Giant List of Picture books and Novels recommended for 3rd
grade!
3rd Grade
Aardema, Verna. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears. Illustrated by Leo and Diane
Dillon. Picture Book.
Ackerman, Karen. Araminta's Paint Box. Illustrated by Betsy Lewin. Picture Book.
Ackerman, Karen. Song and Dance Man. Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. Picture Book.
Altman, Linda Jacobs. Amelia's Road. Picture Book.
Anno, Mitsumasa. Anno's Counting Book. Picture Book.
Anno, Mitsumasa. Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar. Picture Book.
Anno, Mitsumasa. Anno's USA. Picture Book.
Armstrong, Jennifer. King Crow. Picture Book.
Armstrong, Jennifer. Wan Hu Is in the Stars. Picture Book.
Baillie, Allan. Rebel. Picture Book.
Bang, Molly. Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, The. Picture Book.
Barron, T. A.. Heartlight. Novel.
Baylor, Byrd. Everybody Needs a Rock. Illustrated by Peter Parnall. Picture Book.
Baylor, Byrd. Guess Who My Favorite Person Is. Illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker.
Picture Book.
Baylor, Byrd. I'm in Charge of Celebrations. Illustrated by Peter Parnall. Picture Book.
Baylor, Byrd. Table Where Rich People Sit, The. Picture Book.
Blos, Joan W.. Old Henry. Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. Picture Book.
Blundell, Tony. Beware of Boys. Picture Book.
Breathed, Berkeley. Goodnight Opus. picture book.
Brown, Ruth. World that Jack Built, The. Picture Book.
Buehner, Mark and Caralyn. Fanny's Dream. Picture Book.
Bunting, Eve. Dandelions. Illustrated by Greg Shed. Picture Book.
Bunting, Eve. Fly Away Home. Illustrated by Ronald Himler. Picture Book.
Bunting, Eve. Train to Somewhere. Illustrated by Ron Himler. Picture Book.
Burch, Robert. Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain. Novel.
Cazet, Denys. Never Spit on Your Shoes. Picture Book.
Cherry, Lynne. River Ran Wild, A. Picture Book.
Childcraft. Inventors and Inventions. Nonfiction.
Christelow, Eileen. What Do Authors Do?. Picture Book.
Cole, Brock. Giant's Toe, The. Picture Book.
Connor, Leslie. Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel. Illustrated by Mary Azarian. Picture
Book.
Conrad, Pam. Prairie Visions. Nonfiction.
Cooney, Barbara. Miss Rumphius. Picture Book.
Cowcher, Helen. Tigress. Picture Book.
Cresswell, Helen. Night Watchmen, The. Novel.
Dunrea, Olivier. Eppie M. Says. Picture Book.
Erdrich, Louise. Birchbark House, The. novel.
Estes, Eleanor. Rufus M.. Novel.
Gammell, Stephen. Once Upon MacDonald's Farm. Picture Book.
Garza, Carmen Lomas. Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia. Picture Book.
George, Jean Craighead. Look to the North: A Wolf Pup Diary. Illustrated by Lucia
Washburn. Picture Book.
Gerstein, Mordicai. Man Who Walked Between the Towers, The. Picture Book
Nonfiction.
Griffith, Helen. Emily and the Enchanted Frog. Picture Book.
Harris, Robie. It's So Amazing: A Book About Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies and
Families. Illustrated by Michael Emberley. Nonfiction.
Harris, Robie H.. It's Perfectly Normal. Nonfiction.
Hathorn, Libby. Way Home. Picture Book.
Heide, Florence Parry. Sami and the Time of the Troubles. Illustrated by Ted Lewin.
Picture Book.
Heller, Ruth. Cache of Jewels, A. Nonfiction.
Heller, Ruth. Chickens Aren't the Only Ones. Nonfiction.
Henkes, Kevin. Julius, the Baby of the World. Picture Book.
Houston, Gloria. My Great-Aunt Arizona. Illustrated by Susan Condie Lamb. Picture
Book.
Hurst, Carol Otis. Rocks in His Head. Illustrated by James Stevenson. Picture Book.
Johnson, James Weldon. Creation. Illustrated by Carla Golembe. Picture Book.
Kesselman, Wendy. Emma. Picture Book.
Kimmel, Eric A.. Charlie Drives the Stage. Illustrated by Glen Rounds. Picture Book.
King-Smith, Dick. Babe the Gallant Pig. Novel.
Kitchen, Bert. And So They Build. Picture Book, Nonfiction.
Lasky, Kathryn. Night Journey, The. Novel.
Lawrence, R. D.. Wolves. Nonfiction.
Lionni, Leo. Little Blue and Little Yellow. Picture Book.
Lobel, Arnold. Owl At Home. Picture Book.
Lowry, Lois. Attaboy, Sam!. Novel.
Lyon, George Ella. Cecil's Story. Illustrated by Peter Catalanotto. Picture Book.
Macaulay, David. Black and White. Picture Book.
Mazer, Anne. Salamander Room, The. Picture Book.
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Shiloh. Novel.
Nixon, Joan Lowry. Beats Me, Claude. Picture Book.
Nunes, Susan. Coyote Dreams. Illustrated by Ronald Himler. Picture Book.
Parish, Herman. Good Driving, Amelia Bedelia. Illustrated by Lynn Sweat. Easy Reader.
Park, Barbar. Mick Harte Was Here. Novel.
Paul, Ann Whitford. All By Herself. Illustrated by Michael Steimagle. Picture Book
Nonfiction.
Paulsen, Gary. Call Me Francis Tucket. Novel.
Polacco, Patricia. Keeping Quilt, The. Picture Book.
Paulsen, Gary. Woodsong. Novel.
Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. Picture Book.
Rowling, J. K.. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Novel.
Rylant, Cynthia. Children of Christmas. Illustrated by S. D. Schindler. Novel.
Rylant, Cynthia. Relatives Came, The. Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. Picture Book.
Rylant, Cynthia. When I was Young in the Mountains. Illustrated by Diane Goode.
Picture Book.
Sadler, Marilyn. Elizabeth and Larry. Illustrated by Roger Bollen. Picture Book.
Sandler, Martin W.. Library of Congress Book of Presidents. Nonfiction.
Say, Allen. Tree of Cranes. Picture Book.
Simon, Seymour. Earthquakes. Nonfiction.
Simon, Seymour. Oceans. Nonfiction.
Sis, Peter. Three Golden Keys, The. Picture Book.
Smith, Jane Denitz. Mary By Myself. novel.
Smith, Robert Kimmel. Bobby Baseball. Novel.
Spinelli, Jerry. Maniac Magee. Novel.
Stangl, Jean. Science Toolbox. Nonfiction.
Steig, William. Abel's Island. Novel.
Stevenson, James. Bones in the Cliff, The. Novel.
Stevenson, James. Mud Flat Olympics, The. Picture Book.
Stevenson, James. Pattaconk Brook, The. Picture Book.
Stevenson, James. Yard Sale. Picture Book.
Turner, Ann. Christmas House, The. Picture Book.
Turner, Ann. Grasshopper Summer. Novel.
Van Allsburg, Chris. Jumanji. Picture Book.
Van Allsburg, Chris. Widow's Broom, The. Picture Book.
Ward, Lynd. Silver Pony. Picture Book.
White, E. B.. Charlotte's Web. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Novel.
Wiesner, David. Tuesday. Picture Book.
Williams, Sherley Anne. Working Cotton. Illustrated by Carole ,Byard. Picture Book.
Winthrop, Elizabeth. Castle in the Attic. Novel.
Yolen, Jane. Bird Watch: A Book of Poetry. Illustrated by Ted Lewin. picture book.
Yolen, Jane. Letting Swift River Go. Illustrated by Barbara Cooney. Picture Book
Nonfiction.
York, Carol Beach. Once Upon a Dark November. Novel.