Book Suggestions
Setting in another Country:
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Stptoe
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki
Book Made into a Movie
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
Book of Poetry
Why Otters Don't Wear Socks by Roger Stevens
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word by Bob Raczka
Biography
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin by Jennifer Fisher Bryant
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos by Deborah Heiligman
Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell by Tanya Lee Stone
Science Fiction
Mr. Wuffles by David Wiesner
Cosmos and the Robot by Brian Pinkney
Boy & Bot by Ame Dyckman
Aesop Fable
The Hare and the Tortoise
The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Farmer and His Sons
Art
Matisse the King of Color by Laurence Anholt
The Dot by Peter Reynolds
Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty
Fairy Tale
Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
Rumpelstilstskin by Pau Zelinsky
Goatilocks and the Three Bears by Erica S. Pearl
Historical Fiction
The Knight and His Dragon by Tomie de Paola
The Wall by Eve Bunting
My Best Friend, Abe Lincoln: A Tale of Two Boys from Indiana By Robert L. Bloch
Historical Non Fiction
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade by Melissa Sweet
How Things Work in the Yard by Lisa Campbell Ernst
Bone: Skeletons and How They Work by Steve Jenkins
Asian American Author
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
Ruby Lu, Brave and True by Lenore Look
Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat by Amy Tan
Folk Tale
El Gallo de Bodas: A Traditional Cuban Folktale by Lucia Gonzalez
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema
Autobiography
Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar by Keith Richards
Mo'Ne Davis: Remember My Name by Mo'Ne Davis and Hilary Beartd
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis
Math
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
Even Steven and Odd Todd by Kathryn Cristaldi