April Reading List

50 Below Zero by Robert Munsch
A House for Mouse by Babs Shook
A Pony's Tale by Jodi Huelin
A You're Adorable by Buddy Kaye
Aardvarks Disembark by Ann Jonas
ABC by Dr. Suess (5)
A Pair of Red Sneakers by Lisa Lawston
A Pocket for Corduroy by Don Freeman
Anno's Magic Seeds by Mitsumasa Ano
A Sip of Aesop by Jane Yolen

Are You a Spider by Judy Allen
Arrow to the Sun:a Pueblo indian Tale by Gerald McDermott
Baby Sister Says No by Mercer Mayer
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman
Best Dad in the Sea: Finding Nemo by Walt Disney
Bitter Bananas by Isaac Olaleye
Blessings Everywhere by Dandi Daley Mackall
Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See by Bill Martin Jr
Buzz Buzz Buzz by Veronica Uribe
Carrot Seed by Ruth Frauss

Can You Tell Me How to Get to Seaseme Street by Eleanor Hudson
Celebrate the 50 States by Loreen Leedy
Chick by Funfax
Chicka Chicka boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr (4)
Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier by R Conrad Stein
Clap Your Hands by Lorinda Bryan Cauley
Clifford the Small Red Puppy by Norman Bridwell
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett (3)
Color Fun by Snapshot Books
Company's Coming by Arthur Yorinks

Counting Sheep: Why do we Sleep? by Janice Lobb
Curious George Goes to a Chocolate Factory by HA Rey (2)
Dawn by Uri Shulevitz
Ducks Disappearing by Phyllis Naylor
Earth Day by Linda Lowery (2)
Eat up Babies by Pattrice Aggs
Edward in the Jungle by David McPhail
Engines Elevators and Xrays by Janice Parker
Flo the Lyin Fly by Max Lucado
Fox in Socks by Dr Suess

From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
From Sheep to Sweater by Robin Nelso
Fun with Zip and Zap by John Shefelbine
Gigi and Zachary's Around the World Adventure by Gilles Eduar
God Made All the Colors by Lion Publishing
God Made you Special by Eric Metaxas
Going to Sleep on the Farm (2)
Good Morning Little Fox by Marilyn Janovitz
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
Hansel and Gretel by Lisa Ingalls (2)

Happy Birthday You Belong in the Zoo by Diane deGroat
Hattie and the Fox by Mem Fox
Hello Shoes by Joan Blos
Here is the African Savanna by Madeleine Dunphy
Hey diddle, diddle by Dianne O'Quinn Burke
I am Playing by Mercer Mayer (3)
I can Swim by Edana Eckart
If I ran the Zoo by Dr Suess
If I went on Safari by Susan Hood
If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Numeroff

If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff
If You Look Around You by Fulvio Testa
If You Take Mouse to the Movies by Laura Numeroff
I'm Sorry by Sam McBratney
Irish Step Dancing by Mark Thomas
Is it Far to Zanzibar? by Nikki Grimes
Israel by Elaine Landau
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G Shaw
Jacob's Gift by Max Lucado
Jamberry by Bruce Degen

Jesse Bear What Will You Wear by Nancy White Carlstrom (2)
June 29, 1999 by David Wiesner
Just a Bad Day by Mercer Mayer
Just a Mess by Mercer Mayer
Katy and the Big Snow by Viriginia Lee Burton
Kisses by Cyndy Szeekers
Learn Your Numbers by Sparkle Books (2)
Lots and Lots of Zebra Stripes by Stephen Swinburne
Marshes and Swamps
Me and My Family Tree by Paul Showers

Millions of Snowflakes by Mary McKenna Siddals
Moo Cow Moo by Santiago Cohen
Morgan Plays Soccer by Anne Rockwell
Mother Goose by Walt Disney
Mouse's Birthday by Jane Yolen (2)
Mr Brown Can Moo by Dr Suess
My B Book by Jane Belk Moncure
My First Baby Signs by Linda Acreddo
My First Book by Jane Belk Moncure
My Little People School Bus by Doris Tomaselli

My Many Colored Days by Dr Suess
My X.Y,Z Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure
Ocean by Samantha Gray
On Sand Island by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Our Class Took a Trip to the Zoo by Shirley Neitzel
Pet Animals by Lucy Cousins
Picnic with Piggins by Jane Yolen
Pigs Move: Fun With Math and Travel by Amy Axelrod
Playing by Shirley Hughes
Put me in the Zoo by Dr Suess (2)

Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood
Rainbow Joe and Me by Maria Strom
Raising Yoder's Barn by Jane Yolen
Recycle by Gail Gibbons (2)
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur by Dana Rau
Sailor Moo Cow at Sea (2)
Sally Gets 123 by Richard Scarry
Sam and the Tigers by Julius Lester
Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant
See the Yak Yak by Charles Ghinga (2)

Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story by Angela Shelf Medearis
Shadows by April Pulley Sayre
Shanty Boat by Charles Temple
Sheep in a Shop by Nancy Shaw
Simple Machines by Allan Fowler
Sisters by David McPhail
Skateboarding in the X Games by Suzanne Murdico
Skip to My Lou by Nadine Bernard Westcott
Sleep Book by Dr Suess
Sleeping Beauty by Katherin Lawless

Snappy Little Dinosaurs by Dugald Steer
Snow by Uri Shulevitz
Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner
Snowshoe Thompson by Nancy Levinson
So Far from the Sea by Eve Bunting - for older children (about the Japanese concentration camps)
Sorting and Sets by Henry Pluckrose
Spring is Here by Tara Gomi
St Patrick's Day Alphabet by Beverly Barras Vidrine
Stranger in the Woods by Carl Sams
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
Subtraction Action by Loreen Leedy
Summersaults by Douglas Florian
Sunflower by Miela Ford
Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs (2)
Swimmy by Leo Lionni
Tanya's Reunion by Valerie Flourney
The Best Place by Susan Meddaugh (2)
The Crayon Box that Talked by Shane DeRolf
The Crippled Lamb by Max Lucado

The Enchanted Storks by Aaron Shepard
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood (3)
The Little Squeegy Bug by Bill Martin Jr
The Magic School Bus Shows and Tells: A book About Archaeology by Joanna Cole
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg
The New Friend by Charlotte Zolotow
The Poodle Who Barked at the Wind by Charlotte Zolotow
The Right Touch by Sandy Kleven
The Sailor's Alphabet by Michael McCurdy
The Seasons and Someone by Virginia Kroll

The Snow Tree by Caroline Repchuk
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
The Story of Noodles by Ying Chang Compestine
The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg
The Sweetest Fig by Chris Van Allsburg
The Taxi That Hurried by Tibor Gergely
The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
The Winter King and the Summer Queen by Mary Lister
The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg
The Year at Maple Hill Farm by Alice and Martin Provensen

This is Soccer by Margaret Blackstone
Thomas the Tank Engine by Re. W. Awdry
Time for Bed by Mem Fox (2)
Tuesday by David Weisner
Twelve Hats for Lena: A Book of Months by Karen Katz
Tyrannosaurus Time by Joanne Ryder (2)
Welcome to Spain by Geraldine Mesenas
Welcome with Love by Jenni Overend (6) - excellent book on homebirth
What if the Zebras Lost their Stripes? by John Reitano (2)
What the Animals Were Waiting For by Jonathan London (2)

When Addie was Scared by Linda Bailey
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce
Word Bird's Summer Words by Jane Belk Moncure
Yellow by Sarah Schuette
Yellowstone National Park by David Peterson
Yoshi's Feast by Kimiko Kajikawa (4)
You're a Bear by Mavis Jukes
Your Heart by Terri DeGezelle
Yummy:Eating Through a Day by Lee Bennet Hopkins

Zambia by Timothy Holmes (read parts and discussed all the pictures)
Zathura by Chris Vans Allsburg
Zebras by Melissa Stewart
Zebras by Zoo books
Zelda and Ivy by Laura Kvasnosky
Zelda and Ivy and the Boy Next Door by Laura Kvasnosky
Zelda Zach and Zodiac by Bill Peet
Zero Gravity by Gloria Skurzynski
Zig Zag The Sound of Z by Alice Flanagan
Zoe and her Zebra by Clare Beaton

Zoo Flakes ABC by Will Howell
Zoo Patterns by Patricia Whitehouse

Updated April 29, 2004