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

Baby:

•    Zoo Animals by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley Publishing: 1997)

•    Diego Discovers Colors, Animals, Shapes and More by Kara McMahon, illustrated by Warner McGee (Simon & Schuster: 2008)

•    Eric Carle’s Opposites by Eric Carle (Grosset & Dunlap: 2007)



Toddler:

•    Splish-Splash: Baby Bundt by Jaime Harper (Candlewick Press: 2007)

•    Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs by Alan Katz, illustrated by David Catrow (Margaret E. McElderry: 2001)

•    Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats (Penguin Young Readers Group: 1977)



Preschool:

•    Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Suess (Random House: 1954)

•    Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee, illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing: 2007)

•    Emma’s Rug by Allen Say (Houghton Mifflin Company: 2003)

Fannie in the Kitchen: The Whole Story from Soup to Nuts of How



Ages 5-7:

•    Tell Me a Story, Mama by Angela Johnson, illustrated by David Soman (Scholastic: 1989)

•    The Gift of the Sun: A Tale from South Africa by Dianne Stewart, illustrated by Jude Daly (Frances Lincoldn, Ltd.: 2007)

•    Catwings by Ursula K. LeGuin (Scholastic: 2003)



Ages 8-10:

•    Ida B. Wells; Let the Truth Be Told  by Walter Dean Myers illustrated by Bonnie Christensen (Amistad: 2008)

•    Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick (Scholastic: 2001)