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Book List For July

Infants and Toddlers

  • Eat Your Peas Louise,  Leo Landry
  • Peedie,  Olivier Dunrea
  • Black And White,  Justine Fontes
  • Everywhere Babies,  Susan Meyers
  • Birthday Fun 1,2,3,  Noelle Carter
  • My Blankie,  Patricia Ryan Lampl

Two-Year and Three-Year Olds

  • Splash,  Malachy Doyle
  • Hide And Seek,  Janet S. Wong
  • Piggy And Daddy Go Fishing,  David Martin
  • To the Beach,  Linda Ashman
  • No Bed Without Ted,  Nicola Smee
  • Looking After Little Ellie,  Dosh and Mike Archer

Four-Year and Five-year Olds

  • Farmer Dale’s Red Pick-Up Truck,  Lisa Wheeler
  • The Girl On The Yellow Giraffe,  Ronald Himler
  • Beverly Billingsly Takes The Cake,  Alexander Stadler
  • Look Both Ways,  Diana Z. Shore
  • Grandma Lena’s Big Ol’ Turnip,  Denia Lewis Hester
  • Three Feet Small, Michael J. Rosen

Schoolage Children

  • Monday On The Mississippi,  Marilyn Singer
  • Earth Mother,  Ellen Jackson
  • Bats At The Beach,  Brian Lies
  • Leonardo the Terrible Monster,  Mo Willems
  • Pirates Don’t Change Diapers,  Melinda Long
  • Dragon Rider,  Cornelia Funke
  • The Penderwicks,  Jeanne Birdsall
  • The Wright 3,  Blue Balliett

Schoolagers like series or chapter books and the summer is a great time to introduce these.

  • Baby Sitters Club,  Ann Martin
  • I Spy,  Jean Marzollo
  • A Series Of Unfortunate Events,   Lemony Snicket
  • The Sisters Grimm,  Michael Buckley
  • The Magician Trilogy,  Jenny Nimmo