Here's your weekly What to Read When list from Parents Ask literacy expert Pam Allyn!  Happy Reading!

Babies:

    •    Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes by Annie Kubler (Child’s Play International: 2002)

    •    My First Body Board Book and My First Farm Board Book (both Dorling Kindersley Publishing: 2004)

    •    Planes, Trains and Trucks all three by Byron Barton (HarperFestival: 1998)

    •    What-a-Baby series board books by Cheryl Willis Hudson, illustrated by Geroge Ford (Cartwheel Books: 1997)



Toddlers:

    •    Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book by Muriel L. Feelings, illustrated by Tom Feelings (Penguin Young Readers Group: 1992)

    •    Maisie series by Lucy Cousins (Candlewick Press)

    •    National Geographic Little Kids Magazine



Preschool:

    •    The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett (Putnam Juvenile: 1989)

    •    Bob Books series by Bobby Lynn Maslen, illustrated by John R. Maslen (Scholastic)

    •    Kids Want to Know series (Scholastic)

    •    Actual Size by Steve Jenkins (Houghton Mifflin Company: 2004)



Ages 5-8:

    •    Poppleton series by Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Mark Teague (The Blue Sky Press)

    •    Arthur series by Marc Brown (Little, Brown and Company)

    •    Brand-new Pencils, Brand-new Books by Diane deGroat (HarperCollins Children’s Books: 2005)

    •    I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child (Candlewick Press: 2000)

    •    Koala Lou by Mem Fox, illustrated by Pamela Lofts (Harcourt Children’s Books: 1994)