West Orange Public Library is participating in 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten, a national program promoting reading to newborns, infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
The goal of 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten is to share at least 1,000 books before your child enters kindergarten. Reading just one book a day for 365 days you will have shared 1,095 books in three years.The following list of books includes a mix of children's classics such as Goodnight Moon, Madeline, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar and many recent titles parents may remember from childhood.
Follow a simple formula:
READ. REPEAT.
No required reading - choose any books to read. Read the same title multiple times.
Any child from birth until entering kindergarten is eligible.
To Participate:
- There is no begin/end date
- Log your books on paper or download the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten app
- Share each milestone (100, 200, 300, etc… ) and receive a special sticker
- You can count a book for as many times as you read it (i.e. if you read the same book 10 times that counts as 10 entries).
Click on the title to check availability.
Aardema, Verna: Why Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears Ada, Alma Flor: I Love Saturdays y Domingos Allard, Harry: Miss Nelson is Missing! Asch, Frank: Happy Birthday, Moon Baker, Keith: Big Fat Hen Bang, Molly: Ten, Nine, Eight Bang, Molly: When Sophie Gets Angry, Really Really Angry Barrett, Judi Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Cloting Barrett, Judi: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Barton, Byron: The Three Bears Bauer, Marion: How Do I Love You? Becker, Bonny: A Visitor for Bear Bemelmans, Ludwig: Madeline Blackstone, Stella: Bear's Busy Family Bornstein, Ruth: Little Gorilla Boynton, Sandra: Moo Baa La La La Brett, Jan: The Mitten Brown, Marcia: Stone Soup Brown, Margaret Wise: Goodnight Moon Brunhoff, Jean de: The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant Burningham, John: Mr. Gumpy’s Outing Burton, Virginia Lee: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Campbell, Rod: Dear Zoo Cannon, Janell: Stellaluna Capucilli, Alyssa Satin: Biscuit Loves the Library Carle, Eric: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Christelow, Eileen: Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Choi, Yangsook: The Name Jar Coffelt, Nancy: Fred Stays with Me Cooney, Barbara: Miss Rumphius Crews, Donald: Freight Train Cronin, Doreen: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type Degen, Bruce: Jamberry De la Pena, Matt: Last Stop on Market Street DePaola, Tomie: Strega Nona Dewdney, Anna: Llama Llama Red Pajama Dorros, Arthur: Abuela Eastman, P.D.: Are You My Mother? Ehlert, Lois: Feathers for Lunch Emberley, Ed: Go Away, Big Green Monster! Falconer, Ian: Olivia, the Spy Feiffer, Jules: Bark, George Flack, Marjorie: Ask Mr. Bear Fleming, Denise: Mama Cat Has Three Kittens Floca, Brian: Locomotive Fogliano, July: And Then It's Spring Fox, Mem: Time for Bed Fox, Mem: Where is the Green Sheep? Freeman, Don: Corduroy Gag, Wanda: Millions of Cats Galdone, Paul: The Three Little Pigs Gerstein, Mordicai: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers Goble, Paul: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses Gonzalez, Lucia M.: The Bossy Gallito/El Gallo de Bodas Grimes, Nikki: Meet Danitra Brown Hall, Michael: Perfect Square Henkes, Kevin: Old Bear Hills, Tad: How Rocket Learned to Read Ho, Minfong: Hush!: A Thai Lullaby Hoban, Russell: Bread and Jam for Frances Hoban, Tana: Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue? Hoban, Tana: Black on White Hoffman, Mary: Amazing Grace Holabird, Katherine: Angelina Ballerina Hutchins, Pat: Rosie's Walk Jenkins, Steve: What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? Johnson, Crockett: Harold and the Purple Crayon Joosee, Barbara: Mama Do You Love Me? Juster, Norton: The Hello, Goodbye Window Kasza, Keiko: The Wolf’s Chicken Stew Katz, Karen: The Colors of Us Keats, Ezra Jack: The Snowy Day Kennedy, Jimmy: The Teddy Bears' Picnic Kent, Jack: The Caterpillar and the Polliwog Kimmel, Eric: Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock Kraus, Ruth: The Carrot Seed Leaf, Munro: The Story of Ferdinand Lionni, Leo: Swimmy London, Jonathan: Froggy Gets Dressed |
Martin, Bill: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Martin, Bill: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom McBratney, Sam: Guess How Much I Love You? McCloskey, Robert: Blueberries for Sal McLimans, David: Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet McPhail, David: Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore Morales, Yuyi: Nino Wrestles the World Mullan, Kate and Jim: I Stink! Munsch, Robert: The Paper Bag Princess Muth, Jon: Zen Shorts Noble, Trinka: The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash Numeroff, Laura: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Parish, Peggy: Amelia Bedelia Parr, Todd: It’s Ok to be Different Penn, Audrey: The Kissing Hand Pfister, Marcus: Rainbow Fish Pinkney, Jerry: The Lion and the Mouse Piper, Wally: The Little Engine that Could Polacco, Patricia: Pink and Say Polacco, Patricia: Thank you Mr. Falker Potter, Beatrix: The Tale of Peter Rabbit Raschka, Chris: A Ball for Daisy Rathmann, Peggy: Officer Buckle and Gloria Recorvits, Helen: My Name is Yoon Reynolds, Peter: The Dot Ringgold, Faith: Tar Beach Rinker, Sherri Duskey: Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site Rohmann, Eric: My Friend Rabbit Rosen, Michael: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Rosenthal, Amy Krouse: Duck! Rabbit! Rylant, Cynthia: Henry and Mudge Say, Allen: Grandfather’s Journey Scieszka, Jon: The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales Scieszka, Jon: The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Seeger, Laura Vaccaro: Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories Seeger, Laura Vaccaro: First the Egg Sendak, Maurice: Where the Wild Things Are Seuss, Dr.: Green Eggs and Ham Seuss, Dr.: The Cat in the Hat Shannon, David: No David! Shaw, Charles: It Looked Like Spilt Milk Silverstein, Shel: The Giving Tree Simmons, Jane: Come Along Daisy Sis, Peter: Fire Truck Slobodkina, Esphyr: Caps for Sale Soto, Gary: Too Many Tamales Stead, Philip: A Sick Day for Amos McGee Steig, William: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Steptoe, John: Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale Taback, Simms: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Thong, Roseanne: Round is a Mooncake Tullet, Herve: Press Here! Vamos, Samantha R.: The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred Van Allsburg, Chris: The Polar Express Viorst, Judith: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible No Good Very Bad Day Walter, Virginia: Hi, Pizza Man! Wells, Rosemary: Noisy Nora Wells, Rosemary: Yoko Westcott, Nadine: The Lady with the Alligator Purse Wiesner, David: The Three Pigs Wiesner, David: Tuesday Williams, Vera: A Chair for My Mother Williams, Vera: More, More, More Said the Baby Willems, Mo: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Willems, Mo: Knuffle Bunny Winter, Jeanette: The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps Wong, Janet: Buzz Wood, Audrey: The Napping House Wood, Don: The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear Woodson, Jacqueline: Pecan Pie Baby Yolen, Jane: How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? Young, Ed: Lon Po Po: A Red-riding Hood Story from China Zelinsky, Paul O.: Rumpelstiltskin Zimmerman, Andrea: Trashy Town Zion, Gene: Harry, The Dirty Dog |