Preschool Books
The Adventures of Taxi Dog
By: Debra Barracca
ISBN: 9780803706712
A stray dog in New York City is adopted by a taxi driver, with whom he thereafter rides and shares adventures each day.
Abuela
By: Arthur Dorros
ISBN: 9780525447504
While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day
By: Judith Viorst
ISBN: 9781416985952
On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.
Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse
By: Leo Lionni
ISBN: 9780394829111
Alexander, the mouse, makes friends with Willy, a toy mouse, and wants to be just like him until he discovers that Willy is to be thrown away.
Baby Says
By: John Steptoe
ISBN: 9780688074241
A baby and big brother figure out how to get along.
Beady Bear
By: Don Freeman
ISBN: 9780140501971
A toy bear goes off to a cave to live as a real bear should, only to find he needs something more to be truly happy.
Bedtime for Frances
By: Russell Hoban
ISBN: 9780060271060
Frances finds it difficult to go to sleep with the strange noises and menacing shapes that seem to fill her room after dark.
Blueberries for Sal
By: Robert McCloskey
ISBN: 9780670175918<
Little Sal and Little Bear both lose their mothers while eating blueberries and almost end up with the other's mother.
Caps for Sale
By: Esphyr Slobodkina
ISBN: 9780060257781
A band of mischievous monkeys steals every one of a peddler's caps while he takes a nap under a tree.
Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones
By: Ruth Heller
ISBN: 9780448018720
A pictorial introduction to the animals that lay eggs, including chickens as well as other birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects, and even a few mammals.
Corduroy
By: Don Freeman
ISBN: 9780140501735
A toy bear who is anxious to have a home is befriended by a little girl who is willing to spend her own money to buy him.
Froggy Gets Dressed
By: Jonathan London
ISBN: 9780670842490
Rambunctious Froggy hops out into the snow for a winter frolic but is called back by his mother to put on some necessary articles of clothing.
Gilberto and the Wind
By: Marie Hall Ets
ISBN: 9780808535867
A young boy finds in the wind a playmate of many moods: one that can sail boats, fly kites, blow dirt, and turn umbrellas inside out.
Goggles
By: Ezra Jack Keats
ISBN: 9780140564402
Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles.
A Hat For Minerva Louise
By: Janet Morgan Stoeke
ISBN: 9780525453284
Minerva Louise, a snow-loving chicken, mistakes a pair of mittens for two hats to keep both ends warm.
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
By: Eric Kimmel
ISBN: 9780823411313
Relates how Hershel outwits the goblins that haunt the old synagogue and prevent the village people from celebrating Hanukkah.
Hi! Pizza Man!
By: Virginia Walter
ISBN: 9780531087350
While a young girl waits for the delivery of a hot pizza, she provides the appropriate animal sounds for a variety of pretend animal pizza deliverers.
If I Ran the Zoo
By: Dr. Seuss
ISBN: 9780394800813
If Gerald McGrew ran the zoo, he'd let all the animals go and fill it with more unusual beasts--a ten-footed lion, an Elephant-Cat, a Mulligatawny, a Tufted Mazurka, and others.
The Jacket I Wear in the Snow
By: Shirley Neitzel
ISBN: 9780688080280
A young girl names all the clothes that she must wear to play in the snow.
The Little Engine That Could
By: Watty Piper
ISBN: 9780399244674
Although she is not very big, the Little Blue Engine agrees to try to pull a stranded train full of toys over the mountain.
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile
By: Bernard Waber
ISBN: 9780395169957
Lyle is perfectly happy living with the Primms on East 88th Street in New York City until Mr. Grumps, their irritable neighbor, has Lyle put in the zoo.
Make Way for Ducklings
By: Robert McCloskey
ISBN: 9780142413869
Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring.
Martha Speaks
By: Susan Meddaugh
ISBN: 9780395633137
Problems arise when Martha, the family dog, learns to speak after eating alphabet soup.
Max’s Bedtime
By: Rosemary Wells
ISBN: 9780670887101
ven though Max's sister offers him her stuffed animals, he cannot sleep without his red rubber elephant. On board pages.
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
By: Virginia Lee Burton
ISBN: 9780395169612
When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Ann, lose their jobs to the gasoline, electric, and diesel motor shovels, they go to a little country town where they find that one new job leads to another.
Mushroom in the Rain
By: Mirra Ginsburg
ISBN: 9780689714412
How can an ant, butterfly, mouse, sparrow, and rabbit all take shelter from the rain under the same mushroom when, at first, there was only room for the ant?
Night Rabbits
By: Lee Posey
ISBN: 9781561451647
When her father becomes annoyed with the rabbits that are eating his carefully tended lawn at their summer cabin, Elizabeth tries to decide how to help because she loves the rabbits.
Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore
By: David McPhail
ISBN: 9780525450795
Pigs galore invade a house and have a wonderful party.
A Pocket for Corduroy
By: Don Freeman
ISBN: 9780670561728
A toy bear who wants a pocket for himself searches for one in a laundromat.
The Poky Little Puppy
By: Janette Sebring Lowrey
ISBN: 9780375839207
One night a puppy who is always late coming home finds that there is no dessert for him.
Rosie’s Walk
By: Pat Hutchins
ISBN: 9780027458503
Although unaware that a fox is after her as she takes a walk around the farmyard, Rosie the hen still manages to lead him into one accident after another.
The Snowy Day
By: Ezra Jack Keats
ISBN: 9780670867332
The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.
Stone Soup
By: Heather Forest
ISBN: 9780874834987
Two hungry travelers use a stone as a soup starter and demonstrate the benefits of sharing. Includes a recipe for soup.
The Story of Ferdinand
By: Munro Leaf
ISBN: 9780448456942
Ferdinand likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers, but one day he gets stung by a bee and his snorting and stomping convince everyone that he is the fiercest of bulls.
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
By: William Steig
ISBN: 9781442435605
In a moment of fright Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then can not hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
By: Beatrix Potter
ISBN: 9781557094124
Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught.
Tikki, Tikki, Tembo
By: Arlene Mose
ISBN: 9780805006629
When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.
There’s a Nightmare in My Closet
By: Mercer Mayer
ISBN: 9780803786820
Barricaded and helmeted, with cannon and infantry at the ready, the young hero awaits his rival, the Nightmare.
The Three Bears
By: Paul Galdone
ISBN: 9780395288115
Three bears return from a walk and find a little girl asleep in baby bear's bed.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By: Eric Carle
ISBN: 9780399247453
Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep and wakes up a butterfly.
Wheels on the Bus
By: Raffi
ISBN: 9780517709986
As the rickety old bus collects an odd assortment of passengers in a quaint little town, the reader may join in with the sounds of the bus and motions of the driver and passengers.
Whistle for Willie
By: Ezra Jack Keats
ISBN: 9780670762408
Little Peter tries very hard to learn how to whistle for his dog.