Books Your Child Should Hear Before Kindergarten
º Alborough, Jez: Where’s My Teddy?
º Asch, Frank: Happy Birthday, Moon
º Bahk, Jane: Juna’s Jar
º Bang, Molly: Ten, Nine, Eight
º Barrett, Judi: Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing
º Barton, Byron: The Three Bears
º Bauer, Marion: How Do I Love You?
º Becker, Bonny: A Visitor for Bear
º Bemelmans, Ludwig: Madeline
º Benton, Jim: The End (Almost!)
º Blackstone, Stella: Bear’s Busy Family
º Borghese, Mark: 1000 Books Before Kindergarten
º Bornstein, Ruth: Little Gorilla
º Brett, Jan: The Mitten
º Brown, Marcia: Stone Soup
º Brown, Margaret Wise: Goodnight Moon
º Brunhoff, Jean de: The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant
º Burningham, John: Mr. Gumpy’s Outing
º Burroughs, Caleb: The Moon Sees You & Me
º Burton, Virginia Lee: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
º Campbell, Rod: Dear Zoo
º Cannon, Janell: Stellaluna
º Capucilli, Alyssa Satin: Biscuit Loves the Library
º Carle, Eric: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
º Cherry, Matthew A.: Hair Love
º Christelow, Eileen: Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
º Chung, Arree: Mixed: A Colorful Story
º Coffelt, Nancy: Fred Stays with Me
º Crews, Donald: Freight Train
º Cronin, Doreen: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type
º Day, Alexandra: Good Dog, Carl
º Degen, Bruce: Jamberry
º Dorros, Arthur: Abuela
º Eastman, P.D.: Are You My Mother?
º Ehlert, Lois: Feathers for Lunch
º Emberley, Ed: Go Away, Big Green Monster!
º Falconer, Ian: Olivia
º Feiffer, Jules: Bark, George
º Flack, Marjorie: Ask Mr. Bear
º Fleming, Denise: Mama Cat Has Three Kittens
º Fox, Mem: Where is the Green Sheep?
º Franklin, Ashley: Not Quite Snow White
º Freeman, Don: Corduroy
º Gag, Wanda: Millions of Cats
º Galdone, Paul: The Three Little Pigs
º Gerstein, Mordicai: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
º Goble, Paul: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
º Guarino, Deborah: Is Your Mama a Llama?
º Henkes, Kevin: Kitten’s First Full Moon
º Hill, Eric: Where’s Spot
º Ho, Joanna: Eyes that Kiss in the Corners
º Ho, Minfong: Hush!: A Thai Lullaby
º Hoban, Russell: Bread and Jam for Frances
º Hoban, Tana: Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue? An Adventure in Color
º Hoffman, Mary: Amazing Grace
º Holabird, Katherine: Angelina Ballerina
º Hutchins, Pat: Rosie’s Walk
ºJenkins, Steve: What do you do with a Tail Like This?
º Johnson, Crockett: Harold and the Purple Crayon
º Juster, Norton: The Hello, Goodbye Window
º Kasza, Keiko: The Wolf’s Chicken Stew
º Keats, Ezra Jack: The Snowy Day
º Kennedy, Jimmy: The Teddy Bears’ Picnic
º Kent, Jack: The Caterpillar and the Polliwog
º Kimmel, Eric: Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock
º Kraus, Robert: Whose Mouse are You?
º Kraus, Ruth: The Carrot Seed
º Krosoczka, Jarrett: Baghead
º Leaf, Munro: The Story of Ferdinand
º Lester, Mike: A is for Salad
º Lionni, Leo: Little Blue and Little Yellow
º Lobel, Anita: On Market Street
º Lobel, Arnold: Frog and Toad Are Friends
º London, Jonathan: Froggy Gets Dressed
º Martin, Bill: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
º Martin, Bill: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
º Mayer, Mercer: Frog Goes to Dinner
º McBratney, Sam: Guess How Much I Love You
º McCloskey, Robert: Make Way for Ducklings
º McFarland, Lyn: Widget
º McKissack, Pat: Goin’ Someplace Special
º McLimans, David: Gone Wild: An Endangered Alphabet
º McMullan, Kate and Jim: I Stink!
º McPhail, David: Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore
º Meddaugh, Susan: Martha Speaks
º Meltzer, Brad: I am Abraham Lincoln
º Munari, Bruno: Bruno Munari’s ABC
º Nelson-Schmidt, Michelle: Jonathan James and the Whatif Monster
º Noble, Trinka: The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash
º Numeroff, Laura: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
º O’Connor, Jane: Fancy Nancy
º Penn, Audrey: The Kissing Hand
º Pinkney, Sandra: Shades of Black
º Piper, Watty: The Little Engine that Could
º Potter, Beatrix: The Tale of Peter Rabbit
º Rathmann, Peggy: Good Night, Gorilla
º Reisman, Dave: Cows Can’t Jump
º Rey, H.A.: Curious George
º Rohman, Eric: My Friend Rabbit
º Rosen, Michael: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
º Rossetti-Shustak, Bernadette: I Love You Through and Through
º Rylant, Cynthia: The Relatives Came
º Say, Allen: Grandfather’s Journey
º Scarry, Richard: Cars and Trucks and Things that Go
º Seeger, Laura Vaccaro: First the Egg
º Sendak, Maurice: Where the Wild Things Are
º Seuss, Dr.: Green Eggs and Ham
º Seuss, Dr.: The Cat in the Hat
º Shannon, David: Duck on a Bike
º Shaw, Charles: It Looked Like Spilt Milk
º Simmons, Jane: Come Along Daisy
º Simont, Marc: The Stray Dog
º Sis, Peter: Fire Truck
º Slobodkina, Esphyr: Caps for Sale
º Taback, Simms: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
º Walter, Virginia: Hi, Pizza Man!
º Wells, Rosemary: Noisy Nora
º Westcott, Nadine: The Lady with the Alligator Purse
º Wiesner, David: The Three Pigs
º Willems, Mo: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
º Wong, Janet: Buzz
º Wood, Audrey: The Napping House
º Yolen, Jane: How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?
º Yolen, Jane: Owl Moon
º Young, Ed: Seven Blind Mice
º Zimmerman, Andrea: Trashy Town
º Zion, Gene: Harry, The Dirty Dog
º Zschock, Martha Day: Hello, America!
These titles were compiled by '1000 Books Before Kindergarten' (www.1000booksbeforekindergarten.org), and most recently revised in April 2022.