Great Read Alouds
By:  Sherri Chema, Reading Teacher

Grades K - 3

* Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (J. Viorst)

* The Amazing Bone (William Steig)

* Amelia Bedelia (Peggy Parrish)

* The Bear's Toothache (David McPhail)

* Bedtime for Frances (Russell Hoban)

* A Bedtime Story (Joan Levine)

* Benjie (Joan Lexau)

* Bennett Cerf's Book of Animal Riddles (Bennett Cerf)

* Blueberries for Sal (Robert McCloskey)

* Cinderella (John Fowles)

* Corduroy (Don Freeman)

* Frederick (Leo Lionni)

* Frog and Toad are Friends (Arnold Lobel)

* Goodnight Moon (Margaret Wise Brown)

* Hans Andersen - His Classic Fairy Tales (Translated by Frik Haugaard)

* Household Stories of the Brothers Grimm Translated Lucy Crane)

* Ira Sleeps Over (Bernard Waber)

* Little Bear (Else Holmelund Minarik)

* The Little Engine That Could (Watty Piper)

* Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans)

* Mother Goose, A Treasury of Best Loved Rhymes (Edited by Watty Piper)

* The Story of Ferdinand (Munro Leaf)

* The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)

Grades 4 - 6

* Call It Courage (Armstrong Sperry)

* The Littles (John Peterson)

* The Reluctant Dragon (Kenneth Graham)

* Soup (Robert Newton Peck)

* Stone Fox (John R. Gardiner)

* A Taste of Blackberries (Doris B. Smith)

* Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Peterson)

* The Cay (Theodore Taylor)

* Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)

* Cricket in Times Square (George Seldon)

* Homer Price (Robert McCloskey)

* The Indian in the Cupboard (Lynne Reid Banks)

* Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls)