Beginning with Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears To The Book Thief; A Summertime Book List

The updated National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summertime Booklist appears below. NEH has published a summer reading list for children since 1988. The criterion for inclusion is that a book have “lasting value.” This year the list has been updated with 90 new books recommended by the American Library Association (ALA) and vetted by NEH staff and other readers:

 

KINDERGARTEN TO GRADE 3

Recommended for K-3, either for reading by children or for reading to them.

Aardema, Verna and Leo & Diane Dillon

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale

Aesop

Aesop’s Fables

Allard, Harry and James Marshall

Miss Nelson Is Missing!

Atwater, Richard and Florence

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Barrows, Annie and Sophie Blackall

Ivy + Bean

Becker, Bonny and
Kady MacDonald Denton

A Visitor for Bear

Bemelmans, Ludwig

Madeline

Blume, Judy

Freckle Juice

Brown, Marcia

Stone Soup

Brunhoff, Jean de

The Story of Babar, The Little Elephant

Burton, Virginia Lee

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Cameron, Ann and Ann Strugnell

The Stories Julian Tells

Cleary, Beverly

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Cronin, Doreen and Harry Bliss

Diary of a Worm

DePaola, Tomie

Strega Nona

Dorros, Arthur and Elisa Kleven

Abuela

Duvoisin, Roger

Petunia

Estes, Eleanor and Louis Slobodkin

The Hundred Dresses

Freeman, Don

Corduroy

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