Suggested Reading: Grades 1-4

Here are some selections for first through fourth graders to help you get started making your own list:

Download Missy's reading list for grades 1-4

Song and Dance Man
Karen Ackerman

Snowflake Bentley
Mary Azarian

Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans

Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown

Little Fur Family
Margaret Wise Brown

The Runaway Bunny
Margaret Wise Brown

The Mitten
Jan Brett

Stone Soup
Marcia Brown

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Virginia Lee Burton

The Canterbury Tales
Barbara Cohen and
Trina Schart Hyman

Chanticleer and the Fox
Barbara Cooney

Miss Rumphius
Barbara Cooney

Horton Hears a Who
Dr. Seuss

Petunia
Roger Duvoisin

Are You My Mother?
P.D. Eastman

Olivia
Ian Falconer

The Story About Ping
Marjorie Flack

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Mem Fox

Dandelion
Don Freeman

Little Toot
Hardie Gramatky

Ox-Cart Man
Donald Hall and
Barbara Cooney

Bread and Jam for Frances
Russell Hoban

A House is a
House for Me
Mary Ann Hoberman

Saint George and the Dragon
Margaret Hodges and
Trina Schart Hyman

The Carrot Seed
Ruth Krauss

The Biggest House
in the World
Leo Lionni

All the Places to Love
Patricia Maclachlan

Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey

   Make Way
   for Ducklings
   Robert McCloskey

Winnie the Pooh
A.A. Milne

Sam, Bangs and Moonshine
Evaline Ness

The Rainbow Fish
Marcus Pfister

The Little Engine
that Could
Watty Piper

Thunder Cake
Patricia Polacco

The Tale of
Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
Marjorie Priceman

The Relatives Came
Cynthia Rylant

Where the Wild
Things Are
Maurice Sendak

Amos and Boris
William Steig

Brave Irene
William Steig

Thy Friend, Obadiah
Brinton Turkle

   Caps for Sale
   Esphyr Slobodkina

The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg