Popular reading books for 1st graders

Find The Empty Pot at your local library. Television is so beloved in Triple Creek that no one even remembers how to read. Books are still around, but are mostly used to shore-up the local dam. When Aunt Chip teaches Eli to read, his new love of books leads him to pluck a book from the dam, producing a flood that changes the town forever. Perfect for: Inspiring a love and appreciation for reading.

When pirates come to his room looking for the secret to hidden treasure, he realizes how precious the gift of reading can be. Perfect for: Kids who like mystery. Find Edward and the Pirates at your local library. In simple language that is also poetic and true, Thompson tells the heartwarming story of how the apple pie comes to be, including a quick introduction to the whole ecological web of life.

And, as a final loving touch, she adds that the true enjoyment comes in sharing the pie with all the creatures on the farm. With that, the circle is made complete. He snores on as they light a fire, pop popcorn, and brew tea. Find Bear Snores On at your local library. This classic Caldecott winner from illustrates how winter comes to the woods and how the animals make their preparations.

While geese fly south, squirrels look for food and shelter and discover that a friendly neighbor in a nearby stone house has left some provisions to add to their winter feast. As quiet and beautiful as a snowflake. An amazing semi-autobiographical picture book about a young boy and his deaf father set in Brooklyn. The year is and Jackie Robinson has just been signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Find Dad, Jackie, and Me at your local library. This is a layered story that weaves in and out, up and down, to form a fascinating fantasy. The haunting scene of a wispy, wistful girl peering into the glass case on the cover starts the journey. Inside the case, the girl in the castle, lonely in her turret, appears to be lost in a dreamlike trance.

Yet as the story unfolds, the reader learns that the girl in the castle misses the children when they leave the museum and dreams of their return. Much like the Escher-like stairways of the illustrations, the three worlds intersect and blend into an unexpected story. And, with characters that look like dolls, dolls that look like porcelain figures from a Dali painting, strange toys, and hazy dream-like colors sparked here and there with a magical light, Bernheimer and Ceccoli have created a mesmerizing fantasy world that is both uniquely surreal, yet comfortingly real and loving.

Perfect for: Kids who like fantasy stories. In particular, he explains how he trains his neighboring humans to give him the food he likes. Perfect for: Kids who like humor stories. Find Diary of a Wombat at your local library. Very rarely do absolutely gorgeous picture books like this come along. Fantastic prose and magical illustrations make this picture book an instant classic.

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Find The Snow Leopard at your local library. Winter Eyes by: Douglas Florian - Greenwillow, 48 pages. Winter Eyes is a beautifully illustrated collection of poems about winter. Each poem celebrates some aspect of winter such as sledding, icicles, woolen socks and the mood of a blustery day. Your child is bound to find at least one poem that introduces her to the joys of a snowy winter or reminds her of a favorite winter activity.

Find Winter Eyes at your local library. Count the first one hundred days of school with Emily in this fun, fact-filled book. The oversized format of this book makes the bright illustrations pop off the pages. Want to see the movie? This playful story shows that two little girls can be friends and appreciate each other even though they are good at doing different things.

You child will enjoy this book over and over again. Perfect for: Appreciating friends and celebrating differences.

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Find My Best Friend at your local library. Taulbert, illustrated by: E. Little Cliff does not want to go to first grade. He does not want to leave his toys or his family. However, once he sees his friends and hears everyone having a good time, he quickly changes his mind. Any child who has felt ambivalent about starting school will appreciate this story.

When Miss Smith reads from her storybook, characters pop out and her class experiences the adventures from her magic book in real life! Does the magic work for all readers of the storybook? Oh Brother! This is a special book. Each page-spread is a poem, and together the poems tell the story of a bi-racial, blended family overcoming the trials and tribulations of learning to live and love together.

To Xavier, the house feels too small, the love not enough for two, and just about everything Chris does, Xavier sees as ill-intentioned or competitive. When the brothers work things out and find joy in each other, my 5-year-old daughter in my lap was full of happiness and bounce. The pictures are energetic, expressive and colorful, and more than match the text — they give it life and whimsy.

Perfect for: Kids who like poetry. Find Oh Brother! Flotsam by: David Wiesner - Houghton Mifflin, 40 pages. Dead center in the fish-eye lens on the cover of this fantastic visual voyage floats another lens centered in the face of an old-fashioned brownie-style box camera. A treat from beginning to end. Find Flotsam at your local library.

When she heads to Monterrey, where all the great glass-blowers live and work, disguised as a boy, she learns the depth of her own talent. Bobo was usually a good dog and got lots of treats, but when he was a bad dog, he was sent to his doghouse. When even the cat began to miss him, the cat teaches Bobo how to be a good dog. Perfect for: Kids who like adventure stories.

Find How to Be a Good Dog at your local library. I Knew You Could! A sweetly written nostalgic book. Singsong rhyming verse combined with the familiar blue engine helps us remember that anything is possible if you persevere. Younger children may need help understanding the greater meanings behind each rhyming verse. This book encourages children to believe in themselves.

Find I Knew You Could at your local library. In this Raggedy Ann and Andy adventure, all their animal friends try to help retrieve the magic wishing pebble that has been stolen by a trickster named Minky. Opens discussions about what wishes are important. This sly reversal of the typical older-sibling-jealous-of-the-new-baby picture book tells the story of Rosemary Emma Angela Lynette Isabel Iris Malone, so-saddled because every relative in the extended family took a hand in the naming.

Is it ever too early to teach compassion? When the children learn the truth, they are given the chance for self-reflection. The lessons learned here will last your child a lifetime. Perfect for: Kids who popular reading books for 1st graders classics. Find The Hundred Dresses at your local library. LeSieg Dr. Seussillustrated by: B. Written by Theo.

LeSieg Geisel backwards — a charming pen name Dr. Seuss used when he did not illustrate a titlethis funny book is a charmer. Now I grin from ear to ear when my first-grader reads it to me. Seen by some as a commentary on urbanization, this beautifully and simply illustrated book won the prestigious Caldecott Medal in Find The Little House at your local library.

Oonagh comes to the rescue and with the help of a fairy charm she tricks Cucullin into deciding that Fin is one giant better left alone. Find Fairytale News at your local library. Brigg lives in a city of the future where the landscape is all cement, kept clean by giant vacuum systems so that even a mug-full of dust is hard to collect.

The Flower has a subtlety that intrigues both older and younger children who totally get it. And they draw lots of them after reading this book, so have some paper and crayons handy! Find The Flower at your local library. This fractured tale is about a girl who does not like the rules at home and decides to move to another planet. Children relate to the story line of things not always being pleasant and the occasional desire to escape.

Find Goldilocks and the Three Martians at your local library. Two woolly mammoths are having trouble adjusting to the warmth, until they come upon the perfect solution, starting a new fashion trend — short hair. By first grade, your child may be able to read simple books aloud, retell familiar stories, recognize an increasing number of sight wordsdecode major sounds in words, and write some words.

However, at this time, children are still developing their visualization and reading comprehension skills. These widely-loved titles will help them strengthen those abilities! Art and Max are two lizards, and this book is about their creative process. Art is an accomplished artist while Max is not. Art encourages Max to develop his creative freedom, teaching readers about art and creativity in the process.

This is a lovely fairy tale about a king on the search for a wife. This unique book teaches children about time zones. The book starts at the Prime Meridian and moves eastward, peeking inside the life of a child in each of the 24 time zones.

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A little girl named Ceesay sees how plastic bags are damaging her village, so she invents a way to crochet the plastic bags into purses. Cassie, a little girl living in Harlem, dreams that she can fly above the rooftop of her apartment building. Tar Beach is a Caldecott Honor Book. To remember her family, she creates an heirloom quilt made from the clothes of family relatives.

The quilt is passed down through generations. Ideal to discuss with your 1st grade child. Heat, flies, sweat, insects are not for them — because they are woolly mammoths. But then they come up with a very clever idea. Animal story Tuesday by David Wiesner A stunningly imaginative picture book with strange and fantastical images including frogs on flying lily pads.

There are no words in this book — which makes it ideal for helping your child tell the story and develop a rich and descriptive use of language. An ideal first grade reading book to share. Picture book Fantasy Penguins by Jean Luc Fromental Imagine you wake up each day to find a penguin delivered to your front door. Who is sending them, what should you do with them, and where do you put them?

A great picture story for helping 1st grade children to count and use their imagination. Animal story Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin A funny story about life from the point of view of a worm. Homework can be eaten, baths are not necessary and mud is fine everywhere. Animal story Humor Uneversaurus by Aidan Potts A clever book all about dinosaurs which encourages children to imagine for themselves what these creatures looked, like, sounded like and felt like.

When a teacher tells a boy that people are mostly made out of water, he begins to panic. What if he dissolves? What if he goes down the plughole at bath time? But when he deals with fears, amazing and unexpected things start to happen. A great book for 1st grade children. She hates art. Classic When Sheep Cannot Sleep by Satoshi Kitamura A story about a sheep who goes to extraordinary lengths to get to sleep, by going outside and counting everything he meets.

A great story for developing math and memory skills.