First Grade Books That Are Best

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• Theodor Seuss Geisel Award American Library Association award given each year to the most distinguished beginning reader book

Books

I Spy Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold

The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo by Judy Blume

Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator by Sarah C. Campbell

Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary

Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin

I Lost My Tooth in Africa by by Penda Diakité

Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamillo

The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow by Andy Griffiths

Benny and Penny in The Big No-No!: A Toon Book by Geoffrey Hayes

Benny and Penny in Just Pretend: A Toon Book by Geoffrey Hayes

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Scary Tales to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman

Actual Size by Steve Jenkins

Zelda and Ivy, the Runaways by Laura McGee Kvasnosky

Subtraction Action by Loreen Leedy

Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same! by Grace Lin

Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel

Fox Be Nimble by James Marshall

Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day by Kate McMullan

Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book by Yuyi Morales

Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish

Not a Box by Antoinette Portis

Henry and Mudge and the Happy Cat by Cynthia Rylant

Vulture View by April Pulley Sayre

First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Nate the Great by Marjorie Sharmat

Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa by Erica Silverman

Little Mouse Gets Ready: A Toon Book by Jeff Smith

Jazz Baby by Lisa Wheeler

There Is a Bird on Your Head! by Mo Willems

We Are in a Book! by Mo Willems

Mouse and Mole by Wong Herbert Yee