San Mateo County Library - We Recommend - Books for First and Second Graders

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While many children learn to read before or during the first or second grade, many require more time. Whether your child is reading on her own or not, continuing to read with your child is worthwhile for you both.
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Here's just a sampling of our picks.

	STREGA NONA: AN OLD TALE by Tomie De Paola (J398 D) Being somewhat forgetful and wanting recognition from the townspeople, Big Anthony decides that using Strega Nona's magic pasta pot it can't cause too much harm.			FOX ON STAGE by James Marshall (JE M BEG) On stage, video star and the center of attention, Fox's favorite place. But as usual, things don't turn out exactly as he hopes. Other Fox stories.

	READY, SET, READ---AND LAUGH! [JE R BEG] There are five picture-book stories (including Shaw's Sheep in a Shop and Parish's Come Back, Amelia Bedelia), several silly rhymes (including poems by Livingston, Lobel, and Prelutsky), and a hilarious collection of riddles, knock-knock jokes, and rebus stories. See also READY--- SET--- READ.			LILLY'S PURPLE PLASTIC PURSE by Kevin Henkes [JP H] When Lilly's favorite teacher does not allow her to show the class her new movie-star sunglasses, three shiny quarters, and purple plastic purse, Lilly gets mad and. writes a mean story about him and places it in his book bag.

	AGAPANTHUS HUM AND THE ANGEL HOOT by Joy Cowley [JE C] In this the third in a series of beginning chapter books Agapanthus loses her "woggly" front tooth, transforming her trademark hum, and her father dubs the sound an "angel hoot."			SPACE GUYS! by Martha Weston [JE W] A boy has a rollicking night when he is visited by space aliens as his parents slumber.

For more suggestions see our list for Beginning Readers.	Selected by Marsi O'Malley-Riley, Belmont Library 2003
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