The titles on this list are intended to facilitate the literacy development of emergent, beginning, and instructional level readers in the first grade classroom.

 

 

First Grade Book List
Click on the book title for more info	Rating	Difficulty
A Chair For My Mother by Vera Williams		Easy Reading
A Tree Can Be by Judy Nayer and Gail Gibbons		Easy Reading
A Very Busy Year by Leo Lioni
Aardvarks Disembark by Ann Jonas
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Viorst, Judith		Challenging
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Lionni, Leo		Challenging
Alphabet Soup by Kate Banks
Are you My Mother? by P.D. Eastman		Easy Reading
Arthur's Tooth by Brown, Marc Tolon		Easy Reading
Bedtime for Frances by Hoban, Russell		Average
Berenstein Bears: Manners, First Grade by Stan and Jan Berenstein		Easy Reading
Big Brown Bear by Big brown bear		Easy Reading
Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells		Average
Caps for Sale by Slobodkina, Esphyr		Average
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Barrett, Judi		Challenging
Corduroy by Don Freeman		Challenging
Danny and the Dinosaur by Hoff, Syd		Average
Don't Forget the Bacon by Pat Hutchins		Easy Reading
Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley		Easy Reading
Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allen Ahlberg		Easy Reading
Ferdinand by Munro Leaf		Easy Reading
Frog and Toad Together by Lobel		Easy Reading
Froggy Gets Dressed by London, Jonathan		Easy Reading
Henny Penny by Paul Galdone
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Numeroff, Laura Joffe		Average
In a small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming
In the Tall, Tall Grass by Vera B. Williams		Easy Reading
Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino		Easy Reading
Jack and the Beanstalk by Paul Galdone		Challenging
Just Me and My Dad by Mayer, Mercer		Easy Reading
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood		Average
Leo The Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus		Easy Reading
Let's Go Home, Little Bear by Waddell, Martin		Average
Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik		Easy Reading
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans		Average
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey		Easy Reading
Mouse Paint by Walsh, Ellen Stoll		Easy Reading
My Best Friend by Pat Hutchins		Easy Reading
Nuts To You by Lois Ehlert
Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth
Over in the Meadow by John Longstaff		Easy Reading
Rosie's Walk by Hutchins, Pat		Easy Reading
Round Trip by Ann Jonas
Sammy, the Seal by Hoff, Syd		Average
Secret Seahorse by Blackstone, Stella		Average
Sheep in a Jeep by Shaw, Nancy		Easy Reading
Stellaluna by Cannon, Janell		Challenging
Swimmy by Leo Lionni		Average
Sylvester and the magic pebble by William Steig		Challenging
The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins		Easy Reading
The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone
The Gingerbread Man by Paul Galdone		Average
The Listening Walk by Showers, Paul		Easy Reading
The Little Engine That Could by Retan, Walter		Average
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton		Average
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams		Challenging
The Napping House by Audrey Wood		Challenging
The Shortest Kid in the World by Bliss, Corinne Demas		Average
The Teeny Tiny Woman by Jill Bennett		Easy Reading
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Scieszka, Jon		Average
There's a Nightmare in My Closet by Mayer, Mercer		Average
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak		Easy Reading
Above Grade Level Suggestions
Click on the book title for more info	Rating	Difficulty
Cam Jansen by David Adler		Challenging
Goosebumps by R.L. Stine		Challenging
Horrible Harry
Junie B. Jones by Barbara Parks		Challenging
Magic Tree House chapter books by Mary Pope Osborne		Challenging