Age of Imagination

Children’s classics and modern books for ages 4-7

Aesop’s Fables

Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey

One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey

I Don’t Want to Be a Frog by Dev Petty, illustrated by Mike Boldt (4 book series)

Building Our House by Jonathan Bean

The Circus Ship by Chris Van Dusen

The Gardener by Sarah Stewart

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman

Madeline (Series) by Ludwig Bemelmans

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena

The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! By Candace Fleming 

The Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman

Thundercake by Patricia Polacco

Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens

A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond

The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff (series)

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

Just So Stories for Little Children by Rudyard Kipling (author of The Jungle Book)

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

Curious George (series) by H.A. Rey

Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion

Corduroy by Don Freeman (Mensa list)

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Wayne Rosen

Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall

Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel

Grover Learns to Read – Sesame Street classic w/Grover wanting his mother to continue to read to him

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson