Well okay, grand friends. It's that time again.
Grandy's Summer Reading Challenge. Starts June 1st (tomorrow) through August 15th. Same rules apply as in the past:
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)
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
Oats and Wild Apples
B
Bub: Or the Very Best Thing
Morning Beach
The Magic Fan
To Love a Dog
The Dove's Letter
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!
Once Upon a Time and Grandma
(ages 4-8)
Goldilocks & the Three Bears
The Brontes
The Greatest
Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands (5-9 ages)
The Three Snow Bears
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
Party Rhymes
Play Rhymes
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
Because Your Daddy Loves You
Agapanthus Hum and the Eyeglasses
That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown (picture book)
A Gift (picture book)
Guji Guji
Henry Huggins
The Biggest Horse I Ever Did See
The Painter
What Do Authors Do?
My Cat Jack
Pin the Tail on the Donkey: And Other Party Games
Archibald Frisby
Dinner at the Panda Palace
The Three Little Pigs
Noah's Ark
The Ugly Duckling
Who's Sick Today?
(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
Teddy Goes Shopping
T-Rex Is Missing!: A Barkers Book
The Little Polar Bear
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Mercy Watson to the Rescue
Everybody Cooks Rice
Gossie and Gertie (Gossie & Friends)
The Guinea Pig ABC
Dear Daddy..
The Day My Mom Almost Enrolled in Preschool
Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One
Aunt Isabel Makes Trouble
Wake Up, Mr. B.!
Stradivari's Singing Violin (On My Own)
Bet You Can't!
E
Hands : Growing up to Be an Artist (picture book)
The Pink Refrigerator (Picture book)
Fast Food (picture book)
Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose: One Hundred
Best-Loved Verses
Up to Ten and Down Again
The Glorious ABC
Play with Me
F
Rosa's Special Garden
Understood Betsy
Lowji Discovers America
Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and
Paintings
Corduroy
Wildest Brother (picture book)
I'll See You When the Moon Is Full
Little Elephant
Redbird
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
One Ballerina, Two
Baseball, Football, Daddy and Me
Giant Story/Mouse Tale: A Half Picture Book
(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
Don't Tell the Girls: A Family Memoir
All in Just One Cookie (picture book)
Three Little Robbers
Little Toot
What Do You Like? [Board Book]
Animal Camouflage and Defence
Beauty, Brave and Beautiful
H
The Big Snow
What Shall We Do When We All Go Out
Jamaica's Blue Marker
The Empress and the Silkworm
Road Builders
Wild Horse Winter
Deer in the Hollow
Rosalie
The Day the Teacher Went Bananas
(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)
Grandma Gets Grumpy
Maybe a Band-aid Will Help
Solomon Grundy
The Train to Lulu's
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)
Grandfather's Gold Watch
The Knight Who Was Afraid to Fight
Sara Loves Her Big Brother
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)
The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down
So Much in Common
Never Babysit the Hippopotamuses!
Three Jovial Huntsmen (A Mother Goose Rhyme) [
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
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)
The Elephant's Child
Mandy Sue Day
The Thingumajig Book of Manners
Not Yet, Yvette
Horace
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
Small Pig
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Dover Children's Classics)
Things I Can Make With Button
Anna and the Bagpiper
Grandfather's Lovesong
Just Not the Same
Soon, Annala
Once upon a Golden Apple (Picture Puffins)
Benjamin's Barn
Floss
The Story of the Little Old Man
Grand Old Duke of York
The Name of the Tree: A Bantu Tale Retold
It Wasn't My Fault
A Birthday for Blue
M
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly (picture book)
A Mother's Journey
Rats on the Range and Other Stories
Up and Down on the Merry-Go-Round
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? (picture book)
Make Way for Ducklings
Fix-It
Zuzu's Wishing Cake
How Oliver Olson Changed the World
Little Bear
Enemy Pie (picture book)
Hooray for Grandma Jo
Boomer's Big Day
Tree in the Wood
Hippopotamus Hunt
Busy Day for a Good Grandmother
Grandfather's Christmas Camp
Little Dog Lost
Ages 4-8
Mouse Views: What the Class Pet Saw
Daniel meets a lion: Activity, song, and gospel story
Time to--
Listen to the Rain
17 Kings And 42 Elephants
Wait and See
Is This a House for Hermit Crab?
N
Smarter Than Squirrels (Down Girl and Sit Series)
If You Give a Moose a Muffin
Elmer Blunt's Open House
O
Fancy Nancy (picture book)
Our Dog (Out-and-About) (
Jonathan Mouse, Detective
My Buddy
P
Amelia Bedelia Collection (I Can Read Book 2)
Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read Book 2)
The Royal Bee
My Favorite Time of Year
Huge Harold
The Littlest Owl (picture book)
Not a Box [Board Book]
CASEY AT THE BAT by PATRICIA POLACCO ERNEST LAWRENCE
THAYER (ages 5-10)
Our Teacher's in a Wheelchair
Penny in the Road by Katharine Wilson Precek (ages 5-11)
The House on Maple Street
The Trees of the
Dancing Goats
Once Upon a Picnic
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
Spaceburger: A Kevin Spoon and Mason Mintz Story
Babushka Baba Yaga
Q
R
The Wheat Doll (picture book)
Spectacles
Hugo at the Window
Things That Go
Things to Play With
Mr. Putter & Tabby Feed the Fish
Night in the Country
In Aunt Lucy's
Kitchen: Ready-for-Chapters
Sergio Makes a Splash (picture book)
The Surprise Family
Silver Packages: An Appalachian Christmas Story
The Trouble With Elephants
It Came from the Swamp
Everyday Children
Cynthia
Rylant (Author,
Illustrator) ages 2-4 (also everyday pets, everyday house, everyday town)
The Farmer in the Dell
When the Frost Is on the Punkin
Hangdog [Import]
UNDER THE MOON (A Just right book)
A Flower Grows
The Story of Wali Dad
S
Faye & Dolores
Down the Road
First the Egg (picture book)
Nate the Great on the Owl Express
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!
Higher on the Door
A Hat So Simple
GRANDFATHERS ROCK CL
A Fruit and Vegetable Man
Captain Snap and the Children of Vinegar Lane
On Grandma's Roof
Keep Looking!
Animal song
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
The Camel Who Took a Walk
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
All My Little Ducklings
Skip to My Lou [Board Book]
Hip, Hip, Hooray for Annie McRae
Lizzie and Harold
Dance, Pioneer, Dance!
The Big Big Sea
Let's Go Home, Little Bear
Will You Still Love Me?
Home by Five
Mother Holly
Skip to My Lou [Board Book] ages 4-7
Simple Signs
Clouds of Terror (On My Own)
Riptide
Forest of Dreams
Galimoto
Mr. Nick's Knitting
Silly Sally
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
