The 2008 Summer Reading List has a variety of books for all ages. Summer is a wonderful time to read good stories with your children. We encourage you to use this list as a starting point and to give your child the opportunity to select titles of interest. The goal is to foster a love for literature and to make reading a pleasurable experience for you and your child.

Infant and Toddler

Beetle Bop     Denise Fleming
Joshua  the Sea    Angela Johnson
Knuffle Bunny Too    Mo Willems
My Cat Copies Me    Yoon-duck Kwon
A Dog Needs a Bone!    Audrey Wood
The Shopping Expedition    Allan Ahlberg and Andre Amstutz
First the Egg    Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Winter Lulla    Barbara Seuling
Has Anyone Seen My Emily Greene?    Norma Fox Mazer
Blue Hat Green Hat    Sandra Boynton
Rainy Day!    Patricia Lakin
A Drop of Rain    Wong Herbert Yee
Wiggle    Doreen Cronin
The Little Red Hen    Jerry Pinkney
Three Snow Bears    Jan Brett
Cowlick    Christen Ditchfield
The Beastly Feast    Bruce Goldstone
Together    Jane Simmons
I Lost my Dad    Taro Gomi
A Perfect Day    Remy Charlip
Nini Here and There    Anita Lobel
Chicken Bedtime is Really Early    Erica Perl

Preschool

Leonardo the Terrible Monster    Mo Willems
Henry Works    D.B. Johnson
Small Sister    Jessica Meserve
On Meadowview Street    Henry Cole
Diary of a Fly    Doreen Cronin
Hello Fish! Visiting the Coral Reef    Sylvia A. Earle
Once Upon a Banana    Jennifer Armstrong
Princess and the Pea    Rachel Isadora
What the Sea Saw    Stephanie St. Pierre
Little Lost Bat    Sandra Markle
Gruffalo    Julia Donaldson
Uno’s Garden    Graeme Base
A Beautiful Girl    Amy Schwartz
Five Nice Mice    Chisato Tashiro
Max Moves to Moscow    Winifred Riser
Henry the Dog with No Tail    Kate Feiffer
Schnitzel von Krumm Dogs Never Climb Trees    Lynley Dodd
Little Donkey and the Birthday Present    Rindert Kromhout
Mr. Pusskins: a love story    Sam Lloyd
A Strange Day    Iris van der Heide
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!    Candace Fleming
Friends for All Seasons    Geraldine Elschner

Older Picture Books

That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown    Cressida Cowell
Epossumondas Saves the Day    Coleen Salley
J. A. Teddy    John A. Rowe
Fritz’s Fish    Geraldine Elschner
Daffodil Crocodile    Emily Jenkins
Ninety-Three in my Family    Erica Perl
Sophie’s Dance      Knister illus.    Mandy Schlundt
Mrs. Crump’s Cat    Linda Smith
The Fantastic Drawings of Danielle    Barbara McClintock
Martha    Gennady Spirin
The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo    Judy Blume
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers    Mordicai Gerstein
Brave Ben    Mathilde Stein
Pip’s Magic    Ellen Stoll Walsh
The Secrets of Animal Flight    Nic Bishop
Ella’s Big Chance: a Jazz-Age Cinderella    Shirley Hughes
Conejito: a Folktale from Panama    Margaret Read MacDonald
The Boy Who Was Raised  by Librarians     Carla Morris
In Aunt Giraffe’s Green Garden    Jack Prelutsky
Flamingos on the Roof     Calef Brown
Sparks Fly High    Mary Quattlebaum
Ginger and Petunia    Patricia Polacco
Aesop’s Fables selected and illus.    Lisbeth Zwerger
Max’s Magic Seeds    Geraldine Elschner

Easy Reads/Early Chapter

Super Fly Guy    Tedd Arnold
Big Pig and Little Pig    David McPhail
Minnie and Moo series    Denys Cazet
Iris and Walter series    Elissa Haden Guest
Amanda Pig series    Jean Van Leeuwen
Tiny Goes to the Library    Cari Meister
Happy Birthday Good Knight    Shelley Moore Thomas
Hairy Maclary’s Bone    Lynley Dodd
Today I Will Fly    Mo Willems
Barney’s Horse    Syd Hoff
Great Snakes!    Fay Robinson
Little Chick’s Friend Duckling     Mary DeBall Kwitz
Pizza Party!    Grace Maccarone
Wonders of America    Marion Dane Bauer
Turtle and Snake’s Day at the Beach    Kate Spohn
Jackie Robinson and the Big Game    Dan Gutman
Scat Cats!    Joan Holub
Lucky Duck     Ellen Weiss
Bugs!    Patricia and Fredrick McKissack

Transitional Readers

Anastasia Poppleton series    Cynthia Rylant
Mercy Watson series    Kate DiCamillo
Young Cam Jansen series    David Adler
Junie B. Jones series    Barbara Park
Boxcar Children series    Gertrude Warner
Amelia Bedelia: Rocket Scientist    Peggy Parish
Henry and Mudge and the Tumbling Trip    Cynthia Rylant
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa series    Erica Silverman
Breakout at the Bug Lab    Ruth Horowitz
Amazing Snakes    Sarah Thomson
Aunt Eater’s Mystery Vacation    Doug Cushman
Second Grade Rules and  Amber Brown    Paula Danziger
Four on the Shore    Edward Marshall
Owl at Home    Arnold Lobel
Winking Blinking Wiggling and Waggling    Brian Moses
Why Do Birds Sing?    Joan Holub
Planets! (Time for Kids series)    Lisa Jo Rudy
Ant Plays Bear    Betsy Byars
Nate the Great series    Marjorie Sharmat
Oliver and Albert Friends Forever    Jean Van Leeuwen
Lin-Lin and the Gulls    Laura Appleton-Smith
Zelda and Ivy series    Laura McGee Kvasnosky
DK Readers
Keeker and the Pony Camp Catastrophe    Hadley Higginson
The Class Trip from the Black Lagoon series    Mike Thaler

Independent Readers

How to be Cool in Third Grade    Betsy Duffey
Geronimo Stilton series
The Year of the Panda    Miriam Schlein
Dear Mr. Henshaw    Beverly Cleary
The Trumpet of the Swan    E.B. White
The Tale of Despereaux    Kate DiCamillo
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane    Kate DiCamillo
The Report Card     Andrew Clements
Ginger Pye    Eleanor Estes
Henry Huggins    Beverly Cleary
Ramona the Pest    Beverly Cleary
James and the Giant Peach    Roald Dahl
The Family Under the Bridge    Natalie Savage Carlson
Make Your Own Adventure series
Poppy    Avi
Frindle    Andrew Clements
Hatching Magic    Ann Downer
The Spiderwick series    Tony Diterlizzi
My Side of the Mountain    Jean Craighead George
Hatchet    Gary Paulsen
Dear America series
My America series
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village    Laura Schlitz
Bud Not Buddy     Christopher Paul Curtis
The True Confessions of Charlotte Dowle    Avi