Great Books for 1st Graders

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Located in the PICTURE BOOK section under the author's last name:

• Uptown
  by Bryan Collier
• Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
  by Doreen Cronin
• Abuela
  by Arthur Dorros
• Oh No, Gotta Go!
  by Susan Middleton Elya
• Elena's Serenade
  by Campbell Geeslin
• Kitten's First Full Moon
  by Kevin Henkes
• The Road to Mumbai
  by Ruth Jeyaveeran
• Just Like Josh Gibson
  by Angela Johnson
• Tiger Tiger
  by Dee Lillegard
• Dinosailors
  by Deb Lund
• Moses Goes to a Concert
  by Isaac Millman
• Mr. Belinsky's Bagels
  by Ellen Schwartz
• Yoko's Paper Cranes
  by Rosemary Wells
• The Wheels on the Race Car
  by Alexander Zane
• Count on Your Fingers African Style
  by Claudia Zaslavsky

Located in the EASY READER section under the author's last name:

• Franklin and the Magic Show
  (Franklin Kids Can Read series)
  by Paulette Bourgeois
• Aggie and Will
  (Rookie Reader series)
  by Larry Dane Brimner
• All Wrapped Up
  (Rookie Reader series)
  by Thera S. Callahan
• Biscuit Goes to School
  (Biscuit I Can Read series)
  by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
• Dumpy to the Rescue!
  (My First I Can Read series)
  by Julie Andrews Edwards
• Fishy Riddles
  (Puffin Easy-Read series)
  by Katy Hall
• Sammy the Seal
  (I Can Read series)
  by Syd Hoff
• Firefly Friend
  (Rookie Reader series)
  by Kimberly Wagner Klier
• We Both Read-About Pets
  (We Both Read series)
  by Sindy McKay
• Big Pig and Little Pig
  (Green Light Readers series)
  by David McPhail
• Tiny Goes to the Library
  (Easy-to-Read series)
  by Carl Meister
• Loose Tooth
  (My First I Can Read series)
  by Lola M. Schaefer
• Names
  (Capital Letters series)
  by Pam Scheunemann
• Rosa Loves to Read
  (Rookie Reader series)
  by Diane Z. Shore
• Turtle and Snake's Day at the Beach
  (Easy-to-Read series)
  by Kate Spohn

Located in the NON-FICTION section by the number on the spine:

• Turtle's Race With Beaver: A Traditional Seneca Story
  by Joseph Bruchac (J 398 B)
• Please, Malese!: A Trickster Tale From Haiti
  by Amy MacDonald (J 398 M)
• Coyote: A Trickster Tale From the American Southwest
  by Gerald McDermott (J 398 M)
• Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile
  by Won-Ldy Paye (J 398 P)
• The Moon Book
  by Gail Gibbons (J 523.3 G)
• Alphabet of Dinosaurs
  (Jurassic Park series)
  by Peter Dodson (J 567.9 D)
• Questions: Poems
  (I Can Read Book series)
  by Lee Bennett Hopkins (J 811.08 Q)
• Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry
  by Ashley Bryan (J 811.5 B)

Also, try these read-alouds located in the PAPERBACK section by the author's last name:

• Julian, Dream Doctor
  (Stepping Stone Book series)
  by Ann Cameron
• Russell Sprouts
  (Riverside Kids series)
  by Johanna Hurwitz
• I'll Meet You at the Cucumbers
  (Ready-for-Chapters series)
  by Lillian Moore
• Hoboken Chicken Emergency
  by Daniel Pinkwater