Awhile back, I wrote a guest post for the Nerdy Book Club blog about some of my favorite books to read for story time at the library. Unfortunately, I could only list the top ten books, but there are a lot more that I’m going to share with you today. Since writing my guest post, I’ve discovered several more children’s books that I enjoy, and–to keep track of them all–I’ve compiled a list through Goodreads. Some of the titles are good reading for story time, others not so much. Several of the books are ones that I enjoyed reading as a child or that I’ve read to my nieces and nephews over and over again. Others I have discovered while working at the library. However I came by them, they are all listed below. See any must-read titles or authors that are missing? Just let me know in the comments, so I can check them out!
P.S. If you’d like to explore more, all of the titles are linked to Goodreads, so you can read more about each book.
- Miss Nelson is Missing! by Harry Allard
- Please, Mr. Panda, by Steve Antony
- Where’s My Tushy? by Deborah Aronson
- Popcorn, by Frank Asch
- Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree, by Robert E. Barry
- Selma, by Jutta Bauer
- The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree, by Stan Berenstain
- What Goes Up, by Paula Bowles
- Hiding Hoover, by Elise Broach
- Open Very Carefully: A Book with Bite, by Nick Bromley
- A Dark, Dark Tale, by Ruth Brown
- Have You Seen My New Blue Socks? by Eve Bunting
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
- But Excuse Me That is My Book (and others in this series), by Lauren Child
- It Came in the Mail, by Ben Clanton
- There’s a Bear on My Chair, by Ross Collins
- Diary of a Worm, by Doreen Cronin
- The Snatchabook, by Helen Docherty
- Dog Blue, by Polly Dunbar
- Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley
- Ribbit! by Rodrigo Folgueira
- Diary of a Wombat, Jackie French
- More Spaghetti, I Say! by Rita Golden Gelman
- Follow Me! by Mordicai Gerstein
- My Friend Maggie, by Hannah E. Harrison
- Bernice Gets Carried Away, by Hannah E. Harrison
- Grumblebunny, by Bob Hartman
- A Weekend with Wendell, by Kevin Henkes
- Mustache Baby, by Bridget Heos
- Can’t Sleep Without Sheep, by Susanna Leonard Hill
- Class Two at the Zoo, by Julia Jarman
- Penguin Problems, by Jory John
- The Princess Who Had No Kingdom, by Ursula Jones
- The Very Fluffy Kitty, Papillon, by A.N. Kang
- A Bed of Your Own, by Mij Kelly
- Oh So Brave Dragon, by David Kirk
- Duck Sock Hop, by Jane Kohuth
- Tissue, Please! by Lisa Kopelke
- Frog and Toad Together (and others in this series), by Arnold Lobel
- Eat, Cried Little Pig, by Jonathan London
- Philomena’s New Glasses, by Brenna Maloney
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by Bill Martin, Jr.
- There’s Something in My Attic, by Mercer Mayer
- There’s an Alligator under My Bed, by Mercer Mayer
- Chloe, by Peter McCarty
- Jeremy Draws a Monster, by Peter McCarty
- Bunny Dreams, by Peter McCarty
- Little Bunny on the Move, by Peter McCarty
- T is for Terrible, by Peter McCarty
- The Problem with Chickens, by Bruce McMillan
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Joffe Numeroff
- The Teeny Tiny Woman, by Jane O’Connor
- Chicken, Pig, Cow and the Purple Problem, by Ruth Ohi
- No Fits, Nilson! by Zachariah OHora
- The Birthday Pet, by Kevin O’Malley
- Dinosaur Farm, by Frann Preston-Gannon
- Are You a Horse? by Andy Rash
- Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds
- Dragons Love Tacos, by Adam Rubin
- Secret Pizza Party, by Adam Rubin
- The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, by Dan Santat
- In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories, by Alvin Schwartz
- Russell the Sheep, by Rob Scotton
- Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak
- He Came with the Couch, by David Slonim
- Ol’ Mama Squirrel, by David Ezra Stein
- The Great Fuzz Frenzy, by Janet Stevens
- The Beast in the Bathtub, by Kathleen Stevens
- Doesn’t Fall Off His Horse, by Virginia Stroud
- A Walk to the Great Mystery: A Cherokee Tale, by Virginia Stroud
- Meet Dizzy Dinosaur, by Jack Tickle
- Mix It Up! by Hervé Tullet
- Bedtime for Monsters, by Ed Vere
- Max the Brave, by Ed Vere
- A Big Spooky House, by Donna Washington
- Leonardo, the Terrible Monster, by Mo Willems
- Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct, by Mo Willems
- Naked Mole Rate Gets Dressed, by Mo Willems
- The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? by Mo Willems
- The Pet Person, by Jeanne Willis
- Hilda Must Be Dancing, by Karma Wilson
- Never, Ever Shout in a Zoo, by Karma Wilson
- Quick as a Cricket, by Audrey Wood
- Heckedy Peg, by Audrey Wood
- Ninja Baby, by David Zeltser
I’ll try to keep this list up-to-date, adding any of my new discoveries. Also, be on the look-out for a new tab on my page compiling all of the books I have mentioned or recommended on my blog.
Thanks for reading!
