Help your child succeed in school by encouraging reading at home. The following list of Authors and Titles are age-appropriate for primary grade (Grades K to 2) children (as suggested by the Baltimore City Public School System District Web Site).
Author(s) - Title
Abercrombie, Barbara - Charlie Anderson
Adoff, Arnold - Hard to be Six
Allard, Harry - Miss Nelson is Missing
Altman, Linda Jacobs - Amelias Road
Anderson, Hans C. - Fairy Tales
Anglund, Joan W. - Nibble, Nibble Mousekin
Asch, Frank - Happy Birthday, Moon
Balan, Bruce - The Moose in the Dress
Bate, Lucy - Little Rabbit?s Loose Tooth
Bemelmans, Ludwig - Madeline
Bishop, Clair H. - Five Chinese Brothers
Bonners, Susan - The Wooden Doll
Booth, Barbara D. - Mandy
Bright, Robert - Georgie
Brooks, Walter - Freddy the Dectective
Brown, Marcia - Stone Soup
Brown, Margaret Wise - Goodnight Moon
Brown, Tricia - Hello Amigos!
Brunhoff, Jean de - The Story Of Babar, The Little Elephant
Buckley, Helen E. - Grandfather and I
Bunting, Eve - Fly Away Home
Burton, Virginia Lee - Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Cameron, Ann - Most Beautiful Place In the World
Carle, Eric - Very Busy Spider
Carle, Eric - Very Hungry Catepillar
Carnes, Jeanette - Just Us Women
Clark, Ann Nolan - In My Mother's House
Clark, Emma Chichester - Lunch with Aunt Augusta
Clements, Andrew - Temple Cat
Clifton, Lucille - Everett Anderson Series
Coerr, Eleanor - Chang's Paper Pony
Cohen, Miriam W. - No Good in Art
Cohen, Miriam W. - When Will I Read?
Crews, Donald - Big Mama's
Crews, Nina - One Hot Summer Day
Cummings, Pat - Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon!
Demi - Empty Pot
De Paola, Tomie - Tony's Bread: An Italian Tale
De Regniers, Beatrice S. - May I Bring a Friend?
Dodds, Dayle Ann - The Color Box
Dooley, Norah - Everybody Cooks Rice
Dougherty, James - Andy and the Lion
Duvoisin, Roger - Petunia
Engel, Diana - Gino Badino
Ernst, Lisa Campbell - Zinnia and Dot
Ets, Marie Hall & Labastida Aurora - Nine Days to Christmas
Feelings, Muriel L. - Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book
Feeny, Stephanie - A is for Aloha
Fisher, Aileen - Listen Rabbit
Flack, Marjorie - The Story about Ping
Flournoy, Valerie - The Patchwork Quilt
Fox, Mem - Hattie and the Fox
Freeman, Don - Corduroy
Freeman, Ina R. - How My Parents Learned to Eat
Gag, Wanda - Millions of Cats
Galdone, Paul - The Little Red Hen
Goffe, Toni - Joe Giant's Missing Boot
Gray, Nigel - Country Far Away
Greaves, Margaret - Henry's Wild Morning
Greenfield, Eloise - Africa Dream
Griego, Margot, et al. - Tortillitas Para Mama (Little Tortillitas for Mama)
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm - Rumpelstiltskin
Guback, Georgia - Luka's Quilt
Haley, Gail - Story, A Story
Havill, Juanita - Jamaica's Find
Havill, Juanita - Jamica Tag Along
Henkes, Kevin - Owen
Hoban, Russell - Bread and Jam for Frances
Hoban, Tana - Over, Under and Through
Hoffman, Mary - Amazing Grace
Howard, Elizabeth - Aunt Flossie's Hats (And Crab Cakes Later)
Hudson, Cheryl W. - Bright Eyes, Brown
& Ford, Burnette G. - Skin
Hughes, Shirley - Wheels
Hutchins, Pat - Rosie's Walk
Isadora, Rachel - At the Crossroads
Jenkins, Jessica - Thinking About Colors
Johnson, Ryersin - Kinji and the Magic Geese
Joosse, Barbara M. - Mama, Do You Love Me?
Kasza, Keiko - Wolf's Chicken Stew
Keats, Ezra Jack - Peter's Chair
Keats, Ezra Jack - The Snowy Day
Keats, Ezra Jack - Whistle for Willie
Kelvin, Elisa - The Lion and the Little Red Bird
Kennaway, Adrienne - Little Elephant?s Walk
Kipling, Rudyard - Just So Stories
Krauss, Ruth - The Carrot Seed
Kroll, Virginia - The Seasons and Someone
Kushin, Karla - City Dog
Lawrence, Jacob - Harriet and the Promised Land
Leaf, Munro - The Story of Ferdinand
Lionni, Leo - Inch by Inch
Lobel, Arnold - Frog and Toad Together
Lobel, Arnold - Mouse Soup
Low, Joseph - Mice Twice
Luenn, Nancy - Nessa's Fish
Lyon, George Ella - Who Came Down the Road
Marshall, James - George and Martha One Fine Day
Martin, Bill & Archambault, John - Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Martin, Bill & Archambault, John - Knots on a Counting Rope
Martin, Bill & Carla, Eric - Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?
Martin, Jacqueline - Snowflakes Bentley
Mathers, Petra - Sophie and Lou
Mayhew, James - Madame Nightingale Will Sing Tonight
McAllister, Angela - Matepo
McCloskey, Robert - Make Way For Ducklings
McDermott, Gerald - Anasi the Spider
McKissack, Patricia - Flossie and the Fox
McKissack, Patricia - Who is Who
Miles, Miska - Annie and the Old One
Monjo, F.N. - Drinking Gourd
Mora, Francisco X. - The Legend of the Two Moons
Mosel, Arlene - Funny Little Woman
Most, Bernard - The Cow that went Oink
Munsch, Robert - Love You Forever
Musgrove, Margaret - Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions
Newton, Pam - The Stone Cutter
Numeroff, Laura Jaffe - If You give a Mouse a Cookie
Onyefulu, Ifeoma - A is for Africa
Oppenheim, Shulamith - Fireflies for Nathan Levy
Parish, Peggy - Amelia Bedelia
Parish, Peggy - No More Monsters for Me
Patterson, Lillie - Jennie the Halloween Spy
Peet, Bill - Big Bad Bruce
Percy, Graham - The Cook, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen
Peterson Jeanne Whitehouse - I have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf
Pfister, Marcus - The Rainbow Fish
Pinkney, Andrea Davis - Duke Ellington
Pinkney, Gloria Jean - Back Home
Pinkwater, Manus - Wingman
Polacco, Patricia - Chicken Sunday
Pomerantz, Charlotte - Chalk Doll
Ratnett, Michael - Jenny's Bear
Ravilious, Robin - Two in a Pocket
Rey, H.A. - Curious George
Ringgold, Faith - Tar Beach
Rosen, Michael J. - Elijah's Angel
Rosenberg, Liz - The Scrap Doll
Rupert, Rona - Straw Sense
Rylant, Cynthia - When I was Young In the Mountains
Sendak, Maurice - Where the Wild Things Are
Seuss, Dr. - The Cat in the Hat
Shannon, David - No, David!
Sheldon, Dyan - The Whales' Song
Shulevitz, Uri - Snow
Sis, Peter - Tibet: Through the Red Box
Slobodkina, Esphyr - Caps for Sale
Snyder, Dianne - Boy of the Three-Year Nap
Steig, William - Brave Irene
Steig, William - Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Steptoe, John - Baby Says
Steptoe, John - Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
Steptoe, John - Story of Jumping Mouse:A Native American Legend
Surat, Michele Maria - Angel Child, Dragon Child
Tusa, Tricia - Maebelle's Suitcase
Udry, Janice M. - What Mary Jo Shared
Waber, Bernard - Ira Sleeps Over
Waddell, Martin - Farmer Duck
Wahl, Jan - Tailypo!
Ward, Leila - I Am Eyes-Ni Macho
Ward, Lynd - The Biggest Bear
Wildsmith, Brian - Mother Goose
Williams, Sherley Anne - Working Cotton
Williams, Vera B. - A Chair For My Mother
Wolkstein, Dianne - Little Mouse's Painting
Wood, Audrey - King Bidgood's In The Bathtub
Wood, Audry - The Napping House
Yacowitz, Caryn - The Jade Stone
Yagawa, Sumiko - Crane Wife
Yagawa, Mitsu - Momo's Kitten
Yolen, Jane - Owl Moon
Young, Ed - Seven Blind Mice
Ziefert, Harriet - Peter's Chicken
Zion, Gene - Harry the Dirty Dog
Zolotow, Charlotte - The Quarreling Book
