Leading to Reading
Early literacy hints and age appropriate book suggestions are presented on 61 monthly cards
Book Titles |
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(updated 2010) |
Month |
Title | Month |
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Newborn |
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Time for Bed by Mem Fox |
31 |
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Color Farm or Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert |
1 |
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Baby Food or other Look Baby! titles by Margaret Miller |
32 |
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Hand Rhymes or Play Rhymes by Marc Brown |
2 |
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Tomie's Little Mother Goose by Tomie de Paola |
33 |
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Have You Seen My Duckling? by Nancy Tafuri |
3 |
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Black and White by Tana Hoban |
34 |
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Counting Kisses by Karen Katz |
4 |
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Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney |
35 |
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"More, More, More," Said the Baby by Vera B. Williams |
5 |
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Maisy books by Lucy Cousins or Spot books by Eric Hill |
36 |
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Will I Have a Friend? by Miriam Cohen |
6 |
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Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown |
37 |
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The Real Mother Goose illustrated
by Blanche Fisher Wright |
7 |
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Max board books by Rosemary Wells |
38 |
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No, David! by David Shannon |
8 |
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The Everything Book by Denise Fleming |
39 |
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Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley |
9 |
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Touch and Feel series by DK Publishing |
40 |
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Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey |
10 |
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Hush Little Baby by Sylvia Long |
41 |
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Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson |
11 |
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Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet & Allan Ahlberg |
42 |
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff (various authors) |
12 |
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Animal Crackers by Jane Dyer |
43 |
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I Kissed the Baby by Mary Murphy or Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli |
13 |
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Where's Spot? by Eric Hill |
44 |
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Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow |
14 |
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From Head to Toe by Eric Carle |
45 |
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. |
15 |
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Moo, Baa, La La La by Sandra Boynton |
46 |
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My Five Senses by Aliki |
16 |
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr. & Eric Carle |
47 |
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How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen |
17 |
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Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems or Where's My Teddy by Jez Alborough |
48 |
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Olivia by Ian Falconer |
18 |
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Truck or Freight Train by Donald Crews |
49 |
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Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells |
19 |
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Corduroy by Donald Freeman |
50 |
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The Napping House by Audrey Wood |
20 |
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Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell |
51 |
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Julius, the Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes |
21 |
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle |
52 |
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The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss |
22 |
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Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? by Nancy White Carlstrom |
53 |
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears (various authors) |
23 |
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Curious George books by H. A. Rey or Clifford books by Norman Bridwell |
54 |
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Poetry books by Jack Prelutsky |
24 |
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Growing Colors by Bruce McMillan or I Spy board books by Jean Marzollo |
55 |
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The Three Little Pigs (various authors) |
25 |
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Bark, George by Jules Feiffer |
56 |
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Book! Book! Book! by Deborah Bruss |
26 |
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We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen |
57 |
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Picture This by Alison Jay |
27 |
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When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry... by Molly Bang |
58 |
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Edward and the Pirates by David M. McPhail |
28 |
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Growing Like Me by Anne Rockwell |
59 |
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Sheila Rae, the Brave or Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes |
29 |
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I Went Walking or Let’s Go Visiting by Sue Williams |
60 |
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Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate or The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn |
30 |
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The Wheels on the Bus by Paul O. Zelinsky or others |
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