In the first installment of our new Facebook video series, Live From Our Library, Scholastic Librarian Deimosa Webber-Bey revealed her picks for great read-aloud books for kids of every age -- from toddlers to independent readers. Take a look at her list below. You can watch the video chat here.
Happy reading (and watching)!
For Toddlers:
Llama Llama Mad at Mama written by Anna Dewdney
Where Did All the Dinos Go? by Jim Benton
Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site written by Sherri Duskey Rinker
For Ages 4 - 10:
Tikki Tikki Tembo written by Arlene Mosel
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole written by Mac Barnett
Elephant in the Dark written by Mina Javaherbin
Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message written and narrated by Chief Jake Swamp
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters written by John Steptoe
No Fair! No Fair! And Other Jolly Poems of Childhood written by Calvin Trillin
Joyful Noise: Poems in Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
Outside the Box: A Book of Poems written by Karma Wilson
A Light in the Attic written by Shel Silverstein
Where the Sidewalk Ends written by Shel Silverstein
Falling Up written by Shel Silverstein
For Ages 10 - 13:
The Arabian Nights: Tales From a Thousand and One Nights, various translations
Slacker by Gordon Korman
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano
STAT (series) by Amar’e Stoudemire
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
Book of the Dead (TombQuest series) by Michael Northrop
Neon Aliens Ate My Homework and Other Poems by Nick Cannon
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
For Ages 14 and Up:
Moccasin Thunder: American Indian Stories for Today by Lori Marie Carlson
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Underdogs by Mike Lupica
Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan
Becoming Maria by Sonia Manzano
For Adults:
Beyond Bedtime Stories by V. Susan Bennett-Armistead, Nell K. Duke, and Annie M. Moses
One-Hundred-And-One Read Aloud Classics: Ten-Minute Readings from the World’s Best-Loved Children’s Books edited by Pamela Horn
