Book Titles from the Treasury of Read-Alouds
in Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook
in Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook
Many of the storybooks mentioned in the Read-Aloud Handbook
can be found in the Thomas Edison Charter School library.
Wordless Books
- A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka
- Deep in the Forest by Brinton Turkle
- Flotsam by David Wiesner
- Sector 7 by David Wiesner
- Time Flies by Eric Rohmann
- Tuesday by David Wiesner
Predictable Books
- Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
- Do You Want to Be My Friend? by Eric Carle
- Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley
- The Flea's Sneeze by Lynn Downey
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
- The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
- Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
- The Napping House by Audrey Wood
- Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
Picture Books
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
- Arthur's Chicken Pox by Marc Brown
- The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
- Brave Irene by William Steig
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
- A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
- Giant Treasury of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins (nonfiction)
- Erandi's Braids by Antonio Hernandez Madrigal
- Froggy Gets Dressed (series) by Jonathan London
- Full, Full, Full of Love by Trish Cooke
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Susan Stevens Crummel
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
- Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber
- The Legend of the Bluebonnet retold by Tomie dePaola
- The Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen
- Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
- The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
- The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
- Madeline (series) by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- Micawber by John Lithgow
- Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
- Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
- Miss Nelson is Missing! (series) by Harry Allard
- Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen
- The Napping House by Audrey Wood
- The Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
- Thank You Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving (nonfiction) by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by John Scieszka
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- Where's My Teddy? (series) by Jez Alborough
- Where's Waldo? (series) by Martin Handford
- The Whingdingdilly by Bill Peet
- You Can Do It, Sam (series) by Amy Hest
Rhyming Books
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
- The Napping House by Audrey Wood
- Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw
- Madeline (series) by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Micawber by John Lithgow
- The Recess Queen by Alexis O'Neill
- Casey at the Bat by Ernest L. Thayer
Sports Picture Books
- Casey at the Bat by Ernest L. Thayer
Poetry
- Dirt on My Shirt by Jeff Foxworthy
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella by Susan Lowell
Kindergarten Novels (in order of difficulty)
- Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus by Barbara Park
- Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne
- My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
- Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith
Fairy-Tale Parodies
- Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella by Susan Lowell
- Goldie and the Three Bears by Diane Stanley
- Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems
- Kate and the Beanstalk by Mary Pope Osborne
- Little Red Riding Hood: A Newfangled Prairie Tale by Lisa Campbell Ernst
- The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
- Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter by Diane Stanley
- Sleeping Ugly by Jane Yolen
- The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot by Margaret McNamara and Mark Fearing
- The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bag Pig by Eugene Trivizas
- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by John Scieszka