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Some fun beginning readers to try out!
Updated June 28, 2024
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Big Dog and Little Dog
Pilkey, Dav
Paper Book
Meet Big Dog and Little Dog, stars of a new early reader series by Captain Underpants creator Dav Pilkey! With easy vocabulary, repetition, and bold illustrations, this book is sure to give young readers a good base for decoding and comprehension, while tickling their funny bones as only Pilkey...
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Don't throw it to Mo!
Adler, David A.
Paper Book
Winner of the 2016 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Mo is the youngest kid on the Robins, his football team. His classmates don't mind, but the kids on their rival team tease him for being a "butterfingers" who's too tiny to catch the ball. But Mo's coach has a plan to turn Mo's little...
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Drop it, Rocket!
Hills, Tad.
Paper Book
Rocket, the beloved dog from the New York Times bestselling picture books How Rocket Learned to Read and Rocket Writes a Story, is back in a Step 1 leveled reader. Rocket is ready to find new words for his word tree with his teacher, the little yellow bird. He finds a leaf, a...
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Fly high, fly guy!
Arnold, Tedd
Paper Book
The fifth book in an award-winning, easy-to-read series about a boy and his pet fly, each book in the series has a fun foil cover!Mom and Dad won't let Fly Guy go along on the family road trip. They're afraid he'll get lost. But when Dad accidentally shuts him in the trunk, Fly Guy goes along for...
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Fox has a problem
Tabor, Corey R.
Paper Book
A Geisel Award winner! In his next I Can Read adventure, Fox--the hilarious trickster character featured in previous Geisel Award winners Fox at Night and Fox the Tiger--learns to solve a problem in an unexpected way. Fox has a problem: His kite is stuck in a tree! But every...
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Gigi and Ojiji
Iwai, Melissa
Paper Book
"Gigi crafts her Japanese American identity in this enchanting early reader. The cuteness, inclusivity, and cross-cultural problem-solving represented will have young readers coming back again and again. A must-buy." --School Library Journal (starred review) "The text is...
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Go, Otto, go!
Milgrim, David
Paper Book
Otto the robot builds a spaceship in this funny and poignant Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book. This Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read by New York Times bestselling author/illustrator David Milgrim is part of the award-winning, star-reviewed The Adventures of Otto series! See Otto...
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Not a Lot, Robot!
Powell, Marie.
Paper Book
Meet a girl and her robot Dot who likes to do a lot, while learning words in the -ot word family.
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A pig, a fox, and a box
Fenske, Jonathan
Paper Book
In the style of Mo Willems, Jonathan Fenske tells three humorous stories of two friends, Pig and Fox, and their shenanigans with a cardboard box (all of which involved Pig accidentally crushing Fox in the box). With comic art and simple language, this Level 2 reader is sure to have kids rolling with...
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We are growing!
Keller, Laurie
Paper Book
Walt and his friends are growing up fast! Everyone is the something-est. But... what about Walt? He is not the tallest, or the curliest, or the silliest. He is not the anything-est! As a BIG surprise inches closer, Walt discovers something special of his own!
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What is chasing Duck?
Thomas, Jan
Paper Book
What is chasing Duck? Is it something wild and hairy? Does it have big teeth? Who will help protect Duck? Featuring Jan Thomas's wonderfully wacky humor, rowdy repetitions, and hilarious characters, this book is sure to have young readers laughing out loud!
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What this story needs is a pig in a wig
Virja n, Emma J.
Paper Book
"A story with the echoes of Seuss and Willems."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A boatload of giggles will keep the reader returning for more easy-to-read fun."-- Kirkus Reviews The first book in the vibrant and laugh-out-loud funny early reader What...
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