Frog and Toad Are Friends
Arnold Lobel
The best book ever written for a child who is just learning to read, and it makes grown-ups cry.
The Again List / Ages 6 to 8
The best books for 6, 7 and 8 year olds
Keep reading aloud, even after they can read for themselves. They can understand far more than they can decode, so a shared novel gives them stories that their own reading cannot reach yet.
The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers
A stack of resignation letters from a box of crayons, and it is funnier than most sitcoms.
The Girl, The Lights & The Prince
Kisszu
A girl who heals the world by dancing, told in rhyming poems and rhythmic prose.
The Book With No Pictures
B.J. Novak
A book whose only rule is that the grown-up must say everything on the page. The grown-up has made a terrible mistake.
Last Stop on Market Street
Matt de la Peña & Christian Robinson
A boy asks why he has to take the bus, and his nana answers so well that the book won the Newbery.
The Invisible String
Patrice Karst
Less a story than a tool: a simple image a child can hold on to when someone they love is away.
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
The strongest girl in the world lives alone, with a horse on her porch and a suitcase of gold, and has never once asked for permission.
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White & Garth Williams
Still the best first novel to read aloud to a child, and still the one that will break you.
The Wild Robot
Peter Brown
A robot learns to be a mother on a wild island, and you will both want to read the next chapter.