100 books for those 3 and up. 50 books for those 2 and under.
Prizes and big party at the end.
Here's a list I put together to get you started (it's sort of alphabetized) or you can refer to our past lists here:
Grandy’s
SRC List for 2013
A
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (picture book)
Louisa May Alcott (Author)
Abigail Takes
the Wheel
Best Little Wingman
Winter Harvest
A Seed Is Sleepy (non fiction)
Salt Hands (Picture Puffins)
Country Crossing
Mr. McGill Goes to Town
Song and Dance Man
Deer at the Brook
Jim
Arnosky (Author) (3-6
ages)
Oats and Wild Apples
Frank
Asch (Author) ( 3-6
ages)
B
Bub: Or the Very Best Thing
Natalie
Babbitt (Author) (ages 4-7)
Morning Beach
Leslie
A. Baker (Author)
(ages5-7)
The Magic Fan
Keith
Baker (Author) ages 5-8
To Love a Dog
Colleen
Stanley Bare (Author) ages 3-7
The Dove's Letter
Keith
Baker (Author) (ages 4-8)
Digby and Kate: Level 2 (Easy-to-Read, Puffin)
A Winter Walk
Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen
City Fox
Summer's End
Play ball, Zachary!
Muriel
Blaustein (Author)
(ages 4-7)
Once Upon a Time and Grandma
Lenore
Blegvad (Author,
Illustrator)
(ages 4-8)
Goldilocks & the Three Bears
Jan
Brett (Author) (ages
5-7)
The Brontes
Catherine
Brighton (Author)
(ages 5-9)
The Greatest
Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands (5-9 ages)
The Three Snow Bears
Jan
Brett (Author,
Illustrator)
When Dinosaurs Came with Everything
Someone Special, Just Like You
When Daddy Came to My School
The Old Mill
D.W. the Picky Eater (D. W. Series) 4-8 years
Marc
Brown (Author)
Party Rhymes
Marc
Brown (Author) (ages
3-7)
Play Rhymes
Marc
Brown (Editor,
Illustrator) (ages 2-6)
Pop's Bridge
Sunshine Home
C
On the Go with Pirate Pete and Pirate Joe!
The Best-Loved Doll
Utterly Otterly Day
Herbert Binns and the Flying Tricycle
Harald and the Great Stag
Donald
Carrick (Author) ages 5-8
Because Your Daddy Loves You
Agapanthus Hum and the Eyeglasses
That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown (picture book)
A Gift (picture book)
Yong
Chen (Author)
Guji Guji
Chih-Yuan
Chen (Author) ages 5-9
Henry Huggins
The Biggest Horse I Ever Did See
The Painter
Peter
Catalanotto (Author)
(ages 4-7)
What Do Authors Do?
Eileen
Christelow (Author)
(ages 5-9)
My Cat Jack
Patricia
Casey (Author) (ages
3-5)
Pin the Tail on the Donkey: And Other Party Games
Archibald Frisby
Michael
Chesworth (Author,
Illustrator) (ages 4-8)
Dinner at the Panda Palace
The Three Little Pigs
Noah's Ark
Lucy
Cousins (Author) (ages
2-4)
The Ugly Duckling
Lorinda
Bryan Cauley (Author) (ages
5-8)
Who's Sick Today?
Lynne
Cherry (Author)
(ages 4-6)
Baby-O
(ages 2-4)
Over the River and Through the Wood: A Thanksgiving
Poem
Trouble
D
Mrs. Huggins and Her Hen Hannah: 2 (ages 3-7)
Goha The Wise Fool
Denys
Johnson-Davies (Author), Hag
Hamdy Mohamed Fattou
(Illustrator), Hany
El Saed Ahmed
(Illustrator) ages 5-9
Teddy Goes Shopping
T-Rex Is Missing!: A Barkers Book
Tomie
dePaola (Author,
Illustrator) 5-9 years
The Little Polar Bear
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Mercy Watson to the Rescue
Everybody Cooks Rice
Gossie and Gertie (Gossie & Friends)
Olivier
Dunrea (Author)
The Guinea Pig ABC
Kate
Duke (Author) age 3-6
Dear Daddy..
Philippe
Dupasquier (Author)
ages 3-8
The Day My Mom Almost Enrolled in Preschool
Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One
Kate
Duke (Author) (ages
5-8)
Aunt Isabel Makes Trouble
Kate
Duke (Author,
Illustrator) (ages 5-8)
Wake Up, Mr. B.!
Penny
Dale (Author,
Illustrator) (ages 3-6)
Stradivari's Singing Violin (On My Own)
Bet You Can't!
Penny
Dale (Author,
Illustrator) (ages 3-6)
E
Hands : Growing up to Be an Artist (picture book)
The Pink Refrigerator (Picture book)
Tim
Egan (Author)
Fast Food (picture book)
Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose: One Hundred
Best-Loved Verses
Mary
Engelbreit (Author,
Illustrator)
Up to Ten and Down Again
Lisa
Campbell Ernst (Author)
ages 3-5
The Glorious ABC
Cooper
Edens (Author, Compiler)
(ages 3-5)
Play with Me
Marie
Hall Ets (Author,
Illustrator) (ages 3-7)
F
Rosa's Special Garden
Understood Betsy
Lowji Discovers America
Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and
Paintings
Douglas
Florian (Author)
Corduroy
Don
Freeman (Author) ages 3-7
Wildest Brother (picture book)
Cornelia
Funke (Author)
I'll See You When the Moon Is Full
Little Elephant
Redbird
Patrick
Fort (Author) (ages
4-10)
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
One Ballerina, Two
Baseball, Football, Daddy and Me
David
Friend (Author) (ages
3-7)
Giant Story/Mouse Tale: A Half Picture Book
Annegert
Fuchshuber (Author)
(ages 4-7)
Can Play Soccer (I Can Series)
The house of a mouse: Poems
G
What's Claude Doing, Pa?
Pigs from 1 to 10
Arthur
Geisert (Author) all ages
Don't Tell the Girls: A Family Memoir
Patricia
Reilly Giff (Author)
5-9 ages
All in Just One Cookie (picture book)
Three Little Robbers
Little Toot
What Do You Like? [Board Book]
Michael
Grejniec (Author)
(ages 3-5)
Animal Camouflage and Defence
Anita
Ganeri (Author) (ages
5-9)
Beauty, Brave and Beautiful
H
The Big Snow
What Shall We Do When We All Go Out
Shari
Halpern (Author) (ages
2-5)
Jamaica's Blue Marker
The Empress and the Silkworm
Lily
Toy Hong (Author,
Illustrator) (ages 4-8)
Road Builders
Wild Horse Winter
Tetsuya
Honda (Author) (ages
5-8)
Deer in the Hollow
Rosalie
The Day the Teacher Went Bananas
James
Howe (Author)
(ages 4-6)
Prince Boghole
Henry & The Kite Dragon (picture book)
Meet the Marching Smithereens
"B" Is for Betsy
Max and the Magic Word
The Purple Coat
The Littlest Duckling
Down by the Station (picture book)
Will
Hillenbrand (Author)
Grandma Gets Grumpy
Anna
Grossnickle Hines (Author)
ages 3-5
Maybe a Band-aid Will Help
Anna
Grossnickle Hines (Author)
ages 4-6
Solomon Grundy
Susan
Hoguet (Author) ages 4-7
The Train to Lulu's
Elizabeth
Fitzgerald Howard (Author)
ages 4-7
I Wish I Were a Butterfly
The Giant Hug (picture book)
I Wonder What It's Like to Be an Earthworm (Life Science Wonder Series) (non fiction)
Erin
M. Hovanec (Author)
Grandfather's Gold Watch
Louise
Garff Hubbard (Author)
ages 5-11
The Knight Who Was Afraid to Fight
Barbara
Shook Hazen (Author)
(ages 5-8)
Sara Loves Her Big Brother
Ruth
Hooker (Author), Margot Apple (Illustrator) ages 4-6
I
J
If Wishes Were Horses: Mother Goose Rhymes (ages 3-7)
Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a
Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic
Living Color (non fiction)
Steve
Jenkins (Author)
The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down
Paul
Johnson (Author) ages 5-8
So Much in Common
Laurie
A. Jacobs (Author), Valeri Gorbachev (Illustrator) ages 3-8
Never Babysit the Hippopotamuses!
Doug
Johnson (Author), Abby Carter (Illustrator) ages 4-7
Three Jovial Huntsmen (A Mother Goose Rhyme) [
Susan
Jeffers (Author), Susan [illustrator] Jeffers (Illustrator)
ages 4-7
If Wishes Were Horses: 2Mother Goose Rhymes
K
Sleepy Boy (picture book)
The Mightiest (picture book)
Jack Kent's Fables of Aesop
How the whale got his throat, how the camel got his hump and
how the rhinoceros got his skin by Rudyard Kipling
(ages 4-8)
Mole And Shrew All Year Through
Jackie
French Koller (Author)
ages 5-9
The Wheels on the Bus: An Adaptation of the
Traditional Song
Christopher Columbus
Whistle for Willie
Last One in Is a Rotten Egg (I Can Read Book 2)
Leonard
Kessler (Author,
Illustrator) ages 5-8
The Elephant's Child
Mandy Sue Day
Roberta Karim,
illustrated by Karen Ritz
ages 6-9
The Thingumajig Book of Manners
Irene
Keller (Author), Dick Keller (Illustrator) ages 3-8
Not Yet, Yvette
Helen
Ketteman (Author), Irene Trivas (Illustrator) ages 3-6
Horace
Holly
Keller (Author,
Illustrator) ages 4-6
L
The Bunny Play
Oliver and Albert, Friends Forever
Amanda Pig and the Awful, Scary Monster
More Tales of Amanda Pig
The Story of Ferdinand
Clara and the Bookwagon
Snowshoe Thompson
Watch the Stars Come Out
The Midnight Farm
Frog and Toad All Year
Arnold
Lobel (Author,
Illustrator) ages 5-9
Small Pig
Arnold
Lobel (Author,
Illustrator) ages 5-9
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Dover Children's Classics)
Hugh
Lofting (Author) ages 5-9
Things I Can Make With Button
Sabine
Lohf (Author) ages 3-7
Anna and the Bagpiper
Thomas
Locker (Author) ages 5-7
Grandfather's Lovesong
Reeve
Lindbergh (Author), Rachel Isadora (Illustrator) ages 3-7
Just Not the Same
Addie
Lacoe (Author), Paul Estrada (Illustrator) ages 3-7
Soon, Annala
Riki
Levinson (Author), Julie Downing (Illustrator) ages 3-7
Once upon a Golden Apple (Picture Puffins)
Jean
Little (Author), Maggie De Vries (Author), Phoebe Gilman (Illustrator) ages 3-8
Benjamin's Barn
Reeve
Lindbergh (Author), Susan Jeffers (Illustrator) ages 4-7
Floss
Kim
Lewis (Author,
Illustrator) ages 4-7
The Story of the Little Old Man
Barbro
Lindgren (Author), Steven T. Murray (Author), Eva Eriksson (Illustrator) ages 5-9
Grand Old Duke of York
Maureen
Roffey (Author), Bernard Lodge (Author) ages 3-7
The Name of the Tree: A Bantu Tale Retold
Celia
Barker Lottridge (Author), Ian Wallace (Illustrator) ages 5-8
It Wasn't My Fault
Helen
Lester (Author), Lynn Munsinger (Illustrator) ages 3-5
A Birthday for Blue
Kerry
Raines Lydon (Author), Michael Hays (Illustrator) ages 5-8
M
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly (picture book)
A Mother's Journey
Rats on the Range and Other Stories
James
Marshall (Author)
ages 5-9
Up and Down on the Merry-Go-Round
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? (picture book)
Make Way for Ducklings
Robert
McCloskey (Author,
Illustrator) ages 5-9
Fix-It
David
McPhail (Author,
Illustrator) ages 2-5
Zuzu's Wishing Cake
How Oliver Olson Changed the World
Little Bear
Enemy Pie (picture book)
Hooray for Grandma Jo
Thomas
McKean (Author) ages 4-7
Boomer's Big Day
Constance
W. McGeorge (Author), Mary Whyte (Illustrator) ages 3-7
Tree in the Wood
Christopher
Manson (Author) ages 3-6
Hippopotamus Hunt
Bernard
Most (Author) ages 6-8
Busy Day for a Good Grandmother
Margaret
Mahy (Author), Margaret Chamberlain (Author) ages 5-8
Grandfather's Christmas Camp
Marc
McCutcheon (Author), Kate Kiesler (Illustrator) ages 5-8
Little Dog Lost
Inga
Moore (Author)
Ages 4-8
Mouse Views: What the Class Pet Saw
Bruce
McMillan (Author)
ages 5-7
Daniel meets a lion: Activity, song, and gospel story
Cleona
D Morgan (Author)
ages 5-7
Time to--
Bruce
McMillan (Author)
ages 4-7
Listen to the Rain
Bill
Martin (Author), John Archambault (Author), James Endicott (Illustrator) ages5-7
17 Kings And 42 Elephants
Margaret
Mahy (Author), Patricia MacCarthy (Illustrator) ages 3-7
Wait and See
Robert
Munsch (Author), Michael Martchenko (Illustrator) ages 3-6
Is This a House for Hermit Crab?
Megan
McDonald (Author), Villafane (Illustrator), S. D. Schindler (Illustrator) ages 4-7
N
Smarter Than Squirrels (Down Girl and Sit Series)
Lucy
Nolan (Author) ages 5-9
If You Give a Moose a Muffin
Laura
Numeroff (Author), Felicia Bond (Illustrator) ages 3-7
Elmer Blunt's Open House
O
Fancy Nancy (picture book)
Our Dog (Out-and-About) (
Helen
Oxenbury (Author)
ages 3-6
Jonathan Mouse, Detective
Ingrid
Ostheeren (Author)
ages 5-8
My Buddy
P
Amelia Bedelia Collection (I Can Read Book 2)
Peggy
Parish (Author) ages 5-9
Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read Book 2)
The Royal Bee
Frances
and Ginger Park (Author), Christopher
Zhang (Illustrator), Ginger
Park (Author), Christopher
Zhong-Yuan Zhang (Author)
ages 5-9
My Favorite Time of Year
Huge Harold
The Littlest Owl (picture book)
Not a Box [Board Book]
Antoinette
Portis (Author,
Illustrator)
CASEY AT THE BAT by PATRICIA POLACCO ERNEST LAWRENCE
THAYER (ages 5-10)
Our Teacher's in a Wheelchair
Mary
Ellen Powers (Author,
Illustrator) ages 4-8
Penny in the Road by Katharine Wilson Precek (ages 5-11)
The House on Maple Street
The Trees of the
Dancing Goats
Patricia
Polacco (Author,
Illustrator) ages 5-9
Once Upon a Picnic
Vivian
French (Author), John Prater (Illustrator) ages 3-7
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
Marjorie
Priceman (Author)
ages 4-8
Spaceburger: A Kevin Spoon and Mason Mintz Story
Daniel
Manus Pinkwater (Author)
ages 5-9
Babushka Baba Yaga
Patricia
Polacco (Author) ages 5-9
Q
R
The Wheat Doll (picture book)
Spectacles
Ellen
Raskin (Author) ages 5-9
Hugo at the Window
Anne
F. Rockwell (Author)
ages 2-4
Things That Go
Anne
Rockwell (Author)
ages 3-6
Things to Play With
Anne
Rockwell (Author)
ages 3-6
Mr. Putter & Tabby Feed the Fish
Night in the Country
In Aunt Lucy's
Kitchen: Ready-for-Chapters
Sergio Makes a Splash (picture book)
Edel
Rodriguez (Author)
The Surprise Family
Lynn
Reiser (Author) ages 5-8
Silver Packages: An Appalachian Christmas Story
Cynthia
Rylant (Author), Chris K. Soentpiet (Illustrator) ages 5-8
The Trouble With Elephants
Chris
Riddell (Author) ages 4-7
It Came from the Swamp
Nicole
Rubel (Author) ages 4-8
Everyday Children
Cynthia
Rylant (Author,
Illustrator) ages 2-4 (also everyday pets, everyday house, everyday town)
The Farmer in the Dell
Mary
Maki Rae (Author)
ages 3-6
When the Frost Is on the Punkin
James
Whitcomb Riley (Author), Glenna Lang (Illustrator) ages 2-6
Hangdog [Import]
Graham
Round (Author) ages 3-7
UNDER THE MOON (A Just right book)
Joanne
Ryder (Author) ages 3-5
A Flower Grows
Ken
Robbins (Author) ages 4-6
The Story of Wali Dad
Kristina
Rodanas (Author), Andrew Lang (Author) ages 5-8
S
Faye & Dolores
Down the Road
First the Egg (picture book)
Nate the Great on the Owl Express
Marjorie
Weinman Sharmat (Author), Mitchell
Sharmat (Illustrator), Martha
Weston (Illustrator) ages
5-9
What Happens to a Hamburger?
What's Inside? (ages 2-3)
The Watcher
All God's Critters
A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Snuggle Piggy and the Magic Blanket
Grandma Buffalo, May and Me
The House in the Night
Off to School!
Ann
Schweninger (Author)
ages 2-6
Higher on the Door
James
Stevenson (Author)
ages 5-8
A Hat So Simple
Jerry
Smath (Author) ages 3-6
GRANDFATHERS ROCK CL
Joel
Strangis (Author), Ruth Recht Gamper (Illustrator) ages 4-8
A Fruit and Vegetable Man
Roni
Schotter (Author), Jeanette Winter (Illustrator) ages 4-8
Captain Snap and the Children of Vinegar Lane
Roni
Schotter (Author), Marcia Sewall (Illustrator) ages 5-8
On Grandma's Roof
Erica
Silverman (Author), Deborah Kogan Ray (Illustrator) ages 3-5
Keep Looking!
Joyce
Hunt (Author), Millicent Selsam (Author), Normand Chartier (Illustrator) ages 4-7
Animal song
Marcia
Sewall (Author) ages 3-6
Meet Jack Apple Knock
That Olive!
William and Grandpa
Turtle in July
Amos: The Story of an Old Dog and His Couch
On Mother's Lap
T
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Caldecott Medal Book)
Putting the World to Sleep
Imagine a Night, (also
Imagine a Day)
Will You Come Back for Me?
Do Not Disturb
Nancy
Tafuri (Author) ages 3-7
The Camel Who Took a Walk
Jack
Tworkov (Author), Roger Duvoisin (Illustrator) ages 4-7
Rachel and Obadiah
U
What Mary Jo Shared
V
The Jewel Box Ballerinas (picture book)
Oliver Pig at School
Possum Come A-Knockin'
W
The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar
Bertie Was a Watchdog (picture book)
Two and Too Much
Shy Charles
Rosemary
Wells (Author) ages 4-8
All My Little Ducklings
Skip to My Lou [Board Book]
Hip, Hip, Hooray for Annie McRae
Lizzie and Harold
Dance, Pioneer, Dance!
Rick
Walton (Author), Brad Teare (Illustrator)
The Big Big Sea
Martin
Waddell (Author), Jennifer Eachus (Illustrator) ages 4-8
Let's Go Home, Little Bear
Martin
Waddell (Author), Barbara Firth (Illustrator) ages 3-6
Will You Still Love Me?
Rick
Walton (Author) ages 3-6
Home by Five
Ruth
Wallace-Brodeur (Author)
ages 5-8
Mother Holly
Bernadette
Watts (Author) ages 5-8
Skip to My Lou [Board Book] ages 4-7
Nadine
Bernard Westcott (Author)
Simple Signs
Cindy
Wheeler (Author) ages 4-8
Clouds of Terror (On My Own)
Catherine
A. Welch (Author), Laurie K. Johnson (Illustrator) ages 5-9
Riptide
Forest of Dreams
Galimoto
Mr. Nick's Knitting
Silly Sally
Audrey
Wood (Author) ages 3-6
Dads Are Such Fun
X
Y
Who Says Moo?
Z
You Can't See Your Bones with Binoculars: A Guide
to Your 206 Bones (non fiction)
It's a Good Thing, Too
Steve
Zukmann (Author), Kelly McMahon (Author, Illustrator) ages
3-6
