1st Grade Literature
Required Reading
This list of books is the list of required reading for our first grade level. Many of these books we already have, some we do not. Feel free to visit our Amazon wish list. ;) We will be needing to buy most of our books as our local library (even through exchange) does not offer many books that we need. The books in a series are not linked because any in that series will be good and we either have the collection or it’s just too much to list individually on the Amazon Wish List, but the ones we have are checked.
Visit our 1st Grade Literature wishlist at Amazon.
Amelia Bedelia (series) by Peggy Parish- Bears on Hemlock Mountain, The by Alice Dalgliesh
- Biggest Bear, The by Lynd Ward
- Billy and Blaze (series) by C. W. Anderson
- Birthday for Francis, A by Russell Hoban
- Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
- Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
- Cat in the Hat, The (series) by Dr. Seuss (have a great many)
- Chair for My Mother, A by Vera B. Williams
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- Curious George (original series) by H. A. & Margaret Rey
- Egg, The by M. P. Robertson
- Floss by Kim Lewis
- Frederick by Leo Lionni
- Frog and Toad (series) by Arnold Lobel
- Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
- Henry and Mudge (series) by Cytnia Rylant
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
- If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff
- Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Peter Roup
- Little Bear (original series) by Else Holmelund Minarik
- Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
- Little House, The by Virginia Lee Burton
- Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Magic Fish, The by Freya Littledale
- Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia LeenBurton
- Miss Nelson is Missing! (series) by James Marshall
- Mouton’s Impossible Dream by Anik McGrory
- Mr. Putter & Tabby (series) by Cynthia Rylant
- Nate the Great (series) by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
- New Coat for Anna, A by Harriet Ziefert
- Original Mother Goose, The by unknown
- Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
- Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
- Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack
- Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Are there other books you would recommend for 1st grade literature?
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