BIG Books
Wonderfully illustrated Big Books are ideal for shared reading experiences and are specifically written and designed for developing readers. Your students can follow along or read out loud with you as you enjoy the full-color illustrations. Big Books, with their easy reading and colorful art work, combine to motivate students to observe the reading process, form ideas, and participate at their own level of achievement. Use Big Books as a starting point for moving into cross-curricular activities and thematic projects.

Adventures in Time and Place: GEO Big Book Grades K-1 and Grades 2-3 From Macmillan/
McGraw Hill

Air, Water, and Your Health By Anne G. JonesAmazing Eggs By Claire Llwellyn

And the Sidewalk Went All Around By Alan and Lea Daniel

Animal Partners By Harry Breidahl

The Ants Go Marching Illustrated by Alan and Lea Daniel

Apple Tree By Barrie Watts

At the Movies By Dyan Prujean

Aunt Bea’s Fantastic Picnic By Susan Cornell Poskanzer

Bean and Plant by Christine Back and Barrie Watts

The Bean Bag That Mom Made By Andrea Butler

Bears By Ruth Krauss

Bears, Bears, Everywhere By Luella Connelly

The Big Book of Math Poems Edited by Elizabeth Strauss

The Big Book of Poetry Edited by Diane Sharpe

The Big Book of Science Poems Edited by Elizabeth Strauss

The Big Fitz By Jack Edwards

Bill Grogan's Goat Illustrated by Alan and Lea Daniel

Bones By Keith Pigdon and Marilyn Woolley

Come On Into the Rainforest By Judy Nayer

The Corner Store By JoAnne Nelson

Could We Be Friends?: Poems for Pals By Bobby Katz

The Day the Class Chameleon Disappeared By Cass Hollander

Days of Adventure By Lyn Swanson-Natsues

Dinosaur Alphabet Book By Pat Whitehead

Dinosaur Toes By Lindsay Nesheim

Don't Throw it Away! By Joanne Nelson

Dragonfly By Barrie Watts

Dragon's Song By Jan Mike

Eating the Alphabet By Lois Ehlert

The Eensy, Weensy Spider By Alan Daniel

Exploring Mathematics Vol. 1 (ch. 1-3) and Vol. 2 (ch. 4-7) From Scott, Foresman and Company

Fish are Animals By Judith Holloway and Clive Harper

Foiled Again By Marcia Vaughan

Forgetful Fred Illustrated by Cindy Hunnum

Friends of All Colors By Susan Dixson

The Frog Prince Illusrtated by Arden Johnson

The Funny Old Man and The Funny Old Woman By Martha Barber

The Gingerbread Man Traditional

Goggly Gookers By Joy Cowley

Going on a Whale Watch By Bruce McMillan

Good-Night, Owl! By Pat Hutchins

The Greedy Goat Retold by Faye Bolton

Green Bananas By Oam Neville and Andrea Butler

Grumbles, Growls, and Roars By Elizabeth Savage

Hairy Bear By Joy Cowley

Happy Holidaysaurus By Bernard Most

The Hobyahs Retold by Brenda Parkes and Justin Smith

Home For a Dinosaur By Eileen Curran

How New Plants Grow By Colin Walker

How to Handle A Vivid Imagination By Sally Farrell Odgers

I Know an Old Lady traditional

I Like to be Me By Phoebe Rankin and Elizabeth Stenson

If You Give a Moose a Muffin By Laura Joffe Numeroff

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie By Laura Joffe Numeroff

In a Dark, Dark Wood Traditional

In the Country By Debra Hays

In the Tall, Tall Grass By Denise Flemming

Is Your Mama a Llama? By Deborah Guerino

It Takes a Village By Jane Cowen-Fletcher

Jabberwocky By Lewis Carroll

King Bidgood's in the Bathtub By Andrea Woods

King Lionheart’s Castle By Maricia Leonard

Laughing Giraffes Selected by Gail Saunders-Smith

 

Light By Colin Walker

Lin's Surprise By Mary Atwater et. al.

Little Frog's Monster Story By Anna Lettew

Lizards By Kath Murdoch

Look at the Moon By May Garelick

The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth By Joanna Cole

The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body By Joanna Cole

The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System By Joanna Cole

The Magic School Bus On the Ocean Floor By Joanna Cole

The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks By Joanna Cole

McBungle Down Under By Brenda Parkes

Meanies By Joy Cowley

The Monster Pet By Jan Pienkowski

Moon Buggy By Ross Latham and Peter Sloan

Moon Rope By Lois Ehlert

Mouse Paint By Ellen Stoll Walsh

Mrs. Wishy-washy By Joy Cowley

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters By John Steptoe

My Family and Me By Phoebe Rankin

My Five Senses By Aliki

My Tooth Came out Yesterday By Leo Fantini

The Napping House By Audrey Wood

Once an Austrian Went Yodeling Illustrated by Alan and Lea Daniel

Our Changing Earth By Colin Walker

Our Eyes By Vicki Robinson

Our Solar System By Colin Walker

Our Star: The Sun By Mary Atwater et. Al.

Our Tree House By Rebel Williams

The Runaway Pizza By Brenda Parkes

Paul Bunyon By Steven Kellogg

Peanut Butter and Jelly By Joanne Nelson

Pink Pig By Tim Alton

A Pocketful of Licorice Selected by Debbie Powell and Andrea Butler

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do You Hear? By Bill Marin Jr.

The Popcorn Popper By Joanne Nelson

The Princess and the Poet By Sheila Hatherley

Punchinello Illustrated by Margaret Power

The Queen of Hearts Illustrated by Ron Berg

Queen On the Quilt By Maryann Dobeck

Rumpelstiltskin Illustrated by Dale Gottlieb

Sea Creatures By Harry Breidahl

Six Big Apples By Marion Walker

The Slippery Frog By Val Marshall

The Smile In the Hole By Pauline Cartwright

Snail (with teacher's guide) By Jens Olsen

Sneaker Factory By Joanne Nelson

Something Strange About Pauline's New Friends By Billy Aronson

The Story of the Statue of Liberty By Betsy & Giulio Maestro

The Three Billy Goats Gruff Retold

There's a Hole in the Bucket Illustrated by Alan and Lea Daniel

There’s a Nightmare in my Closet By Mercer Mayer

Tiny Creatures By Monica Hughes

Too Many Hiccups By Susan Cornell Poskanzer

A Trip to Mini Town By Joanne Nelson

We Explore Springtime/We Explore American Heroes From Houghton Mifflin

We Learn Our Rules and Laws From Houghton Mifflin

Who Can Be a Friend? By Vicki Elwell

Who Is the Beast? By Keith Baker

Who Said Boo? By Cass Hollander

Who Will Be My Mother? By Joy Cowley

Wiggly Squiggly By Jeanne Willis

Willian Tell Illustrated by David Wenzel

Your Brain and Your Senses By Anne G. Jones

Your Teeth By Anne G. Jones

Yum! Yuck! By Michaela Morgan


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