Ferguson Library Summer Reading List
Pre-K & Kindergarten
Favorite Picture Books
(EPIC unless otherwise noted)
Ashman, Linda
Blackall, Sophie
Brown,Peter
Carle, Eric
Chernesky, Felicia Sanzari
Chodos-Irvine, Margaret
DaCosta, Barbara
Davis,Jacky
Daywalt, Drew
Dempsey, Kristy
Dykeman, Ame
Ehlert, Lois
Fleming, Denise
Frazee, Marla
Gall, Chris
Gravett, Emily
Harrison, Hannah
Hatke, Ben
Henkes, Kevin
Hills,Tad
Himmelman, John
Idle, Molly Schaar
Kang, Anna
Kelly,Mark
Lee,Suzy
London, Jonathan
Long, Loren
Low, William
Rain!
The Baby Tree
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild
The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse
Cheers for a Dozen Ears
Ella Sarah Gets Dressed (Caldecott Honor)
Nighttime Ninja
Ladybug Girl
The Day the Crayons Quit
A Dance like Starlight
Wolfie the Bunny
Planting a Rainbow
Underground
The Farmer and the Clown
Dinotrux
Wolf Won’t Bite
Extraordinary Jane
Julia’s House for Lost Creatures
My Garden
Duck & Goose (series)
Chickens to the Rescue
Flora and the Flamingo
You are (not) Small
Mousetronaut goes to Mars
Wave
Froggy (series)
Otis and the Puppy
Machines Go to Work in the City
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Markes, Julie
Pilutti, Deb
Raschka,Christopher
Ray, Mary Lyn
Santat, Dan
Shhhhh! Everybody’s Sleeping
Ten Rules for Being a Superhero
A Ball For Daisy(Caldecott Award)
Stars
The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary
Friend
Sayre, April Pulley
Eat Like a Bear
Scanlon, Liz Garton
All The World+
Schubert, Leda
Reading To Peanut
Scieszka, Jon
Smash! Crash!
Seeger, Laura Vaccaro
Green
Sendak, Maurice
Where the Wild Things Are (Caldecott Award+)
Shannon, David
Too Many Toys
Shea, Susan A.
Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow?
Sierra, Judy
ZooZical
Stead, Philip C.
A Sick Day for Amos McGee+ Sutton, Sally
Demolition
Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth
Shells! Shells! Shells!
Willems, Mo
The Pigeon Needs a Bath
Yolen, Jane
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food +
Early Beginning Readers and Predictable Picture Books
(EBEG unless otherwise noted)
EPIC Bloom, Suzanne
Degen, Bruce
Dotlich, Rebecca Kai
Eastman, P.D.
Gorbachev, Valeri
EPIC Hills, Tad
EPIC Dean, James
A Splendid Friend Indeed
I Said, “Bed!”
Digger the Dinosaur
Big Dog...Little Dog
Whose Hat Is It?
How Rocket Learned to Read
Pete the Cat and his Four Groovy Buttons
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Long, Ethan
Meisel, Paul
Rau, Dana M.
Riley, J. D.
Rinker, Sherri Duskey
Rylant, Cynthia
Schaefer, Lola M
Willems, Mo
Up, Tall, and High!
See Me Run
Robot, Go Bot!
Axel the Truck
Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
Mr. Putter and Tabby (series)
Mittens (series)
Elephant and Piggie Books (series)
Multicultural Stories
(EPIC unless otherwise noted)
Cunnane,Kelly
Diakité, Penda
Khan, Rukhsana
Lin, Grace
Lo, Ginnie
Medina, Meg
ESPA Mora, Pat
Padmanabhan, Manjula
Park, Linda Sue
Pinkney, Brian
Robert, Na’ima Bint
Stewart, Sarah
Tarpley, Natasha Anastasia
Thong, Roseanne
Deep in the Sahara
I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Big Red Lollipop
Bringing in the New Year
Auntie Yang’s Great Soybean Picnic
Tia Isa Wants a Car
Gracias, Thanks+
I Am Different! Can You Find Me?
Bee-Bim Bop!
Max Found Two Sticks
Going to Mecca
The Quiet Place
I Love My Hair
Green is a Chile Pepper
Folktales and Poetry
E 398.2 C Crews, Nina
E 389.2 D DeFelice, Cynthia
E 821.54 E Elliot,David
E 398.24 K Kimmel, Eric
Jack and the Beanstalk
Nelly May Has Her Say
In the Sea
Anansi and the Talking Melon
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E 398.2 M MacDonald, Margaret Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur!
E 398.2 P Pinkney, Jerry
Puss in Boots
E 398.2 S Sneed, Brad
Aesop’s Fables
EPIC Taback, Simms
Joseph Had A Little Overcoat (Caldecott Award)+
E 398.2 T Thomas, Joyce CarolThe Six Fools
E 398.21 Z Zelinsky, Paul O. Rumpelstiltskin
E 821 S Sidman, Joyce
Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature
Nonfiction
EB GOODALL McDonnell, Patrick
EB NIGHTINGALE Demi
E 152.142 B Brocket, Jane
E 597.87 C Cowley, Joy
E 629.046 C Cooper, Wade
E 579D Davies, Nicola Tiny
E 628.925 D Demarest, Chris L.
E 595.789 E Ehlert, Lois
E 386.223 G Garland, Michael
E 567.9 H Houran, Lori Haskins
E 591 J Jenkins, Steve
E 591.56 K Kelly, Irene
E 910 K Kerley, Barbara
E 701.1 K Kutschbach, Doris
E 629.454 M McReynolds, Linda
E 629.225 O Olson, K.C.
E 591.468 J Page,
Me . . . Jane
Florence Nightingale
Spotty, Stripy, Swirly: What are Patterns?
Red-eyed Tree Frog
On the Road
Creatures: The World of Microbes
Firefighters A to Z
Waiting for Wings
Tugboat
Dig Those Dinosaurs
Actual Size
Even an Octopus Needs a Home
The World is Waiting for You
The Art Treasure Hunt: I Spy with My Little
Eye
Eight Days Gone+
Construction Countdown
Robin Egg
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E 581.632 R Rockwell,Lizzy
Plants Feed Me
E 599.789 R Ryder, Joanne
Panda Kindergarten
E 591.56S Springett, Martin
Kate & Pippin: an Unlikely Love Story
E 597.96 T Thomson, Sarah L.
Amazing Snakes!
E 508 Z Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner Secrets of the Seasons:
Orbiting the Sun in Our Backyard
Ferguson Library Summer Reading List
GRADE 1 Favorite Picture Books
(EPIC unless otherwise noted)
Bingham, Kelly
Bonwill, Ann
Broach, Elise
DaCosta, Barbara
Frazee, Marla
French, Jackie
Grey, Mini
Haughton, Chris
E821 H Hoberman, Mary Ann
Jeffers, Oliver
Kerby, Johanna
Kirk, Daniel
Kuipers, Alice
Numeroff, Laura
Pearson, Susan
Rathmann, Peggy
Stein, David Ezra
Viva, Frank
Wiesner, David
Z is for Moose
Bug and Bear
When Dinosaurs Came With Everything
Nighttime Ninja
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week
Ever+
Diary of a Baby Wombat
Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey
Shhh! We Have a Plan
You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very
Short Stories to Read Together
This Moose Belongs to Me
Little Pink Pup
Library Mouse: Home Sweet
Home
Violet & Victor Write the Best-Ever
Bookworm Book
What Sisters Do Best/What Brothers Do
Best
How to Teach a Slug to Read
Officer Buckle and Gloria (Caldecott
Award)+
Love, Mouserella
Outstanding in the Rain
Mr. Wuffles!
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Beginning Readers
(EBEG unless otherwise noted)
Arnold, Tedd
Bell, Cece
ESPA Delacre, Lulu
Gall, Chris
Henkes, Kevin
Lin, Grace
Little, Jean
Long, Ethan
McMullan, Kate
Minarik, Else
Rylant, Cynthia
Sharmat, Marjorie
Willems, Mo
Yee, Wong Herbert
A Pet for Fly Guy (series)
Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover
Rafi and Rosi (series) Emberly, Rebecca
Mice on Ice
Dinotrux Go To School
Penny and Her Marble (series)
Ling & Ting Twice as Silly (series)
Emma’s Strange Pet
Up, Tall, and High!
Pearl and Wagner: Five Days
Till Summer
Holmelund Little Bear
(series)+
Annie and Snowball and the
Wedding Day
Weinman Nate the Great (series)+
Waiting is Not Easy! (series)
Mouse and Mole, Secret
Valentine (series)
Ferguson Library Summer Reading List
Multicultural Stories
(EPIC unless otherwise noted)
Kahn, Hena
Golden Domes and Silver
Lanterns
Madrigal, Antonio Hernandez
Erandi’s Braids
E398.2 Mc MacDonald, Margaret Read Give Up, Gecko!
Pak, Soyung
Dear Juno
JBEG Parker, Toni Trent
Sienna’s Scrapbook
Recorvits, Helen
My Name is Yoon
Tarbescu, Edith
Annushka’s Voyage
Thong, Roseanne
Green Is a Chile Pepper
Wells, Rosemary
Yoko
Nonfiction
E599.67 A Arnold, Katya
E 597.3 A Arnold, Tedd
E595.44 B Berger, Melvin
E973.41 C Chandra, Deborah
E552 C Christian, Peggy
E 599.313 C Cooke, Lucy
E597.95 C Cowley, Joy
E579 D Davies, Nicola
E636.89 H Harvey, Tom and Allie
E591.1 J Jenkins, Steve & Page
E513 L Lewis, J. Patrick
Elephants Can Paint Too!
Fly Guy Presents Sharks
Spinning Spiders
George Washington’s Teeth
If You Find a Rock
A Little Book of Sloth
Chameleon, Chameleon
Tiny Creatures: The World of
Microbes
Tiger Pups
What Do You Do with a Tail
Like This? (Caldecott Honor)
Arithme-Tickle: An Even
Number of Odd Riddle-Rhymes
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E551.48 L Lyon, George Ella
629.133 M Macaulay, David
E599.789 M Markle, Sandra
EB Mandela Nelson, Kadir
E523.8 R Rockwell, Anne
EB Sagan Sisson, Stephanie Roth
E530.8 S Schwartz, David M.
E591.5 T Thimmesh, Catherine
+ = available on audio
+ = available on compact disc/Playaway/MP–3
All the Water in the World E
Eye: How it Works
How Many Baby Pandas?
Nelson Mandela+
Our Stars
Star Stuff
Millions to Measure
Friends
Ferguson Library Summer Reading List
GRADE 2
Favorite Picture Books
(EPIC unless otherwise noted)
Barton, Chris
Buzzeo, Toni
Copeland, Misty
DiPucchio, Kelly
Flaherty, A. W.
E791.33 G Gerstein, Mordecai
Gravett, Emily
JBEG Hopkinson, Deborah
JBEG Kimmel, Eric
JBEG Meyer, Susan Lynn
JBEG Muth, John
Offill, Jenny
Perkins, Lynne Rae
Polacco, Patricia
Rosenstock, Barb
Shaw, Jenny Sue
Shark vs. Train
One Cool Friend
Firebird
Crafty Chloe
The Luck of the Loch Ness
Monster
The Man Who Walked Between the
Towers+ (Caldecott Award)
The Rabbit Problem
Sky Boys: How They Built the
Empire State Building
The Great Texas Hamster Drive: An
Original Tall Tale
New Shoes
Zen Shorts
17 Things I’m Not Allowed to
Do Anymore
The Cardboard Piano
Clara and Davie
The Noisy Paint Box
Same, Same but Different
Ferguson Library Summer Reading List
Beginning Readers
(EBEG unless otherwise noted)
Adler, David
Arnold, Caroline
Chaconas, Dori
Danziger, Paula
Dicamillo, Kate
Egan, Tim
Gregorich, Barbara
Kvasnosky, Laura McGee
Lasky, Kathryn
Rylant, Cynthia
Bones and the Clown Mix-up Mystery
Wiggle and Waggle
Cork & Fuzz: Spring Cleaning
(series)
Second Grade Rules Amber
Brown+(series)
Mercy Watson: Princess in
Disguise (series)
Dodsworth in Tokyo (series)
Waltur Paints Himself Into a
Corner
Zelda and Ivy: The Big Picture
(Geisel Award)
Poodle and Hound
Mr. Putter & Tabby Turn the
Page (series)+
Early Chapter Books
(JBEG unless otherwise noted)
EBEG. JPBK Adler, David A.
Barrows, Annie
Blume, Judy
Bruel, Nick
Catalanotto, Peter
Cazet, Denys
Cam Jansen (series)+
Ivy + Bean Take the Case
(series)+
Friend or Fiend? with Pain &
the Great One (series)
Bad Kitty for President
Monkey & Robot
Minnie and Moo and The
Seven Wonders of The World
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DiCamillo, Kate
Friedman, Laurie
Gifford, Peggy
Himmelman, John
Jeffers, Oliver
Johnston, Tony
Kirby, Stan
Lowry, Lois
McDonald, Megan
JPBK Park, Barbara
Sternberg, Julie
Bink & Gollie, Best Friends
Forever+
Play It Again, Mallory
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love
Stuart Little +
Tales of Bunjitsu Bunny
Once Upon an Alphabet
Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea
Captain Awesome and the
Ultimate Spelling Bee
Gooney Bird and All Her
Charms
Stink and the Shark Sleepover
Junie B. Jones (series)+
Like Carrot Juice on a Cupcake
Multicultural Stories
(JBEG unless otherwise noted)
E398.353 B Beeler, Selby
Throw Your Tooth on the Roof:
Tooth Traditions from Around
the World
E 398.2 B Bryan, Ashley
Can’t Scare Me
E 398.2 D Divakaruni, Chitra
Banerjee Grandma and the
Great Gourd
Lama, Tenzing Norbu
Himalaya
E 398.2 L Lee, H. Chuku
Beauty and the Beast
JSPA 306.85 L Lomas Garza, Carmen Magic Windows/Ventanas
Magicas
J916.6 O Onyefulu, Ifeoma Ikenna Goes to Nigeria
Pandya, Meenal
Here Comes Holi: The Festival
of Colors
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J796.357 M Tavares, Matt
E 398.2 W Weulersse, Odile
Growing Up Pedro
Nasreddine
Folktales
(E398.2 unless otherwise noted)
E398.2 D, Deedy, Carmen Agra
E398.2 D Demi
E398.2 T Hurston, Zora Neale
E398.2 K Kimmel, Eric
E398.2 M MacDonald, Margaret
JBEG Noble, Trina Hakes
E398.2 P Palatini, Marge
E398.2 P Pinkney, Jerry
JBEG Rylant, Cynthia
JBEG Sunami, Kitoba
E 398.2 W Wade, Mary Dodson
Martina the Beautiful
Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale+
The Hungry Coat: A Tale from
Turkey
What’s the Hurry, Fox? And
Other Animal Stories
Joha Makes a Wish: a Middle Eastern Tale
Read Go To Sleep, Gecko! A Balinese
Folktale
The Legend of the Jersey Devil
Lousy, Rotten, Stinkin’Grapes+
Little Red Riding Hood
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
How the Fisherman Tricked
the Genie
No Year of the Cat
Poetry
J821 A Agee, Jon
J821 E Esbensen, Barbara
J 821 F Florian, Douglas
E821 G Greenfield, Eloise
Orangutan Tongs: Poems to
Tangle Your Tongue
Juster Swing Around the Sun
UnBEElievables
Brothers & Sisters: Family
Poems
Ferguson Library Summer Reading List
J821.08 H Hoberman, Mary Ann
E821 L Latham, Irene
J821 L Lee, Dennis
J641.3 M Mora, Pat
J821 S Shapiro, Karen Jo
E821 W Weinstock, Robert
E398.8 U Unobagha, Uzo
Forget-me-nots: Poems to
Learn By Heart
Dear Wandering Wildebeest:
and Other Poems from the Water Hole
Alligator Pie
Yum! Mmmmm! Que Rico!
Americas’ Sproutings
I Must Go Down To the Beach
Again and Other Poems
Food Hates You Too and
Other Poems
Off To the Sweet Shores of
Africa and Other Talking Drum
Rhymes
Nonfiction
J590 A Ablow, Gail
A Horse In the House and
Other Strange But True Animal Stories
E 595.44 B Biship, Nic
Spiders
EB Einstein Brown, Don
Odd Boy Out: Young Albert
Einstein
J612.8 C Chancellor, Deborah I
Wonder Why Lemons Taste
Sour and Other Questions
About the Senses
E 828 C Cleary, Brian
Six Sheep Sip Thick Shakes:
and Other Tricky Tongue
Twister
E 598.942 G George, Jean Craighead The Eagles are Back
E 932.014 H Hartland, Jessie
How the Sphinx Got to the
Museum
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E595.799 H Huber, Raymond
J591.472 J Jenkins, Steve
E 599.78 K Kvatum, Lisa
E664.6 M McCarthy, Meghan
E 599.789 P Potter, Alicia
Roth, Susan
J612.2 S Siy, Alexandra
E973.757 W Walker, Sally
E 599.785 W Walker, Sally
E 567.9 Werner, Sharon
EB Cousteau Yaccarino, Dan
+= available on audio
Flight of the Honey Bee
Living Color
Saving Yasha
Pop! The Invention of Bubble
Gum
Mrs. Harkness and the Panda E 598.71 R
Parrots Over Puerto Rico
Sneeze!
ShipwreckSearch:Discovery of
The H. L. Hunley
Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who
Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
Alphasaurs and Other
Prehistoric Types
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques
Cousteau