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Book Title Suggestions by Months of the School Year

Key: PS and a year number means there is a Peggy Sharp strategy page for the year indicated.

Month Title
Sep Dewey There's a Cat in the Library! by Vicki Myron
Sep "L" is for Library E TERry great for library orientation
Sep Jake Starts School by Michael Wright
Sep Don"t Squeal Unless It"s a Big Deal A Tale of Tattletales E RANsom
Sep Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
Sep A Puppy for Annie by Kim Lewis
Sep First Grade Here I Come
Sep The 3 Bears and Goldilocks E WILley; cause and effect, because Goldi doesn"t listen to her father, she goes where she doesn't belong
Sep Mind your manners, B.B. Wolf E SIErra; library manners
Sep The Bears in the Bed and the Great Big Storm E BRIght
Sep Wild About Books E SIErra / P.S. Nov. 04
Sep A Visitor for Bear E BECker; making a new friend
Sep Walking through the jungle
Sep Rock it sock Number line by E Martin
Sep The Barking Mouse E SACre
Sep Growing up feet E CLEary and talk about schema: framework of experience
Sep Best Friends by E Kellogg
Sep A Pocket for Corduroy by E FREeman
Sep When an elephant comes to school E ORMerod/ P.S. Aug. 2005
Sep What Grandmas do best E NUMeroff
Sep Big Friends E CUYler
Sep The Magic Hat E FOX/ P.S. strategy page -- rhyming activity
Sep Peek! A Thai hide-and-Seek E HO
Sep The Guinea Pig ABC E DUKe
Sep Maybe a Bear Ate It! by Robie H. HarrisE HAR
Sep The Problem with Chickens E MCMillan/ PS 2006
Sep On My Very First Day Of School I Met E STIles/ PS use to intro character-tell us more about the monster
Sep The Great Pig Escape E CHRistelow
Sep Papa and Me E DORros boy and dad visiting grandparents
Sep The Best Book to Read E BERtram
Sep Grandpa Gazillions Number yard E KELler
Oct Little Lost Bat 599.4 MARkle
Oct Professor Bumble and the monster of the deep E NAPp; cute bear and otter story
Oct Thing-Thing by Cary Fagan
Oct Mrs. O"Leary"s Cow 782.42 HOBerman; fire safety
Oct Hello, Bumblebee Bat E 599.4 LUNde
Oct Pee Wee Scouts FIC DELton/ pledge
Oct She Did it E ERIcsson
Oct Friends and Pals and Brothers, Too E WILson; rhyming text; seasons
Oct Oh No, Got to Go E ELYa
Oct Swimmy E LEOnni
Oct Frederick E LEOnni
Oct The Alphabet Tree E LEOnni
Oct Click, Clack moo E Cronin
Oct Giggle, giggle, quack E Cronin
Oct Little Bat"s halloween story by E Mayr
Oct The Spooky Halloween Party by E Prager
Oct Hieronymus Betts and his Unusual Pets E ROBertson-little brother in a devil suit connects to Max in the wild things
Oct The Bumby little pumpkin E CUYler
Oct I love my little storybook E JERam/ P.S. strategy page
Oct My Friend the Moon E DAHan
Oct A Tiger Named Thomas (order)
Oct There Are Monsters Everywhere E MAYer/ PS
Oct Chato Goes Cruisin" E SOTo/PS
Oct Minnie and Moo meet Frankenswine E CAZet
Oct Bumpy Little Pumpkin E CUYler
Oct The Dog Who Belonged to No one E HESt; great fall illustrations
Oct Little Hoot E ROSenthal; little hoot & his parents display the opposite of what children think at bedtime: point of view
Nov Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
Nov Armadilly Chili by Helen Ketteman
Nov Tooth on the Loose by Susan Middleton Elya
Nov Hungry Hen E WARing
Nov Too Many Toys E SHAnnon; sorting, decision making, cardboard box
Nov Duck Soup E URBanovic Connects with Armadilly Chili but friends help too much
Nov Gobble It Up! A Fun Song About Eating includes a CD E ARNosky
Nov Yoko E Wells
Nov Duck for President E Cronin
Nov Wild Boars Cook E ROSoff
Nov Koala Lou E Fox
Nov The Dot E Reynolds
Nov The Crayon Box that talked E Derolf
Nov The Doorbell Rang by E HUTchins
Nov A Turkey for Thanksgiving by E BUNting
Nov Science Fair Bunnies E LASky
Nov The Firefighters" Thanksgiving E BOElts *PS Many people work on holidays. Discuss workers who have to work such as airline employees, ambulance drivers, bus drivers, hospital workers, police officers
Nov Petunia E DUVoinsin
Nov Dogs Don"t wear sneakers E NUMeroff
Nov Squiggle"s Tale E DAHan
Nov Humbug Witch E BALian (order)
Nov Badger"s Fancy Meal E KASza POV What badger doesn"t like is yummy to other animals
Nov What"s Under the Bed? E FENton; imagination; drawing conclusions without supporting facts
Nov One Boy E SEEger counting and using parts of words to make new words: math topic
Nov Jenny Found a Penny E HARris; adding money; cause and effect: math topic
Dec The Three Bears" Christmas E Duval
Dec The Puppy who wanted a boy by E THAyer
Dec Growing Up With Tamales by Gwendolyn Zepeda
Dec There was an old lady who swallowed a bell! by Lucille Colandro
Dec The Night Before Christmas in Texas that is by E HARris
Dec Christmas in the Country by E RYLant
Dec Stanley and the Class Pet by Barney Saltzberg
Dec Little Red Bird by Nick Bruel
Dec One Mitten E GEOrge/ P.S. Jan. 2005
Dec The First Day of Winter E FLEming/ P.S. Nov. 2005
Dec Dear Santa E CAMpbell/ P.S. Nov. 04
Dec How Santa Really works E SNOw / P.S. Nov. 04
Dec If you Take a Mouse to the Movies E NUMeroff
Dec Popcorn tree E MAMchur
Dec Stick Man by Julia Donaldson
Dec Our Apple tree 634 NASlund
Jan Fletcher and the fallling leaves E RAWlinson
Jan Hooray for Reading Day! E CUYler
Jan The Robot and the Bluebird E LUCas; connects with recycling, symbolical meaning to carry love in your heart as the bluebird makes a nest in the robots chest area
Jan Silent Letters Loud and Clear E PULver spelling
Jan Duck at the Door & Duck Soup by Jackie Urbanovic
Jan Snowball E Ehlert
Jan Beatrice Doesn't Want To by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Jan When Lucy Goes Out Walking A Puppy's first year by Ashley Wolff E WOL months of the year
Jan Some Things Go Together by Charlotte Zolotow connects with how things are alike
Jan Black? White! Day? Night! A Book of Opposites by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Jan Ten-Gallon Bart and the Wild West Show E CRUmmel, bull attached to blankie, cause and effect
Jan Happy birthday Martin Luther King B KING
Jan Kitten"s first full moon by E Henkes
Jan Gobble, Gobble, Slip, Slop: a Tale of a Very Greedy Cat by Meilo So
Jan Hurty Feelings by E LESter
Jan Listen Buddy by Helen Lester
Jan Tacky the Penguin E LESter
Jan Alphabet Mystery E WOOd
Jan Alphabet Adventure E WOOd
Jan The Snowy Day E KEAts
Jan The Neat Line: Scribbling Through Mother Goose by Pamela Duncan Edwards
Jan My wobbly tooth must not ever never fall out E CHIld
Feb Angelina Ballerina by Katharine Holabird
Feb Martha doesn't say sorry! by Samantha Berger
Feb The Little Red Hen by Jerry Pinkney
Feb Are you my mother? E EAStman
Feb Mae Jemison Space Pioneer B Jemison; read some parts; she is mentioned in their curriculum
Feb Mama, do you love me? E JOOse
Feb Nobody Notices Minerva E KIRwan, connects with Nobody Here but me; both characters feel ignored by their families and get into mischief
Feb Nobody Here But Me by Judith Viorst and Nobody Notices Minerva by Wednesday Kirwan
Feb What Pet to Get by Emma Dodd
Feb Papa, do you love me? E JOOse P.S. Apr. 2005
Feb The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Feb Little by Little by Amber Stewart & Layn Marlow
Feb Not So Tall for Six by Dianna Hutts Aston
Feb Stuart Murphy level one books
Feb Goldilocks and the Three Bears by 398.2 BREtt
Feb Three silly billies E PALatini / PS*
Feb First Snow E MCCully/ P.S. Jan. 2005 I.D. something you were afraid todo, but tried anyway because of the support of family or friends
Feb The Big Snow E HADer
Feb Patchwork Island E 811 KUSkin
Feb The Island of the Skog E KELlogg
Feb The Secret E GEOrge/ PS* Valentine theme
Feb Art E MCDonnell
Mar Write favorite book titles on a flower shape to decorate for spring
Mar Tooth on the Loose E ELYa; Spanish words in rhyming text
Mar Eleven Cats in a Bag by Noboru Baba
Mar Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth by Alison McGhee
Mar Yellow bird, black spider E ARCher
Mar Horse E DOYle; seasons
Mar The Three Little Rigs by David Gordon
Mar Hansel and Diesel by David Gordon
Mar The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark by Ken Geist
Mar Fortunately by E CHArlip
Mar The country bunny and the little gold shoes by E HEYward
Mar Armadillo Rodeo E BREtt
Mar The West Texas Chili Monster E COX
Mar Harry the dirty dog E ZIOn
Mar An Island Grows E SCHaefer
Mar The Wind Blew by E HUTchins
Mar The Windy Day E KARas
Mar Wolf's Coming! by Joe Kulka
Mar The Mystery E EATon; farm animals
Mar Goldilocks returns E ERNst
Mar The Gulps E GULps; fat family gets fit
Apr Seeds! Seeds! Seeds! by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace E WAL
Apr I Love Our Earth E 525 MARtin (earth day) April 22nd
Apr Grouchy Lady Bug E CARle
Apr Oodles of animals E EHLert poems about animals; rhyming text
Apr 10 Things I Can Do To Help My World 640 WALsh earth day
Apr An interview with Harry the tarantula E TYSon
Apr Sunflower House E BUNting
Apr To Be like the sun E SWAnson growing sunflowers
Apr Jack"s garden by E COLe
Apr And the good brown earth by E HENderson
Apr The Ugly Vegetables E LIN
Apr The Lightning Bugs an Ike and Mem Story FIC Jennings
Apr When the fireflies come E LONdon
Apr The Runaway Bunny E BROwn felt board
Apr Zoo"s who poems E 811 FLO/ P.S. Apr. 2005
Apr Chameleon, Chameleon E COWley/ P.S. Apr. 2005
Apr Home for a Bunny E BROwn
Apr Cat Jumped In by Tess Weaver
Apr Twister E BEArd
Apr Sky E DEWey
Apr McDuff Goes to School E WELls
Apr McDuff"s Wild Romp E WELls
Apr Stuck in the Mud E CLArke rhyming story about farm animals and mud
May The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
May Fabulous Fishes by Susan Stockdale rhyming book
May Arabella Miller"s Tiny Caterpillar E JARrett, rhyming text, Life Cycle of Butterfly
May Buster E FLEming
May Buster Goes to Camp E FLEming; maps
May Don"t worry bear E FOLey;simple & connects to Very Hungry Caterpillar
May T-Rex and the Mother's Day Hug by Lois G. Grambling
May Bark, Geroge E FIEffer
May Pinkerton, Behave! By E KELlogg
May The Day Leo Said I Hate You! E HARris; coping
May So Happy E HENkes/P.S. List the things that make you happy, Text to self connection about what happens in your world when it rains. Apr. 2005
May The Old Woman and Her Pig E GALdone
May Suddenly! E MCNaughton
May Give the Dog a Bone E KELogg
May Flip-Flops E COTe
May Q is for Duck An Alphabet Guessing Game E 428.1 ELT/ Zoo story
May McDuff Saves the Day E Wells
May Fiesta Fiasco by Ann Whitford Paul
May Bear"s New Friend E WILson summer story