First Grade

The Evelyn Smith Wray Village School
Summer Reading List for Rising First Graders

Please use the following list as a guide only and feel free to expand your selections based on the interests of your child. Rising first grade students are encouraged to list the books they read or that are read to them this summer. At the beginning of the school year, we will recognize students who bring in their reading log with a minimum of ten books listed.

Adler, David A....Young Cam Jansen series
Allard, Harry and Marshall, James...Miss Nelson Is Missing
Aylesworth, Jim...Old Black Fly
Brett, Jan...The Mitten
Brown, Marcia...Stone Soup
Brunhoff, Jean de...The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant
Burningham, John...Mr. Gumpy’s Outing
Burton, Virginia Lee...Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Campbell, Rod...Dear Zoo
Capucilli, Alyssa Satin...Biscuit series
Carle, Eric...Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me
Chaconas, Dori...Cork and Fuzz series
Cohen, Miriam...First Grade Takes a Test
Cousins, Lucy...Maisie Goes Swimming
Creech, Sharon...A Fine, Fine School
Crews, Donald...Freight Train
dePaola, Tomie...Bill and Pete
Ehlert, Lois...Leaf Man
Fleming, Denise...Lunch
Gág, Wanda...Millions of Cats
Galdone, Paul...The Monkey and the Crocodile
Ginsburg, Mirra...Mushroom in the Rain
Henkes, Kevin...Owen
Hoban, Russell...Bread and Jam for Frances
Hoff, Syd...Arturo’s Baton; Mrs. Brice’s Mice; Sammy the Seal (and others)
Hutchins, Pat...Rosie’s Walk
Isaacs, Anne...Swamp Angel
Isadora, Rachel...Ben’s Trumpet
Jonas, Ann...Round Trip
Kraus, Robert...Leo the Late Bloomer
Krauss, Ruth...The Carrot Seed
Langstaff, John...Over in the Meadow
Leaf, Munro...The Story of Ferdinand
Lewis, Rose...I Love You Like Crazy Cakes
Lionni, Leo...Little Blue and Little Yellow; Swimmy
Lobel, Arnold...The Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose: A Treasury of More than 300 Marshall, James...George and Martha
Martin Jr, Bill and Archambault, John...Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
McCloskey, Robert...Blueberries for Sal
Mosel, Arlene...Tikki Tikki Tembo
Noble, Trinka Hakes...The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash
Numeroff, Laura...If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Parish, Peggy...Amelia Bedelia series
Peet, Bill...The Ant and the Elephant
Potter, Beatrix...The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Classic Nursery Rhymes
Rathmann, Peggy...Officer Buckle and Gloria
Rey, H. A....Curious George
Rosen, Michael...We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Rylant, Cynthia...When I Was Young in the Mountains
Schaefer, Lola M....Mittens series
Silverman, Erica...Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa series
Slobodkina, Esphyr...Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
Small, David...Imogene’s Antlers
Steptoe, John...Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Van Leeuwen, Jean...Tales of Amanda Pig
Waber, Bernard...Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Walsh, Ellen Stoll...Mouse Paint
Williams, Vera B....A Chair for My Mother
Wood, Audrey...The Napping House
Zion, Gene...Harry the Dirty Dog