PreK

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 Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells
Sep The Everything Book by Denise Fleming
Sep You Can't Go to School Naked! E BILlstrom; cause and effect; text connection with This is the Baby E FLEming
Sep Franklin in the Dark by Paulette Bourgeois
Sep Franklin Says I Love You by Paulette Bourgeois
Sep Julius, Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes
Sep William's Doll by Charlotte Zolotow
Sep Margaret and Margarita by Lynn Reiser
Sep Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber
Sep Cat Jumped in! E WEAver; prepositions; directional words
Sep It's Library Day E STOeke; mulit-ethnic children selecting books, rhyming text
Sep What Will Fat Cat Sit On? ETHOmas
Sep A Good Day E HENkes; simple thoughts and images
Sep Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle
Sep Keisha Ann Can! E KIRk; rhyming, lists things kids do in school
Sep My Brother E BROwne; myself
Sep The Real Hole by E Cleary
Sep Max's Starry night E QILson
Sep Go Away, Big Green Monster E EMBerley
Sep Bear's Picture E PINkwater; art makes us happy
Sep Gossie & Gertie E DUNrea; following in a line
Sep No Biting, Louise E PALatini
Sep I Can Fly E KRAuss; use imagination and move like animals in the story
Sep We're Going on a Book Hunt E MILler
Sep My Pup E OHAir; simple rhyming text about puppy care
Sep Maisy goes to the library E COUsins/ PS
Sep I 2 Buckle My Shoe E HINes counting
Sep Splat the Cat E SCOtton reluctant to go to school
Oct Thank you Bear E FOLey
Oct Ducks Don't Wear Socks by John Nedwidek
Oct Bear Feels Scared E WILson; rainy weather, friends
Oct Eight Animals on the Town E ELYa
Oct Goodnight moon E BROwn
Oct Alfred's Nose E FLEsher liking yourself the way you are: self-esteem
Oct Click, Clack, Splish, Splash A counting Adventure E CROnin: math topic
Oct Chicken and Cat E VARon: wordless picture book
Nov Dino-Hockey E WHEeler; meat vs. veggies, food lesson, rhyming text
Nov Mouse Went Out to Get a Snack by Lyn Rossiter McFarland
Nov Let"s Eat! A Comer E MORa; bilingual about eating; rich in food and rich in love
Nov Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? E BEAumont
Nov McDuff's Wild Romp by Rosemary Wells
Nov McDuff's Saves the Day by Rosemary Wells
Nov McDuff's Christmas (McDuff's New Friend) by Rosemary Wells
Nov McDuff and the Baby by Rosemary Wells
Nov. McDuff Goes to School by Rosemary Wells
Dec The Gingerbread Man 398.2 GIN; Child"s Play; illust. Linda Jeffrey; gingerbread man is on a string and the gingerbread man moves through the book on a string through cut-outs in the pages
Dec Santa Claus is coming to town E Kellogg
Dec Count on Culebra Go from 1 to 10 in Spanish making cookies
Jan Chicken Soup with rice by E Sendak
Jan How do you know it's winter E 508 FOWler
Jan Wag a Tail E EHLert
Jan You Can't Go to School Naked! E BILlstrom; cause and effect; text connection with This is the Baby E FLEming
Feb The Pout-Pout Fish E DIEsen; self-discovery, liking self
Feb Mung Mung E 418 PARk
Feb I Love You With All My Heart by Noris Kern
Feb Under my hood I have a hat E KUSkin/ P.S. Jan. 2005
Mar Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo WILlems
Mar THe Little Book of Not So 428.1 HARper; opposites; think of other words that mean the opposite
Mar Slippers Love to Run E CLEments
Apr Hurry! Hurry! E BUNting, egg hatches
Apr Starry Safari E ASHman / P.S. Apr. 2005
Apr The Cow who clucked E FLEming
Apr Have you seen my duckling? E TAFuri
Apr Whose Chick are YOu? E TAFuri
May My Mother's Sari E RAO, rhyming text, simple sentences about a child interacting with the sari