Book Lists

Top Toddler Books – 0-3 years

This Is Not a Book, by Jean Jullien

Busy Builders, Busy Week!, by Jean Reidy and Leo Timmers

All Through My Town, by Jean Reidy and Leo Timmers

Spot, Eric Hill (my kids have been obsessed with Spot)

Top Picture Books

The Girl and the Bicycle, by Mark Pett

Elephant and Piggie series, by Mo Willems

Gus’s Garage, by Leo Timmers

After the Fall, by Dan Santat

The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, by Dan Santat

Bang, by Leo Timmers

Stuck, by Oliver Jeffers

Rosie Revere, Engineer, by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts

Sometimes You Fly, Katherine Applegate

The Way Home For Wolf, The Squirrels Who Squabbled, The Koala Who Could, The Lion Inside, by Rachel Bright and Jim Field

All The Ways To Be Smart, by Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys

Unicorn, by Maggie Hutchings and Cheryl Orsini

Can I Build Another Me?, Shinsuke Yoshitake

Top Chapter Books – 6-10 yrs

Daisy and the Trouble With… (series), by Kes Gray

The Terrible Two series, by Jory John, Mac Barnett and Kevin Cornell

El Deafo, by Cece Bell

Birthday Boy, The Person Controller, AniMalcolm and The Parent Agency, by David Baddiel

Matilda, by Roald Dahl (or any of his other books)

Encyclopedia Brown series, by Donald Sobol

Ginger Green and Ginger Green Playdate Queen series. by Kim Kane and Jon Davis

Unreal!, by Paul Jennings (the whole Un- series would be good)

The Ice Monster, by David Walliams (or any of his other books)

Middle Grade Fiction – 9-13 years

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place (6 book series), by Maryrose Wood

Pax, by Sara Pennypacker

The List, by Patricia Forde

The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin

The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown

Top Non-Fiction Books – all ages

Alphabet of Alphabets, by Allan Sanders

A World of Information, by Richard Platt and James Brown

Into the White: Scott’s Antartic Odessy, by Joanna Grochowicz

Christmas Books

Home Alone, by Kim Smith

What Do You Wish For?, by Jane Godwin and Anna Walker

Last Stop in the Reindeer Express, by Maudie Powell-Tuck and Karl James Mountford

A Boy Called Christmas and The Girl Who Saved Christmas, by Matt Haig

Think Like an Elf, Lauren Child