Kindergarten Reading List

IST’S READING LIST Available at IST’s Book Fair

KINDERGARTEN: Picture Books:

Trailblazer Favorite

Available on Scholastic’s Online Store

Teacher Favorite

KINDERGARTEN: Picture Books:

The Boy, the mole, the fox, and the Horse

By Charlie Mackesy This book follows the tale of a curious boy, a greedy mole, a wary fox and a wise horse who find themselves together in sometimes difficult terrain, sharing their greatest fears and biggest discoveries about vulnerabiliyt, kindness, hope, friendship, and love. The shared adventures and important conversations between the four friends are full of life lessons that have connected with readers of all ages.

We Don’t Eat Our Classmates

By Ryan T. Higgins It’s the first day of school for Penelope Rex, and she can’t wait to meet her classmates. But it’s hard to make human friends when they’re so delicious! That is, until Penelope gets a taste of her own medicine and finds she may not be at the top of the food chain after all...

Iggy Peck, Architect

By Andrea Beaty Some kids sculpt sandcastles. Some make mud pies.

Some construct great block towers. But none are better at building than Iggy Peck, who once erected a life-size replica of the Great Sphinx on his front lawn!

It’s too bad that few people appreciate Iggy’s talent certainly not his second-grade teacher, Miss. Lila Greer. It looks as if Iggy will have to trade in his Tsquare for a box of crayons...until a fateful field trip proves just how useful a master builder can be.

The Gruffalo

By Julia Donaldson

Room on the Broom

By Julia Donaldson

A mouse is taking a stroll through the deep, dark wood when along comes a hungry fox, then an owl, and then a snake. The mouse is good enough to eat but smart enough to know this, so he invents...the gruffalo!

As Mouse explains, the gruffalo is a creature with terrible claws, and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws, and knobbly knees and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of its nose. But Mouse has no worry to show. After all, there’s no such thing as a gruffalo...

A friendly witch, hungry dragon, and muddy monster learn about friendship, and readers will delight in the surprising (and not too scary) ending.

KINDERGARTEN: Early Readers:

(Type in Charlie & Mouse on Scholastic’s Online Store)

KINDERGARTEN: Early Readers:

PK-G4: Nonfiction - Series: Ordinary People Change the World Series by Brad Meltzer:

Available on the Scholastic’s Online Store:

I am Harriet Tubman

I am Martin Luther King Jr.

I am Sonia Sotomayor

I am Gandhi

I am Jackie Robinson

I am Benjamin Franklin

I am Jane Goodall

I am Neill Armstrong

I am Sacagawea

I am Jim Henson

PK-G4: Nonfiction - Series: Ordinary People Change the World Series by Brad Meltzer:

I am Stephen Hawking

I am Jesse Owens

I am Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I am Mister Rogers

I am John Lewis

I am Temple Grandin

I am Dolly Parton

I am Muhammad Ali

I am Malala Yousafzai

I am Oprah Winfrey

I am I.M. Pei

I am Frida Kahlo

I am Anne Frank

I am Leonardo da Vinci

I am Walt Disney

I am Marie Curie

I am Billie Jean King

I am George Washington

I am Helen Keller

I am Lucille Ball

PK-G4: Nonfiction - Series: Ordinary People Change the World Series by Brad Meltzer:

I am Rosa Parks

I am Albert Einstein

I am Abraham Lincoln

I am Amelia Earhart

Kindergarten: Teacher Recommendations: Last Stop On Market Street

by Matt de la Pena Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don’t own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn’t he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty - and fun - in their routine and the world around them.

The Girl Who Thought In Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin

By Julia Finley Mosca When young Temple was diagnosed with autism, no one expected her to talk, let alone become one of the most powerful voices in modern science. Yet, the determined visual thinker did just that. Her unique mind allowed her to connect with animals in a special way, helping her invent groundbreaking improvements for farms around the globe. In hardcover, The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The story of Dr. Temple Grandin was the first book in the educational Amazing Scientists series about the inspirational lives of amazing scientists. In addition to the illustrated rhyming tale, you’ll find a complete biography, fun facts, a colorful timeline of events, and even a note from Temple herself!

Moon’s First Friends: One Giant Leap for Friendship

By Susanna Leonard Hill From high up in the sky, the Moon has spent her whole life watching Earth and hoping for someone to visit. Dinosaurs roam, pyramids are built, and boats are made, but still no one comes. Will friends ever come visit her?

Commemorate the extraordinary Apollo 11 spaceflight mission with this heartwarming story of the Moon who just wants a friend.

Kindergarten: Teacher Recommendations: The Noisy Paintbox: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinksy’s Abstract Art

By Barb Rosenstock Vasya Kandinsky was a proper little boy: he studied math and history, he practiced the piano, he sat up straight and was perfectly polite. And when his family sent him to art classes, they expected him to paint pretty houses and flowers - like a proper arist.

Bust as Vasya opened his paint box and began mixing the reds, the yellows, the blues, he heard a strange sound - the swirling colors trilled like an orchestra tuning up for a symphony! And as he grew older, he continued to hear brilliant colors singing and see vibrant sounds dancing. But was Vasya brave enough to put aside his proper still lifes and portraits and paint...music?

In this exuberant celebration of creativity, Barb Rosenstock and Mary GrandPre tell the fascinating story of Vasily Kandinsky, one of the very first painters of abstract art. Throughout his life, Kandinsky experienced colors as sounds, and sounds as colors - and bold, groundbreaking works burst forth from his noisy paint box.

G1: Ms. O’Neil’s Favorite:

The Heroes of Olympus Series (Following Mercy Watson To The Rescue): Book #2: Mercy Watson Goes For A Ride Book #3: Mercy Watson Fights Crime Book #4: Mercy Watson: Princess In Disguise Book #5: Mercy Watson Thinks Like A Pig Book #6: Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes