Recent Kindergarten Favorites: Delightful Predictable Books for Building Early Reading Enthusiasm, Independence, and Stamina!
Complied by Nellie Edge with a request: Please give beginning readers real books!
Higher! Higher!
by Leslie Patricelli. (Candlewick Press, 2009)
Big Cat, Small Cat
by Ami Rubinger. (Abbeville Press, 2009)
Orange Pear Apple Bear
by Emily Gravett. (Simon and Schuster, 2007)
"Fire! Fire!" Said Mrs. McGuire
by Bill Martin, Jr. Harcourt Children’s Books, 2006.
Who Ate All the Cookie Dough?
by Karen Beaumont. Henry Holt and Company, 2008.
Llama Llama Red Pajama
by Anna Dewdney. Viking, 2005.
Monkey and Me
by Emily Gravett. (Simon and Shuster Children’s Publishing, 2008)
The Foggy, Foggy Forest
by Nick Sharratt (Candlewick Press, 2008)
Me Hungry!
by Jeremy Tankard. Walker Books, 2009. (Though not standard English, this book has strong appeal.)
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
by Mem Fox. (Harcourt Children’s Books, 2008)
Hello, Day!
by Anita Lobel (Greenwillow Books, 2008)
Rhyming Dust Bunnies
by Jan Thomas. Beach Lane Books, 2009.