Reading Roadmaps is a manual containing annotated reading lists for grades K-12 created by the Center for Lit. The manual summarizes the plot, themes, and other literary devices in each of the books. The following books are covered for Kindergarten.
The Runaway Bunny
by Margaret Wise Brown
Recommended Age: 3
Also: Before Five in a Row Book List for Ages 3-4
Also: Mater Amabilis Pre-K Book List for Ages 4-5
Also: Memoria Press Junior Kindergarten Read-Aloud Program
Also: TIME: The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle
Recommended Age: 1
Also: Amazon's 100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime
Also: New York Public Library’s List of 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
Also: TIME: The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time
Also: Top 10 Books for Babies
The Water Hole
by Graeme Base
Olivia
by Ian Falconer
Recommended Age: 4
Also: Amazon's 100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime
Also: New York Public Library’s List of 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
Also: TIME: The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time
The Poky Little Puppy
by Janette Sebring Lowrey
Also: TIME: The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time
The Bee Tree
by Patricia Polacco
Recommended Age: 3
Also: Five in a Row Book List for Ages 4-8
Also: My Father's World Kindergarten Literature Collection
Also: Sonlight Preschool Book List for Ages 3-4
You're Just What I Need
by Ruth Krauss
The Carrot Seed
by Ruth Krauss
Recommended Age: 3
Also: Before Five in a Row Book List for Ages 3-4
Also: Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Grades K-3
Also: New York Public Library’s List of 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
The Tale Of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter
Recommended Age: 4
Also: Five in a Row Book List for Ages 4-8
Also: Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Grades K-3
Also: My Father's World Kindergarten Literature Collection
Also: New York Public Library’s List of 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
Also: TIME: The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time
Also: Sonlight Pre-K Book List for Ages 4-5 (in The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit)
Also: Amazon's 100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime (in Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales)
The Rainbow Fish
by Marcus Pfister
The Story About Ping
by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese
Recommended Age: 5
Also: Five in a Row Book List for Ages 4-8
Also: Former Sonlight Books
Also: Mater Amabilis Kindergarten Book List for Ages 5-6
Also: What We Read: China
Blueberries for Sal
by Robert McCloskey
Recommended Age: 4
Also: Before Five in a Row Book List for Ages 3-4
Also: Mater Amabilis Pre-K Book List for Ages 4-5
Also: Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Grades K-3
Also: Moving Beyond the Page Age 4-5 Literature Package
Also: Reading Roadmaps 1st Grade
Also: TIME: The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time
Also: Top 10 Books for Toddlers
Also: Veritas Press 1st Grade Literature
Also: Sonlight Preschool Book List for Ages 3-4 (in Make Way for McCloskey: A Robert McCloskey Treasury)
The Velveteen Rabbit
by Margery Williams
Also: Former Sonlight Books
Also: Mater Amabilis Pre-K Book List for Ages 4-5
Also: Memoria Press 2nd Grade Read-Aloud Program
Also: Reading Roadmaps 1st Grade
Also: Veritas Press 1st Grade Literature
Also: Veritas Press 2nd Grade Literature
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
by Laura Numeroff
Recommended Age: 3
Also: Moving Beyond the Page Age 5-7 Literature Package
Also: New York Public Library’s List of 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
Also: TIME: The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time
Also: Veritas Press 1st Grade Literature
Also: Sonlight Preschool Book List for Ages 3-4 (in Harper Collins Treasury of Picture Book Classics)
Tough Boris
by Mem Fox
Apples to Oregon
by Deborah Hopkinson
Noah's Ark
by Peter Spier
Recommended Age: 4
Also: Caldecott Medal Winners
Also: National Book Award Children's Book Winners
Also: Sonlight Preschool Book List for Ages 3-4
The Three Bears
by Paul Galdone
Recommended Age: 4
Also: New York Public Library’s List of 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
The Little Red Hen
by Paul Galdone
Also: Memoria Press Junior Kindergarten Read-Aloud Program
The Gingerbread Boy
by Paul Galdone
Also: Memoria Press Junior Kindergarten Read-Aloud Program
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
by Paul Galdone
Also: Memoria Press Junior Kindergarten Read-Aloud Program
Also: What We Read: Nordic Countries
Bremen Town Musicians
by Brian Wildsmith
Are You My Mother?
by P.D. Eastman
Also: Amazon's 100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime
The Three Little Pigs
by Paul Galdone
Also: Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Grades K-3
The Three Pigs
by David Wiesner
Recommended Age: 5
Also: Caldecott Medal Winners
Little Red Riding Hood
by Trina Schart Hyman
Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild!
by Mem Fox
The Princess and the Pea
Adapted by John Cech
Cinderella
by C. S. Evans
Peter and the Wolf
by Sergei Prokofiev
The Little Engine that Could
by Watty Piper
Also: Amazon's 100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime
Also: Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Grades K-3
Also: TIME: The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time
Also: Top 10 Books for Toddlers
Also: Veritas Press 1st Grade Literature
The Keeping Quilt
by Patricia Polacco
The Mitten
by Jan Brett
Also: Mater Amabilis Kindergarten Book List for Ages 5-6
Also: Memoria Press Junior Kindergarten Read-Aloud Program
A New Coat for Anna
by Harriet Ziefert
Recommended Age: 6
Also: Five in a Row Book List for Ages 4-8
Also: Veritas Press 1st Grade Literature
Also: What We Read: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Corduroy
by Don Freeman
Recommended Age: 4
Also: Amazon's 100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime
Also: Before Five in a Row Book List for Ages 3-4
Also: Mater Amabilis Pre-K Book List for Ages 4-5
Also: Memoria Press Junior Kindergarten Read-Aloud Program
Also: Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Grades K-3
Also: New York Public Library’s List of 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
Also: TIME: The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time
Also: Veritas Press 1st Grade Literature
The Money Tree
by Sarah Stewart
Alternate:
Doctor De Soto
by William Steig
Also: Memoria Press 1st Grade Read-Aloud Program
Also: National Book Award Children's Book Winners
Also: Reading Roadmaps 3rd Grade
Alternate:
Casey at the Bat
by Ernest L. Thayer
Also: Memoria Press 3rd Grade Read-Aloud Program
Alternate:
Tops & Bottoms
by Janet Stevens
Also: Reading Roadmaps 1st Grade
Alternate:
Each Peach Pear Plum
by Allan Ahlberg
Alternate:
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
Retold by Verna Aardema, Illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon
Recommended Age: 5
Also: Caldecott Medal Winners
Also: Memoria Press 1st Grade Read-Aloud Program
Also: Moving Beyond the Page Age 6-8 Literature Package
Also: What We Read: West Africa
Alternate:
Ox-Cart Man
by Donald Hall, Illustrated by Barbara Cooney
Recommended Age: 4
Also: Caldecott Medal Winners
Also: Memoria Press Kindergarten Read-Aloud Program
Also: Veritas Press 1st Grade Literature
Alternate:
Old Henry
by Joan W. Blos
Alternate:
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
by Beatrix Potter
Alternate:
Just Plain Fancy
by Patricia Polacco
Alternate:
Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building
by Deborah Hopkinson
Alternate:
The Magic Fan
by Keith Baker
Alternate:
Emperor and the Kite
by Jane Yolen
Alternate:
The Journey
by Sarah Stewart
Alternate:
Babushka Baba Yaga
by Patricia Polacco
Alternate:
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub
by Audrey Wood
Alternate:
Bored, Nothing to Do
by Peter Spier
Alternate:
The Ugly Duckling
by Hans Christian Andersen, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
Also: Memoria Press 3rd Grade Read-Aloud Program
Alternate:
Sleeping Beauty
by Mahlon F. Craft, Illustrated by Kinuko Y. Craft
Also: Top 20 Beautifully Illustrated Fairy Tales
Alternate:
The Treasure
by Uri Shulevitz
Also: Reading Roadmaps 1st Grade
Alternate:
It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folktale
Retold And Illustrated by Margot Zemach
Recommended Age: 5
Also: Former Sonlight Books
Also: New York Public Library’s List of 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
Also: Reading Roadmaps 1st Grade
Alternate:
Hansel and Gretel
by Rika Lesser; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky
Alternate:
The Emperor's New Clothes
by Hans Christian Andersen; illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton
Also: Memoria Press 2nd Grade Read-Aloud Program
Alternate:
The Princess and the Pea
by Hans Christian Andersen; illustrated by Dorothee Duntze
Alternate:
Rapunzel
by Paul O. Zelinsky
Recommended Age: 5
Also: Caldecott Medal Winners
Also: Memoria Press 3rd Grade Read-Aloud Program
Also: Top 20 Beautifully Illustrated Fairy Tales
Alternate:
Beauty and the Beast
by Jan Brett
Alternate:
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
by Judith Viorst
Recommended Age: 4
Also: Amazon's 100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime
Also: Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Grades K-3
Also: Moving Beyond the Page Age 6-8 Literature Package
Also: New York Public Library’s List of 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
Also: TIME: The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time
Also: Sonlight Preschool Book List for Ages 3-4 (in 20th Century Children’s Book Treasury)
Alternate:
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
by Dr. Seuss
Alternate:
Thy Friend, Obadiah
by Brinton Turkle
Alternate:
The Whispering Rabbit
by Margaret Wise Brown
Alternate:
The Story of Ferdinand
by Munro Leaf
Recommended Age: 4
Also: Amazon's 100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime
Also: Five in a Row Book List for Ages 4-8
Also: Mater Amabilis Pre-K Book List for Ages 4-5
Also: Memoria Press Kindergarten Read-Aloud Program
Also: Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Grades K-3
Also: My Father's World Kindergarten Literature Collection
Also: New York Public Library’s List of 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
Also: Reading Roadmaps 1st Grade
Also: TIME: The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time
Also: What We Read: Spain and Portugal
Also: Sonlight Preschool Book List for Ages 3-4 (in 20th Century Children’s Book Treasury)
Alternate:
Thank You, Mr. Falker
by Patricia Polacco
Alternate:
Stone Soup
by Marcia Brown
Also: Mater Amabilis Pre-K Book List for Ages 4-5
Also: Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Grades K-3
Also: My Father's World Kindergarten Literature Collection
Also: Top 10 Thanksgiving Picture Books
Also: Veritas Press 1st Grade Literature
Alternate:
Humble Pie
by Jennifer Donnelly
Alternate:
Norman the Doorman
by Don Freeman
Also: Memoria Press 1st Grade Read-Aloud Program
Alternate:
Chicken Sunday
by Patricia Polacco
Also: Reading Roadmaps 3rd Grade
Also: Top 10 Easter Picture Books