Our Favorite Picture Books

 

 

 Where's My Teddy?

 Jez Alborough, Where's My Teddy?

Reading level: Baby-Preschool
Paperback Reprint edition (February 1994; Candlewick Pr)
ISBN: 1564022803

 

 

 

 

ouch!

Ouch! by Natalie Babbitt, Fred Marcellino (Illustrator), Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Reading level: Ages 4-8
(October 1998; Harpercollins Juvenile Books)
ISBN: 0062050664

 

old macdonald had an apartment house

Old MacDonald Had an Apartment House by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett

Reading level: Ages 4-8

2nd edition (May 1998; Atheneum)
ISBN: 0689817576

 


 Green Eyes

 A. Birnbaum, Green Eyes

Reading level: Baby-Preschool

(June 2001; Golden Books Pub Co Inc)
ISBN: 0307202038

 

 

 Whose Baby Am I by John Butler
Reading level: Baby-Preschool (May 2001; Viking Childrens Books)
ISBN: 0670896837
 Whose Baby Am I

 

 

 

crickwing

Crickwing by Janell Cannon

Reading level: Ages 4-8 (September 2000; Harcourt Brace)
ISBN: 0152017909

 stellaluna  verdi
 Stellaluna  Verdi
 (April 1993;Harcourt Brace)
ISBN: 0152802177
 (June 1997;Harcourt Brace)
ISBN: 0152010289

 

 

 

Beware Storybook Wolves

Lauren Child, Beware of the Storybook Wolves

Reading level: Ages 4-8 (April 2001; Arthur A. Levine)
ISBN: 043920500X

 


mightiest heart

The Mightiest Heart by Lynn Cullen, illus. by Laurel Long

Reading level: Ages 4-8
(October 1998; Dial Books for Young Readers)
ISBN: 0803722923

 

 Don Daily, The Twelve Days of Christmas Cats

Reading level: Ages 4-8 (December 1998; Courage Books)
ISBN: 0762403845

 christmas cats

 

 

daddy is a doodlebug

Daddy Is a Doodlebug by Bruce Degen

Reading level: Ages 4-8
(April 2000; Harpercollins Juvenile Books)
ISBN: 0060284153

 

 

to everything there is a season

To Everything There Is A Season by Leo and Diane Dillon

Reading level: Ages 4-8
(October 1998; Scholastic Trade)
ISBN: 0590478877

 

 

 top cat

 Top Cat by Lois Ehlert

Reading level: Ages 4-8
(September 1998; Harcourt Brace)
ISBN: 0152017399

 

 

 

 

 Everyone Poops by Taro Gomi (translated by Amanda Mayer Stinchechum)
Reading level: Baby-Preschool
(March 1993; Kane/Miller Book Pub)
ISBN: 09162 91456
 everyone poops

 

 

 

my cats nick and nora

My Cats Nick & Nora by Isabelle Harper and illustrated by Barry Moser

Reading level: Ages 4-8
(September 1995; Scholastic Trade)
ISBN: 0590476203

 

little mole

Werner Holzwarth and Wolf Erlbruch, The Story of the Little Mole Who Went in Search of Whodunit [German original Vom kleinen Maulwurf, der wissen
wollte, wer ihm auf den Kopf gemacht hat
]

Reading level: Ages 4-8 (October 1993; Stewart Tabori & Chang)
ISBN: 1556703481

 

 

 one dark night

Hazel Hutchins, One Dark Night, illustrated by Susan Kathleen Hartung

Reading level: Ages 4-8

(May 2001; Viking Childrens Books)
ISBN: 0670892467

 

 

 

 

harold and purple crayon

Harold and the PurpleCrayon by Crocket Johnson

Reading level: Ages 4-8
Harpercollins Juvenile Books

ISBN: 0064430227

 

 

night scary beasties popple dout of my head

The Night the Scary Beasties Popped out of My Head by Daniel and David Kamish

Reading level: Ages 4-8
(July 1998; Random House (Juv)
ISBN: 0679890394

 

 

 I, Crocodile by Fred Marcellino (Illustrator), Michael Di Capua

Reading level: Ages 4-8 (October 1999; Harpercollins Juvenile Books)
ISBN: 0062051687

 i crocodile

 

 

 

good times with teddy

Good Times With Teddy Bear, by Jacqueline McQuade

(October 1997; Dial Books for Young Readers)
ISBN: 0803720769

 

 

april's kittens

April's Kittens by Clare Turlay Newberry


Reading level: Baby-Preschool
Reissue edition (October 1993; Harpercollins Juvenile Books)
ISBN: 0060244003

 

Other classics by Caldecott winning author/illustrator Clare Turlay Newberry

     
     

 

 

 

 

jemima puddle-duck

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter

Reading level: Baby-Preschool

Reissue edition (September 1987; Frederick Warne & Co)
ISBN: 072323468X

 

 

 marguerite makes a book

 Marguerite Makes a Book, written by Bruce Robertson, illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt

Reading level: Ages 9-12 (December 1999; J Paul Getty Museum Pubns)
ISBN: 089236372X

 

 

 

Fa Mulan

Fa Mulan : The Story of a Woman Warrior by Robert D. San Souci, Jean Tseng (Illustrator), Mou-Sien Tseng (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8
(March 2000; Hyperion Press)
ISBN: 0786814217


squids will be squids

Squids Will Be Squids: Fresh Morals / Beastly Fables
by Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith (Illustrator), Molly Leach (Designer)

Reading level: Ages 4-8
(September 15, 1998; Viking Childrens Books)
ISBN: 067088135X

 

Giving Tree

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Reading level: Ages 4-8
(February 1986; Harpercollins Juvenile Books)
ISBN: 0060256656

 

Daisy and the Beastie

Daisy and the Beastie by Jane Simmons
Reading level: Ages 4-8 (3/2000; Little Brown & Co.)
ISBN: 0316797855

 

 

Look-Alikes: Discover a Land Where Things Are Not As They Appear by Joan Steiner,
photography by Thomas Lindley.

(September 1998; Little Brown & Co (Juv Trd)
ISBN: 0316812552

 

 The Gardener (Caldecott Honor Award)
by Sarah Stewart, David Small (Illustrator)

Reading level: Ages 4-8
(August 1997; Farrar Straus & Giroux (Juv)
ISBN: 0374325170

 gardener

 

 

 

 

 

voyage to bunny planet

Voyage to the Bunny Planet : Moss Pillows/Island Light/First Tomato/Boxed Set
by Rosemary Wells
Reading level: Ages 4-8
(9/1992; Dial Books for Young Readers) ISBN: 0803711743

 

 


I Spy Fantasy a book of Picture Riddles by Walter Wick (Photographer), Jean Marzollo

Reading level: Ages 4-8
(October 1994; Cartwheel Books)

ISBN: 0590462954

 

3 pigs

David Wiesner, The Three Pigs

Reading level: Ages 4-8 (April 2001; Clarion Books)
ISBN: 0618007016

 

 

 

psh posh bosch

Willard, Nancy, Pish Posh Said Hieronymus Bosch, illustrated by Diane and Leo Dillon.
Reading level: Ages 4-8
(October 1991; Harcourt Brace)
ISBN: 0152622101

 

 

napping house

The Napping House by Audry Wood and illustrated by Don Wood

Reading level: Baby-Preschool
Board book edition (September 2000; Red Wagon)
ISBN: 0152026320



 Rapunzel (Caldecott Medal Book)

by Paul O. Zelinsky, Jacob W. Grimm

Reading level: Ages 4-8 (October 1997; Dutton Books)
; ISBN: 0525456074

 rapunzel

 

 

 

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