Are you searching for good-quality, living books to read with your homeschool kindergartener? Look no further! We’ve rounded up a list of beautiful picture books on all sorts of topics from history, to science, to poetry and more, as well as some recommended chapter books to help your child build the capacity to engage with longer read-alouds.
Do you have a kindergarten favorite that we’ve missed? Let us know in the comments. We’d love to hear your recommendations!
Literature
Picture Books
- Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
- The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
- Little Bear by Else Minarik
- Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
- Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
- Each Peach, Pear, Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlburg
- Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
- Richard Scarry’s Please and Thank You Book by Richard Scarry
- Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena
- Mother Goose by Tomie de Paola
- The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
- Billy and Blaze by C. W. Andersen
- The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
- Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
- The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco
- Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
- The Mitten by Jan Brett
- The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
- A collection of classic nursery stories. We love the ones by Paul Galdone:
- The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack
- The Raft by Jim LaMarche
- Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
- Brave Irene by William Steig
- The Sower by Scott James
- Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile by Bernard Waber
- The Tale of Three Trees by Angela Hunt
- Treasury for Children by James Herriot
Longer Read-Alouds
- The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
- A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
- Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
- The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
- Aesop’s Fables illustrated by Milo Winter
- The Complete Tales of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
History/Social Studies
- Our Fifty States: A Family Journey Across America by Lynne Cheney
- Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki
- The Pilgrims of Plimouth by Marcia Sewall
- The Story of Johnny Appleseed by Aliki
- Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
- Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson
- Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson
- How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman
Science
- The Berenstain Bears’ Big Book of Science and Nature by Stan Berenstain
- From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
- The Honey Makers by Gail Gibbons
- The Life and Times of the Ant by Charles Micucci
- The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole
- The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body by Joanna Cole
- Shark Lady by Jess Keating
- A Seed Is Sleepy by Dianna Aston
Poetry
- A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
- A Child’s Book of Poems by Gyo Fujikawa
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