My first choice is…THE GINGERBREAD COWBOY, of course.  But here are more books that are fun to read aloud and children love to hear them.  Many of these authors have written other books, so this is a chance to expand your reading horizons by becoming acquainted with a variety of authors.

PICTURE BOOKS – These books are sorted by grade level as a guide to selecting books for your child to read, but I encourage you to experiment with reading books above your child’s reading level.

1st

Book! Book! Book! by Deborah Bruss

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

If You Give a Mouse A Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff

Mouse Mess by Linnea Asplind Riley

Tuesday by David Wiesner

2nd

Don’t Let the Pigeon Ride the Bus by Mo Willems

Dumpy La Rue by Elizabeth Winthrop

I Will Never Not Ever Eat A Tomato by Lauren Child

Livingstone Mouse by Pamela Duncan Edwards

Piggie Pie by Margie Palatini

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

3rd

Alexander and the Terrible Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

The Bookshop Dog by Cynthia Rylant

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs by Judith Barrett

The Dot by Peter Reynolds

Frederick by Leo Lionni

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnell

The Napping House by Audrey Wood

4th

The Printer by Myron Uhlberg

The Principal’s New Clothes by Stephanie Calmenson

Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by David Pilkey

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak