Out)

I Wonder Why Spiders Spin Webs

My Daddy Longlegs

Spider Silk

Spiders (Gail Gibbons)

Magic School Bus Spins a Web

What Lives in a Shell? (Let’s Read and Find Out)

A House for Hermit Crab

What Is a Vertebrate? (Bobbie Kalman)

What Is a Life Cycle? (Bobbie Kalman)

What Is a Fish? (Let’s Read and Find Out)

Magic School Bus Goes Upstream

Usborne First Book of Nature “Fishâ€

Think of an Eel

About Fish

Sea Horse: Shyest Fish in the Sea

Sea Horse (Read and Wonder)

My Best Book of Sharks

Parrotfish and Sunken Ships

All About Sharks

What Is a Fish? (Bobbie Kalman)

Life Cycle of a Seahorse

What Is an Amphibian? (Kalman)

Usborne Beginner Frogs

From Tadpole to Frog (Let’s Read and Find Out)

A Frog’s Life

What I Like about Toads

Would You Rather Be a Pollywog

A Salamander’s Life

About Amphibians

Amphibians (Gail Gibbons)

Growing Frogs (Read and Wonder)

Why Frogs are Wet

Wish for Fish (Cat in the Hat)

What Is a Reptile (Bobbie Kalman)

Miles and Miles of Reptiles

Snakes Are Hunters

What Lives in an Alligator’s Hole

Eye Wonder: Reptiles

I Didn’t Know Crocodiles Yawn to Keep Cool

Usborne Beginners Reptiles

Eye Wonder Reptiles

Magic Tree House Research Guide Snakes and Other Reptiles

Komodo (Peter Sis)

Alligators and Crocodiles (Gail Gibbons)

Snakes (Gail Gibbons)

Sea Turtles (Gibbons)

Chameleons Are Cool (Read and Wonder)

Tiny Turtle (Read and Wonder)

Snakes (All Aboard Science Reader)

Giant Lizards (All Aboard Science Reader)

Slither and Crawl (Arnosky)

Babies in the Bayou (Arnosky)

All About Lizards (Arnosky)

All About Rattlesnakes (Arnosky)

Turtle in the Sea

All About Turtles (Arnosky)

Snap! A Book about Alligators and Crocodiles (Melvin Berger)

Magic School Bus Gets Cold Feet

Look Out for Turtles

Ducks Don’t Get Wet

Where Does a Chick Come From?

What Is a Bird? (Bobbie Kalman)

Fine Feathered Friend (Cat in the Hat library)

Bird Talk (Let’s Read and Find Out)

A Nest Full of Eggs

When Birds Change Their Feather

Usborne Beginners Eggs and Chicks

I Didn’t Know Some Birds Hang Upside Down

Migration (Bobbie Kalman)

Usborne First Book of Nature “Birdsâ€

How Do Birds Find Their Way

Falcons Nest on Skyscrapers

The Tale of Pale Male

A Mother’s Journey

An Emperor Lays an Egg

White Owl, Barn Owl

Goose’s Story

Flamingos (All Aboard Science)

Magic Tree House Penguins and Antarctica

I’m a Turkey (Arnosky)

Watching Water Birds

All About Owls (Arnosky)

Soaring with the Wind (Gail Gibbons)

Birds (Melvin Berger)

What’s Hatching out of that Egg

[Terabith]

Okay, here's the rest of bio:

An Egg Is Quiet

Is a Camel a Mammal? (Cat in the Hat)

What Is a Mammal? (Bobbie Kalman)

Baby Whales Drink Milk (Let's Read and FInd Out)

Eye Wonder: Mammals

Animals Born Alive and Well

Mammalabilia (Douglas Florian

Really Weird Animals

I Didn’t Know Chimps Use Tools

What Is a Primate? (Kalman)

I Didn’t Know Only Some Big Cats Can Roar

I Didn’t Know Wolves Howl at the Moon

Cats (Gibbons)

Dogs (Gibbons)

Wolves (Gibbons)

Eyes of a Grey Wolf

Look to the North: Wolf Pup

Tigress (Read and Wonder)

Coyote Raid (Arnosky)

Wolves (Arnosky)

I Didn’t Know Giant Pandas Eat All Day Long

Hibernation (Kalman)

Giant Pandas (Gail Gibbons)

Polar Bear (Gibbons)

Ice Bear (Read and Wonder)

Polar Bears in Danger (All Aboard Science Reader)

A Koala Is Not a Bear (Bobbie Kalman)

Forest Mammals

Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats

Bat Loves the Night

Usborne Beginners Bats

Bats (Gibbons)

I Wonder Why Kangaroos Have Pouches?

Screech! A book about Bats (Melvin Berger)

The Surprising Kangaroos and Other Pouched Mammal

Bats – Wings in the Night

What Is a Marsupial?

What Is a Rodent? (Bobbie Kalman)

Grandma Elephant’s In Charge

Great Migrations: Elephants

Eye Wonder: Horse

Usborne First Book of Nature “Wild Animalsâ€

Giraffes at Home

Horses (Gail Gibbons)

Little Bull: Growing Up in Africa’s Elephant Kingdom

Baby Elephant (All Aboard Science Reader)

Milk: From Cow to Carton

Wild Ponies (Arnosky)

Moose Baby

Grandfather Buffalo

Giraffes (Bobbie Kalman)

Elephant Families (Let's Read and Find Out)

Eye Wonder: Whales and Dolphins

I Didn’t Know Whales Could Talk

Dolphin Talk

Baby Whales Drink Milk

Whales (Gail Gibbons)

Big Blue Whale (Read and Wonder)

An Ocean World (Peter Sis)

Baby Otter (All Aboard Science Reader)

Magic Tree House Research Guide Dolphins and Sharks

Slow Down for Manatees

Dolphins on the Sand

Manatee Morning

Otters Under Water

Who Grows Up in the Ocean

Great Whales

Sea Otters (Bobbie Kalman)

Magic School Bus Goes to Seed

Magic School Bus Gets Planted

How Flowers Grow

Reason for a Flower

Seeds

A Dandelion’s Life

O Say Can You Seed

I Can Name 50 Trees Today

Plants in Winter

First Book of Nature “Trees†and “Flowers,â€

I Wonder Why Some Plants Don’t Have Leaves, flower cards/ identification

A Seed Is Sleepy

A Tree Is a Plant

Be a Friend to Trees

Seeds By Wind and Water

Tell Me Tree (Gail Gibbons)

From Seed to Plant (Gail Gibbons)

The Reason for a Flower

From Flower to Flower: Animals and Pollination

Seeds Pop, Stick and Glide

Who Eats What?

What Are Camouflage and Mimicry

What Color Is Camouflage?

Food Webs (Bobbie Kalman)

A Skeleton Inside You

Eye Wonder: Human Body

You Can’t Make a Move without Your Muscles

Magic School Bus Muscled Up

A Drop of Blood

Flip Flap Body Book

What Happens To a Hamburger?

Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie

Magic School Bus Gets Eaten

Germs Make Me Sick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What Is a Bat?

[tammyw]

This is great - thank you! We're studying biology this year :)

[Terabith]

Here's some lit: I'm copying and pasting. The asteriks are just what I've read aloud lately. This was my kindergarten list. It doesn't include chapter books. I can post more, but I'm starting to feel really freakish...... It's the kind of thing I like, having a list and just requesting books from the library a few dozen at a time, but I don't think many people are like me in that regard.

 

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom*

The Little _____ Animal Books*

Big Green Pocketbook

Angus Lost (and other Angus books)

Play with Me

Katy No Pocket*

The Red Carpet*

Where the Wild Things Are*

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble*

Amos and Boris*

Doctor Desoto

Pete’s a Pizza

A Chair for My Mother and sequels

Madeleine books

Curious George books

The Snowy Day and other books by Peter Keats

There’s an Alligator Under My Bed

Frances Books

Stellaluna and other books by author*

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Katy and the Big Snow*

Maybelle the Cable Car

The Little House*

Crictor*

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

Caps for Sale*

Leo the Late Bloomer

Quiltmaker’s Gift* and Journey*

Blueberries for Sal

One Morning in Maine

Make Way for Ducklings

Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present

Courduroy books

Maple Hill Farm*

New Toes for Tia

The Gods Must Be Angry*

Beatrix Potter books*

Dr. Seuss books*

Miss Nelson Is Missing

Golden Book collections

Berenstein Bears Book of Science and Nature*

Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?*

What’s Smaller than a Pygmy Shrew?*

How Do You Lift a Lion*

People (Peter Spier)

Why Do Tigers Have Stripes?

Then and Now

How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World

Kevin Henkes books (Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse; Julius the Baby of the World;

Wemberly Worried, etc)

Millions of Cats

Mrs. McGosh Hangs Up the Wash

To Market, To Market*

Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present

Pretzel

Uncle Wiggly’s Story Book

Beatrix Potter books*

Dr. Seuss books*

Molly Milly Mandy

In Grandma’s Attic

Usborne Stories from Around the World*

Lion Storyteller Book*

Five True Dog Stories*

Hidden Tales from Eastern Europe

Classic Brer Rabbit

Living Alphabet

LMNOP and All the Letters A to Z*

Animal Alphabet

Animalia

Eric Carle’s A to Z

Alphabet City

Shiver Me Letters

I Spy

A Was Once an Apple Pie

Museum ABC’s

Charley Hopper’s ABC’s

The Handmade Alphabet

The Butterfly Alphabet

Into the A, B, Seas

B is for Bethlehem

Alligator Arrived with Apples

Alphabet Times Four

Anno’s Alphabet

A Gull’s Alphabet

Many Nations: An Alphabet of Native America

The Extinct Alphabet Book

Z Is for Zookeeper

A Fabulous Fair’s Alphabet

Barn Cat

The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree

The Story About Ping

Lentil*

A Pair of Red Clogs

The Rag Coat*

The Glorious Flight*

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World

Grandfather’s Journey

Cranberry Thanksgiving*

Another Celebrated Dancing Bear*

Papa Piccolo*

Storm in the Night

The Very Last First Time

Night of the Moonjellies*

Clown of God*

Wee Gillis

Story of Ferdinand*

Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening

Owl Moon

A New Coat for Anna

Mrs. Katz and Tush

Mirette on the High Wire (and sequels)

Miss Rumphius

Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge*

When I Was Young in the Mountains

Truman’s Aunt Farm

The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar*

Paul Revere’s Ride

Follow the Drinking Gourd*

The Finest Horse in Town

The Salamander Room

Climbing Kansas Mountains

Amber on the Mountain

Daniel’s Duck

Down, Down the Mountain

Gramma’s Walk

Roxaboxen

The Raft*

Mailing May

Snowflake Bentley

The Gullywasher

Arabella

Higgins Bend Song and Dance

Cowboy Charlie

Grass Sandals

Albert

The Hickory Chair*

Hanna’s Cold Winter

The Hatmaker’s Sign Retold

The Pumpkin Runner*

Angelo

Three Billy Goats Gruff*

Jack and the Bean Stalk (Spirin, Cech)

The Selfish Giant

Rapunzel* (Zelinsky)

The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids*

Rumplestilskin* (Zelinsky)

Little Red Cap (Hyman, Zwerger)

Little Red Riding Hood (Marshall, Pinkney, Ruby by Emberley, Bridget of the Gray

Wolves, No Dinner!, Adventures of Polly and the Wolf)

Mother Holly (Watts)

East of the Sun and West of the Moon*

Golden Goose (Dennis McDermott, Uri Schulevitz)

Snow White and Rose Red

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (Santore, Barett, Hyman, Jeffers)

Hansel and Gretel (Zelinsky, Zwerger, Jeffers)

Brother and Sister

Jorinda and Joringal

Lazy Jack

Mortimer

Little Rooster and the Diamond Button

Old Woman and Her Pig

Old Woman and the Red Pumpkin

Sody Sallyratus

Lon Po Po

Rough Faced Girl*

Persian Cinderella

Cinderella

12 Dancing Princesses*

Snow Queen

Fisherman and His Wife

Sleeping Beauty*

Dear Mili*

The Bear and the Kingbird*

The King’s Equal*

McBroom’s Wonderful One Acre Farm*

The Donkey Prince

Clever Kate*

The Juniper Tree

Frog Prince*

Beauty and the Beast

Little Mermaid

Magic Porridge Pot (Paul Galdone)

The Shoemaker and His Elves (Watts, Cech, Plume

The Little Match Girl (Isadora, Pinkney)

Iron John (Hyman, Marianna Myer)*

Tom Thumb (Richard Watson, Craft, Mayer)

Princess and the Pea (Cech, Oberdieck)

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Marshall)

Goldilocks and the Three Hares

Guarnaccia

The Ugly Duckling (Watts, Meilo So, Canley, Pinkney, Hale, Pirkko, Vanio)

The Rainbabies

Bearskin (Hyman)*

King Stork (Hyman)*

Water of Life (Hyman)*

Pegasus (K. Y. Craft)*

King Midas (Craft)*

Thumbelina (Zwerger, Ehrlich, Lauren Mills)

The Princess and the White Bear King*

The Wild Swans

The Emperor and the Nightingale

King Long Shanks

Little Claus and Big Claus

The Woman with the Eggs

 

Fairy Tale Collections (Jane Ray, Zwerger, Szyk, Eric Carle)

 

Fin M’Coul (Tomie DePaola)*

Baba Yaga and Vasilia the Brave*

The Wild Swans (Ehrlich, Lewis, Gilbert)

The Valiant Little Tailor (Victor Ambrus)

The Steadfast Tin Soldier (P.J. Lynch)

Emperor’s New Clothes (Virginia Lee Burton, John Rowe)

Pied Piper of Hamelin (Kate Greenway)

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters*

In the Land of Small Dragon

The Princess and the Snake/ Sea Serpant

Yeh-Shen

Firebird and Prince Ivan*

Vasilia and Her Doll*

The Snake Prince (under words/ phrase, not title – part of a collection)

The Princess in the Tower

Jumping Mouse

Mud Pony/ Horse

Sootface (Cinderella story)

The Calabash Cat*

Bearskin*

Goose Girl

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Silkie*

The Twelve Swans

The Seven Ravens*

The Water of Life (Rogasky/ Hyman?)

Two Brothers and their Magic Gourds

Three Little Pigs and the Fox

Three Little Javalinas

Cinder Edna

Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella

The Princess and the Goblin

A Three Hat Day

The Monkey Bridge

The Brave Little Parrot

The Fortune Tellers

Days of the Blackbird

Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato

Abiyoyo

The Book of Dragons

The Golden Sandal

The Cat’s Vacation

A Ride on the Red Mare’s Back

Honk the Moose

Peter Sis books (especially Madelinka, but all are wonderful)

Uri Shulevitz books (Snow, The Treasure*, Dawn, Fool of the World and the Flying

Ship, How I Learned Geography*)

What Mary Jo Shared*

The House in the Night*

Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot Air Balloon Ride*

Coming on Home Soon*

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus* (and other Don’t Let the Pigeon books)

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins*

Joseph Had a Little Overcoat *

Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince*

Golem*

Smoky Night*

Time Flies*

Pepe the Lamplighter*

The Talking Eggs*

Look to the North*

Flute’s Journey*

Mirandy and Brother Wind*

Village of Round and Square Houses*

The Relatives Came*

King Bigood’s in the Bathtub*

The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher*

Ben’s Trumpet

The Desert Is Theirs*

Duffy and the Devil*

Hildild’s Night*

If All the Seas Were One Sea*

Soft House*

Grandma’s Hurrying Child*

Hoptoad*

Harvest Home*

The Lion and the Mouse (Pinkney)*

All the World*

Red Sings from the Treetops*

Zelda and Ivy*

Fiona Loves the Night*

Jazz Baby*

Vulture View*

Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator*

One Boy*

Benny and Penny In the Big No-No!*

Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg and Three Cups of Tea*

My Abuelita*

Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day*

A Tree Is Nice*

The Moon Jumpers*

Charlotte Zolotow books*

Sing to the Stars*

A Pocketful of Cricket*

Island Boy*

Not So Fast, Songolo*

Now One Foot, Now the Other*

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge*

Wombat Divine*

Presenting Tanya the Ugly Duckling*

Christina Katerina and the Box*

The Friday Nights of Nana*

A Band of Angels*

Birdie’s Lighthouse*

The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree*

Miss Fannie’s Hat*

The Lot at the End of My Block*

Davy’s Dream: A Young Boy’s Adventure with Wild Orca Whales*

Those Can-Do Pigs*

Granddaddy’s Gift*

Dear Benajamin Banneker*

A Day’s Work*

Eve Bunting books

Molly Bannaky*

Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine*

Cranberry Christmas, etc*

Tom Tit Tot An English Folk Tale*

All the Way Home

The Whispering Cloth*

The Journey (Sarah Stewart)*

The Library (Sarah Stewart)*

Do Not Open*

Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies*

Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch*

Corgiville Fair*

Stringbean’s Trip to the Shining Sea*

Flossie and the Fox*

The Honest to Goodness Truth*

Officer Buckle and Gloria*

The Great Gracie Chase: Stop that Dog!*

The Signmaker’s Assistant*

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs*

Olivia*

Bill Peet books (Bufford, the Little Bighorn; Caboose Who Got Loose; Kermit the Hermit)

Gilberto and the Wind*

Where Does the Butterfly Go When It Rains*

Ted Lewin books

Henry Hikes to Fitchburg*

The Bear That Heard Crying*

A Farm of Her Own*

Dancers in the Garden*

Waterman’s Child*

Aurora Means Dawn*

The Big, Big Sea*

Before and After (Jan Thornhill)*

Letting Swift River Go*

The Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks*

Dick Whittington and His Cat*

The King at the Door*

Buttons*

[Terabith]

Part 2:

 

The Log Cabin Quilt

Rip Van Winkle (Will Moses)

Come Sunday*

Pegasus, the Flying Horse*

Raising Yoder’s Barn*

Miz Berlin Walks*

The Orange Shoes*

Robert Wells books (How Do You Know What Time It Is; What’s Faster than a Cheetah;

What’s Older than a Giant Tortoise; Polar Bear Why Is Your World Melting; Did a

Dinosaur Drink This Water; What’s So Special About Planet Earth; Why Do

Elephants Need the Sun?;

Frog and Toad books

Patricia Polacco books*

Tommy DePaola books (Strega Nona; Finn M’Coul*; Legend books)

Gerald McDermott books (Jabuti, etc)

Cynthia Rylant books*

American Tall Tales (Mary Pope Osborne)

Rain Makes Applesauce*

Thy Friend, Obadiah*

Chanticleer and the Fox

St. George and the Dragon*

Zin Zin Zin a Violin*

The Bat Boy and His Violin

You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer*The Quest to Digest

Loud Emily*

Six Dinner Sid*

The Grannyman

Leonardo’s Horse*

Mama Played Baseball*

Loop the Loop*

Marie in Fourth Position*

The Cello of Mr. O*

Sweet Clara and Her Freedom Quilt (and sequel)*

Three Cheers for Catherine the Great*

My Great Aunt Arizona*

How Pizza Came to Queens

I Know Why I Brush My Teeth

Uncle Jed’s Barber Shop

Amazing Grace*

Rattletrap Car*

The Hello, Goodbye Window*

Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie

Ox Cart Man and sequel

How the Ladies Stopped the Wind*

The Problem with Chickens*

Sayonara, Mrs. Kackleman*

Mommy, Carry Me Please*

Elizabeti’s Doll*

Fannie in the Kitchen*

Jan Brett books

Gershon’s Monster

How Nanita Learned to Make Flan*

The Egg (M. P. Robertson)

Kim Lewis books

Emma and the Night Dogs

Seneca (by Karen Baker)

Just Us Women*

Harriet and the Roller Coaster*

Archaeologists Dig for Clues

Grandmother’s Pigeon*

When Agnes Caws*

Blackberry Booties*

Maria’s Comet

When Sophie Gets Angry, Really Really Angry

Pancakes for Supper

Sophie Skates*

Night of the Goat Children*

Nessa’s Fish*

Swish (Bill Martin)*

Beautiful Warrior: the Legend of the Nun's Kung Fu

Hog-Eye*

Raising Dragons*

Peg and the Whale*

Mrs. Mack*

Beware the Brindlebeast*

Tar Beach (Faith Ringgold)

Someplace Else*

A Symphony of Whales*

Bea and Mr. Jones*

The Day Gogo Went to Vote

Margauerite Makes a Book

The Widow’s Broom*

Whistling Dixie*

Painted Dreams (about Haiti)

Library Lil*

Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe*

Borreguita and the Coyote (Mexican folk tale)*

A Ride on the Red Mare’s Back*

The Girl Who Loved Caterpillars (Japanese folk tale)*

Brave Margaret (Irish story)*

Fa Mulan: The Story of a Woman Warrior*

Clever Gretchen*

Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter*

The Wave of the Sea-Wolf*

The Emperor and the Kite*

Abigail Takes the Wheel

Clipper Ship

Molly the Brave and Me*

Rare Treasure: Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries

Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa*

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach (tale from Cuba)*

A Weed Is a Flower: the Life of George Washington CarverBooks by Aliki

Mama and Papa have a Store, Carling*

Abuela’s Weave, Castaneda*

Sleeping Bread: Story, Czernecki*

Lotus Seed, Garland

Walking Stick, Trottier

Brave Charlotte*

The Bookshop Dog*

The Tale of Pale Male*

A Mother’s Journey

The Village that Vanished

Stephen Kellog books (tall tales)

Big Book of Brambly Hedge (Jill Barklem)*

The Big Snow (Berta Hader)

Church Mice books (Graham Oakley)*

The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen

The Crane Maiden

Cross Country Cat*

Rikki Tikki Tavi

Frog Band and the Onion Seller*

Luckiest One of All*

Rain, Rain Rivers*

Saint Valentine

Twenty Elephant Restaurant*

Zarafa: The Giraffe That Walked to the King*

Herbert: The True Story of a Brave Sea Dog*

My Travels with Clara*

The Reluctant Dragon*

Dewey: There’s a Cat in the Library*

The Best Beekeeper of Lalibela

Lila and the Secret of Rain

My Great-Grandmother’s Gourd*

Planting the Trees of Kenya*

Always Come Home to Me*

The Pet Dragon*

Monsoon Afternoon*

The Legend of the Persian Carpet*

Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story

A Peddler’s Dream*

My Heart Glow*

The Secret Cave: Discovering Lascaux (and other books by Emily McCully)

Katie’s Wish*

I, Vivaldi

Katie, the Windmill Cat*

Welcome Back, Sun*

Maria de Sautuola: the Bulls in the Cave (and others by Dennis Fradin)*

Isabel Saves the Prince*

Mary of Mile 18*

Floss

Uncle Blue’s New Boat

Elsa Beskow’s books

The King of Ireland’s Son

The Magic Gourd

A Day on Skates

Bimwili and the Zimwi*

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain*

Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali*

The Fortune Tellers*

The Magic Gourd

Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky*

Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Supper*

The Spider Weaver*

Peaceful Protest: The Life of Nelson Mandela*

A Is for Africa*

Jambo Means Hello*

The Village of Round and Square Houses*

14 Cows for America*

I Lost My Tooth in Africa*

Ogbo: Sharing Life in an African Village*

Emeka’s Gift*

The Gift of the Sun (tale from South Africa)*

Mama Panya’s Pancakes (tale from Kenya)*

For You Are a Kenyan Child (about Kenya)

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters

Wangari’s Trees of Peace*

Come with Me to Africa

Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion

How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots

Anansi stories

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Sailing off to Sleep*

Akiak*

The Raven’s Gift*

Snow Bear*

Iditarod Dream*

The Very Last First Time

Pumpkin Runner, Arnold

Where the Forest Meets the Sea, Baker

Katy No Pocket

Polly Hopper’s Pouch

Wombat Stew

Bright Star, Crew*

Dial-a-Croc, Dumbleton

Flood Fish, Eversole

Possum Magic and Koala Lou, Fox

Wombat Walkabout, Morpurgo

Farmer Schulz’s Ducks, Thiele

Wombat Stew, Vaughan

Biggest Frog in Australia *

Old Woman Who Loved to Read, Winch*

The Gift Stone – Eversoul*

Ruby’s Wish, Bridges*

Visit to China, Packard

Chinese New Year, Schaefer*

Chinatown, Low

My Chinatown: One Year in Poems, Mak

The Runaway Rice Cake*

The Empty Pot

Liang and the Magic Paintbrush*

The Chinese Mirror

The Story about Ping*

Tikki Tikki Tembo*

Two of Everything*

The Emperor and the Kite

Beautiful Warrior: Legend of the Nun’s Kung Fu* (China unit)

Little Pear*

A Grain of Rice*

Granny Han’s Breakfast

Five Chinese Brothers*

Lon Po Po

Maples in the Mist

Always Come Home to Me

Long Long’s New Year

Chibi, a True Story from Japan*

The Funny Little Woman

The Paper Dragon*

Sayonara, Mrs. Kackleman*

Shibumi and the Kitemaker*

The Two Bullies*

The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks*

The Boy of the Three Year Nap*

Tasty Baby Belly Buttons*

The Magic Fan, Baker

Crane Girl, Charles*

How My Parents Learned to Eat, Friedman *

Ten Oni Drummers, Gollub*

Yoshi’s Feast, Kajikawa*

Carp for Kimiko, Kroll*

Seven Gods of Luck, Kudler

Dragon Kite, Luenn*

Emperor’s Plum Tree, Nikly*

Tea with Milk, Say*

Long Silk Strand, Williams*

Grandfather’s Journey

Emma’s Rag

Allison

Bicycle Man*

Three Samurai Cats

The Monkey and the Crocodile

Story of Little Babaji, Bannerman

Cow for Jaya, Grant

Baya, Baya, Lulla-by-a, McDonald

Gay-Neck: Story of a Pigeon, Mukerji

Nine Animals and the Well, Rumford

Once a Mouse

Savitri: A Tale of Ancient India

Monsoon Afternoon

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Big Tony, Clown of God, and other dePaola books

Angelo

Papa Piccolo

I, Vivaldi

Mexico ABC’s

Nine Days to Christmas, Ets*

Under the Lemon Moon, Fine*

*How Nanita Learned to Make Flan, Geeslin

On Ramon’s Farm, Geeslin*

*Day of the Dead, Johnston

Ghost Wings, Joosse*

Piggy Bank Gonzales, Kent*

Butterfly Boy, Kroll*

Hill of Fire, Lewis

Erandi’s Braids, Madrigal

Mice and Beans, Ryan*

The Legend of the Poinsettia*

The Three Princes

The House of Wisdom

The Day of Ahmed’s Secret

What’s the Matter, Habibi?

We’re Riding on a Caravan

Sitti’s Secrets

The Boy without a Name

Forty Fortunes

Traveling Man

The Hundredth Name

Nasreen’s Secret School

The Librarian of Basra

Babushka Babayaga, Polacco*

Philipok, Tolstoy

Three Cheers for Catherine the Great*

Trees of the Dancing Goats, Polacco

Uncle Vova’s Tree, Polacco*

Dream Jar, Pryor

Twenty-two Russian Tales for Young Children, Tolstoy

Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave (Mayer)*

Baba Yaga

The Magic Nesting Doll*

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship*

The Little Humpbacked Horse

The Firebird*

The Sea King’s Daughter

Bearhead*

The Castle of a Thousand Cats

One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes*

The Birds Gift

Clever Katya*

Another Celebrated Dancing Bear

The Raven’s Gift: A True Story from Greenland*

Eric the Red: Viking Adventurer

Welcome Back, Sun!

East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon

The Problem with Chickens

How the Ladies Stopped the Wind

The Beautiful Butterfly

The Story of Ferdinand

Pepito the Brave

Born with a Bang (not in library)

From Lava to Life

Mammals Who Morph (not in library)

[Mert]

LOVE the history list in chronological order!! I'm already comparing it with my library and making my Amazon wish list. Thank you!! :D

[Sahamamama]

D'Aulaire biography set (available from Rainbow Resource or Beautiful Feet)

David Adler's A Picture Book of ....... series (e.g., Christopher Columbus, Davy Crockett, Abraham Lincoln)

My First Little House books series

[swainsonshawk]

terabith,

 

do you have any other book lists? I'm taking notes (okay, I'm copying and pasting, but it's the same thing.)

 

Thanks,

Becky

[yucabird]

Terabith, thank you for posting your lists. There are no proper libraries or bookshops here, so ordering is necessary. I am so pleased with the recommendations from everyone which will help me expand our current book collection.

[Mothersweets]

terabith - thank you! Wonderful lists!!

[Terabith]

I do have some other booklists.....they aren't quite as well fleshed out as my American history one. Before you order some, look at them on amazon. Some of them were nice to read from the library, but definitely not worth purchasing, imo.

 

I have a not as well fleshed out one for Ancients and one for earth science/ astronomy. And I have my 1st/ 2nd grade list, that has more chapter book read alouds, although we kept plugging away on the kindergarten picture books. It's been a multi year thing, especially since we keep rereading.

 

I also have my list of books for my kids to read to themselves.

[bpskowski]

Wow! I mean WOW! I love book lists. Thanks so much for sharing. I would be interested in your earth science/astronomy list. I'm also "taking notes.";)