Need Library Trip Ideas?

The Library looms and you don't really have any ideas in mind. Here are some author lists to consider. [We're using Authors so you don't have to worry that your library won't have a particular book in-house.]

For Preschool and Kindergarten:

Molly Bang
Jan Berenstein
Norman Bridwell
Margaret Brown
Eric Carle
Donald Crews
Lois Ehlert
Leo Lionni
Bill Martin
Dr. Seuss
David Shannon
Rosemary Wells

Look for Alphabet books, Counting books, Color and Shape books, Nursery Rhymes, Fairy Tales, and Poetry.

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For 1st Graders:

Molly Bang
Jan Berenstein
Jan Brett
Marc Brown
Eric Carle
Tomie DePaola
Lois Ehlert
Allan Fowler
Kevin Henkes
Arnold Lobel
Laura Numeroff
Cynthia Rylant
David Shannon
Rosemary Wells
Mo Willems

Look for Picture books, Fairy Tales, Poetry, Animal Books, Nonfiction, the Rookie Reader series, and Alphabet Books.

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For 2nd Graders:

David Adler
Jan Brett
Marc Brown
Joanna Cole
Tomie DePaola
Kevin Henkes
Steve Jenkins
Arnold Lobel
Barbara Park
Dav Pilkey
Patricia Polacco
Cynthia Rylant
Marjorie Sharmat
Jane Yolen

Look for Fairy Tales, Tall Tales, Poems, Mystery, more realistic fiction, and Beginning Biographies: like those on Lincoln, Washington, Jackie Robinson, Helen Keller, Martin Luther King.

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For 3rd Graders:

David Adler (Cam Jansen series)
Donald Sobol (Encyclopedia Brown series)
James Preller (Jigsaw Jones Mysteries)
Ron Roy (A-Z Mysteries)
Gertrude Chandler Warner (Boxcar Children Mysteries)

Judy Blume
Beverly Cleary
Debbie Dadey (Bailey School Kids series)
Paula Danziger (Amber Brown stories)
Joanna Hurwitz
Megan McDonald (Judy Moody, Stink series)
Barbara Park (Junie B. Jones)
Louis Sachar (Marvin Redpost series)
Tony Abbott (Secrets of Droon series)
Bruce Coville (Alien Adventure series)
Roald Dahl
Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House series)
Jon Scieska (Time Warp Trio series)

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For 4th Graders:

Tony Abbott
Lynne Reid Banks
Patricia Beatty
Bruce Coville
Eoin Colfer
Matt Christopher
Andrew Clements
Franklin Dixon
Carolyn Keene
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Seymour Simon
Lemony Snicket
R.L. Stine
E.B.White
Henry Winkler

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For 5th Graders:

Avi
Patricia Beatty
Matt Christopher
Eion Colfer
Sharon Creech
Christopher Paul Curtis
Kate DiCamillo
Jack Gantos
Dan Gutman
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Karen Hesse
Peg Kehret
Gordon Korman
Gary Paulsen
Richard Peck
J.K. Rowling
Lemony Snicket
Jerry Spinelli
Ann Turner
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Henry Winkler
G. Clifton Wisler
Betty Ren Wright