VCCB: RF Book Lists 2006 - 1st Grade
Read-Alouds (Book Language; Vocabulary development; Story structure & comprehension)
Traction Man is Here! written and illustrated by Mini Grey (Random House)
Mr. Wolf's Pancakes by Jan Fearnley (Tiger Tales)
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus written and illustrated by Mo Willems (Hyperion)
Clara and Asha written and illustrated by Eric Rohman (Roaring Brook)
Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin (Simon & Schuster)
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith (Viking)
Giddy Up Cowgirl written and illustrated by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Penguin)
Duck & Goose written and illustrated by Tad Hills (Schwartz & Wade)
Guji Guji written and illustrated by Chih-Yuan Chen (Kane/Miller)
A Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanne Bloom (Boyds Mill Press)
I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont, illustrated by David Catrow (Harcourt)
He Came with the Couch written and illustrated by David Slonim (Chronicle)
Too Many Frogs! by Sandy Asher, illustrated by Keith Graves (Penguin)
No, David (and other 'David' books) written and illustrated by David Shannon (Scholastic)
Good Dog, Fergus written and illustrated by David Shannon (Scholastic)
Lilly's Big Day written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)
Poetry and Pattern Books
Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme by Jack Prelutsky, illustrated by Meilo So (Random House)
In the Swim written and illustrated by Douglas Florian (Harcourt)
Monster Goose by Judy Sierra, illustrated by Jack E. Davis (Harcourt)
Big, Bad and a Little Bit Scary: Poems that Bite Back written and illustrated by Wade Zahares (Viking)
Oh No, Where Are My Pants? and other Disaster Poems by Lee Bennett Hopkins, illustrated by Wolf Erlbruch (HarperCollins)
You Read to Me and I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together, You Read to Me and I'll Read to You: Very Short Mother Goose Tales to Read Together, and You Read to Me and I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman, illustrated by Michael Emberley (Little, Brown)
The Neighborhood Mother Goose photographs by Nina Crews (HarperCollins)
Don't Fidget a Feather by Erica Silverman, illustrated by S. D. Schindler (Simon & Schuster)
My Little Sister Ate One Hare by Bill Grossman, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes (Crown)
The Seals on the Bus by Lenny Hort, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Henry Holt)
The Wheels on the Race Car by Alexander Zane, illustrated by James Warhola (Orchard)
ABC and Counting Books
Ten Little Mummies: An Egyptian Counting Book by Philip Yates, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Viking)
O is for Old Dominion: A Virginia Alphabet by Pamela Duncan Edwards, illustrated by Troy Howell (Sleeping Bear Press)
Click Clack, Splish Splash: A Counting Adventure by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin (Simon & Schuster)
Click Clack Quackity Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin (Simon & Schuster)
Alphabet Under Construction written and illustrated by Denise Fleming (Henry Holt)
Into the A, B, Sea by Deborah Lee Rose, illustrated by Steve Jenkins (Scholastic)
Non-fiction/Informational
I See a Kookaburra!: Discovering Animal Habitats Around the World by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
Growing Frogs by Vivian French, illustrated by Alison Bartlett (Candlewick)
I Took a Walk written and illustrated by Henry Cole (Greenwillow)
On the Way to the Beach written and illustrated by Henry Cole (HarperCollins)
Chameleon, Chameleon by Joy Cowley, photographs by Nic Bishop (Candlewick)