Recommended Read-Alouds
(This list was compiled by the staff from the Franklin Early Childhood
Center)
| Feeling | Aliki |
| Who is the Beast? | Keith Baker |
| Getting Used to Harry | Cari Best |
| Wolf | Becky Bloom |
| How to Lose All Your Friends | Nancy Carlson |
| I Like Me | Nancy Carlson |
| All My Feelings at Home, Ellie's Day | Susan Conlin |
| Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type | Doreen Cronin |
| My Father's Dragon | Ruth Stiles Gannet |
| Frog in the Middle | Susanna Gretz |
| The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room | P.R. Giff |
| Ronald Morgan Goes to Camp | P.R. Giff |
| Porcupine's Pajama Party | Terry Webb Harshman |
| Fang | Barbara Shook Hazen |
| Chester's Way | Kevin Henkes |
| Chrysanthemum | Kevin Henkes |
| Wemberly Worried | Kevin Henkes |
| On Monday When it Rained | Cheryl Kachenmeister |
| School Mouse | Dick King-Smith |
| Annabelle's Un-Birthday | Steven Kroll |
| Lunch Bunnies | Kathryn Lasky |
| Hooway for Wodney | Helen Lester |
| A Porcupine Names Fluffy | Helen Lester |
| Tacky the Penguin | Helen Lester |
| My Grandma Leonie | Bijou LeTord |
| Elmer | David McKee |
| Sisters | David McPhail |
| King of the Playground | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| The Chicken Sisters | Laura Numeroff |
| Piggie Pie | Margie Palatine |
| Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus | B. Park |
| The Kissing Hand | Audrey Penn |
| Feelings, Inside You and Outloud, Too | Barbara Kay Pollard |
| Vera's First Day of School | Vera Rosenberry |
| Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner | Amy Schwartz |
| Green Eggs and Ham | Dr. Seuss |
| Don't Fidget a Feather | Erica Silverman |
| I Am Not A Cry Baby | Norma Simon |
| The Bad Case of Stripes | David Shannon |
| Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten | Joseph Slate |
| Tops and Bottoms | Janet Stevens |
| One of Those Days | Pat Thomson |
| Ira Says Goodbye | Bernard Waber |
| Farmer Duck | Martin Waddell |
| Timothy Goes to School | Rosemary Wells |
| Yoko | Rosemary Wells |
| Odd Velvet | Mary E. Whitcomb |