Recommended Reading Concept Books

for Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten

(Selections for Adult reading to Child)

COLORS

Title

/ Author
Brown Cow, Green Grass, Yellow Mellow Sun / Jackson, Ellen
Color Zoo / Ehlert, Lois
Colors Of the Day / Brag, Ruth
Little Blue and Little Yellow / Lionni, Leo
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present / Zolotow, Charlotte

Paddington’s Colors

/ Bond, Michael
The Great Blueness and Other Predicaments / Lobel, Arnold
Winnie-the-Pooh’s Colors / Milne, A.A.

TIME - GENERAL

Title

/ Author
Clocks and More Clocks / Hutchins, Pat
It’s About Time / Schlein, Miriam
Monster Goes to School / Mueller, Virginia
Now, Soon, Later / Grunwald, Lisa
Telling Time With Big Mama Cat / Harper, Dan
Time To . . . / McMillan, Bruce
TIME – DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS
Title
/

Author

A Busy Year / Lionni, Leo
A Year For Kiko / Wolff, Ferida
Chicken Soup With Rice / Sendak, Maurice
Goodnight Moon / Brown, Margaret Wise
In the Middle of the Night / Fisher, Aileen
Jump For Joy / Halsey, Megan
May I Bring a Friend? / DeRegneirs
October Smiled Back / Peters, Lisa W.
One Monday Morning / Shulevitz, Uri
The Turning of the Year / Martin, Bill
Wake Up and Goodnight / Zolotow, Charlotte
What Makes Day and Night / Branley, Franklyn
When This Box Is Full / Lillie, Patricia

SEASONS - GENERAL

Title

/

Author

Apple Valley Year / Turner, Ann
Can’t Sit Still / Lotz, Karen
Caps, Hats, Socks, and Mittens / Borden, Louise
Circle Of Seasons / Muller, Gerda
Frederick / Lionni, Leo
It’s Time Now / Tresselt, Alvin
Molly’s Seasons / Kandoian, Ellen
Over and Over / Zolotow, Charlotte
Seasons / Burningham, John
The Easter Bunny That Overslept / Friedrich, Priscilla
The Little Island / MacDonald, Golden
SEASONS – SPRING

Title

/ Author
Happy Day / Krauss, Ruth
In a SpringGarden / Lewis, Richard
In the Spring / Brown, Craig M.
Jennie’s Hat / Keats, Ezra Jack
Song of the Swallows / Politi, Leo
Spring Is Like the Morning / Craig, M. Jean
Springtime / Schweninger, Ann
Up, Up the Mountain / Fisher, Aileen

What Happens In the Spring

/ Beer, Kathleen Costello
SEASONS - SUMMER
Title
/
Author
Butterfly Time / Goudey, Alice
Letter To the Lake / Swanson, Susan Marie
One Hot Summer Day / Crews, Nina
Summer Is / Zolotow, Charlotte
SEASONS – FALL

Title

/

Author

Animals In the Snow / Brown, Margaret Wise
Autumn Harvest / Tresselt, Alvin
Every Autumn Comes the Bear / Arnosky, Jim
Snowballs / Ehlert, Lois
The Yellow Leaf / Terani, Hasan
When Autumn Comes / Fox, Charles P.
SEASONS - WINTER

Title

/

Author

Henry the Explorer / Taylor, Mark
Katy and the Big Snow / Burton, Virginia L.
Snow / McKie, Roy
Snow / Sanfield Steve
Snow Is Falling / Branley, Franklyn
The Big Snow / Hader, Berta
The Snowy Day / Keats, Ezra Jack
The Tomten / Lindgren, Astrid
White Snow, Bright Snow / Tresslet, Alvin
Winter Noisy Book / Brown, Margaret Wise
NUMBERS

Title

/

Author

1 2 3, A First Counting Book / Allen, Robert
1 Is One / Tudor, Tasha
12 Ways To Get To 11 / Merriam, Eve
Circus Numbers / Peppe, Rodney
Count and See / Hoban, Tana
Count On Clifford / Bridwell, Norman
Count! / Fleming, Denise
Dancing In the Moon / Eichenberg, Fritz
Fish Eyes / Ehlert, Lois
Millions of Cats / Gag, Wanda
Moo Moo Brown Cow / Wood, Jakki
Mouse Count / Walsh, Ellen Stoll
Numbers / Reiss, John
One Guinea Pig Is Not Enough / Duke, Kate
One Snail and Me / McLeod, Emilie
One Was Johnny / Sendak, Maurice
One WideRiver To Cross / Emberley, Barbara
Over In the Meadow / Langstaff, John
Paddington’s 1 2 3 / Bond, Michael
Teddy Bears 1 To 10 / Gretz, Susanna
Ten Black Dots / Crews, Donald
Ten, Nine, Eight / Bang, Molly
SHAPES

Title

/

Author

A Kiss Is Round / Budney, Blossum
Are You Square? / Kessler, Ethel
Circles, Triangles, and Squares / Hoban, Tana
It Looked Like Spilt Milk / Shaw, Charles G.
Red Bear’s Fun With Shapes / Rikys, Bodel
Shapes / Schlein, Miriam
Shapes and Things / Hoban, Tana
Shapes To Show / Gundersheimer, Karen
Snail, Where Are You? / Ungerer, Tomi
So Many Circles, So Many Squares / Hoban, Tana
The Wing On the Flea / Emberley, Ed
When a Line Bends, a Shape Begins / Greene, Rhonda Gowler
SIZES

Title

/

Author

Big and Little / Miller, Margaret
BlueSea / Kalan, Robert
How Big Is a Foot? / Myllar, Rolf
I Know a Lot Of Things / Rand, Ann
Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? / Wells, Robert E.
The Best Bug Parade / Murphy, Stuart J.
The Great Big Enormous Turnip / Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich
The Little House / Burton, Virginia Lee
The Very Little Boy / Krasilovsky, Phyllis
What Size? / MacKinnon, Debbie
LANGUAGE – ALPHABET BOOKS

Title

/

Author

A Is For Annabelle / Tudor, Tasha
ABC / Wildsmmith, Brian
Alison’s Zinnia / Lobel, Anita
Alligators All Around / Sendak, Maurice
Clifford’s A B C / Bridwell, Norman
Curious George Learns the Alphabet / Rey, H.A.
Dr. Seuss’ A B C / Seuss, Dr.
Eating the Alphabet / Ehlert, Lois
Harold’s A B C / Johnson, Crockett
Helen Oxenbury’s ABC Of Things / Oxenbury, Helen
John Burningham’s ABC / Burningham, John
Old Black Fly / Aylesworth, Jim
The Accidental Zucchini / Grover, Max
The Hullabaloo ABC / Cleary, Beverly
We Read: A To Z / Crews, Donald
Winnie-the-Pooh’s A B C / Shepard, Ernest H.
LANGUAGE - SUPERLATIVES

Title

/

Author

The Things That Are Most In the World / Barrett, Judi
The Loudest Noise In the Whole World / Elkin, Benjamin
Millions Of Cats / Gag, Wanda
Biggest, Strongest, Fastest / Jenkins, Steve
The Biggest House In the World / Lionni, Leo
Close, Closer, Closest / Rotner, Shelley and Richard F. Olivo
The Biggest Bear / Ward, Lynd
Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? / Wells, Robert E.
LANGUAGE - WORDS

Title

/

Author

A Hole Is To Dig / Krauss, Ruth
Arthur’s Really Helpful Word Book / Brown, Marc
Can You Guess? / Miller, Margaret
Curious Kids Go To Preschool / Antoine, Heloise
How Far Is Far? / Tresselt, Alvin
Inside, Outside, Upside Down / Berenstain, Stan and Jan
My First Word Book / Wilkes, Angela
Push, Pull, Empty, Full / Hoban, Tana
Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever / Scarry, Richard
Rosie’s Walk / Hutchins, Pat
What We Like / Rockwell, Anne
SENSES - GENERAL

Title

/

Author

Do You Know What I Know? / Borten, Helen
First Delights / Tudor, Tasha
My Five Senses / Aliki
My Five Senses / Miller, Margaret
Sense Suspense / McMillan, Bruce
What Do You See When You Shut Your Eyes? / Zarin, Cynthia
SENSES - SIGHT

Title

/

Author

Caps For Sale / Slobodkina, Esphyr
Hide and Seek Fog / Tresselt, Alvin
I See / Isadora, Rachel
Nothing Ever Happens On My Block / Raskin, Ellen
Out Of Sight! Out of Mind! / Lapointe, Claude
Spectacles / Raskin, Ellen
We Went Looking / Fisher, Aileen
Where’s Wallace? / Knight, Hilary
Who Took the Farmer’s Hat? / Nodset, Joan

SENSES - HEARING

Title

/

Author

Angus and the Ducks / Flack, Marjorie
Country Noisy Book / Brown, Margaret Wise
Drummer Hoff / Emberley, Barbara
Loud Emily / O’Neill, Alexis
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? / Seuss, Dr.
Noisy Nancy and Nick / Gaeddert, LouAnn
Noisy Nancy Norris / Gaeddert, LouAnn
Quiet! There’s a Canary In the Library / Freeman, Don
SHHHhhhh……Bang / Brown, Margaret Wise
Splish Splash, Bang Crash! / Gundersheimer, Karen
The Listening Walk / Showers, Paul
The Loudest Noise In the World / Elkin, Benjamin
Too Much Noise / McGovern, Ann

SENSES - TASTE

Title

/

Author

Blueberries For Sal / McCloskey, Robert
Bread and Jam For Frances / Hoban, Russell
Hungry Fred / Fox, Paula
Nail Soup / Zemach, Margaret
The Funny Thing / Gag, Wanda

SENSES – SMELL

Title

/ Author
Follow Your Nose / Showers, Paul
The Story Of Ferdinand / Leaf, Munro
The Trouble With Henriette / Devlin, Wende and Harry
The Unbeatable Bread / Hoopes, Lyn Littlefield

SENSES - TOUCH

Title

/

Author

Find Out By Touching / Showers, Paul
I Can Tell By Touching / Otto, Carolyn
Little Rabbit’s Bedtime / Baker, Alan
Texture / Bryant-Mole, Karen
The Snowy Day / Keats, Ezra Jack

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Concept Books (Pre-K and K) June 20061