LTCY 420 Read Aloud Book Suggestions

(you are CERTAINLY NOT limited to the books on this list ... they are more or less suggestions of the TYPES of books you might want to consider for your read alouds)

 

Go HERE and look at the READ ALOUD list first. 

Other Suggestions (in no particular order):

Donkey Trouble
by Ed Young (October 1995)

Shooting Star
by Debbie Dadey, Scott Goto (Illustrator)

White Wave : A Chinese Tale
by Diane Wolkstein, Ed Young (May 1979)




The Girl Who Wore Too Much : A Folktale from Thailand
by Margaret Read MacDonald, Supaporn Vathanaprida, Yvonne Davis (Illustrator)

 

 

 



The Gift of the Crocodile : A Cinderella Story
by Judy Sierra, Reynold Ruffins (Illustrator)

The Tortoise and the Jackrabbit
by Susan Lowell, Jim Harris (Illustrator)October 1994)

 

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
by Eugene Trivizas, Helen Oxenbury (Illustrator) October 1993)

 

Nicholas Pipe
by Robert D. San Souci, David Shannon (Illustrator) ( June 1997)

 

The Raggly Scraggly No-Soap No-Scrub Girl
by David Francis Birchman, Guy Porfirio (Illustrator) (August 1995)
The Talking Eggs : A Folktale from the American South
by Robert D. San Souci, Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator) (September 1989)
Rose Red and Snow White : A Grimms Fairy Tale
by Ruth Sanderson (Illustrator), et al (April 1997)



Slim and Miss Prim
by Robert Kinerk, Jim Harris (Illustrator)

 

 

 

The Jolly Mon
by Jimmy Buffett, et al (April 1988)

 

The Gardener (Caldecott Honor Award) --
by Sarah Stewart, David Small (Illustrator); Hardcover

 

Starry Messenger (1997 Caldecott Honor Book)
by Peter Sis (Hardcover - October 1996)

 

Rapunzel (Caldecott Medal Book) -- by Paul O. Zelinsky, Jacob W. Grimm;

 

Trouble Dolls
by Jimmy Buffett, et al (April 1991)

 

The Dancing Turtle : A Folktale from Brazil
by Pleasant Despain, David Boston (Illustrator) May 1998)

 

Berlioz the Bear
by Jan Brett (Paperback - October 1996)

 

Verdi -- by Janell Cannon; School & Library Binding

 

My Great Aunt-Arizona
by Gloria Houston, Susan Condie Lamb (Illustrator) (Hardcover - February 1992)

 

A House by the River
by William Miller, et al (Hardcover - April 1997)


Toads and Diamonds -- Anita Lobel (Illustrator), Charlotte S. Huck (Editor)

Score One for the Sloths -- Helen Lester, Lynn Munsinger (Illustrator)

The Gift of the Crocodile : A Cinderella Story -- Judy Sierra, Reynold Ruffins (Illustrator)

The Rag Coat -- Lauren A. Mills

Appalachia : The Voices of Sleeping Birds -- Cynthia Rylant, Barry Moser (Illustrator)

Jack and the Animals : An Appalachian Folktale

Dinner at Aunt Connie's House -- Faith Ringgold (Illustrator)

The Faithful Friend -- by Robert D. San Souci, et al; Paperback

 

The Boy of the Three-Year Nap
by Dianne Snyder, Allen Say (Illustrator) (Paperback - October 1993)

 

The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest
by Lynne Cherry

 

The Worry Stone
by Marianna Dengler, Sibyl Graber Gerig

 

Secret Signs : Along the Underground Railroad
by Anita Riggio

 

The Rainbow Goblins
by Ul De Rico (Hardcover - June 1994)

 

One Rainy Night
by Doris Gove, Walter Lyon Krudop

 

Amber on the Mountain (Picture Puffins)
by Tony Johnston, Robert Duncan

 

If You Were a Writer
by Joan Lowery Nixon, Bruce Degen

 

River Ran Wild : An Environmental History
by Lynne Cherry