Preschool (Ages 3 to 4)
The following is a list of books chosen for three to four year olds. They are all well illustrated, but the stories offer a wide variety of styles and story-types.
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Stories - General
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The Golden Egg Book by Margaret Wise Brown |
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Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson |
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Nutshell Library by Maurice Sendak (has a counting book, an alphabet book, a poem, and a story book) |
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Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak |
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Floss by Kim Lewis |
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Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton |
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The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegard Swift and Lynd Ward |
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Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey |
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Curious George by H. A. Rey |
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All the Way to Lhasa by Barbara Helen Berger |
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Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel |
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Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, illustrated by Robert Lawson |
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, illustrated by Beatrix Potter |
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The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter, illustrated by Beatrix Potter |
Alphabet Books
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A Was Once An Apple Pie by Edward Lear |
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Animalia by Graeme Base |
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Curious George Learns the Alphabet by H. A. Rey |
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The ABC Bunny by Wanda Gag |
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Alphabears: An ABC Book by Kathleen Hague, illustrated by Michael Hague |
Counting Books
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Ten Little Rabbits by Virginia Grossman, illus by Sylvia Long |
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Curious George Learns to Count from 1 to 100 by H. A. Rey |
Books about Color
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Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Maurice Sendak |
Books about Time (telling time, seasons, day / night, etc.)
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Grandfather Twilight by Barbara Helen Berger |
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Around the Year by Elsa Beskow |
Books about Etiquette
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What Do You Say, Dear? by Sesyle Joslin, illustrated by Maurice Sendak |
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What Do You Do Dear? by Sesyle Joslin, illustrated by Maurice Sendak |
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Manners Can Be Fun by Munro Leaf |
Rhymes
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Mother Goose: A Classic Collection of Nursery Rhymes by Michael Hague |
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The Rooster Crows by Maud and Miska Petersham |
Poetry
The Hutchinson Treasury of Children's Poetry, edited by Alison Sage
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Give Yourself to the Rain: Poems for the Very Young by Margaret Wise Brown |
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A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Tasha Tudor |
The Golden Book Family Treasury of Poetry, edited by Louis Untermeyer, illustrated by Joan Walsh Anglund