Favorite Predictable Books for Building Reading Enthusiasm, Independence, and Stamina: More Kindergarten Classics!
selected by Nellie Edge with a request: Please give beginning readers real books!
No, David!
by David Shannon. Scholastic, Inc., 1998.
I Love You Sun / I Love You Moon: Te amo Sol / Te amo Luna (Spanish and English Edition)
by Karen Pandell. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994.
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
by Simms Taback. Viking Press, 1997.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
by Bill Martin Jr. Harcourt Brace, 1970. (The Original version with words and pictures matching.)
Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book
by Rod Campbell. Little Simon, 1982.
The Lady with the Alligator Purse
adapted by Nadine Westcott. Little Brown and Company, 1988.
Tough Boris
by Mem Fox. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1994.
Cat on the Mat
by Brian Wildsmith. Oxford University Press, 2001.
Quick as a Cricket
by Audrey and Don Wood. Child’s Play International, 1982
The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss. Random House, 1957.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle. Collins World, 1989.
Teeny Tiny
by Jill Bennett. Putnam Juvenile, 1986.