Book Suggestions

Some great rhyming books:


Silly Sally by Audrey Wood

Silly Sally goes to town and meets all sorts of interesting characters including a loon who sings a toon, a pig who dances a jig, and a sheep who falls asleep.  This is a very simple books using not many words.  The text repeats itself often, making for easy reading.

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Llama llama red pajama  by Anna Dewdney


Baby llama doesn't want to be alone when she is put to bed.  After Mama goes downstairs, Baby Llama calls down to her Mama.  When Mama doesn't immediately come up, Baby starts to scream, pout. and shout, weep, and wail!  Mama runs up, scolds Baby, then comforts her.  She says," Mama Llama's always near, even if she's not right here."  Baby Llama finally falls asleep.  This is a fun book for young children because they can identify with the story. The pictures and the rhyme make it even more enchanting.

Is Your Mama A Llama by Deborah Guarino

Lloyd the Llama asks the same question throughout the book to all of his animal friends, "Is your mama a llama?"  His friends include a seal, cow, a bat, and more.  They all answer no, until he finally asks Lynn and she answers yes because she is a llama too.  The repeating text and accompanying pictures make it easy and fun for children to predict what animal is next.

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The Digging-est Dog by Al Perkins

Duke is a dog who was brought up in a pet store "on a cold hard floor of stone" and therefore never learned to dig a hole.  When he is adopted by Sammy Brown, Sammy tries to teach him to dig with no success.  Finally after much frustration, Duke becomes the best digger around, except he goes a little wild digging everything in sight.  Find out what happens when Sammy finally catches up to him!  This book is very lengthy but the rhyming and story always make it a favorite of my preschoolers.

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And of course, we cannot talk about rhyming without mentioning Dr. Suess!

Some more book suggestions:

Nonfiction: Awesome Animals: Freaky Fish by Lynn Huggins-Cooper

This a great book for Preschoolers.  They love the pictures of all of the unusual creatures featured in this book.  There are also many facts and information to keep the children interested.  Some fish we might have heard of such as the swordfish or salmon while others are new like the shovel nose guitarfish and the warty frogfish.  This book was a favorite of my class last year.

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Wordless book:  Chalk by Bill Thomson

This book is about three children who find some magic chalk at the playground.  It is raining when they arrive.  One child draws a sun, the sun then starts to shine.  Another child draws some butterflies, which then start to fly around the children.  What do you think happens when the last child draws a dinosaur?  Wordless books are fun for young children because they are the authors and can make up the story.

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Poems:  It's About Time Jesse Bear and Other Poems by Nancy Whit Carlstrom

The short poems in this book are great for your children.  Topics are easy for them to relate to ranging from getting dressed by themselves, eating breakfast, and playing in rain puddles.  There are wonderful illustrations to go with each poem.

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Songbooks: If You're Happy and You Know It: A sing-along action book  by Jane Cabrera

This is a really fun rendering of the song If You're Happy and You Know It.  In addition to clap your hands (with a monkey) and stamp your feet (with and elephant),  we are asked to roar out loud (with a lion), spin around (with a lemur), and flap your arms (with a parrot), and more. 

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Nursery Rhymes: My Best Book of Nursery Rhymes published by Brown Watson

This book contains the tried and true rhymes of my youth; Hickory Dickory Dock, Little Miss Muffet, Humpty Dumpty, and Jack Be Nimble as well as some I have never heard of; Cock-A-Doodle Doo and Curly Locks.  Make sure, as with any text, you read the rhymes to yourself before you read them to your child.  Some of the older nursery rhymes can be very graphic and not socially acceptable today.

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Alphabet books: Zoe and her Zebra by Clare Beaton

This is a good book for young children because each page repeats itself. (A is for Alice-but who is chasing her.  B is for Ben- but who is chasing him, etc.)  Each page shows a child and an animal, each beginning with the same letter (a has an alligator, b has a bear).  The illustrations are unique because they are designed in felt.

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Counting books:  Ten Little Monkeys A Counting Storybook by Keith Faulkner

This is a play along, hands on counting book with 10 monkey pieces and a pop-up tree.  The monkeys get into trouble one by one: one meets a crocodile, one wakes a tiger, etc. until only one monkey remains.  As each monkey leaves, children can take a monkey off the tree.  I like to read this book at circle, using the children's names for each monkey.

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We have included several (though there are many) children's books that are children favorites:

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Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons

Art by: James Dean, Story By: Eric Litman

Pete the cat is a favorite character with many stories. In this children's book, Pete the Cat sure looks groovy in his buttoned jacket, but he keeps loosing his buttons! Despite losing his buttons, Pete keeps a positive attitude by singing a song about his groovy buttons. This particular book incorporates rhyming, basic math skills, singing and how to stay positive when things don't always go your way. Pete rocks!

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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom 

By: Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault

Illustrated by: Lois Ehlert

Oh no! Too many letters are climbing to the top of the coconut tree. Each letter takes a trip up to the top of the coconut tree. Capital and lower case letters all take turns but become too much weight for the tree! When the letters fall, they have to take another trip up. What better way to learn the alphabet than this fun, repetitive book? 

Press Here

By: Herve Tullet 

In this interactive read aloud, the child is in charge of the events in the story simply by pressing "here".  With each turn of the page, a new task is required of the child either pressing, clapping, shouting or blowing on the page. 

Do not limit your selections to these suggestions.  There is such a wide variety of great children's books to choose from!  Go to your library for more ideas.