Summer is halfway over. If you intended to read with your kindergartener and haven’t started, don’t panic. Below is a list of great books for reading to children in the preschool through first grade years.

The titles introduce the imaginative world in which great literature pulls the reader, and helps children develop the desire to read simply for the pleasure of reading.

Each of the books will captivate most children and truly spark their interest in reading. Many children will request the books to be read to them over and over again. These are titles I read to my students and my daughter. 

Even if your child has begun to read, you should still read to them.  I still read to my daughter, and she is 11-years-old. Children who are read to develop a deeper love for reading, and it is a great bonding time.

Find these books and enjoy the time reading with you child.

- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz

- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

- Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

- A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni

- Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell

- Corduroy by Don Freeman

- A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams Illustrated by Vera B. Williams

- If You Give a Cat a Cookie by Laura Numeroff

- If You Give a Cat a Cupcake by Laura Numeroff

- Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann, Elizabeth Kann

- Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems

- Knuffle Bunny Too by Mo Willems

- Oh The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss

- The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

- Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Eric Carle