Books & Booklists from Share a Story-Shape a Future 2009

If you’re looking for a book, you’ve got a wonderfully comprehensive list right here … it crosses age groups and genres and will help you with every stage of your child’s reading development. Other than pulling together the list with nice neat categories, and correcting a title or two, these are exactly as offered by bloggers and their visitors during Share a Story-Shape a Future. We had so many recommendations, I’ve actually had to split them into multiple posts.

Each Day, I will include links to the previous list each day so that on Day 4, you’ll have a link to everything in one post. I have also created a PDF version of the whole kit-and-kaboodle (Thursday)

Here are a few notes:

• Click through the “recommended by” links. They often have more context and tell you why someone loved the book.
• I included all of the library-related books Jules included in her post at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.
• I only added only one book to this entire collection: Wild About Books by Judy Sierra.
• I did not add additional titles by authors whom I know are prolific children’s writers. So no, we do not have every Karen Katz or Mo Willems book. However, if we had multiple books by one author, they are listed alphabetically and also with a “see also” to help you find them all.
• Because reading (not buying books) is what matters, I’m have included a link to Worldcat so you can locate these books in your local library.
• Some of the books came with links to a bookseller. Some did not. If the former, we used their link, I just added author/illustrator data. If the latter, we added a link with a Reading Tub affiliate. If it’s a series, I didn’t add a link. Our affiliate income is small, but it covers things like hosting services. Any income generated through Reading Tub-related purchases will be rolled into Share a Story-Shape a Future 2010.
• If you’re looking for e-books, audiobooks, podcasts, webcasts, and book trailers, then you’ll want to bookmark Elizbeth Dulemba’s Resource List.

Last but not least … Toddlers and Preschoolers are a distinct audience. They like “playing” with books as much (or more than) stories, and their attention spans are shorter. Most of the titles in this group are board books, designed for this audience. Picture books, though, can be for all ages. What you think as “too babyish” may be the perfect comfort choice or a wonderful memory for your child. On with the show …

Books for Adults

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child by Donalyn Miller

Great Books About Things Kids Love by Kathleen Odean

Helping Homeschoolers in the Library by Adrienne Furness

Learning Under the Influence of Language and Literature: Making the Most of Read-Alouds Across the Day by Lester Laminack and Reba Wadsworth

Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease

Reading and Writing Grade by Grade (Revised Edition) by Lauren Resnick and Sally Hampton

Reconsidering Read-Aloud by Mary Lee Hahn

Toddler & Preschool Books - Fiction

Animal Crackers: Nursery Rhymes by Jane Dyer, see also: Animal Crackers Bedtime (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

Baa Choo written by Sarah Weeks, illustrated by Jane Manning (recommended by Cathy Miller)

Baby's World Board Book Series: Babies, Baby Animals, Bath Time (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What So You See? by Bill Martin, Jr., see also: Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear? (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault (recommended by Valerie Baartz and Donalyn Miller)

Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo written by Kevin Lewis, illustrated by Daniel Kirk; see also: Tugga-Tugga Tugboat, My Truck Is Stuck (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

Counting Kisses by Karen Katz, see also: Mommy Hugs, Ten Tiny Babies (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton, see also: Moo, Baa, La La La! (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

Finger Rhymes by Marc Brown, see also: Hand Rhymes, Play Rhymes (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

Hiding by Shirley Hughes, see also: Bouncing, Helping (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

I Went Walking by Sue Williams, see also: Let's Go Visiting (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

I'm Mighty by Kate and Jim McMullan, see also: I Stink, I'm Bad, I'm Dirty (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

The Itsy Bitsy Spider by Iza Trapani, see also: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Mary Had a Little Lamb (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (recommended by Donalyn Miller)

Lunch by Denise Fleming, see also: In the Tall, Tall Grass; In the Small, Small Pond; The Cow Who Clucked; Barnyard Banter (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

Maisy Takes a Bath by Lucy Cousins, see also: Maisy Dresses Up, Maisy's Train (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

My Very First Mother Goose by Rosemary Wells, see also: Max's Bath, Max's Bedtime (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

Nicky 1, 2, 3 by Cathryn Falwell, see also: Where's Nicky? (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

Peekaboo Morning by Rachel Isadora, see also: Uh-Oh!, Peekaboo Bedtime (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf (recommended by Donalyn Miller)

Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs by Alan Katz (recommended by Pippi)

Ten Little Ladybugs by Melanie Gerth (recommended by Get Off the Ground)

Usborne That's Not My Series: That's Not My Truck, That's Not My Fairy, That's Not My Dinosaur (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

Tomie de Paola's Little Mother Goose by Tomie de Paola (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen (recommended by Brimful Curiosities)

Where Is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox, see also: Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (recommended by Valerie Baartz, the Book Chook); The Magic Hat (recommended by Susan);

Where the Giant Sleeps (recommended by Paper Tigers)

Toddler & Preschool Books - Nonfiction

Bright Baby Series: Colors, Trucks, First Words (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

My Car by Byron Barton, see also: Trains; Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs; Machines at Work (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

My First Board Book Series: My First Truck Board Book, My First Farm Board Book, My First Colors Board Book (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

Freight Train by Donald Crews, see also: School Bus (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

Touch and Feel Series: Farm, Dinosaur, Fire Engine, Home, Bathtime (recommended by Valerie Baartz)

White on Black by Tana Hoban, see also: Black on White, Black & White (recommended by Valerie Baartz)