What Your Preschooler Needs to Know: Read-Alouds to Get Ready for Kindergarten

10 best books like What Your Preschooler Needs to Know: Read-Alouds to Get Ready for Kindergarten (E.D. Hirsch Jr.): Blueberries for Sal, Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business, How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, The Lion and the Mouse, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, The Little Engine That Could, Happy Birthday, Moon, The Color Kittens, Two Times the Fun, The Circus Ship

Blueberries for Sal
AuthorRobert McCloskey
ISBN0670175919
Caldecott Honor Book

What happens when Sal and her mother meet a mother bear and her cub? A beloved classic is born!

Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk! Sal and her mother a picking blueberries to can for the winter. But when Sal wanders to the other side of Blueberry Hill, she discovers a mama...
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
AuthorEsphyr Slobodkina
ISBN0064431436
Caps for Sale is a timeless classic beloved by millions...one of the most popular picture books ever published!

Children will delight in following the peddler’s efforts to outwit the monkeys and will ask to read it again and again. Caps for Sale is an excellent easy-to-read book that includes...
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
AuthorMarjorie Priceman
ISBN0679880836
Illus. in full color. An apple pie is easy to make...if the market is open. But if the market is closed, the world becomes your grocery store. This deliciously silly recipe for apple pie takes readers around the globe to gather ingredients. First hop a steamboat to Italy for the finest semolina wheat....
The Lion and the Mouse
AuthorJerry Pinkney
ISBN0316013560
In award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. After a ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse that he'd planned to eat, the mouse later comes to his rescue, freeing him from a poacher's...
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
AuthorDr. Seuss
ISBN0394900871
In this hilarious book, featuring three timeless fables, Dr. Seuss explores the pitfalls of growing too big for your boots!

With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for...
The Little Engine That Could
AuthorWatty Piper
ISBN0448405202
When I was seven, my Mom used to read to us from this little book.

It was one of many books scattered atop our bright red plastic-‘n-steel tabletop, and she was cataloguing them for her new Public Library!

It was a bright red-letter year for us kids, too, that year - a real Book Bonanza.

And...
Happy Birthday, Moon
AuthorFrank Asch
ISBN0689835442
Bear loves the moon so much that he wants to give him a birthday present. But he doesn't know when his birthday is or what to get him. So Bear goes to have a little chat with the moon. A poetic fantasy, Happy Birthday, Moon has delighted fans for years as a simple yet reassuring celebration of love and friendship....
The Color Kittens
AuthorMargaret Wise Brown
ISBN0307021416
My grandmother used to read me this book between puffs of her cigarette. How I loved this story...it's the tale of two kittens, Hush and Brush. They have buckets and buckets and buckets of paint, but none that are the color green. Refusing to have their spirits crushed by the evil paint manufacturing company,...
AuthorBeverly Cleary
ISBN0060579218
Jimmy and Janet are twins, but that doesn't mean they are just alike.

When we first meet Jimmy, he wants to dig a real hole. He likes to use a real, grown-up shovel. While he's working, his sister, Janet, pretends to be a bird! She likes to use her imagination. But the twins both like silly jokes,...
The Circus Ship
AuthorChris Van Dusen
With stunning artwork and a rhyming text, the illustrator of the Mercy Watson books tells a tale of human-animal connection full of humor and heart.

When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor animals are left on their own to swim the chilly waters. Staggering onto a nearby...
A Leaf Can Be...
AuthorLaura Purdie Salas
ISBN0761362037
If you want to explore the nature, the book by Laura Purdie Salas is a must have starter. You will not only learn about the leaf, you will also learn about different animals while observing the leaf during different times of the year. And even though “a leaf is a leaf – a bit of a tree” might seem quite...
The Colors of Us
AuthorKaren Katz
ISBN0805071636
A positive and affirming look at skin color, from an artist's perspective.

Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when she and her mother take a walk through the neighborhood, Lena learns that brown comes in many different shades.

Through...
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
AuthorDr. Seuss
ISBN0394800028
The Cat in the Hat returns for more out-of-control fun in this wintry Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss.

It’s a snowy day and Dick and Sally are stuck shovelling . . . until the Cat in the Hat arrives to liven things up (to say the least!). Featuring the Cat’s helpers Little Cat A, Little Cat B, and so...
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