Reading Guides

The following reading guides are made available to enhance your experience while reading these books, and emphasizes the lessons of empathy, kindness, and community in each one. We hope these books will inspire you and your young readers as they go through them.

14 Cows For America

A Chair For My Mother

A Cool Drink of Water

A is For Awesome

After the Fall

Alma and How She Got Her Name

A Place Where Hurricanes Happen

A Porcupine Named Fluffy

A School Like Mine

A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Be Kind

Bring Me Three Gifts

Brown Girl Dreaming

Carmela Full of Wishes

Chocolate Milk, Por Favor!

Danbi Leads the School Parade

Dear Boy

Dear Girl

Dragons Love Tacos

Each Kindness

Elmer and the Flood

Everybody Cooks Rice

Fancy Nancy Tea for Two

Flood

For Pete's Sake

Friends

Giraffes Can't Dance

Fantastically Great Women Who Saved the Planet

Hair Love

Here We Are

Her Right Foot

How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You

How Do Dinosaurs Stay Friends?

How to be a Lion

Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to Listen

How I Became a Pirate

Hurricane!

I Am Enough

If I Had a Dragon

I'm Gonna Like Me

I'm Like You, You're Like Me

I'm New Here

In Our Village

Iqbal: A Brave Boy From Pakistan

It's Okay to be Different

I Walk With Vanessa

Jack and the Beanstalk

Julian is a Mermaid

Jabari Jumps

James and the Giant Peach

Ish

Kamala and Maya's Big Idea

Last Stop on Market Street

Leo the Late Bloomer

Library Lion

Little Leader: Bold Women in Black History

Little Libraries, Big Heroes

Little Red Riding Hood

Maddi's Fridge

Mae Among the Stars

Malala: A Brave Girl From Pakistan

Malala: Activist for Girls' Education

Mama's Nightingale

Manners

Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match

Marvelous Cornelius

Maya and the Turtle

Mean Soup

Miss Nelson is Back

Miss Rumphius

My Hair is a Garden

My Name Is Yoon

Once I Was Very, Very Scared

On Our Street

Owl Moon

Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote

Peanut Goes for the Gold

Professor Fergus Fahrenheit

Rachel Parker Kindergarten Show-Off

Red: A Crayon's Story

Ruby Bridges Goes to School

Rude Cakes

Rumpelstiltskin

Sam and the Lucky Money

September Roses

Shark Lady

She Persisted

Sing Don't Cry

Stellaluna

Sulwe

Tacky the Penguin

Teach Your Dragon About Diversity

The Boy Who Built a Wall Around Himself

The Clumsy Alligator

The Day it Rained Hearts

The Day Our World Changed

The Day the Crayons Came Home

The Day the Crayons Quit

The Day You Begin

The Fisherman and His Wife

The Giving Tree

The Good Garden

The Greedy Sparrow

The Hundred Dresses

The Invisible Boy

The Irish Cinderlad

The Kissing Hand

The Most Magnificent Thing

The Name Jar

The Snowy Day

The Summer My Father Was Ten

The Water Princess

The Purple Marble

The Rabbit Listened

The Secret Garden

Silver Slippers

The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade

The Spooky Tail of Prewitt Peacock

The Strongest One of All

The Word Collector

Those Shoes

Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug

Tom Thumb

We Are Water Protectors

We're All Wonders

We're Amazing 1, 2, 3

What Can A Citizen Do?

What Do You Do With a Kangaroo?

When Sophie Gets Angry- Really, Really Angry...

Where the Wild Things Are

White Socks Only

Yoko

You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Clean Water

Zen Socks

Zen Ties

Room on the Broom

Taylor the Thankful Turkey

The Leaf Thief

The Little Ghost who was a Quilt