Librarians’ List: Easy/Leveled Readers, part 2

Lovable/Quirky Main Character

• Frances books by Lillian Hoban
• Arthur books by Lillian Hoban
• Little Bear books by Else Holmelund Minarik
• Penny books by Kevin Henkes
• Dodsworth books by Tim Egan

Nonfiction/Informational Books/Series  (please note that we have not read every science book in every list; these are starting points–use discretion; these are often mixed in with regular juvenile nonfiction; check out hot topics such as weather, natural disasters, wild animals, ocean animals, dinosaurs (read with caution!), space, robots)

• I-Can-Read “Made By God” books (several levels; published by Zondervan)
• DK Readers (DK Press; includes lots of Lego books among other hot topics)
• Kids’ Guide to Robots and others (Kids’ Guides by Edge books)
• First Step Nonfiction (Lerner Press)
• Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science (HarperCollins, several levels)
• Rookie Read-About Science (Children’s Press)
• Macaulay, David. Eye: How it Works.

Miscellaneous 

• P.D. Eastman’s books (Are You My Mother?, The Best Nest, and others)
• Lois Lenski’s Papa Small books (often in the picture book area)
• Maurice Sendak’s Nutshell Library books
• Melinda Melton Crow’s truck and train books (StoneArch Press)
• The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli
• Sheep in a Jeep and others by Nancy Shaw
• Duck in a Truck by Jez Alborough (and others)
• You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You series by Mary Ann Hoberman (look for the fairy tale and fable ones)
• Nate the Great series by Marjorie Sharmat

• Toon Books: graphic novels for early readers. See The Big Wet Balloon and Otto’s Backwards Day for good choices.

Printable List of Easy/Leveled Readers

What did we miss? There are LOTS of others out there!!