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Preschool Storytime Favorites

*and tales I mean to try out

 * See also Pajama Time Favorites and Nonfiction Storytime Favorites

 

9 Magic Wishes (Jackson)

 

A Beasty Story (Martin/Kellogg)

 

A Beautiful Girl (Schwartz)

A Chick called Saturday (Dunbar)

A Cool Drink of Water (Kerley)

 

A Dark Dark Tale (Brown)

 

A Dragon on the Doorstep

 

A Flea in the Ear (Wyllie)

 

A Friend for Growl Bear (Austin)

 

A Frog in the Bog (Wilson)

 

A Hat for Minerva Louise (Stoeke)

 

A Huge Hog is a Big Pig (McCall & Keeler)

 

A Little Story about a Big Turnip (Zunshine)

 

A Mouse’s Life (Himmelman - jnf)

 

A Nap in a Lap (Sarah Wilson)

 

A Piece of Chalk (Ericsson)

A Seed is Sleepy (Aston)

 

A Sky Full of Kites (Molarsky)

 

A Splendid Friend, Indeed (Bloom)

 

A World Full of Monsters (McQueen)

 

AAAArrgghh Spider! (Monks)

 

Abiyoyo (Seeger/Hays)

 

Alicia's Happy Day (Starr)

All Aboard! A True Train Story (Kuklin)

 

All By Myself (Bates)

 

All for Pie Pie for All (David Martin)

 

All you Need for a Snowman (Schertle)

 

Alligator Alphabet (Stella Blackstone)

 

An Island Grows (Schaefer)

 

An Orange in January (Aston)

Ananse’s Feast (Mollel)

 

Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock (Kimmel)

 

And Here’s to You (Elliott)

 

Andrew’s Loose Tooth (Munsch)

 

Animal Babies in the Ponds and Rivers

 

Animal Babies in the Grasslands

 

Are You a Bee? (Allen/Humphries)

Are You a Butterfly?  (Allen/Humphries)

Arroz con Leche: Popular Songs and Rhymes from Latin American (Lulu Delacre, 1989) -- includes “Un Elefante”

 

At the Edge of the Woods: a counting book (Cotten/Cartwright)

Augustus and His Smile (Rayner)

Aunt Lucy Went to Buy a Hat (Low)

 

Baby Danced the Polka (Beaumont)

Baghead (Jarrett J. Krosoczka)

 

Bake You a Pie (Olson-Brown)

 

Bark, George (Feiffer)

 

Be Brown! (Bottner)

 

Beach Day! (Lakin)

 

Bear Snores On (Wilson)

 

Bearum Scarum (Vic Parker) –countdown, bears, jungle animals

 

Beatrice Doesn’t Want To (Numeroff)

 

Beautiful Bananas (Laird)

 

Bebé Goes Shopping (Elya)

 

Beetle Bop (Fleming)

Being Friends (Beaumont)

 

Bernard’s Bath (Goodman)

 

Bertie Was a Watchdog (Walton)

 

Big Bad Bunny (Billingsley & Karas)

 

Big Bad Bunny (Durant)

 

Bob (Tracey Pearson)

 

BooBoo (Dunrea)

 

Book! Book! Book! (Deborah Bruss)

 

Bounce (Cronin/Menchin)

Bringing Down the Moon (Emmett)

 

Bubblegum, Bubblegum (Wheeler)

 

Bugs for Lunch (Facklam)

 

Bumblebee, Bumblebee, Do You Know Me? (Rockwell)

 

Bumble Bugs and Elephants (Margaret Wise Brown)

Bunnies on the Go (Walton)

 

Bunny and Me (Greenspun)

But Excuse Me That is My Book (Child)

Calabash Cat (Rumford)

 

Can You Make a Piggy Giggle? (Linda Ashman)

 

Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs (Andreae/Ayto)

 

Carry Me! - animal babies on the move (Susan Stockdale)

 

Cat’s Pajamas (Hurd)

 

Chameleon, Chameleon (Cowley)

Charlie Cook’s Favorite Book (Donaldson)

 

Chicken Chickens (Valeri Gorbachev)

Chickens to the Rescue (Himmelman)

Chicky Chicky Chook Chook (MacLennan)

Choo Choo Clickety-Clack! (Mayo)

 

Chuck's Truck (Anderson)

City 1 2 3 (Milich)

 

City Signs (Milich)

Cock-a-Doodle-Do Barnyard Hullabaloo (Andreae)

 

Cock-a-Doodle-Moo! (Most)

 

Conejito: a folktale from Panama (MacDonald)

Construction Countdown (Olson)

 

Cosmo Zooms (Howard)

 

Counting Cockatoos (Blackstone)

 

Counting Crocodiles (Sierra)

 

Counting on the Woods (Lyon)

 

Counting Ovejas (Sara Weeks/David Diaz)

 

Cowlick! (Ditchfield/Beardshaw)

Cows in the Kitchen (Crebbin)

 

Crazy Hair Day (Saltzberg)

 

Crunch Munch (London)

 

Curious Kitten (Volkmann)

 

Daffodil

 

David’s Drawings (Falwell)

 

Dawdle Duckling (Buzzeo)

 

Dino Pets (Plourde)

 

Dinosaur Roar (Strickland)

 

Dinosaur Train (Gurney)

 

Dmitri the Astronaut (Agee)

 

Do Like a Duck Does! (Hindley)

 

Do Lions Live on Lily Pads? (Walsh)

 

Does a Lion Brush? (Ehrlich)

 

Dog Blue (Dunbar)

 

Dog Eared (Harvey)

 

Dog's Colorful Day (Dodd)

Don’t Fidget a Feather (Silverman)

 

Don’t Laugh, Joe! (Kasza)

 

Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus (Willems)

 

Don’t let the Pigeon Stay Up Late (Willems)

 

Don’t Wake Up the Bear! (Marjorie Dennis Murray)

 

Down By The Station (Hillenbrand)

 

Down on the Farm (Kutner)

 

Drat that fat cat! (Thomson)

 

Duck in the Truck (Alborough)

 

Duck on a Bike (Shannon)

 

Duck, Duck, Goose! (Beaumont)

 

Dudley: the little terrier that could (Green-Armytage)

 

Duncan Rumplemeyer’s Bad Birthday (Stadler)

 

Dunk Skunk (Rex)

 

Easy Peasy! (Jennings)

 

Easy Street (Gray/Bono - about laying & rolling a new street)

Edwina: the dinosaur who didn’t know she was extinct (Willems)

 

Eggday (Dunbar)

 

Eight Animals Bake a Cake (Susan Middleton Elya)-bilingual

 

Eight Animals Play Ball (Susan Middleton Elya)-bilingual

 

Elephant and Mommy (Smithsonian)

 

Ella Sarah Gets Dressed (M. Chodos-Irvine)

 

Epossumondas (Sally)

 

Eyes, Nose, Fingers & Toes (Hindley)

 

Farm Fresh Cats (Santoro)

 

Fat Cat (MacDonald)

 

Feel the Summer (Sarah L. Thomson/Kana Yamada)

Fiddle-I-Fee (Sweet)

 

Fire Trucks (Lindeen - jnf)

Firebears The Rescue Team (Greene)

 

Firefighters A to Z (Demarest)

 

Firefighters! Speeding! Spraying! Saving! (Hubbell/Garofoli)

Five Little Dinosaurs (Grace)

 

Five Little Monkeys Play Hide and Seek (Christelow)

 

Five Ugly Monsters (Arnold)

 

Fix It, Sam (Ries)

Fledgling (Black)

 

Flora’s Surprise (Gliori)

 

Flyaway Katie (Dunbar)

 

Forest Bright, Forest Night by Jennifer Ward

 

Four Friends Together (Heap)

 

Fox Tale Soup (Bonning)

Frog (Susan Cooper)

 

George and the Dragon (Chris Wormell, 2002)

Get Out of Bed! (Munsch)

 

Ginger (Voake)

 

Ginger Bear (Grey)

Gladys Goes Out to Lunch (Anderson)

 

Go to Sleep, Gecko! (MacDonald)

Going to the Zoo (Paxton)

 

Goldie and the Three Bears (Diane Stanley)

 

Good Night Harry (Lewis)

Good Night, Copycub (Edwards)

 

Good Night, Dinosaurs (Sierra)

Good Thing You’re Not an Octopus! (Markes)

 

Goodnight Lulu (Bogan)

Goodnight Train (Sobel)

 

Goodnight, Sweet Pig (Bailey/Masse)

Gramps and the Fire Dragon (Roberts)

 

Grumpy Bird (Tankard)

 

Guess What is Growing Inside This Egg (Posada)

 

Guess Who, Baby Duck? (Hest)

 

Halibut Jackson (Lucas)

 

Happy Dog! (Grubb)

 

Hardworking Puppies (Reiser)

 

Has Anyone Seen My Emily Greene? (Mazer)

 

Head to Toe (Carle)

 

Hello, Hello (Schlein)

 

Hello, Snow! (Vestergaard)

 

Henry and Amy (King)

 

Henry’s Show and Tell (Nancy Carlson)

 

Hey, Pancakes! (Weston/Gammell)

 

Hi Pizza Man (Walter)

 

Hickory Dickory Dock by Keith Baker

Hilda Must Be Dancing (Wilson)

 

Hippo! No, Rhino! (Newman)

 

Hopper Treetop Adventure (Pfister)

 

Hoppity Skip Little Chick (Brown)

Horace and Morris but mostly Dolores (Howe)

 

How About a Hug? (Nancy Carlson) –hugs, friendship, feel better v b..

 

How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? (Teague)

 

How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? (Yolen)

 

How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? (Yolen)

 

How Do You Make a Baby Smile? (Sturges)

 

How to Catch a Star (Jeffers)

 

How will we get to the Beach (Luciani)

 

Hungry Hen (Waring)

 

Hurry Granny Annie (Alda)

 

Hush, Little Baby (Brian Pinkney)

 

Hush Little Digger (Olson-Brown)

Hushabye Lily (Freedman)

 

I Am America (Smith, Jr.)

 

I Can Fly (Krauss)

 

I Heard a Little Baa (MacLeod)

 

I Like Bugs (Flanagan)

 

I like Cats (Hubbell)

 

I Love Bugs! (Sturges)

 

I Stink! (McMullan)

 

I Swapped My Dog (Ziefert)

 

I Took My Frog to the Library (Kimmel)

 

I Took the Moon for a Walk (Curtis)

 

I Want to Be an Astronaut (Barton)

 

I Wish I Were a Pilot (Blackstone/Grover)

I’m a Duck! (Teri Sloat)

 

I’m a Pig (Sarah Weeks)

 

"I'm Not Scared!" (Allen)

If you Give Mouse a Cookie (Numeroff)

 

If You’re Happy and you know it (Ormerod)

 

If You’re Happy and You Know It: jungle edition (James Warhola)

 

Imogene’s Antlers (Small)

 

In the Driver’s Seat (Haynes)

 

In the Rain with Baby Duck (Hest)

 

It is the Wind (Wolff)

 

It Was You, Blue Kangaroo! (Clark)

 

Itsy Bitsy the Smart Spider (Harper)

 

Jeepers Creepers: A Monstrous ABC (Laura Leuck)

 

Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? (Nancy White Carlstrom)

 

Johnny Appleseed (Benet & Benet)

 

Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Taback)

 

Juma and the Honey Guide (Bernard)

 

Just a Little Bit (Tompert/Munsinger) - elephant on seesaw

Kiss the Cow! (Root)

 

Kitten’s First Full Moon (Kevin Henkes)

 

Lasso Lou and Cowboy McCoy (Barbara Larmon Failing)

 

Lemons Are Not Red (Seeger)

 

Leo and His Dog Lou (Serrano)

Leonardo, the Terrible Monster (Willems)

 

Let’s Eat! (Zamorano/Vivas)

 

Let's Play in the Forest - While the Wolf is Not Around! (Rueda)

 

Little Bunny Foo Foo told and sung by the good fairy (Johnson)

 

Little Bunny’s Sleepless Night (Roth)

 

Little Chick’s Hide and Seek

 

Little Fern’s First Winter (Jane Simmons) –winter, snow, rabbits, play

 

Little Green (Baker)

 

Little Hoot (Rosenthal) - Suzanne Harold recommends

 

Little Humpty (Wild)

 

Little Loon and Papa (Buzzeo)

 

Little Penguin’s Tale (Wood)

 

Little Quack’s Hide and Seek (Thompson)

 

Little Rooster's Diamond Button (MacDonald's version)

Louella Mae, She’s Run Away! (Alarcon)

 

Lunch (Fleming)

Maggie and the Monster (Winthrop/dePaola)

Maggie Thinks Big (Cooper)

 

Magic Thinks Big (Cooper)

 

Maisy Takes a Bath (Lucy Cousins)

 

Mama Cat Has Three Kittens (Fleming)

 

Mañana Iguana (Paul)

 

Marvin K. Mooney will you please go NOW! (Seuss)

 

Mary Smith (A. U’Ren)

 

Mary Was a Little Lamb (Rant)

 

Matilda the Moocher (Bluthenthal)

 

Max cleans up (Wells)

 

Max Found Two Sticks (Pinkney)

Max's ABC (Wells)

 

Meanwhile… (Feiffer)

 

Millie Wants to Play! (Pedersen)

 

Minerva Louise (Stoeke)

 

Mockingbird (Ahlberg)

 

Mommies Say Shhh! (Polacco)

Mommy Mine (Chapman)

 

Moo Cow Kaboom (Hurd)

 

Moo, Baa, La La La!

 

Moon Glowing (Partridge)

 

Most Loved Monster (Downey)

 

Mother, Mother, I Want Another (Robbins)

 

Mouse Count (Walsh)

 

Mouse Paint (Walsh)

Mouse went out to get a snack (McFarland)

 

Move Over, Rover! (Karen Beaumont)

 

Move! (Jenkins/Page)

 

Mr. Cookie Baker (Wellington)

 

Mr. George Baker (Hest)

 

Mrs Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile (Paye & Lippert)

 

Mrs. McNosh and the Great Big Squash (Weeks)

 

Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash (Weeks)

 

Mrs. Wishy-Washy’s Farm (Cowley)

 

Mud Puddle (Munsch)

 

Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! (Fleming/Karas)

 

My Cat Copies Me (Kwon)

 

My Crayons Talk (Patricia Hubbard)

 

My Fire Engine (Rex)

 

My Friend Rabbit (Eric Rohmann)

 

My Grandma/Mi abuelita (Guy)

My Little Sister Ate 1 Hare (Grossman)

 

My Name is Yoon (Recorvits)

 

My nose, your nose (Melanie Walsh)

 

My Truck Book (Smithsonian)

 

My Truck is Stuck! (Lewis)

 

Nathaniel Willy, Scared Silly (Mathews & Robinson)

 

Never Tease a Weasel (Soule/Booth)

New Socks (Shea)

 

No Bows! (Duke)

 

No Dinner! (Souhami)

 

No More Cookies! (Paeony Lewis)

 

No No, Jo! (McMullan)

Noisy Way to Bed (Whybrow)

 

Northwest Animal Babies (Wolfe/Helman)

Not a Box (Portis)

Nugget & Darling (Joosse)

 

Numbers (photo board book “created by” Michel Blake, Candlewick Press)

 

Ocean Babies (Rose)

Oh, Look! (Polacco)

 

Old Black Fly (Aylesworth)

 

Old MacDonald (Souhami)

 

Old MacDonald in the City (Williams)

 

Old Mother Hubbard (Jane Cabrera, 2001)

 

Ollie (Dunrea)

 

Ollie the Stomper (Dunrea)

 

On the Hill (Jahn-Clough)

 

One Dark and Dreadful Night (R. Cecil)

 

One Dark Night (Hutchins)

 

One Duck Stuck (Root)

 

One Frog Sang (Parenteau/Jabar)

One Gray Mouse (Burton)

 

One Smart Goose (Church)

 

One Windy Wednesday (Root)

 

Orange, Pear, Apple, Bear (Gravett)

 

Otis (Bynum)

 

Over on the Farm (Gunson)

 

Overboard!

 

Owl Babies (Waddell)

 

Panda Bear, Panda Bear (Martin, carle)

 

Pants (Andreae/Sharratt)

 

Peace at Last (Jill Murphy, 1980)

 

Peanut (Linas Alsenas)

Peanut Butter and Jelly (Westcott)

 

Penguin (Polly Dunbar)

 

Pete's a Pizza (Steig)

Pigsty (Teague)

Plaidypus Lost (Stevens)

 

Please Puppy Please (Lee)

 

Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin (Mary Serfozo, 2001)—sweet jack o’lantern

 

Puff-Puff, Chugga-Chugga (Christopher Wormell)-train, sneeze, picnic

 

Puppies and Piggies (Cynthia Rylant)

Quack, Daisy, QUACK! (Simmons)

 

Racoon Tune (Shaw)

 

Rain (Kalan/Crews)

Raindrop, Plop! (Lewison)

 

Rattletrap Car (Root)

 

Ready, Set, Skip! (O'Connor)

 

Rebel (Schoenherr)

 

Red Is a Dragon: a book of colors (Roseanne Thong)

 

Red-Eyed Tree Frog (Cowley)

 

Roar and More (Kuskin)

 

Roar of a Snore (Arnold)

 

Roar!: A Noisy Counting Book (Edwards)

 

Robots Everywhere (Hebson)

 

Roller Coaster (Frazee)

 

Rub-a-Dub Sub (Ashman)

 

Rufus at Work (Taber)

 

Sammy and the Dinosaurs (Whybrow)

 

Scarlette Beane (Wallace)

 

Scrubbly-Bubbly Car Wash (O’Garden)

 

Send It! (Carter)

 

Senor Don Gato (John Manders)

 

Serious Farm (Egan)

 

Seven Blind Mice (Young)

 

Shark in the Park (Sharratt)

 

Sheep in a Jeep (Shaw)

 

She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain (Emmet)

 

Shirley’s Wonderful Baby (Gregory)

 

Shoe Baby (Dunbar)

 

Silly Sally (Wood)

 

Sleepy Cadillac (Hurd)

 

Silly Suzy Goose (Horacek)

Sleepy Pendoodle (Doyle)

Slop Goes the Soup: A Noisy Warthog Word Book (Pamela D. Edwards)

 

Smile if You’re Human (Shannon)

 

Snapshots: the Wonders of Monterey Bay (Mannis)

Snip Snap! What's That? (Bergman, 2005)

 

Snog the Frog (Bonning)

 

Snow (Sulevitz)

 

Snow Bears (Waddell)

 

So Happy! (Henkes)

 

So of Night (Nakamura)

 

So Sleepy Story (Shulevitz)

 

Some Dog! (Casanova)

Some Dogs Do (Jez Alborough)

 

Someone Bigger (Emmett)

 

Something from Nothing (Gilman)

 

Something Might Happen (Helen Lester)

 

Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball (Churchill)

 

Soon Baboon Soon (Horowitz)

 

Spicy Hot Colors/Colores Picantes (Shahan)

Splish, Splash, Spring (Jan Carr, 2001) –rhymy, springy

 

Spots, Feathers and Curly Tails (Tafuri)

Squeak’s Good Idea (Eilenberg)

 

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon (Lovell/Catrow)

Stanley Goes Fishing (Frazier, 2006)

 

Stanley Mows the Lawn (Frazier)

 

Starry Safari (Ashman)

 

Stone Soup (Forest)

 

Storm Boy (P. Lewis)

 

Stripe (Joanne Partis) –tiger, adventure, sneezes, danger, escapes

 

Tacky the Penguin (Lester)

 

Taking a Bath with the Dog - and other things that make me happy (Menchin)

 

Tanglebird (Lodge)

 

Tanka Tanka Skunk! (Steve Webb)

 

Tea for Me, Tea for You (Laura Rader)

 

Teeny Weeny Bop (Margaret Read MacDonald)

 

Ten Dirty Pigs, Ten Clean Pigs (Roth)

 

Ten in the Bed (Cabrera)

 

Ten Naughty Little Monkeys (Williams/Watts)

Ten Terrible Dinosaurs (Stickland)

 

Terrific Trains (Mitton)

 

That Toad is Mine! (Hazen)

 

The Adventures of Bert (Ahlberg)

 

The Baby BeeBee Bird (Massie)

 

The Bear Who Doesn’t Like Honey (Maithland)

 

The Best Pet of all ( LaRochelle)

 

The Big Trip (Gorbachev)

The Big Wide-Mouthed Frog (Larranaga)

 

The Biggest, Best Snowman (Cuyler)

 

The Book of Zzzs (Alda)

 

The Boy on the Bus: a sing-along storybook (Penny Dale)

 

The Bridge is up! (Bell)

 

The Camel’s Lament (Santore)

 

The Character in the Book (Zemach)

 

The Cow Who Clucked (Fleming)

The Cuddle Book (Van Genechten)

 

The Dancing Tiger (Doyle)

 

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (McBratney)

 

The Egg (Robertson)

 

The Elephant’s Wrestling Match (Sierra)

 

The Elf’s Hat (Wenigner)

 

The End (LaRochelle/Egielski, 2007)

The Enormous Potato (Davis)

 

The Flying Dragon Room ( Wod)

 

The Gigantic Turnip (Aleksei Tolstoy)

The Girl on the Yellow Giraffe (Himler)

 

The Goldfish Yawned (Sayles)

 

The Great Gracie Chase (Rylant)

 

The Gruffalo (Donaldson)

The Grumpalump (Hayes)

The Gunniwolf (Harper)

 

The house that Jack built (Mayo)