Welcome To Story Hour: 100 Favorite Books For Young Readers

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Picture Perfect

The Snowy Day

Ezra Jack Keats, 1976

Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak, 1988

The Old Truck

Jerome Pumphrey, Jarrett Pumphrey, 2020

Crown

An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Derrick Barnes, 2017

Julián Is a Mermaid

Jessica Love, 2018

Miss Rumphius

Barbara Cooney, 1985

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

Paul Goble, 1978

Hello Lighthouse

Sophie Blackall, 2019

Tar Beach

Faith Ringgold, 1991

The Undefeated

Kwame Alexander, 2020

Harlem

A Poem
Terry Deary, 1997
Baby's Bookshelf

Antiracist Baby Picture Book

Ibram X. Kendi, 2020

Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown, 2016

Freight Train

Donald Crews, 1978

Good Dog, Carl

Alexandra Day, 1997

Eric Carle's Very Little Library: The very hungry caterpillar (1st board book ed., 1994)

Eric Carle, 2003*

But Not the Hippopotamus

Sandra Boynton, 1982

Brown Baby Lullaby

Tameka Fryer Brown, 2020

Go, Dog. Go!

Philip D. Eastman, 1989

Piggy Pie Po

Audrey Wood, 2010
Conversation Starters

Last Stop on Market Street

Matt De la Peña, 2017

Story Boat

Kyo Maclear, 2020

Dreamers

Yuyi Morales, 2018

Jabari Jumps

Gaia Cornwall, 2020

The Rabbit Listened

Cori Doerrfeld, 2018

Sulwe

Lupita Nyong'o, 2019

I Am Enough

Grace Byers, 2018

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

Kevin Henkes, 1996

The Proudest Blue

A Story of Hijab and Family
Ibtihaj Muhammad, 2019

Each Kindness

Jacqueline Woodson, 2012

Wherever I Go

Mary Wagley Copp, 2020

Front Desk

Kelly Yang, 2018
Family Life

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Judith Viorst, 1987

Fry Bread

A Native American Family Story
Kevin Noble Maillard, 2019

A Chair for My Mother 25th Anniversary Edition

Vera B. Williams, 1984

My Papi Has a Motorcycle

Isabel Quintero, 2019

Drawn Together

Minh Lê, 2018

Meet Yasmin!

Saadia Faruqi, 2018

Hair Love

Matthew A. Cherry, 2019

A Different Pond

Bao Phi, 2020

The Boxcar Children® Mysteries Boxed Set #1-4

Gertrude Chandler Warner, 1990
Animal (and Monster) Friends

The Runaway Bunny

Margaret Wise Brown, 2020

Corduroy

Don Freeman, 2014

The Story of Ferdinand

Munro Leaf, 1936

A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Philip C. Stead, Erin E. Stead, 2010

Bruce's Big Storm

Ryan T. Higgins, 2019

The Monster at the End of this Book

Jon Stone, 1999

Blueberries for Sal

Robert McCloskey, 1976

Bowwow Powwow

Brenda J. Child, 2018

Catwings

A Catwings Tale
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2003

Elephant & Piggie: The Complete Collection

Mo Willems, 2018

Henry and Mudge

The First Book
Cynthia Rylant, 1996

Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes

Kate DiCamillo, 2014

God Bless the Gargoyles

Dav Pilkey, 2016
Folktales And Fairy Tales

Strega Nona

Tomie dePaola, 1988

The Mitten

A Ukrainian Folktale
Jan Brett, 2009

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

Jon Scieszka, 2004

A Big Mooncake for Little Star

Grace Lin, 2018

Beautiful Blackbird

Ashley Bryan, 2003

Extra Yarn

Mac Barnett, 2012

The Princess in Black

Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, 2017

The People Could Fly

American Black Folktales
Virginia Hamilton, 1985

A Wish in the Dark

Christina Soontornvat, 2020

My Father's Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett, 2014
Fun To Read Out Loud

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Bill Martin, John Archambault, Lois Ehlert, 2000

A Is for Activist

Innosanto Nagara, 2016

The Gruffalo

Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler, 2006

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Virginia Lee Burton, 1967

Bark, George

Jules Feiffer, 1999

Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads

Bob Shea, 2014

Ada Twist, Scientist

Andrea Beaty, 2016

The Book with No Pictures

B. J. Novak, 2014

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Poems and Drawings
Shel Silverstein, 1974
Nonfiction
Early Chapter Books
Older Readers

Ways to Make Sunshine

Renée Watson, 2020

Ratburger

David Walliams, 2014

The Trumpet of the Swan (full color)

E. B. White, 2001

From the Desk of Zoe Washington

Janae Marks, 2020

The Penderwicks

A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
Jeanne Birdsall, 2005

New Kid

Jerry Craft, 2019

The Wild Robot Escapes

Peter Brown, 2018

Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat #1

Johnny Marciano, Emily Chenoweth, 2020

Betsy-Tacy

Maud Hart Lovelace, 1993

Ronia, the Robber's Daughter

Astrid Lindgren, 1985

Encyclopedia Brown

Donald J. Sobol, 2007

Stargazing

Jen Wang, 2019

The Jumbies

Tracey Baptiste, 2016

Mistletoe and Murder

Robin Stevens, 2018

The Great American Whatever

Tim Federle, 2016

Prairie Lotus

Linda Sue Park, 2020