Suggested Summer Reading List
Grades 1-2

Sheep in a Jeep Shaw, N.
It's a Good Thing There Art Insects Fowler, A.
Biscuit (series) Capucilli, A.
The Carrot Seed Kraus, R.*
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Westcott, N.
Sammy the Seal Hoff, S.
A Kiss for Little Bear Hoban, T.*
Quick As a Cricket Wood, A.
The Napping House Wood, A.
The Runaway Bunny Brown, M.*
Geraldine’s Big Snow Keller, H.
All Tutus Should Be Pink Brownrigg, S.
Are You My Mother? Eastman, P.
Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo Stone, R.
Big Dog, Little Dog Eastman, P.
Bike Lesson Berenstain, S. & J.
Fix-It McPhail, D.*
We’re in big Trouble, Black Board Bear Alexander, M.
There’s a Nightmare in My Closet Mayer, M.*
There’s an Alligator Under My Bed Mayer, M.*
Harry the Dirty Dog Zion, G.
Where the Wild Things Are Sendak, M*
Happy Birthday, Ronald Morgan Giff, P.*
Henry and Mudge and the Wild Wind Rylant, C.*
Mouse Soup Lobel, A.*
Making Friends Mahy, M.*
A Fly Went By McClintock, M.
Little Bear’s Friend Minarik, E.*
City Mouse, Country Mouse Wallner, J.
Fox (series) Marshall, E. or J.*
Wonderful Worms Glaser, L.
Arthur (series) Brown, M.*
Frances (series) Hoban, R.*
Harold and the Purple Crayon Johnson, C.*
Frog and Toad (series) Lobel, A.*
The Case of …(series) Bonsall, C.
Commander Toad (series) Yolen, J.*
Why Are Pineapples Prickly? 
    Questions Children Ask About Food		 Maynard, C.
The Post Office Book: Mail and How It Moves Gibbons, G.

*Authors listed in the Massachusetts English Language Arts Curriculum Framework,
  Massachusetts Department of Education