BOOK LISTS FOR COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES

(compiled by PEBC staff developers)

Background Knowledge Beach Day, Mercer Mayer A Chair for My Mother, Vera Williams Country Far Away, Nigel Gray A River Dream, Allen Say All Those Secrets of the World, Jane Yolen Amazing Grace, Mary Hoffman Anna Banana and Me, Erik & Lenore Blegvad Bear and Mrs. Duck, Elizabeth Winthrop Best Town in the World, Byrd Baylor Dinner At Aunt Connies House, Faith Ringgold Emma Bean, Jean Van Leeuwen Galimoto, Karen Lynn Williams I Know A Lady, Charlotte Zolotow I Like to Be Little, Charlotte Zolotow Island Boy, Barbara Cooney Jaftas Father, Hugh Lewin Leo the Late Bloomer, Robert Kraus Let the Celebrations Begin! , Margaret Wild The Lotus Seed, Sherry Garland Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man, David A. Adler Our Granny, Margaret Wild Owen, Keven Henkes The Relatives Came, Cynthia Rylant Rosalie, Joan Hewett Snake Hunt, Jill Kastner Teammates, Peter Golenbock The Third Story Cat, Leslie Baker The Wall, Eve Bunting We Are Best Friends, Aliki When I was Little, Jamie Lee Curtis When Will I Read, Miriam Cohen Whispering in the Park, Fred Burstein

Mental Images Appalachia, Cynthia Rylant Barn Dance, Bill Martin Country Road, Daniel San Souci Fireflies, Julie Brinkloe The Ghost Eye Tree, Bill Martin & John Archambault The Girl Who Danced With Dolphins, Frank Desaix Grandfather Twilight, Barbara Berger Home Place, Crescent Dragonwagon I Love You As Much, Laura Krauss Melmed Little Mouses Painting, Diane Wolkstein The Lotus Seed, Sherry Garland Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney Night in the Country, Cynthia Rylant Owl Moon, Jane Yolen Seven Blind Mice, Ed Young Sheep in a Jeep, Nancy Shaw Sheep in a Shop, Nancy Shaw The Storm, Cynthia Rylant Tar Beach, Faith Ringgold Tales of a Gambling Grandma, Dayal Kaur Khalsa Time for Bed, Mem Fox Train Song, Diane Siebert The Trip, Ezra Jack Keats Whisper From the Woods, Victoria Worth

Questioning Big Al, Andrew Clements The Bracelet, Yoshiko Uchida Charlie Anderson, Barbara Abercrombie The Day of Ahmeds Secret, Florence Parry Elmer, David McKee Galimoto, Karen Lynn Williams Hurricane, David Wiesner Little Mouses Painting, Diane Wolkstein May I Bring a Friend, Beatrice de Regniers Newf, Marie Killilea The Sick Day, Patricia MacLachlan The Story of the Jumping Mouse, John Steptoe The Stranger, Chris Van Allsburg Uncle Jeds Barbershop, Margaree King Mitchell The Wolf, Margaret Barbalet The Wretched Stone, Chris Van Allsburg

Drawing Inferences A Bag Full of Pups, Dick Gackenbach A Fairy Went A-Marketing, Rose Fyleman Abby, Jeannette Franklin Caines Alexander Who Used To Be Rich Last Sunday, Judith Viorst Anna Banana and Me, Erik & Lenore Blegvad Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring, Lucille Clifton Charlie Anderson, Barbara Abercrombie Dreamcatcher, Audrey Osofsky Harry and the Terrible Whatzit, Dick Gackenbach Hattie and the Fox, Mem Fox The Hedgehog for Breakfast, Ann Tuner Hot Air Henry, Mary Calhoun In a Small, Small Pond, Denise Fleming In the Tall, Tall Grass, Denise Fleming The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau, Jon Agee Jim and the Beanstalk, Raymond Briggs No Moon, No Milk!, Chris Babcock The Noisy Book, Margaret Wise Brown Noisy Nora, Rosemary Wells, Once Upon Macdonalds Farm, Stephen Gammell Rainbow Fish, Marcus Pfister Seven Blind Mice, Ed Young The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats Spinky Sulks, William Steig Time for Bed, Mem Fox This is the Key to the Kingdom, Diane Worfolk Allison Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in Your Soup, Tomie DePaola

Synthesis Determining Importance Airplanes and Flying Machines, First Discovery Books And So They Build, Bert Kitchen El Chino, Allen Say Encounter, Jane Yolen Flight, Robert Burleigh Koala Lou, Mem Fox Magic Schoolbus Books, Joanna Cole The Milk Makers, Gail Gibbons Monarch Butterfly, Gail Gibbons Passage to Freedom, Ken Mochizuki Rachels Journey, Marissa Moss Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, Lois Ehlert Somewhere Today, Bert Kitchen Spiders, Gail Gibbons Three Brave Women, C.L.G. Martin Wild Horse Winter, Tetsuya Honda A Rainbow of My Own, Don Freeman Annie and the Wild Animals, Jan Brett The Broody Hen, Olivier Dunrea The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Suess Charles T. McBiddle, Andrew Glass Charlie Needs a Cloak, Tomie DePaola The Dead Bird, Margaret Wise Brown Dont Tell the Whole World, Joanna Cole For Every Child, a Better World, Louise Gikow Goodbye House, Frank Asch Jim and the Beanstalk, Raymond Briggs Learning About Unicorns, Laura Alden Leo the Late Bloomer, Robert Kraus Little Blue and Little Yellow, Leo Lionni The Lotus Seed, Sherry Garland The Magic Fish, Freya Littledale The Maybe Garden, Kimberly Burke-Weiner The Mitten, Jan Brett My Mom Travels a Lot, Caroline Feller Bauer Nadia the Willful, Sue Alexander No Moon, No Milk! Chris Babcock Peters Chair, Ezra Jack Keats The Quicksand Book, Tomie De Paola Regards to the Man in the Moon, Ezra Jack Keats Sleeping Ugly, Jane Yolen The Story of the Jumping Mouse, John Steptoe The Terrible Thing That Happened at Our House, Marge Blaine The Wednesday Surprise, Eve Bunting When the Sun Rose, Barbara Berger Wild, Wild Sunflower Child Anna, Nancy White Carlstrom World Famous Muriel and the Magic Mystery, Sue Alexander