Every Child Ready to Read
Recommended Reading List
Letter Knowledge
Letter knowledge includes learning that each letter is distinct, and that each letter has its own name and unique sound. Knowing the names and sounds of letters helps children figure out how to sound out written words.
| Age Level | Call # | Author | Title |
| 3 - 7 yrs. | P SPIR | Spirin, Gennady | A Apple Pie |
| 3 - 6 yrs. | P JACK | Jackson, Woody | A Cow's Alfalfa-bet |
| 5 - 8 yrs. | P BAYE | Bayer, Jane | A My Name is Alice |
| 4 - 8 yrs. | P LEST | Lester, Mike | A is for Salad |
| 1 - 4 yrs. | P JAY | Jay, Alison | ABC: A Child's First Alphabet |
| 4 - 7 yrs. | P MURP | Murphy, Liz | ABC Doctor |
| 5 - 7 yrs. | P MOST | Most, Bernard | ABC T-Rex |
| 3 - 8 yrs. | P MACD | MacDonald, Ross | Achoo! Bang! Crash!: a Noisy Alphabet |
| 4 - 7 yrs. | P BROW | Browne, Philippa-Alys | African Animals ABC |
| 1 - 4 yrs. | P BLAC | Blackstone, Stella | Alligator Alphabet |
| 5 - 8 yrs. | P SEND | Sendak, Maurice | Alligators All Around: An Alphabet |
| 1 - 3 yrs. | P MACD | MacDonald, Suse | Alphabatics |
| 4 - 8 yrs. | P PEAR | Pearson, Debora | Alphabeep: A Zipping Zooming ABC |
| 4 - 7 yrs. | P WOOD | Wood, Audrey | Alphabet Adventure |
| 3 - 6 yrs. | P NICK | Nickle, John | Alphabet Explosion |
| 3 - 7 yrs. | P WALL | Wallace, Nancy | Alphabet House |
| 3 - 8 yrs. | P WOOD | Wood, Audrey | Alphabet Mystery |
| 2 - 5 yrs. | P FLEM | Fleming, Denise | Alphabet Under Construction |
| 4 - 8 yrs. | P KONT | Kontis, Alethea | AlphaOops! H is for Halloween |
| 4 - 8 yrs. | P BOWE | Bowen, Betsy | Antler, Bear, Canoe |
| 3 - 6 yrs. | P BRUE | Bruel, Nick | Bad Kitty |
| 4 - 7 yrs. | P BRUN | Brunhoff, Laurent de | Babar's ABC |
| 3 - 6 yrs. | P MART | Martin, Bill | Chicka Chicka Boom Boom |
| 2 - 5 yrs. | P CRON | Cronin, Doreen | Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: an alphabetical adventure |
| 5 - 7 yrs. | P MILI | Milich, Zoran | The City ABC Book |
| 3 - 7 yrs. | P ZUCK | Zuckerman, Andrew | Creature ABC |
| 2 - 5 yrs. | P OCON | O'Connell, Rebecca | Danny is Done with Diapers |
| 1 - 4 yrs. | P DOGF | Dog From Arf! Arf! to Zzzzz | |
| 3 - 5 yrs. | P OCON | London, Jonathan | Do Your ABC's, Little Brown Bear |
| 5 - 7 yrs. | P EHLE | Ehlert, Lois | Eating the Alphabet |
| 3 - 8 yrs. | P DEMA | Demarest, Chris | Firefighters A to Z |
| 4 - 7 yrs. | P DITE | DiTerlizzi, Tony | G is for One Gzonk! |
| 4 - 8 yrs. | P MCLI | McLimans, David | Gone Wild: an Endangered Animal Alphabet |
| 2 - 6 yrs. | P SEEG | Seeger, Laura | The Hidden Alphabet |
| 5 - 8 yrs. | P CLEA | Cleary, Beverly | The Hullabaloo ABC |
| 4 - 8 yrs. | P MCMU | McMullan, Kate | I Stink |
| 3 - 7 yrs. | P INKP | Inkpen, Mike | Kipper's A to Z |
| 3 - 7 yrs. | P BAKE | Baker, Keith | LMNO Peas |
| 3 - 6 yrs. | P AYLE | Aylesworth, Jim | Little Bitty Mousie |
| 5 - 7 yrs. | P ASHM | Ashman, Linda | M is for Mischief: an A to Z of Naughty Children |
| 5 - 8 yrs. | P MEDD | Meddaugh, Susan | Martha Blah Blah |
| 4 - 6 yrs. | P CATA | Catalanotto, Peter | Matthew A.B.C. |
| 3 - 8 yrs. | P WELL | Wells, Rosemary | Max's ABC |
| 3 - 6 yrs. | P SLAT | Slate, Joseph | Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten |
| 5 - 6 yrs. | P KIRK | Kirk, David | Miss Spider's ABC |
| 3 - 7 yrs. | P CAPU | Capucilli, Alyssa | Mrs. McTats and her Houseful of Cats |
| 3 - 7 yrs. | P AYLE | Aylesworth, Jim | Naughty Little Monkees |
| 5 - 7 yrs. | P AYLE | Aylesworth, Jim | Old Black Fly |
| 5 - 8 yrs. | P LOBE | Lobel, Arnold | On Market Street |
| 4 - 7 yrs. | P BRUE | Bruel, Nick | Poor Puppy |
| 2 - 5 yrs. | P SOBE | Sobel, June | Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC |
| 2 - 6 yrs. | P SIER | Sierra, Judy | The Sleepy Little Alphabet: a Bedtime Story form Alphabet Town |
| 5 - 8 yrs. | P WALT | Walton, Rick | So Many Bunnies: a Bedtime ABC & Counting Book |
| 4 - 7 yrs. | P TOBI | Tobin, James | Sue MacDonald Had a Book |
| 3 - 6 yrs. | P MCLE | McLeod, Bob | Superhero ABC |
| 3 - 6 yrs. | P ERNS | Ernst, Lisa | The Turn-Around Upside-Down Alphabet Book |
| 5 - 8 yrs. | P HOBA | Hoban, Tana | 26 Letters and 99 Cents |
| 3 - 6 yrs. | P HORO | Horowitz, Dave | Twenty-Six Princesses |
| 3 - 8 yrs. | P KALM | Kalman, Maira | What Pete Ate from A-Z |
| 3 - 6 yrs. | P MARI | Marino, Gianna | Zoopa: an Animal Alphabet |
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