Literary Explorations

I've finished the booklist for the preschool program that I'm writing for The Spawn to use this year. It's basically a weekly schedule for literacy including a Primary Story and enrichment activities with ideas for further exploration. We'll be starting in August or September and I'll post the enrichment activities as we complete them but I'm leaving the list here in the event that someone finds it useful. They are presented in the reading order so that it's possible to find them at your local library or order a few at a time.

Literary Explorations Pre-Primary Level (4-5 years)

Primary Story Booklist:

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown*‡

Freight Train by Donald Crews*

Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey

The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann*

Corduroy by Don Freeman

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans*

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault*

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister and J. Alison James

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak*

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson‡

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram*

Curious George by H. A. Rey*

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats*

Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina‡

The Story of Babar by Jean De Brunhoff*

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff and Felicia Bond‡

Stellaluna by Janell Cannon*

Are You My Mother? by P. D. Eastman

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion and Margaret Bloy Graham*

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent

The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper and George Hauman

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig and James Earl Jones* 

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton* 

If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond 

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen and John Schoenherr 

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson* 

Llama, Llama, Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney