Personal Narrative Touchstone Texts
Picture Books
Title
Beil, Karen
Bouchard, David
Bradby, Marie
Brisson, Pat
Buckley, Peter
Bunting, Eve
Bunting, Eve
Bunting, Eve
Bunting, Eve
Bunting, Eve
Bunting, Eve
Cooney, Barbara
Dobin, Arnold
England, Kathryn
Fanelli, Sara
Gray, Libba
Greenfield, Eloise
Grogan
Hopkinson, Deborah
Juster, Norton
Kallok, Emma
Kaplan, Howard
Lasky, Kathryn
Lee, Linda
Lewis, Rose
Lewis, Rose
Mackall, Dandi Daley
MacLachlan, Patricia
MacLachlan, Patricia
Polacco, Patricia
Polacco, Patricia
Polacco, Patricia
Polacco, Patricia
Polacco, Patricia
Proversen, Alice
Ringgold, Faith
Ryder, Joanne
Ryder, Joanne
Rylant, Cynthia
Rylant, Cynthia
Rylant, Cynthia
Rylant, Cynthia
Say, Allen
Say, Allen
Schick, Eleanor
Soto, Gary
Stewart, Sara
Tunnell, Michael
Viorst, Judith
Viorst, Judith
Viorst, Judith
Viorst, Judith
Viorst, Judith
Viorst, Judith
Waddell, Martin
Grandma According to Me
If You’re Not From the Prairie
More Than Anything Else
The Summer My Father Was Ten
I Like You My Friend
Butterfly House
December
Going Home
My Red Balloon
Smoky Night
The Wednesday Surprise
Miss Rumphius
Josephine’s Imagination
Grandfather’s Wrinkles
My Map Book
My Mamma Had a Dancing Heart
She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl
Bad Dog, Marley
Girl Wonder, A Baseball Story in Nine Innings
The Hello, Goodbye Window
Gem
Waiting to Sing
Before I Was Your Mother
Autism: Living With My Brother Tiger
Every Year On Your Birthday
I Love You Like Crazy Cakes
A Girl Named Dan
All the Places to Love
What You Know First
I Can Hear the Sun
My Rotten, Red Headed Brother
Thank You Mr. Falker
Thundercake
When Lightning Comes in a Jar
The Glorious Flight
Tar Beach
My Father’s Hands
My Mother’s Voice
Birthday Presents
The Relatives Came
This Year’s Garden
When I Was Young in the Mountains
The Bicycle Man
The Lost Lake
I Have Another Language
Too Many Tamales
The Gardener
Mailing May
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, Not Good, Very Bad Day
Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear ME I Mean It!) Going to Move
Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday
My Mama Says There Aren’t Any Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires, Creatures, Demons…
Rosie and Michael
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney
A Kitten Called Moonlight
Wheatley, Nadia
Williams, Sherley Anne
Williams, Vera
Willner-Pardo, Gina
Woodson, Jacqueline
Woodson, Jacqueline
Wyeth, Sharon
Yolen, Jane
Yolen, Jane
Yolen, Jane
My Place
Working Cotton
A Chair for My Mother
What I’ll Remember When I Am a Grownup
Coming on Home Soon
The Other Side
Always My Dad
All Those Secrets of the World
Letting Swift River Go
Owl Moon
Chapter Books
Cleary, Beverly
Creech, Sharon
Title
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Love That Dog
Children’s Magazines
(Titles available at Salem Public Library)
Highlights, Cricket, Stone Soup, Spider