Books Every First Grader Should Know
Annotation:Rhymed text and illustrations invite the reader to play "I Spy" with a variety of Mother Goose and folklore characters.
Place a Hold
Annotation:This book introduces various types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums and explains how scientists uncover, preserve and study fossilized dinosaur bones.
Annotation:Rhyming text and illustrations follow a mischievous old black fly through the alphabet as he has a very busy bad day landing where he should not be.
Annotation:When Mama Bear decides to turn her hobby into a business, each member of the Bear family tries to help a little more around the house.
Annotation:Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air.
Annotation:The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness.
Annotation:When Farmer Brown’s cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and they go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.
Annotation:Jessica worries about collecting 100 objects to take to class for the 100th day of school.
Annotation:When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.
Annotation:A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him, he finds what he has always wanted most of all.
Annotation:The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the cake she makes from it.
Annotation:Arthur decides to sell his old toys but is reluctant to part with his old bear.
Annotation:Frances decides she likes to eat only bread and jam at every meal until, to her surprise, her parents grant her wish.
Annotation:Harold goes for an adventurous walk in the moonlight with his purple crayon.
Annotation:A cumulative tale in which a frog tries to catch a fly without getting caught itself.
Annotation:The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.
Annotation:When lonely Miss Spider tries to host a tea party, the other bugs refuse to come for fear of being eaten!
Annotation:Leo, a young tiger, finally blooms under the anxious eyes of his parents.
Annotation:All his classmates make fun of Rodney because he can't pronounce his name, but it is Rodney's speech impediment that drives away the class bully.
Annotation:Frog and Toad spend their days together, but find sometimes it's nice to be alone.
Annotation:Rambunctious Froggy hops out into the snow for a winter frolic but is called back by his mother to put on some necessary articles of clothing.
Annotation:Little Sal and Little Bear both lose their mothers while eating blueberries and almost end up with the other's mother.
Annotation:Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests.
Annotation:Amelia Bedelia shows her niece Effie Lou how to follow instructions to the letter as they dust the potato bugs and sew seeds.
Annotation:Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught.
Annotation:An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.
Annotation:The curiosity of a newly-captured monkey gets him into continual trouble.
Annotation:Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries.
Annotation:Sendak uses chicken soup as a unifying theme to present an illustrated tour of the months of the year.
Annotation:Sam-I-Am mounts a determined campaign to convince another Seuss character to eat a plate of green eggs and ham.
Annotation:When a kind and hardworking duck nearly collapses from overwork, while taking care of a farm because the owner is too lazy, the rest of the animals get together and chase the farmer out of town.
Annotation:When a white dog with black spots runs away from home, he gets so dirty that he looks like a black dog with white spots and his family doesn't recognize him.
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Books selected by librarians at the Daniel Boone Regional Library as books all first graders should know.
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