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Shannon's "Recommended Books for Primary School"

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These are books that are recommended for Grades K-3. I am using this list to build my son’s library.

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    Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (Picture Puffin S.)
    by Andrew Lang

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    Carp in the Bathtub
    by Barbara Cohen

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    Cranberry Thanksgiving

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    Dawn
    by Molly Bang

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    Fables from Aesop (Picture Puffins)
    by Aesop

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    Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll
    by Franklyn M. Branley

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    Grandaddy's Place (Grandaddy)
    by Helen V. Griffith

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  9. 16.
    Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Hans Christian Andersen

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  10. 17.
    Heckedy Peg (A Voyager/Hbj Book)
    by Audrey Wood

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    Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm
    by Jacob Grimm

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  12. 20.
    The Jolly Postman
    by Allan Ahlberg

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  13. 21.
    Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
    by Virginia Lee Burton

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    Moss Gown
    by William H. Hooks

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  15. 24.
    The Mountain That Loved a Bird
    by Alice McLerran

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  16. 25.
    The Polar Express Twentieth Anniversary Edition
    by Chris Van Allsburg

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  17. 26.
    Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle
    by Thomas Locker

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  18. 27.
    Tintin in Tibet
    by Herge

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  19. 29.
    Where the Wild Things Are

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  20. 31.
    The Best Christmas Pageant Ever CD
    by Barbara Robinson

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  21. 32.
    A Certain Small Shepherd (Owlet Book)
    by Rebecca Caudill

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  22. 33.
    Chocolate Fever
    by Robert Kimmel Smith

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  23. 34.
    Fantastic Mr. Fox
    by Roald Dahl

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  24. 35.
    The Half-a-Moon Inn
    by Paul Fleischman

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    The Iron Giant
    by Ted Hughes

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    Lafcadio, The Lion Who Shot Back

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    A Lion to Guard Us
    by Clyde Robert Bulla

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  28. 39.
    Marching to Freedom (Dell Yearling Biography)
    by Joyce Milton

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  29. 40.
    The Monster's Ring: A Magic Shop Book
    by Bruce Coville

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  30. 41.
    My Father's Dragon (My Father's Dragon Trilogy (Paperback))
    by Ruth Stiles Gannett

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  31. 43.
    The Reluctant Dragon
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  32. 44.
    The Velveteen Rabbit
    by Margery Williams

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  33. 45.
    Wolf Story
    by William McCleery

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  34. 46.
    The Animal Family (Michael Di Capua Books)
    by Randall Jarrell

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    Charlotte's Web
    by E. B. White

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    Child of the Silent Night
    by Edith Hunter

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    The Chocolate Touch
    by Patrick Skene Catling

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  38. 50.
    Dog Called Kitty
    by Bill Wallace

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  39. 51.
    Gentle Ben (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Walt Morey

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    Hurry Home, Candy (Harper Trophy Books (Paperback))
    by Meindert DeJong

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    Introducing Shirley Braverman
    by Hilma Wolitzer

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    James and the Giant Peach
    by Roald Dahl

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    J.T.
    by Jane Wagner

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    Mr. Popper's Penguins
    by Richard Atwater

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    The Ordinary Princess

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    Peppermints in the Parlor
    by Barbara Brooks Wallace

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    Ramona the Pest (Ramona Quimby (Paperback))
    by Beverly Cleary

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    The Secret Garden
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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    Sideways Stories from Wayside School
    by Louis Sachar

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  50. 68.
    Skinnybones: (Revised edition)
    by Barbara Park

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  51. 69.
    Story of Doctor Doolittle
    by Hugh Lofting; Nadia May

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  52. 70.
    Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
    by Judy Blume

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    Understood Betsy
    by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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  54. 73.
    The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles)
    by Joan Aiken

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  55. 75.
    Best Loved Poems of the American People
    by Hazel Felleman

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  56. 77.
    The New Kid on the Block
    by Jack Prelutsky

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  57. 79.
    The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
    by Jack Prelutsky

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    Sing a Song of Popcorn
    by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

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    Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories
    by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Created by Shannon on Feb 24, 2009.