I put together this picture book list for my daughter who is starting Junior Kindergarten. I typically read a picture book to her each day at bedtime so this list should last about a year. I looked through Sonlight, Winter Promise, Five in a Row, livingmath.net, and Caldecott books to compile a list. I have a few books on this list, but most books will be reserved in bunches from the library. I’ve included books in the categories of literature, rhyming books (lots of Dr. Seuss), history, geography, science, and math.
- In the Small, Small Pond
- Tikki Tikki Tembo
- Panda Bear, Panda Bear What Do You See?
- Zin Zin Zin a Violin
- Who Sank the Boat?
- The Magic School Bus Taking Flight: A Book About Flight
- Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?
- Ella Sarah Gets Dressed.
- Little Red Lighthouse and Great Gray Bridge
- If Jesus Came to My House
- My First Raggedy Ann: How Raggedy Ann Got Her Candy Heart
- Olivia Forms a Band
- How Many Feet? How Many Tails?
- Richard Scarry’s Please and Thank You Book
- Maybelle, the Cable Car
- The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit
- Why Do People Eat?
- Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog?
- Oh, the Thinks You Can Think
- Where Are You Going? To See My Friend
- The Sneeches and Other Stories
- The Magic School Bus Hops Home: Animal Habitats
- The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
- Columbus’s Chart
- Follow the Drinking Gourd
- People by Spier
- Count Your Way Through France
- Mother Teresa’s Alms Bowl
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- 10 Little Rubber Ducks
- The Grouchy Ladybug
- The Magic School Bus Plays Ball: A Book about Forces
- In the Tall, Tall Grass
- Inch by Inch by Lionni
- Ed Emberley’s Picture Pie
- Mister Seahorse
- Pigs in the Corner
- The Magic School Bus Shows and Tells: Archaeology
- One Small Square: African Savanna
- The Foot Book
- Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now
- Living Long Ago
- Sitting Bull’s Tomahawk
- The Seven Little Postman
- Corduroy
- Amber on the Mountain
- Andy and the Lion
- My First Raggedy Ann: Raggedy Ann and Rags
- Maggie and the Pirate
- Kitten for a Day
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
- Bunny Mail
- Count Your Way Through Brazil
- The Magic School Bus Electric Field Trip
- Ruby’s Beauty Shop
- If You Give a Pig a Party
- The Greedy Python
- The Magic School Bus: Inside the Earth
- Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?
- I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew
- The Berenstain Bears’ Big Book of Science and Nature
- Blueberries for Sal
- Watch Out! A Giant
- Olivia Helps with Christmas
- Burt Dow
- Mirette on the High Wire
- Miss Rumphius
- The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow: Book About Color
- The Carrot Seed
- Katy No-Pocket
- Play with Me
- Little Quack
- Missing Math: A Number Mystery
- Pigs on the Ball
- Round Trip by Jonas
- The Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad: Decomposition
- One Small Square: Backyard
- Oh, the Places You Go
- Count Your Way Through Russia
- The Lorax
- Wild Places
- A Treasury of Children’s Literature (3 weeks worth)
- The Magic School Bus Spins a Web: Spiders
- Julius Caesar’s Sandals
- Very Last First Time
- My First Raggedy Ann: Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees
- 1 is One
- Goggles
- The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System
- Dream Snow
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See
- Go Dog Go
- Caps for Sale
- Caterpillars and Butterflies by Turnbull
- How Flowers Grow by Helbrough
- Mrs. Katz and Tush
- New Coat for Anna
- The Magic School Bus in a Pickle: Microbes
- Runaway Bunny
- I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today
- Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride
- Mother, Mother, I Feel Sick. Send for the Doctor Quick.
- Mouse by Mouse
- Count Your Way Through Italy
- Max’s Christmas
- Sold! A Mothematics Adventure
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Taback
- If I Ran the Zoo
- The Bippolo Seed
- The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie: Germs
- One Small Square: Swamp
- Happy Birthday to You (Seuss)
- A Treasury of Curious George
- Horton Hears a Who
- Galileo’s Telescope
- Angelo
- I’m Not Going to Get Up Today
- The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake: Kitchen Chemistry
- The Tooth Book
- Raggedy Ann in Cookie Land
- Scrambled Eggs Super
- Dreams
- Bunny Party
- Boom Chicka Rock
- If You Take a Mouse to School
- Eric Carle’s Treasury of Classic Stories for Children
- Papa, Papa Please Get the Moon for Me
- Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body
- Goodnight Moon
- Harold and the Purple Crayon
- Count Your Way Through Egypt
- See How It’s Made DK
- Owl Moon
- Story of Ferdinand
- Snowy Day
- Diary of a Worm
- Mouse Count
- The Magic School Bus in the Haunted Museum: Sound
- Mr. Archimedes’ Bath
- Monster at the End of the Book
- The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
- Seven Chinese Brothers
- Queen Victoria’s Diamond
- Angus Lost
- The Magic School Bus Takes a Dive: Coral Reefs
- Great Day for Up
- Max Cleans Up
- How Many Snails: A Counting Book
- My First Raggedy Ann: Raggedy Ann’s Wishing Pebble
- Whistle for Willie
- Hunches in Bunches
- Sven’s Bridge
- The Magic School Bus Blasts into Space
- Harold at the North Pole
- Kitten’s First Full Moon
- Wright Brother’s Glider
- Bunny Money
- Count Your Way Through the Arab World
- Pancakes, Pancakes
- Please Try to Remember the First of Octember
- Once Upon a Dime: A Math Adventure
- The Lamb and the Butterfly
- From Head to Toe
- Tale of Peter Rabbit
- Cleopatra’s Coin
- Raggedy Ann in the Deep Deep Woods
- The Magic School Bus Sees Stars: Stars
- The Very Quiet Cricket
- And to Think That I Saw it All on Mulberry Street
- Ten Sly Piranhas
- The Rabbit and the Turtle: Aesop’s Fables
- The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor
- Horton Hatches the Egg
- Make Way for Ducklings
- A House for Hermit Crab
- Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten
- Martin L. King Jr.’s Microphone
- Oh, Say Can You Say
- One Hundred is a Family
- Ask Mr. Bear
- Fox in Sox
- The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses
- Bunny Cakes
- Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On
- Ten Apples Up On Top
- One Lighthouse, One Moon
- The Tiny Seed
- Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear?
- The Magic School Bus in the Time of Dinosaurs
- How Do You Know What Time it is?
- Lentil
- Time of Wonder
- The Mitten
- Olivia
- I Can Read with my Eyes Shut
- Polar Express
- Today is Monday
- Three Names
- When I Was Young in the Mountains
- Yertle the Turtle
- The Magic School Bus Gets Programmed: Computers
- Marco Polo’s Silk Purse
- Raggedy Ann’s Lucky Pennies
- Whistle for Willie
- Do You Want to Be My Friend?
- Bartholomew and the Oobleck
- Olivia Goes to Venice
- Max and Ruby’s Midas
- Five Minutes Peace
- My Apron
- The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm: Weather
- One Small Square: Coral Reef
- Wacky Wednesday
- That’s Good, That’s Bad
- The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock
- Mr. Brown Can Moo
- Draw Me a Star
- Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs
- Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
- In a People’s House
- Little Nino’s Pizzeria
- The Magic School Bus Gets Ants in its Pants
- Salamander Room
- Armstrong’s Moon Rock
- Hooray for Diffendoofer Day
- Grandfather’s Journey
- Louie
- The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten: Food Chains
- The Mixed-Up Chameleon
- Regards to the Man in the Moon
- Max and Ruby’s First Greek Myth: Pandora’s Box
- The Button Box
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
- My Book about Me: By Me, Myself
- Walter the Baker
- Daisy-Head Mayzie
- The Magic School Bus in the Arctic: Heat
- The Monster Money Book
- There’s a Wocket in My Pocket
- The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane
- The Little House
- Poems and Prayers for the Very Young
- The Three Pigs by Wiesner
- Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
- The Very Lonely Firefly
- The Magic School Bus Blows Its Top: Volcanos
- The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
- Leonardo’s Palette
- How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
- Katy and the Big Snow
- Max’s Bunny Business
- Little Cloud
- The Magic School Bus Gets All Dried Up: Deserts
- Chrysanthemum
- One Small Square: Pond
- On Beyond Zebra
- The Shape of Things
- The Very Kind Rich Lady and Her One Hundred Dogs
- Have You Seen My Cat?
- The Magic School Bus Butterfly and Bog Beast: Butterfly Camouflage
- The Bee Tree
- Animals, Animals
- Mailing May
- Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book
- Raft
- Hello, Red Fox
- Madeline
- Night of the Moonjellies
- Max and Ruby’s Bedtime Book
- The Magic School Bus in the Rainforest
- You’re Only Old Once
- Contrary Mary
- The Secret Birthday Message
- Count Your Way Through Ireland
- If You Take a Mouse to the Movies
- One Small Square: Cave
- Hop on Pop
- 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo
- The Magic School Bus Gets Wet All Over: Water Cycle
- I Wish That I Had Duck Feet
- Blackout
- Each Orange Had 8 Slices
- Grandpa Green
- Shakespeare’s Quill
- Rag Coat
- Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
- The King’s Stilts
- Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
- The Magic School Bus Going Batty: A Book About Bats
- The Story About Ping
- The Very Clumsy Click Beetle
- Max’s Chocolate Chicken
- If You Give a Pig a Pancake
- Count Your Way Through Israel
- The Turnip
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Seven Stories by Hans Christian Anderson
- The Magic School Bus Out of This World: Space Rocks
- Rooster’s Off to See the World
- Max’s Dragon Shirt
- Count Your Way Through Korea
- The Trip
- Gerald McBoing Boing
- Peter’s Chair
- Olivia Saves the Circus
- The Magic School Bus Ups and Downs: Floating
- The House in the Night
- Henry’s Freedom Box
- Roxaboxen
- The Eye Book
- Snowflake Bentley
- One Small Square: Tropical Rainforest
- The Butter Battle Book
- The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive
- Does Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?
- Slowly, Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth
- A Letter to Amy
- Jennie’s Hat
- If You Give a Cat a Cupcake
- Count Your Way Through Africa
- If I Ran the Circus
- A Sick Day for Amos McGee
- Gone Wild: An Endangered Alphabet
- The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: How Living Things Grow
- McElligot’s Pool
- The Hello, Goodbye Window
- Always Room for One More
- Rechenka’s Eggs
- Big Green Pocketbook
- Maybe You Should Fly a Jet. Maybe You Should Be a Vet.
- Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose
- Pet Show
- Hi, Cat
- Olivia and the Missing Toy
- Count Your Way Through India
- The Magic School Bus Goes Upstream: A Book About Salmon
- The Very Busy Spider
- Max and Ruby Play School
- Olivia Helps with Christmas
