If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

~Brian Tracy

 
     
BOOKS
Suggested Books for Early Literacy

1. A Chair for my Mother

Author:  Gerald McDermott
Illustrator: Gerald McDermott

2. Arrow to the Sun, a Pueblo Indian tale

Author:  Vera B. Williams
Illustrator: Vera B. Williams

3. Good Night, Gorilla

Author:  Peggy Rathmann
Illustrator: Peggy Rathmann 

4.   Kipper’s A to Z an Alphabet Adventure

Author:  Mick Inkpen
Illustrator: Mick Inkpen

5. Night Noises

Author:  Mem Fox
Illustrator: Terry Denton

6. Rosie’s Walk

Author:  Pat Hutchins
Illustrator: Pat Hutchins

7. The American Heritage Picture Dictionary

Author:  Houghton Mifflin
Illustrator: Maggie Swanson
Cover Design: Stoltze Design
Cover photographs: Ken Karp

8. The Story of Ferdinand

Author:  Munro Leaf
Illustrator: Munro Leaf & Robert Lawson

9. Tomie dePaola’s  Mother Goose

Author:  Tomie dePaola
Illustrator: Tomie dePaola

10.   Bring the Rain to Kapiti Plain:  A Nandi Tale

Author:  Verna Aardema
Illustrator: Beatriz Vidal

11.   Brown Cow, Green Grass, Yellow Mellow Sun

Author:  Ellen Jackson
Illustrator: Victoria Raymond

12.   Can I Keep Him?

Author:  Steven Kellogg
Illustrator: Steven Kellogg

13.   Fish Eyes:  A Book you can count on

Author:  Lois Ehlert
Illustrator: Lois Ehlert

14.  Good Morning, Chick

Author:  Mirra Ginsburg
Illustrator: Byron Barton

15.  Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?

Author:  Nancy White Carlstrom
Illustrator: Bruce Degan

16.  Little Brother of the Wilderness:  The Story of Johnny Appleseed

Author:  Meridel Le Seur
Illustrator: Suzy Sansom

17.  Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?

Author:  Bill Martin, Jr.
Illustrator: Erle Carle

18.  Splash!

Author:  Ann Jonas
Illustrator: Ann Jonas

19. The Snowy Day

Author:  Ezra Jack Keats
Illustrator: Ezra Jack Keats

 20.  When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry…

Author:  Molly Bang
Illustrator: Molly Bang