Preparatory Book List

Brightly Beaming Steps to Reading Program Preparatory Curriculum Adaptable for Ages 2 - 4 by Katrina Lybbert

Preparatory Book List Compiled by Katrina Lybbert

You might like to choose one book to read for the whole week, or a different book for each day.

Lesson One Theme – Cows • • • • • • • • • • • •

Babcock, Chris – No Moon, No Milk Bolam, Emily – (Chunky Farm) Cow Cronin, Doreen – Click Clack Moo Doyle, Malachy – Cow Dubanevich, Arlene – Calico Cows Hiskey, Iris – The Little Calf That Couldn’t Moo Johnson, Paul Brett – The Cow Who Wouldn’t Come Down Lewis, Kim – Little Calf MacVeety, Sue – Helper Cow Most, Bernard – The Cow That Went Oink Phillips, Mildred – And the Cow said Moo! Speed, Toby – Two Cool Cows

Lesson Two Theme – Jungle

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Alborough, Jez – Hug Andreae, Giles – Rumble in the Jungle Bentley, Dawn – Who’s in the Jungle? Carle, Eric – Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth Cousins, Lucy – Jazzy in the Jungle Faulkner, Keith – The Tallest, Shortest, Longest, Greenest, Brownest Animal in the Jungle McDonnell, Flora - Splash! Royston, Angela – (Eye Openers) Jungle Animals Russell, Naomi - Guess Who's in the Jungle Taylor, Thomas – The Loudest Roar

Lesson Three Theme – Kittens • • • • • • •

Dunn, Judy – The Little Kitten Fleming, Denise – Mama Cat Has Three Kittens Galdone, Paul – Three Little Kittens Jewell, Nancy – Five Little Kittens McCue, Lisa – Kittens Love Pfloog, Jan – Kittens Are Like That Volkmann, Roy – Curious Kittens

Lesson Four Theme – Eyes • • • • • •

Karlin, Nurit – I See, You Saw London, Jonathan – I See the Moon and the Moon Sees Me MacKinnon, Debbie – Eye Spy Colors Seuss, Dr. - I Can Read With My Eyes Shut Seuss, Dr. – The Eye Book Showers, Paul – Look at Your Eyes

Lesson Five Theme – Lighthouses •

Briggs, Kelly Paul – Lighthouse Lullaby

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Fearrington, Ann – Who Sees the Lighthouse? Gibbons, Gail – Beacons of Light – Lighthouses Hoff, Syd – The Lighthouse Children Swift, Hildegarde H. – The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge

Lesson Six Theme – Rainbows • • • • • • • • • •

Amery, Heather – Noah’s Ark (Usborne Bible Tales) Ehlert, Lois – Planting a Rainbow Feeney, Stephanie – Hawaii is a Rainbow Fowler, Allan – All the Colors of the Rainbow Freeman, Don – A Rainbow of my Own Hayward, Linda – Noah’s Ark Kalan, Robert – Rain Pfister, Marcus – The Rainbow Fish Schwartz, Betty Ann – What Makes a Rainbow? (Pop-Up) Warren, Jean – Huff and Puff’s Hawaiian Rainbow

Lesson Seven Theme – Stars • • • • • • • •

Allen, Marky – There are 508 Stars in the Sky Brady, Kymberli W. – The Sleepy Little Star Branley, Franklyn, M. – The Big Dipper Branley, Franklyn, M. – The Sky is Full of Stars Friedersdorf, Melanie – Where Do Falling Stars Go? Runnells, Treesha – Ten Wishing Stars Simon, Seymour – Stars (use for the pictures) Trapani, Iza – Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Lesson Eight Theme – Sun • •

Asch, Frank – The Sun is My Favorite Star Branley, Franklyn M. – The Sun: Our Nearest Star

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Gibbons, Gail – Sun Up, Sun Down Hines, Anna Grossnickle – What Can You Do in the Sun? Kleven, Elisa – Sun Bread

Lesson Nine Theme – Cookies • • • • • • • • • •

Albee, Sarah – No Cookies? Albee, Sarah – The Oreo Cookie Counting Book Asch, Frank - Milk and Cookies Brett, Jan – Gingerbread Baby Cousins, Lucy – Maisy Makes Gingerbread Galdone, Paul – The Gingerbread Boy Lass, Bonnie & Philemon Sturges – Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? Numeroff, Laura J. – If you Give a Mouse a Cookie Numeroff, Laura J. – The Best Mouse Cookie Seymour, Jane and James Keach – Yum!: A Tale of Two Cookies

Lesson Ten Theme – Trains • • • • • •

Calmenson, Stephanie – Engine, Engine, Number Nine Crews, Donald – Freight Train Lenski, Lois – The Little Train Lewis, Kevin – Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo Piper, Watty – The Little Engine That Could Sturges, Philemon – I Love Trains!

Lesson Eleven Theme – Moon • • • •

Asch, Frank – Happy Birthday, Moon Asch, Frank – Mooncake Brown, Margaret Wise – Goodnight Moon Carle, Eric – Papa, Please get the Moon for Me

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Moss, Jeff - I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon Smith, Linda – When Moon Fell Down Yolen, Jane – Owl Moon

Lesson Twelve Theme – Ducks • • • • • • •

Alborough, Jez – Duck in the Truck Flack, Marjorie – Angus and the Ducks Flack, Marjorie & Kurt Wiese - The Story About Ping McCue, Lisa - Ducklings Love Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds – Ducks Disappearing Peters, Lisa Westberg – Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck Simmons, Jane – Come Along, Daisy!

Lesson Thirteen Theme – Cars/Trucks • • • • • •

Carr, Jan – Big Truck and Little Truck Lenski, Lois – The Little Auto Lenski, Lois – The Little Fire Engine Price, Mathew – Little Red Car in the Snow Rey, H. A. – Curious George and the Dumptruck Sis, Peter – Trucks, Trucks, Trucks

Lesson Fourteen Theme – Horses • • • • • •

Barnes, Laura T., - Twist and Ernest Brett, Jan – Fritz and the Beautiful Horses Burton, Virginia Lee – Calico the Wonder Horse, or the Saga of Stewy Stinker Darrow, Sharon – Old Thunder and Miss Raney Heilbroner, Joan – Robert the Rose Horse Ongman, Gudrun – The Sleep Ponies

Lesson Fifteen Theme – Rain

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Inkpen, Mick – Splosh! Kalan, Robert – Rain Martin, Bill Jr. and John Archambault – Listen to the Rain Ray, Mary Lyn – Red Rubber Boot Day Root, Phyllis – Soggy Saturday Stojic, Manya – Rain

Lesson Sixteen Theme – Butterflies • • • • • • •

Canizares, Susan – Butterfly Carle, Eric – The Very Hungry Caterpillar Ehlert, Lois – Waiting for Wings Gibbons, Gail – Monarch Butterfly Sandved, Kjell B. – The Butterfly Alphabet Sundgaard, Arnold – The Lamb and the Butterfly Ryder, Joanne – Where Butterflies Grow

Lesson Seventeen Theme – Sheep • • • • • •

Brown, Margaret Wise – Sheep Don’t Count Sheep Lewis, Kim – Emma’s Lamb Lewis, Kim – Little Baa Shaw, Nancy – Sheep in a Jeep Sloat, Teri – Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep: A Yarn About Wool Sundgaard, Arnold – The Lamb and the Butterfly

Lesson Eighteen Theme – Ears • • • • •

Bellah, Melanie – Bow Wow! Meow! A First Book of Sounds Brown, Margaret Wise – Bunny’s Noisy Book Lewison, Wendy Cheyette – Eleanor’s Enormous Ears McGovern, Ann – Too Much Noise Perkins, Al – The Ear Book (Bright and Early Books)

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Trumbauer, Lisa – Animal Ears

Lesson Nineteen Theme – Boats • • • • • • • • • •

Barton, Byron – Boats Collicutt, Paul – This Boat Corey, Shana – Boats Crampton, Gertrude – Scuffy the Tugboat: And His Adventures Down the River Crews, Donale – Harbor Gibbons, Gail – Boat Book Gramatky, Hardie – Little Toot Lensky, Lois – The Little Sailboat Rockwell, Anne – Ferryboat Ride! Trapani, Iza – Row Row Row Your Boat

Lesson Twenty Theme – Balloons • • • • •

Bernthal, Mark S. – Barney’s Big Balloon Lamorisse, Albert – The Red Balloon McGrory, Anik – Mouton’s Impossible Dream Rey, H. A., - Curious George and the Hot Air Balloon Roland, Timothy – Come Down Now, Flying Cow

Lesson Twenty-one Theme – Wind • • • • • • •

Asch, Frank – Like a Windy Day Ets, Marie Hall – Gilberto and the Wind Hines, Anna Grossnickle – What Can You Do in the Wind? Hutchins, Pat – The Wind Blew Pegram, Laura – A Windy Day Rydell, Katy – Wind Says Good Night Wilhelm, Hans – It’s Too Windy!

Lesson Twenty-two Theme - Seasons • • • • • • •

Berenstain, Stan & Jan – The Berenstain Bears’ Four Seasons Gibbons, Gail – The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree MacDonald, Golden – The Little Island Schulman, Janet – A Bunny for All Seasons Sendak, Maurice – Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months Tafuri, Nancy – Snowy Flowy Blowy: A Twelve Months Rhyme Tudor, Tasha – Around the Year

Lesson Twenty-three Theme – Snow • • • • • • •

Bridwell, Norman – Clifford’s First Snow Day Ehlert, Lois – Snowballs Keats, Ezra Jack – The Snowy Day Marzollo, Jean – I am Snow McKie, Roy and P.D. Eastman – Snow Rockwell, Anne – The First Snowfall Tresselt, Alvin – White Snow, Bright Snow

Lesson Twenty-four Theme – Dogs • • • • • • •

Bridwell, Norman – Clifford the Big Red Dog Capucilli, Alyssa Satin – Biscuit Eastman, P.D. – Big Dog Little Dog Eastman, P.D. – Go, Dog. Go! Flack, Marjorie – Angus Lost Perkins, Al – The Digging-est Dog Zion, Gene – Harry the Dirty Dog

Lesson Twenty-five Theme – Rabbits • •

Brown, Margaret Wise – Home for a Bunny Brown, Margaret Wise – The Runaway Bunny

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McBratney, Sam – Guess How Much I Love You McCue, Lisa – Snuggle Bunnies Pledger, Maurice – An Adventure with Billy Bunny Potter, Beatrix – The Tale of Peter Rabbit Walton, Rick – One More Bunny

Lesson Twenty-six Theme – Airplanes • • • • • • •

Barton, Byron – Airport Barton, Byron – Planes Crews, Donald – Flying Lenski, Lois – The Little Airplane Rockwell, Anne F. – I Fly Sturges, Philemon - I Love Planes! Wilson-Max, Ken – The Little Red Plane

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