These are some of my favorites that I love to read with my 5 year old son...
Adams, Pam There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Barrett, Judi & Ron Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Cannon, Janell Stellaluna Carle, Eric Dragons, Dragons, Dream Snow, The Honeybee and the Robber, The Mixed-Up Chameleon, The Secret Birthday Message, Ten Little Rubber Ducks, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and The Very Quiet Cricket Crockett, Johnson Harold and the Purple Crayon Dr. Seuss Happy Birthday to You, There’s a Wocket in My Pocket Fox, Mem Boo to a Goose, Feathers and Fools, Harriet, You Drive Me Wild, Hattie and the Fox, Koala Lou, The Magic Hat, Night Noises, Shoes from Grandpa, Sophie, Time for Bed, Tough Boris, and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Foxworthy, Jeff Dirt on My Shirt Gomi, Taro Everyone Poops Hutchins, Pat The Doorbell Rang Lester, Helen & Munsinger, Lynn Hooway for Wodney Wat, Hurty Feelings, Something Might Happen, Me First, The Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing, Author, Listen Buddy, A Porcupine Named Fluffy, Batter Up Wombat, Score One for the Sloths Long, Melinda How I Became a Pirate, Pirates Don’t Change Diapers, When Papa Snores McBratney, Sam Guess How Much I Love You?, When I’m Big McPhail, David Edward and the Pirates Mercer Mayer There’s a Nightmare in my Closet, Frog Goes to Dinner, What Do You Do With a Kangaroo?, Little Critters Series, There’s A Nightmare in My Attic Munch, Robert The Paper Bag Princess Penn, Audrey The Kissing Hand Pilkey, Dav The Paperboy Rathman, Peggy Goodnight Gorilla Rosen, Michael & Oxenbury, Helen We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Scarry, Richard Cars That Go and Things That Go, Cars and Trucks and Things that Go Sendak, Maurice Where the Wild Things Are Slobodkina, Esphyr Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business Willems, Mo Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, The Pigeon Wants a Puppy, Knuffle Bunny Wood, Audrey The Napping House
**Applegate, K.A. |
The Animorphs series |
** Avi |
The End of the Beginning |
**Blume, Judy |
Freckle Juice, Superfudge, Double Fudge, and Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing |
**Brown, Jeff |
The Flat Stanley books |
** Byars, Betsy |
My Dog, My Hero |
Cleary, Beverly |
Ralph S. Mouse, Ramona's World, and Runaway Ralph |
**Colfer, Eoin |
Half Moon, Wish List, and the Artemis Fowl series |
Coville, Bruce |
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X |
Creech, Sharon |
Love That Dog |
Dahl, Roald |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Danny, Champion of the World, Giraffe, Pelly, and Me, James and the Giant Peach, and The Twits |
De Paola, Tomie |
The Legend of the Bluebonnet and Now One Foot, Now the Other |
Di Camillo, Kate |
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and The Tale of Despereaux |
**Donkin, Andrew |
Spooky Spine Chillers |
**Funke, Cornelia |
Dragon Rider, Inkheart, Inkspell, The Thief Lord |
**Gardiner, John |
Stone Fox |
Gutman, Dan |
Honus and Me, Mrs. Cooney Is Looney, Miss Daisy Is Crazy, Mr. Klutz Is Nuts, Mrs. Lagrange Is Strange, Miss Lizar Is Bizarre, and Miss Small Is Off the Wall |
Lewis, C.S. |
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
Lobel, Arnold |
Frog and Toad, Frog and Toad Together, Mouse Soup, and Mouse Tales |
McMullen, Kate |
The Dragon Slayers' Academy series: Double Dragon Trouble, The Ghost of Sir Herbert Dungeonstone, The New Kid at School, and Ninety-Seven Ways to Train a Dragon |
Osborne, Mary Pope |
Day of the Dragon King, Haunted Castle on Hallow Eve, Kate and the Beanstalk, Night of the Ninjas, Season of the Sandstorm, Summer of the Sea Serpent, Winter of the Ice Wizard, and other Magic Tree House books |
Parish, Peggy |
The Amelia Bedelia books |
Park, Barbara |
Junie B. Jones series |
Peck, Richard |
A Long Way from Chicago, A Year Down Yonder, Are You in the House Alone?, Hear Lies the Librarian |
Scieska, Jon |
Help, Summer Reading is Killing Me, Squids Will Be Squids, The Time Warp Trio, and Tut, Tut |
Sewall, Anna |
Black Beauty |
Sonnenblick, Jordan |
Dodger and Me |
Testa, Maria |
Almost Forever |
White, E.B. |
Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
Laura's Pa and Little House in the Big Woods |
Adams, Douglas |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series |
Beah, Ishmael |
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
Bloor, Edward & De Vito, Danny |
Tangerine |
Brashares, Ann |
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants trilogy |
Brokaw, Tom |
A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties |
Buckley, Michael |
The Sisters Grimm series: The Fairy Tale Detectives, The Unusual Suspects, and The Problem Child |
Choldenko, Gennifer |
Al Capone Does My Shirts, If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period |
Crichton, Michael |
Sphere, Congo, Next, Airframe, Rising Sun and The Andromeda Strain |
Davis, Sampson, Jenkins, George, Hunt, Rameck, and Draper, Sharon |
We Beat the Streets |
DeMille, Nelson |
The Charm School, By the Rivers of Babylon, Word of Honor, May Day |
Deuker, Carl |
Night Hoops, Heart of a Champion, High Heat |
Ellis, Deborah |
I Am a Taxi and the Breadwinner trilogy: Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey, Sacred Leaf, and Mud City |
Flake, Sharon |
The Skin I’m In |
Flinn, Alex |
Breaking Point |
Funke, Cornelia |
Inkheart, Inkspell, and The Thief Lord |
Grogan, J |
Marley and Me |
Hesse, Karen |
Out of the Dust |
Hiassen, Carl |
Flush and Hoot |
Hinton, S.E. |
The Outsiders, That Was Then This is Now, Rumble Fish |
King, Stephen |
The Mist, Duma King Kretch, Robert(Bob) Rebound |
Lowry, Lois |
The Giver |
Martin, Ann |
Belle Teal |
McCormick, Patricia |
Sold |
Munoz, Pam |
Becoming Naomi Leon |
Myers, Walter Dean |
Autobiography of My Dead Brother, Bad Boy, Fallen Angels, Hoops, Monster, The Outside Shot, Sunrise over Fallujah, Shooter, and Game |
Peck, Richard |
A Long Way from Chicago, A Year Down Yonder, Are You in the House Alone?, Hear Lies the Librarian |
Philbrick, Rodman |
Freak the Mighty |
Pullman, Phillip |
His Dark Materials trilogy |
Rawls, Wilson |
Where the Red Fern Grows |
Rowling, J.K. |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, etc. |
Ryan, Pam Munoz |
Becoming Naomi León and Esperanza Rising |
Spinelli, Jerry |
Crash, Milkweed, Stargirl |
Sonnenblick, Jordan |
Zen and the Art of Faking It and Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie |
Warren, Robert Penn |
All the King’s Men |
Whelen, Gloria |
Homeless Bird |
Wolff, Virginia Euwer |
Make Lemonade |
Yolen, Jane |
The Devil's Arithmetic |
Zindel, Paul |
The Pigman, The Pigman and Me, The Pigman’s Legacy |