Book List preK-K

I've been wanting to do this for a while now...I would love to keep a list of books we read...at least the ones we like? Julianna is 5 1/2 and Rachel is 3 1/2. It used to be harder to read to them at the same time b/c they weren't interested in the same books...but now we can do that much more! It has also been amazing to see Julianna learning to read. I tried Alphaphonics with Julianna but it was too difficult after the first 2 or 3 pages. In the last half of last year, we used Reading Made Easy. I think using the index card approach really helped her see how words are put together. The pace was also good...not too overwhelming. We got up to lesson 23...but that was enough to get her started! Yesterday (7/8/08), she read Green Eggs and Ham by herself! God is amazing in how He created our brains!

(CL)=cerritos library
(LL)=los angeles county library

Non-Fiction
Numbers Counting It Up -Michele Koomen (CL)
Patterns What Comes Next? -Michele Koomen (CL)
Fractions Making Fair Shares -Michele Koomen (CL)
What is a Solid? -Jennifer Boothroyd (CL)
Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories
(1-Peter Pays Up, The Two Carolines, Diana's Donkey Ride, Poor Priscilla, Unlucky Jim)
Values to live by series (Self-Control, Fairness, Friendship, Courage, Respect, Responsibility, Joy, Caring, Patience, Love, Understanding, Obedience, Hugging, Helping, Carefulness, Good Sportsmanship)
Sing Along Bible Songs
Yum! Yuck! : a foldout book of people sounds / Park, Linda Sue
The miracle worker [DVD (videorecording)] / Beugen, Suzy
Bicycle race / Crews, Donald
Super sand castle Saturday / Murphy, Stuart
The story of Ruby Bridges / Coles, Robert
The value of facing a challenge : the story of Terry Fox / Johnson, Ann Donegan
The value of humility : the story of Mother Teresa / Johnson, Ann Donegan
The value of love : the story of Johnny Appleseed / Johnson, Ann Donegan
The value of self-discipline : the story of Alexander Graham Bell / Johnson, Ann Donegan
Teach me-- Chinese [audiobook on CD] : [a musical journey through the day] / Mahoney, Judy.
Hearing / Suhr, Mandy
Taste / Suhr, Mandy
Me and the measure of things / Sweeney, Joan
Follow the water from brook to ocean / Dorros, Arthur
I get wet / Cobb, Vicki
700 kids on Grandpa's farm / Morris, Ann, 1930-
Beatrice's goat / McBrier, Page.
Life on a goat farm
Octopus / Stefoff, Rebecca, 1951-
Pocahontas, girl of Jamestown / Jassem, Kate.
Young Abraham Lincoln : log-cabin president / Woods, Andrew.
Young Amelia Earhart : a dream to fly
Young George Washington : America's first president / Woods, Andrew
Young Jackie Robinson : baseball hero / Farrell, Edward
Young Martin Luther King, Jr. : "I have a dream" / Mattern, Joanne, 1963-
Young Pocahontas : Indian princess / Benjamin, Anne.


Fiction
Green Eggs and Ham -Dr. Seuss
Flat Stanley -Jeff Brown
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom -Bill Martin Jr
The Stray Dog -Marc Simont
Now One Foot, Now the Other -Tomie de Paola (LL)
Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs -Tomie de Paola (LL)
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge -Mem Fox (LL)
The Lot at the End of My Block -Kevin Lewis (LL)
The Rag Coat -Lauren Mills (LL)
Welcome With Love -Jenni Overend
Corduroy-Don Freeman
A Pocket for Corduroy-Don Freeman (LL)
Angus and the Cat-Marjorie Flack
The Little House -Virginia Lee Burton
Miss Rumphius-Barbara Cooney
Kitten's First Full Moon -Kevin Henkes
Flotsam-David Wiesner
Someday-Alison McGhee
My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks-Hanoch Piven
Bee-bim Bop!-Linda Sue Park
Katy and the Big Snow-Virginia Burton
Little Fur Family-Margaret Wise Brown
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel-Virginia Lee Burton
Norman the Doorman-Don Freeman
Apple fractions / Pallotta, Jerry
Charlie needs a cloak / De Paola, Tomie
Bear shadow / Asch, Frank
Who's there? : a book of knock-knock jokes / Dahl, Michael
Knock, knock! Who's there? : my first book of knock-knock jokes / Hills, Tad
Like butter on pancakes / London, Jonathan
Riddle me this! : riddles and stories to challenge your mind / Lupton, Hugh
The birthday box : happy birthday to me! / Patricelli, Leslie
The greatest treasure / Demi
The napping house / Wood, Audrey
Whistle for Willie / Keats, Ezra Jack
Christina Katerina and the box / Gauch, Patricia Lee
The seasons of Arnold's apple tree / Gibbons, Gail
A house is a house for me / Hoberman, Mary Ann
Knuffle bunny : a cautionary tale / Willems, Mo
Knuffle Bunny too : a case of mistaken identity / Willems, Mo
Pepper's valentine surprise / Bleck, Linda.
Angelina ballerina / Holabird, Katharine
Daniel's duck / Bulla, Clyde Robert
Ella sets the stage / D'Amico, Carmela.
The bee tree / Polacco, Patricia.
A new coat for Anna / Ziefert, Harriet
A Little Prairie House /adapted from the Little House Books Wilder, Laura Ingalls
The cat who wore a pot on her head /Slepian, Jan
Gooseberry goose / Freedman, Claire
The water hole / Base, Graeme
Horton hears a who! / Seuss, Dr
A small miracle / Collington, Peter
Oops-a-Daisy! / Freedman, Claire
Pelle's new suit / Beskow, Elsa Maartman
The little red lighthouse and the great gray bridge
Maisy goes to the library / Cousins, Lucy
Little Bunny's pacifier plan / Boelts, Maribeth
Young Cam Jansen and the lost tooth / Adler, David
Young Cam Jansen and the pizza shop mystery / Adler, David
A day with Daddy / Gikow, Louise
Alfred digs / George, Lindsay
Biscuit wins a prize / Capucilli, Alyssa
Bathtime for Biscuit
Biscuit and the baby
Biscuit wants to play
Biscuit's new trick
Curious George takes a job / Rey, H. A. (Hans Augusto), 1898-1977.
Dear deer : a book of homophones / Barretta, Gene.
First the egg / Seeger, Laura Vaccaro.
I love you because you're you [audiobook on CD]
Happy birthday, Biscuit!
How do dinosaurs say good night? [audiobook on CD] / Yolen, Jane.
Little Bitty Mousie / Aylesworth, Jim.
Oh, look! / Polacco, Patricia.
Olive, my love / Walsh, Vivian.
Oops-a-Daisy! / Freedman, Claire.
Pelle's new suit / Beskow, Elsa Maartman, 1874-1953.
Pinocho [audiobook on cassette] ; Juanito en la tierra del gigante = Pinocchio ; Jack and the beanstalk / Irvine, Rex J., 1924-
Presidents' Day / Rockwell, Anne F.
Purplicious / Kann, Victoria.
Silly Suzy Goose / Petr Horácek / Horácek, Petr.
Skippyjon Jones
The goat in the rug / Blood, Charles L., 1929-
What a wonderful world / Weiss, George
Young Cam Jansen and the baseball mystery / Adler, David A.
Young Cam Jansen and the dinosaur game / Adler, David A.
Young Cam Jansen and the Double Beach mystery / Adler, David A.
Young Cam Jansen and the ice skate mystery / Adler, David A.
Young Cam Jansen and the library mystery / Adler, David A.
Young Cam Jansen and the missing cookie / Adler, David A.
Young Cam Jansen and the new girl mystery / Adler, David A.
Young Cam Jansen and the spotted cat mystery / Adler, David A.
Young Cam Jansen and the substitute mystery / Adler, David A.
Young Cam Jansen and the zoo note mystery / Adler, David A.


Parenting/Other
Building moral intelligence : the seven essential virtues that teach kids to do the right thing / Borba, Michele
A gift for giving : making the most of the present / Lang, Donna
How to take the grrrr out of anger / Verdick, Elizabeth
Clean house, clean planet : clean your house for pennies a day, the safe, nontoxic way / Logan, Karen