'15/'16 Books Read

Books we have read together or independently for the '15/'16 school year

September - January

• A Pizza the size of the Sun, by Jack Perlutsky 

• All of a Kind Family, by Sydney Taylor 

• Amelia Bedelia Chapter Book #6: Amelia Bedelia Cleans Up, by Herman Parrish 

• American Holidays: Labor Day, by Connor Dayton 

• By the Shores of Silver Lake, by Laura Ingalls Wilder 

• Clara Dillingham Pierson's Complete Among the People Series, by Clara Dillingham 

• Columbus, by the D’Aulaires 

• Cricket in Times Square, by George Seldon 

• Illustrated Stories from Shakespeare (Clothbound Story Collections), by Usborne 

• Illustrated Stories from the Greek Myths. (Illustrated Story Collections), by Usborne 

• In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World, by Virginia Hamilton 

• Ivy & Bean (Book 1), by Annie Barrows 

• Kate and the Beanstalk, by Mary Pope Osborne 

• Life on the Mayflower, Jessica Gunderson 

• Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder 

• The Long Winter, by Laura Ingalls Wilder 

• More All-Of-A-Kind Family, by Sydney Taylor 

• Oh, The Places You'll Go!, by Dr. Seuss 

• Old Mother West Wind, by Thornton W. Burgess 

• Poems Children Will Sit Still For...a Selection for the Primary Grades, by Beatrice De Regniers 

• The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk, by Thornton W. Burgess 

• The Adventures of Johnny Chuck, by Thornton W. Burgess 

• The Annotated Brothers Grimm, by the Brothers Grimm 

• The Golly Sisters Go West (I Can Read Book 3), by Betsy Byarrs 

• Urban Rangers - Raptor Pamphlet, by the Central Park Conservancy 

• What's The Time, by Lara Tankel 

• Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein 

• You Read to Me, I'll Read to You, John Ciardi 

• Miscellaneous Christmas and Chanukah books 

• Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport 

• Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 

• These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder 

• The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder 

• You Can’t See Your Bones with Binoculars: A Guide to Your 206 Bones by Harriet Ziefert 

• Then and Now by Heather Amery 

• The History of Counting by Denise Schmandt-Besserat 

• Laura’s Album: A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson 

• Mermaid Queen by Shana Corey 

• The Story of Stars: From the Stars, Solar Systems and Galaxies to Beyond by Neal Layton 

• Children Just Like Me: A Unique Celebration of Children Around the World by Barnabas & Anabel Kindersley 

• Misc. Poems from the Read-Aloud Poems For Young People ed. By Glorya Hale 

• Selected Fables by Jean De La Fontaine 

• Agatha’s Feather Bed: Not Just Another Wild Goose Story by Carmen Agra Deedy 

• It’s Disgusting and We Ate It: True Food Facts From Around the World and 

• Throughout History by James Solheim 

• See Inside Your Body by Katie Daynes and Colin King 

• Look Inside Our World by Emily Bone 

• Fancy Nancy The Show Must Go On by Jane O’Connor 

• Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown 

• Laugh Out Loud Jokes For Kids by Rob Elliott 

• Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa by Erica Silverman 

• Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater 

• Pete the Parrakeet by Irma Simonton Black 

• Litte Runner of the Longhouse by Betty Baker 

• Morris Goes to School by B. Wiseman 

• Little Tim series by Edward Ardiozzone 

• Ivy and Bean Break the Fossil Record by Annie Barrows 

• The Magic School Bus Chapter Book: The Search for the Missing Bones by Eva Moore 

• As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Hescher’s Amazing March Toward Freedom by Richard Michelson 

• The Kingdom of Wrenly: The Lost Stone by Jordan Quinn 

• Chester by Syd Hoff 

• Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too by Disney 

• Poems Children Will Sit Still For...a Selection for the Primary Grades by Beatrice De Regniers 

February - 

• The Magic School Bus and the Science Fair Expedition by Joanna Cole
• Building Our House by Jonathan Bean
• The Story of King Arthur by Tom Crawford- 2/16 Chapter 1
• What's So Yummy: All About Eating Well and Feeling Good by Robie H. Harris
• What Lincoln Said by Sarah L. Thomson (for President's Day)
• The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles

Ongoing

• The Story of the World Vol 1: Ancient Times From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor (chapters 1 & 2)