Fort Collins Read Aloud is committed to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of activities that promote reading aloud with children.

Recommended Books for Two-Year-Olds
Bang, Ten, Nine, Eight
Barton, The Three Bears
Brown, Goodnight Moon
Burningham, Mr. Grumphy’s Outing
Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy Spider
Cousins, The Little Dog Laughed and Other Nursery Rhymes
Crews, Freight Train
Flemming, Barnyard Banter
Fox, Time for Bed
Galdone, The Gingerbread Boy
Hill, Where’s Spot
Hutchins, Goodnight Owl
Keats, The Snowy Day
Maris, Are You There, Bear?
Martin, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Opie, My First Mother Goose
Rice, Benny Bakes a Cake
Steptoe, Baby Says
Tafuri, Who’s Counting
Williams, “More, More, More”, Said the Baby

Recommended Books for Three-Year-Olds
Asch, Moongame, Popcorn
Brandedberg, I Am Me
Calmenson, Dinner at the Panda Palace
Carlstrom, Jessie Bear; What Will You Wear?
Cazet, I’m Not Sleepy
Christelow, Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Degen, Jamberry
Dodds, Color Box
Ehlert, Planting a Rainbow, Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On
Emberley, Go Away, Big Green Monster
Evens, Hunky Dory Ate It
Freeman, Corduroy
Galdone, The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Hest, In the Rain with Baby Duck
Joosse, Mama, Do You Love Me?
Keats, The Snowy Day, Whistle for Willie
Kopper, Daisy Thinks She’s a Baby
Loh, Tucking Mommy In
Marzollo, Pretend You’re a Cat
Miller, Who Uses This?
Newton, William the Vehicle King
Piper, The Little Engine That Could
Rice, Sam Who Never Forgets
Rockwell, Boats
Stoeke, A Hat for Minerva Louise
Tafuri, Spots, Feathers, and Curly Tails
Wood, Silly Sally
Zolotow, Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present

Recommended Books for Pre-schoolers
Allard, Miss Nelson is Missing
Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Fox, The Magic Hat
Henkes, Owen
London, Froggy Goes to School
McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings
Numeroff, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Pieper, The Little Engine That Could
Rey, Curious George
Slobodkina, Caps for Sale
Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Waber, Lyle, Lyle Crocodile
 
Recommended Books for Five-Year-Olds
Alberg, Each Peach Pear Plum
Alborough, Where’s My Teddy?
Bemelmans, Madeline
Brett, The Mitten
Bunting, The Flower Garden
Dyer, Animal Crackers
Ehlert, Mole Hill
Ernst, The Letters Are Lost
Everitt, Mean Soup
Henkes, Owen
Hennessy, The Dinosaur Who Lived in Our Backyard
Hest, Nana’s Birthday Party
Holabird, Angelina Ballerina
Johnson, The Cow Who Wouldn’t Come Down
Kellogg, The Mysterious Tadpole
Lionni, Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
London, Let’s Go, Froggy
Marshall, George and Martha
Martin, Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom
McCloskey, make Way for Ducklings
McPhail, Pig Pig Rides
Mayer, There’s a Nightmare in My Closet
Numeroff, If You Give a Moose a Muffin
Pfister, Rainbow Fish
Pinkwater, Toothgnasher Superflash
Rylant, The Relatives Came
Slobodkina, Circus Caps for Sale
Stickland, Dinosaur Roar!
Walsh, Mouse Paint
Wikler, Alfonse Where are you?
Winthrop, Bear and Mrs. Duck
Wood, Piggies

Recommended Books for First Graders
Asch, Turtle Tale
Baker, One Saturday Morning
Bonsall, Case of the Cat’s Meow
Cohen, When Will I Read?
Cushman, Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery
Eastman, Go, Dog, Go!
Hoban, Arthur’s Prize Reader
Hoff, Danny and the Dinosaur
Howe, Horace and Doris
Kessler, Here Comes the Strikeout
Lobel, Frog and Toad are Friends
Marshall, Fox and His Friends
Minarik, Little Bear
Parish, Amelia Bedelia
Rylant, Henry and Mudge
Sharmat, Nate the Great
Suess, Cat in the Hat
Wiseman, Morris and Boris