Our library has a summer reading program in which children can earn prizes for reading a certain number of books. My children like to win the prizes as quickly as they can, so I’ve been checking out a lot of picture books lately for my younger two. Some of them I’m familiar with, and some of them I’ve never seen before. It’s been fun reading through all the books and finding new ones we like. Below is a list of just a few of our all-time favorites. If your library is sponsoring a reading program, give some of these a try:
Picture Books:
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, and If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Felicia Bond.Olivia by Ian FalconerA Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry and Marc SimontGoodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise BrownHorton Hears a Who, The Foot Book, and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
Tuesday and Flotsam by David Weisner (wordless picture books)
Make Way for Ducklings and Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
Other Books:
Hatchet by Gary PaulsenSarah Plain and Tall and Number the Stars by Lois LowryMisty of Chincoteague by Marguerite HenryThe Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler WarnerMy Father’s Dragon, Elmer and the Dragon, and The Dragons of Blueland by Ruth Stiles Gannett
The Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park
The American Girl series
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Flipped by Wendelin van Draanen
The Horatio Hornblower series by C. S. Forester
Nothing But the Truth and The True Adventures of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
There are so many good books out there, and summer is the perfect time to enjoy them!
Guest Blogger: Samantha Bell
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