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Help your child get ready for kindergarten with these five practices: Talk, Sing, Read, Write, and Play.

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100 Books to Read Before Kindergarten Booklist

Babies:

1. Ten Tiny Babies by Karen Katz
2. I Love You, Sun I Love You Moon by Karen Pandell
3. Indestructibles: Let’s Go Outside! by Amy Pixton
4. Five Little Ducks Nursery Songs by Ailie Busby
5. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
6. That’s Not My Zebra by FionaWatt or any other of the many That’s Not My… books published by Usborne
7. May We Have Enough to Share by Richard Van Camp
8. Tickle, Tickle by Helen Oxenbury
9. Where is the Duck? by Nosy Crow and Ingela P Arrhenius
10. Global Babies by The Global Fund for Children
11. I Love Me (Wonderful Me) by Laurie Ann Grover
12. Tummy Time Friends by Pat Brisson
13. Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox
14. Huggy Kissy by Leslie Patricelli
15. Up Cat Down Cat by Steve Light
16. Peek-a-Who? by Nina Laden
17. Open the Barn Door by Christopher Santoro
18. Row, Row, Row Your Boat by Jane Cabrera
19. Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
20. Black & White by Tana Hoban

Toddlers:

1. Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton
2. Rosa Loves Cars by Jessica Spanyol
3. Nest by Jorey Hurley
4. So Much by Trish Cooke
5. Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle
6. Chomp Goes the Alligator by Matthew Van Fleet
7. Alphablock by Chistopher Franceschell
8. Bee Bim Bop by Linda Sue Park
9. Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn
10. Otis by Loren Long
11. The Last Marshmallow by Grace Lin
12. Grandma’s Tiny House by JaNay Brown-Wood
13. Let’s Find Momo by Andrew Knapp
14. Go Baby! Go Dog! by Anne Vittur Kennedy
15. Freight Train by Donald Crews
16. Hello, World Dinosaurs! by Jill McDonald
17. In My Garden by Ruth A. Musgrave, National Geographic Kids
18. The Wheels on the Bus by Melanie Williamson
19. The Three Bears by Brian Barton
20. Huff & Puff by Claudia Rueda
21. The Gingerbread Man by Karen Schmidt
22. Jump! By Tatsuhide Matsuoka
23. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
24. The Busy Little Squirrel by Nancy Tafuri
25. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
26. Mail Duck by Erica Sirotich
27. Making Tracks City by Abi Hall
28. Baby Goes to Market by Atinuke
29. Giraffes Can’t Dance by Andreae
30. Guess Which Hand by Wilhelm
31. Making Faces: A First Book of Emotions
32. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Car by Dopriak
33. Little Owl by Teckentrup
34. Say Hello! by Isadora
35. Let’s Play Monsters by Giles Peck
36. Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
37. Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker
38. I’m a Firefighter by Brian Biggs
39. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Preschoolers:

1. The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes
2. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
3. What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins
4. Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
5. Please, Mr. Panda by Steve Antony
6. The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
7. Float by Daniel Miyares
8. Raindrops Roll by April Pulley Sayre
9. Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
10. Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall
11. Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors by Roseanne Greenfield Thong
12. The Paperbag Princess by Robert Munsch
13. Frog on a Log? by Kes Gray
14. Before We Eat: From Farm to Table by Pat Brisson
15. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
16. Under My Hijab by Hena Khan
17. Friday Night Wrestlefest by J. F. Fox
18. Lilly & Friends: A Picture Book Treasury by Kevin Henkes
19. Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson
20. Corduroy by Don Freeman
21. Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin
22. When We are Kind by Monique Gray Smith
23. Evelyn Del Rey is Moving Away by Meg Medina
24. The Little Red Fort by Brenda Maier
25. The Book With No Pictures by B.J. Novak
26. The Mitten by Jan Brett
27. Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
28. Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
29. Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
30. The New Small Person by Lauren Child
31. Hey, Water! by Antoinette Portis
32. One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree by Daniel Bernstrom
33. They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel
34. Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins
35. You Matter by Christian Robinson
36. It’s OK to Be Different by Todd Parr
37. Saturday by Oge Mora
38. Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas

Beginner Chapter Books:

1. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
2. Zoey & Sassafras Dragons and Marshmallows by Asia Citro (series)
3. Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamillo (series)

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