| Aardema, Verna and Leo & Diane Dillon | Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale |
| Aesop | Aesop’s Fables |
| Allard, Harry and James Marshall | Miss Nelson Is Missing! |
| Atwater, Richard and Florence | Mr. Popper’s Penguins |
| Barrows, Annie and Sophie Blackall | Ivy + Bean |
Becker, Bonny and
Kady MacDonald Denton | A Visitor for Bear |
| Bemelmans, Ludwig | Madeline |
| Blume, Judy | Freckle Juice |
| Brown, Marcia | Stone Soup |
| Brunhoff, Jean de | The Story of Babar, The Little Elephant |
| Burton, Virginia Lee | Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel |
| Cameron, Ann and Ann Strugnell | The Stories Julian Tells |
| Cleary, Beverly | The Mouse and the Motorcycle |
| Cronin, Doreen and Harry Bliss | Diary of a Worm |
| DePaola, Tomie | Strega Nona |
| Dorros, Arthur and Elisa Kleven | Abuela |
| Duvoisin, Roger | Petunia |
| Estes, Eleanor and Louis Slobodkin | The Hundred Dresses |
| Freeman, Don | Corduroy |
| Gag, Wanda | Millions of Cats |
Gannett, Ruth Stiles and
Ruth Chrisman Gannett | My Father’s Dragon |
Garza, Carmen Lomas and
Harriet Rohmer | In My Family / En Mi Familia |
Grahame, Kenneth and
Michael Hague | The Reluctant Dragon |
| Grimes, Nikki and Javaka Steptoe | A Pocketful of Poems |
| Guest, Elissa Haden and Christine Davenier | Iris and Walter |
Hamilton, Virginia and
Leo & Diane Dillon | The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales |
| Harper, Charise Mericle | Just Grace |
| Henkes, Kevin | Chrysanthemum |
| Hoban, Russell and Garth Williams | Bedtime for Frances |
| Hodges, Margaret and Trina Schart Hyman | Saint George and the Dragon |
| Hoff, Syd | Danny and the Dinosaur |
| Hoffman, Mary and Caroline Binch | Amazing Grace |
| Howe, James and Marie-Louise Gay | Houndsley and Catina |
| Johnson, Crockett | Harold and the Purple Crayon |
| Keats, Ezra Jack | The Snowy Day |
| Kraus, Robert and Jose Aruego | Leo the Late Bloomer |
| Krauss, Ruth and Crockett Johnson | The Carrot Seed |
| Kvasnosky, Laura McGee | Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways |
| Le Guin, Ursula K. and S.D. Schindler | Catwings |
| Leaf, Munro and Robert Lawson | The Story of Ferdinand |
| Lear, Edward | A Book of Nonsense |
| Lin, Grace | The Year of the Dog |
| Lionni, Leo | Frederick |
| Lobel, Arnold | Frog and Toad are Friends |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | Paul Revere’s Ride |
| Lopshire, Robert | Put Me in the Zoo |
| Marshall, James | George and Martha |
| McDermott, Gerald | Anansi the Spider |
| Milne, A.A. and Ernest H. Shepard | Winnie-the-Pooh |
Minarik, Else Holmelund and
Maurice Sendak | Little Bear |
Munsch, Robert and
Michael Martchenko | The Paper Bag Princess |
| Myers, Christopher | Wings |
Noble, Trinka Hakes and
Steven Kellogg | The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash |
Numeroff, Laura Joffe and
Felicia Bond | If You Give a Mouse a Cookie |
| Parish, Peggy and Fritz Siebel | Amelia Bedelia |
Pennypacker, Sara and
Marla Frazee | Clementine |
| Piper, Watty and Loren Long | The Little Engine that Could |
| Portis, Antoinette | Not a Box |
| Potter, Beatrix | The Tale of Peter Rabbit |
| Prelutsky, Jack and Marc Brown | Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young |
| Rey, H.A. | Curious George |
| Ringgold, Faith | Tar Beach |
Rylant, Cynthia and
Suçie Stevenson | Henry and Mudge |
| Say, Allen | Grandfather’s Journey |
| Scieszka, Jon and Lane Smith | The True Story of the Three Little Pigs |
| Sendak, Maurice | Where the Wild Things Are |
| Seuss, Dr. | Green Eggs and Ham |
Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman
and Marc Simont | Nate the Great |
| Silverman, Erica and Betsy Lewin | Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa |
| Silverstein, Shel | Where the Sidewalk Ends |
| Slobodkina, Esphyr | Caps for Sale |
| Smith, Jeff | Little Mouse Gets Ready |
| Steig, William | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble |
| Steptoe, John | Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | A Child’s Garden of Verses |
| Thurber, James and Louis Slobodkin | Many Moons |
| Udry, Janice May and Marc Simont | A Tree is Nice |
| Ungerer, Tomi | Crictor |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | The Garden of Abdul Gasazi |
| Viorst, Judith and Ray Cruz | Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day |
| White, E.B. and Garth Williams | Charlotte’s Web |
| Willems, Mo | There is a Bird on Your Head! |
| Wood, Audrey and Don Wood | The Napping House |
| Yashima, Taro | Crow Boy |
| Yee, Wong Herbert | Mouse and Mole: A Winter Wonderland |
Zion, Gene and
Margaret Bloy Graham | Harry the Dirty Dog |
Zolotow, Charlotte and
William Pène Du Bois | William’s Doll |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Prydain Chronicles |
| Andersen, Hans Christian | Fairy Tales |
| Avi and Brian Floca | Poppy |
| Babbitt, Natalie | Tuck Everlasting |
| Baum, L. Frank | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| Birdsall, Jeanne | The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy |
| Boston, L.M. | The Children of Green Knowe |
| Brooks, Gwendolyn and Faith Ringgold | Bronzeville Boys and Girls |
| Burnett, Frances Hodgson | The Secret Garden |
| Byars, Betsy | The Summer of the Swans |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland |
Clements, Andrew and
Brian Selznick | Frindle |
| Collins, Suzanne | Gregor the Overlander |
| Collodi, Carlo | The Adventures of Pinocchio |
| Cooper, Susan | The Dark is Rising |
| Creech, Sharon | Bloomability |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | Bud, Not Buddy |
D’Aulaire, Ingri and
Edgar Parin D’Aulaire | D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths |
| Dahl, Roald and Quentin Blake | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| DiCamillo, Kate | Because of Winn-Dixie |
| Dowd, Siobhan | The London Eye Mystery |
| DuPrau, Jeanne | The City of Ember |
| Eager, Edward | Half Magic |
| Erdrich, Louise | The Birchbark House |
| Estes, Eleanor | The Moffats |
| Farley, Walter | The Black Stallion |
| Fitzhugh, Louise | Harriet the Spy |
| Freedman, Russell | Lincoln, A Photobiography |
| Gaiman, Neil | Coraline |
| Gantos, Jack | Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key |
| George, Jean Craighead | My Side of the Mountain |
| Grahame, Kenneth | The Wind in the Willows |
| Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm | The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales |
| Henry, Marguerite | Misty of Chincoteague |
| Hiaasen, Carl | Hoot |
Hoberman, Mary Ann and
Wendy Anderson Halperin | Strawberry Hill |
Howe, Deborah & James
and Alan Daniel | Bunnicula |
| Hughes, Langston | The Dream Keeper and Other Poems |
| Ibbotson, Eva and Sue Porter | Secret of Platform 13 |
| Irving, Washington | Rip Van Winkle |
| Jansson, Tove | Moominland Midwinter |
| Juster, Norton and Jules Feiffer | The Phantom Tollbooth |
| Kipling, Rudyard | The Jungle Book |
| Konigsburg, E.L. | From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
| Lamb, Charles and Mary | Tales from Shakespeare |
| Lawson, Robert | Ben and Me |
| Lenski, Lois | Strawberry Girl |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Chronicles of Narnia |
| Lin, Grace | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon |
| Lindgren, Astrid | Pippi Longstocking |
| Lofting, Hugh | Doctor Dolittle |
| Lovelace, Maud Hart | Betsy-Tacy |
| Lowry, Lois | Number the Stars |
| Macaulay, David | Castle |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Sarah, Plain and Tall |
Mathis, Sharon Bell and
Leo & Diane Dillon | The Hundred Penny Box |
| McCloskey, Robert | Homer Price |
| Merrill, Jean | The Pushcart War |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of Green Gables |
| Murphy, Jim | The Great Fire |
| Nesbit, E. | The Railway Children |
| North, Sterling | Rascal |
| Norton, Mary | The Borrowers |
| O’Brien, Robert C. | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH |
| Park, Linda Sue | When My Name was Keoko |
| Paterson, Katherine | Bridge to Terabithia |
| Pearce, Philippa | Tom’s Midnight Garden |
| Perrault, Charles | The Complete Fairy Tales |
| Reiss, Johanna | The Upstairs Room |
| Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone |
| Ryan, Pam Munoz | Esperanza Rising |
| Sachar, Louis | Holes |
| Selznick, Brian | The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
| Sewell, Anna | Black Beauty |
| Sharp, Margery | The Rescuers |
| Sperry, Armstrong | Call It Courage |
| Spyri, Johanna | Heidi |
Stewart, Trenton Lee and
Carson Ellis | The Mysterious Benedict Society |
| Sutcliff, Rosemary | The Wanderings of Odysseus |
| Taylor, Sydney and Helen John | All-of-a-Kind Family |
| Travers, P.L. | Mary Poppins |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls and
Garth Williams | Little House on the Prairie |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Locomotion |
| Wyss, Johann | Swiss Family Robinson |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women |
| Almond, David | Skellig |
| Bagnold, Enid | National Velvet |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Cleaver, Vera and Bill Cleaver | Where the Lilies Bloom |
| Cooper, James Fenimore | The Last of the Mohicans |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe |
| Douglass, Frederick | The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
| Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| Dumas, Alexander | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Eckert, Allan W. | Incident at Hawk’s Hill |
| Engdahl, Sylvia | Enchantress from the Stars |
| Forester, C.S. | The Horatio Hornblower Series |
| Frank, Anne | The Diary of a Young Girl |
| Frost, Robert | Poems |
| George, Jean Craighead | Julie of the Wolves |
| Hamilton, Virginia | M.C. Higgins, the Great |
| Hautzig, Esther | The Endless Steppe |
| Hilton, James | Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
| Hinton, S.E. | The Outsiders |
| Hoose, Phillip | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice |
| Hugo, Victor | The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| Hunt, Irene | Across Five Aprils |
| Hunter, Mollie | A Stranger Came Ashore |
| Irving, Washington | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| Johnson, Angela | Heaven |
| Keith, Harold | Rifles for Watie |
| Keller, Helen | The Story of My Life |
| Korman, Gordon | No More Dead Dogs |
| LaFleur, Suzanne | Love, Aubrey |
| Le Guin, Ursula K. | A Wizard of Earthsea |
| L’Engle, Madeleine | A Wrinkle in Time |
| Lester, Julius and Tom Feelings | To Be a Slave |
| London, Jack | Call of the Wild |
| Malory, Sir Thomas | Le Morte d’Arthur |
| McCaffrey, Anne | Dragonsong |
| O’Dell, Scott | Island of the Blue Dolphins |
| Oppel, Kenneth | Airborn |
| Paterson, Katherine | Jacob I Have Loved |
| Paulsen, Gary and Drew Willis | Hatchet |
| Peck, Richard | A Long Way from Chicago |
| Peck, Robert Newton | A Day No Pigs Would Die |
| Pratchett, Terry | The Wee Free Men |
| Pyle, Howard | The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood |
| Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan | The Yearling |
| Rawls, Wilson | Where the Red Fern Grows |
| Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de | The Little Prince |
| Schaefer, Jack | Shane |
| Schmidt, Gary D. | The Wednesday Wars |
| Scott, Sir Walter | Ivanhoe |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Speare, Elizabeth George | The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
| Steinbeck, John | The Red Pony |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island |
| Taylor, Mildred D. | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
| Tolan, Stephanie S. | Surviving the Applewhites |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Hobbit |
| Twain, Mark | TheAdventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Uchida, Yoshiko | Journey to Topaz |
| Verne, Jules | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
| Webster, Jean | Daddy-Long-Legs |
| Wells, H.G. | The War of the Worlds |
| Wilder, Thornton | The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| Yep, Laurence | Dragonwings |
| Zindel, Paul | The Pigman |
| Zusak, Markus | The Book Thief |
