2024
Summer
reading list
pre-Second Grade Students
Recommended and compiled by Reading Teachers
From the
Baldwin Union Free School District
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Beginning Chapter Books
The Friendship Tree
by Kathy Caple
Get Ready for 2nd Grade,
Amber Brown by Paula Danzinger
The Kids of the Polk
Street School (Series)
by Patricia Reilly Giff
Here Comes the Strikeout
by Leonard Kessler
Horrible Harry (Series)
by Suzy Kline
Days with Frog and Toad (Series)
by Arnold Lobel
Little Bear (Series)
by Else Minarik
Junie B. Jones Series
by Barbara Park
In a Dark, Dark Room and
Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz
Nate the Great (Series)
by Marjorie Sharmat
L. Frank Baum's The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Deborah Hautzig
The Magic Show Mystery
by Gertrude Warner
Mr. Putter and Tabby (Series)
by Cynthia Rylant
Henry and Mudge (Series)
by Cynthia Rylant
Henry and Mudge and Annie's Perfect
Pet by Cynthia Rylant
Picture Books
Clifford
by Norman Bridwell
Hot Fudge Hero
by Pat Kate Brisson
Arthur (Series)
by Marc Brown
Piggybook
by Anthony Browne
The Tiny Seed
by Eric Carle
The Great Kapok Tree
by Lynne Cherry
Koala Lou
by Mem Fox
The Magic Hat
by Mem Fox
Duckat
by Gaelyn Gordon
Some Things are Scary
by Florence Heide
Horace and Morris Series
by James Howe
Fishing Day
by Andrea Pinkney
Bill Pickett: Rodeo-Ridin Cowboy
by Andrea Pinkney
How to Make an Apple
Pie & See The World
by Marjorie Priceman
Officer Buckle
and Gloria
by Peggy Rathmann
Grandfather's Journey
by Allen Say
Gila Monsters Meet You
at the Airport
by Marjorie Sharmat
Mystery on the Docks
by Thacher Hurd
The Doorbell Rang
by Pat Hutchins
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
by D.B. Johnson
Round Trip
by Ann Jonas
Leo the Late Bloomer
by Robert Kraus
Little Critter (Series)
by Mercy Mayer
King of the Playground
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Gnats of Knotty Pine
by Bill Peet
What Does it Mean to Be Kind?
by Rana DiOrio
Different
by Heather Avis
You are Enough
by Margaret O'Hair
Joseph had a Little Overcoat
by Simms Taback
Two Bad Ants
by Chris Van Allsburg
Rosie and Michael
by Judith Viorst
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile (Series)
by Bernard Waber
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub
by Audrey Wood
A New Coat for Anna
by Harriet Ziefert
Nonfiction
My Five Senses
by Aliki
Anno's Math Games
by Mitsumasa Anno
Earthquakes
(Series: Read and Find
Out Science Books)
by Franklin Branley
Visiting the Art Museum
by Laurence Brown
Dinosaurs Beware
by Marc Brown
Monarch Butterfly
by Gail Gibbons
In 1776
by Jean Marzollo
Penguins
by Gail Gibbon
The Quicksand Book
by Tomie DiPaolo
Rookie Read About Series:
Feeling Things
Hearing Things
Seeing Things
Tasting Things
by Allan Fowler
Fiction
Poetry
Jake Drake Series
by Andrew Clements
Maggie Marmelstein for President
by Marjorie Weinman
Sharmat
Doing Time Online
by Jan Siebold
A Bike Like Sergio's
by Maribeth Boelts
Biography
What a Year
by Tomie DePaola
My Great Aunt Arizona
by Gloria Houston
Theodore Roosevelt
by Steve Potts
When I was Nine
by James Stevenson
Folk and Fairy Tales
Who's in Rabbit's House
by Verna Aardema
Eric Carle's Treasury of Classic Stories for Children by Eric Carle
A Story, A Story
by Gail E. Haley
Tall Tale Titles
by Steven Kellogg
Seven Blind Mice
by Ed Young
Animals, Animals
by Eric Carle
Lizards, Frogs, and Polliwogs
by Douglas Florian
Honey, I Love You
by Eloise Greenfield
A Hippopotamustn't
By Patrick Lewis
Two-Legged, Four-Legged, No-Legged
Rhymes by JArnold Lobel
The Tale of Custard the Dragon
by Ogden Nash
The Random House Book of
Poetry by Jack Prelutsky
It's Raining Pigs and Noodles
by Jack Prelutsky
Chicken Soup with Rice
by Maurice Sendak
Where the Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein
If I were in Charge of the World
and Other Worries
by Judith Viorst
Please use this list only as a guide. These books have been chosen for their quality, their appeal to children, and their availability at the Baldwin Public Library. Additional nonfiction books have been added in order to align texts to NYS Common Core Learning Standards. You are encouraged to read other titles by these authors. If a particular title is not available, a librarian can assist you in selecting another title on the same topic, by the same author, or in the same genre. The public library also updates its own summer reading lists each year.
