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Reading aloud to young children encourages language development and a love for literature. It strengthens children's listening and speaking skills and stimulates the imagination. As children mature, reading aloud serves to reassure, entertain, inform or explain, arouse curiosity and inspire. Reading aloud is a wonderful family activity! Parents--find old favorites and discover new ones to enjoy with your children.


Age 4 - 2nd Grade

Atwater, Richard	Mr. Popper's Penguins.
Avi	Poppy.
Barrie, James	Peter Pan.
Blume, Judy	Freckle Juice.
Bond, Michael	A Bear Called Paddington.
Boston, L.M.	The Children of Green Knowe.
Brady, Esther Wood	Toliver's Secret.
Brown, Jeff	Flat Stanley.
Burnford, Sheila	The Incredible Journey.
Butterworth, Oliver	The Enormous Egg.
Cameron, Ann	The Stories Julian Tells.
Catling, Patrick	The Chocolate Touch.
Cleary, Beverly	The Mouse and the Motorcycle.
Cleary, Beverly	Ramona the Pest.
Clifford, Eth	Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library.
Coville, Bruce	The Monster's Ring.
Dahl, Roald	James and the Giant Peach.
Disch, Thomas	The Brave Little Toaster: A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances.
Du Bois, William Pene	The Twenty-One Balloons.
Edwards, Julie	The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles.
Estes, Eleanor	The Hundred Dresses.
Fenner, Carol	Snowed In with Grandmother Silk.
Gannett, Ruth	Three Tales of My Father's Dragon.
Grahame, Kenneth	The Wind in the Willows.
Hornik, Laurie Miller	The Secrets of Ms. Snickle’s Class.
Horvath, Polly	The Trolls.
Howe, Deborah	Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery.
Hurwitz, Johanna	Rip-Roaring Russell.
Ibbotson, Eva	Not Just a Witch.
Juster, Norman	The Phantom Tollbooth.
King-Smith, Dick	Lady Lollipop.
King-Smith, Dick	The Nine Lives of Aristotle.
King-Smith, Dick	The School Mouse.
Kipling, Rudyard	The Jungle Book.
Kline, Suzy	Horrible Harry in Room 2B.
Kraft, Erik	Lenny and Mel.
LeGuin, Ursula	Catwings.
Lester, Julius	The Tales of Uncle Remus.
Lewis, C.S.	The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Lindgren, Astrid	Pippi Longstocking.
Lobel, Arnold	Fables.
Lobel, Arnold	Frog and Toad are Friends.
Lowry, Lois	Gooney Bird Greene.
MacDonald, Betty	Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
MacLachlan, Patricia	Sarah, Plain and Tall.
Manes, Stephen	Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days.
Marciano, John Bemelmans	Harold’s Tail.
Martin, Ann	The Meanest Doll in the World.
McCloskey, Robert	Homer Price.
McDonald, Megan	Judy Moody.
Milne, A.A.	Winnie-the-Pooh.
Norton, Mary	The Borrowers.
Osborne, Mary Pope	Dinosaurs Before Dark.
Pennypacker, Sara	Stuart’s Cape.
Peterson, John	The Littles.
Rowling, J.K.	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Schwartz, Alvin	Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
Selden, George	The Cricket in Times Square.
Smith, Robert Kimmel	Chocolate Fever.
Travers, Pamela	Mary Poppins.
Warner, Gertrude	The Boxcar Children.
White, E.B.	Charlotte's Web.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls	Little House in the Big Woods.
Winthrop, Elizabeth	The Castle in the Attic.

Grades 3 & Above

Armstrong, William	Sounder.
Banks, Lynne Reid	The Indian in the Cupboard.
Barron, T.A.	The Lost Years of Merlin.
Bellairs, John	The House with a Clock in its Walls.
Blume, Judy	Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.
Brink, Carol Ryrie	Caddie Woodlawn.
Burnett, Frances	The Secret Garden.
Carroll, Lewis	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Child, Lauren	Utterly Me, Clarice Bean.
Cleary, Beverly	Dear Mr. Henshaw.
Clements, Andrew	Frindle.
Collodi, Carlo	Pinocchio.
Cooper, Susan	The Boggart.
Creech, Sharon	Bloomability.
Creech, Sharon	Granny Torrelli Makes Soup.
Cushman, Karen	Catherine, Called Birdy.
Dahl, Roald	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Dalgliesh, Alice	The Courage of Sarah Noble.
DiCamillo, Kate	Because of Winn-Dixie.
DiCamillo, Kate	The Tale of Despereaux.
DuBois, William	The Twenty-One Balloons.
Erdrich, Louise	The Birchbark House.
Estes, Eleanor	The Hundred Dresses.
Fitzgerald, John	The Great Brain.
Fitzhugh, Louise	Harriet the Spy.
Fleischman, Paul	Bull Run.
Fleischman, Sid	The Whipping Boy.
Forbes, Esther	Johnny Tremain.
Gardiner, John	Stone Fox.
George, Jean Craighead	My Side of the Mountain.
Giff, Patricia Reilly	Lily’s Crossing.
Gipson, Fred	Old Yeller.
Hamilton, Virginia	The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales.
Hesse, Karen	Out of the Dust.
Hill, Kirkpatrick	The Year of Miss Agnes.
Hornik, Laurie Miller	The Secrets of Ms. Snickle’s Class.
James, Mary	Shoebag.
King-Smith, Dick	Babe: The Gallant Pig.
Konigsburg, E.L.	From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
Kurtz, Jane	Bicycle Madness.
Lasky, Kathryn	The Night Journey.
Levine, Gail	Ella Enchanted.
Lofting, Hugh	The Story of Doctor Dolittle.
London, Jack	The Call of the Wild.
McCloskey, Robert	Homer Price.
Morey, Walt	Gentle Ben.
Napoli, Donna Jo	The Prince of the Pond: Otherwise Known as De Fawg Pin.
O'Brien, Robert C.	Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
Park, Barbara	Skinnybones.
Paulsen, Gary	Nightjohn.
Peck, Richard	A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories.
Pierce, Tamora	Sandry's Book.
Pinkwater, Daniel	Fat Men from Space.
Proimos, James	Cowboy Boy.
Pullman, Philip	The Golden Compass.
Robinson, Barbara	The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
Rockwell, Thomas	How to Eat Fried Worms.
Sachar, Louis	Holes.
Sachar, Louis	Sideways Stories from Wayside School.
Singer, Isaac B.	Zlateh the Goat, and Other Stories.
Speare, Elizabeth	The Sign of the Beaver.
Sperry, Armstrong	Call It Courage.
Spinelli, Jerry	Maniac Magee.
Taylor, Mildred	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Taylor, Sydney	All-of-a-Kind Family.
Taylor, William	Agnes the Sheep.
Wallace, Barbara Brooks	Peppermints in the Parlor.
Wrede, Patricia	Dealing with Dragons.