Here is our list of 50 Books to Read Before starting First Grade!! This list was lovingly made by our librarians to share books that are fun to read and developmentally appropriate for those about to start First Grade.
The Adventures of Amelia Bedelia
Peggy Parish
All the Water in the World
George Ella Lyon
Awe-Samosas!
Marzieh Abbas
Badger's Perfect Garden
Marsha Diane Arnold
Bean Thirteen
(none)
Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep!
Todd Tarpley
The Big Bike
C. L. Reid
The Boo-Boos of Bluebell Elementary
Chelsea Lin Wallace
The Book with No Pictures
B. J. Novak
Brilliant Bea
Shaina Rudolph, Mary Vukadinovich
Built to Last
Minh Lê
Can Bears Ski?
(none)
Chicken Talk
Patricia MacLachlan
The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt
Dessert Island
Ben Zhu
Does a Bulldozer Have a Butt?
Derick Wilder
Empanadas for Everyone
Jackie Azúa Kramer
Ernest, the Moose Who Doesn't Fit
Catherine Rayner
Every Night Is Pizza Night
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Gianna Ruggiero
Days with Frog and Toad
Arnold Lobel
Gift & Box
Ellen Mayer
The Hidden Forest
Jeannie Baker
I Will Read to You
Gideon Sterer
Julián Is a Mermaid
Jessica Love
The Itchy Book! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!)
Mo Willems, LeUyen Pham
Kipper and Roly
(none)
Leave Me Alone!
Vera Brosgol
Malik's Number Thoughts
(none)
Marigold Bakes a Cake
(none)
My Friend Earth
Patricia MacLachlan
Rainbow Hands
Mamta Nainy
The Rainbow Mystery
Fran Manushkin
The Robot and the Bluebird
David Lucas
Saving the Sun
Emma Pearl
Scorch, Hedgehog of Doom
Cate Berry
Secret Pizza Party
Adam Rubin
Something Smells!
Blake Liliane Hellman
Song in the City
Daniel Bernstrom
Square
Mac Barnett
The Squish
Breanna Carzoo
Stellaluna
Janell Cannon
This Table
Alex Killian
Thunder Cake
Patricia Polacco
What Do You Do with an Idea?
Kobi Yamada
When We Gather (Ostadahlisiha): a Cherokee Tribal Feast
Andrea L. Rogers
Where the Sidewalk Ends
(none)
The World's Best Class Plant
Audrey Vernick, Liz Garton Scanlon
