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



Baby:

•    Peekaboo Kisses by Barney Saltzberg (Red Wagon Books: 2002)

•    Touch and Feel Animal Colors by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley Publishing: 2000)

•    Where Is Baby’s Belly Button by Karen Katz (Little Simon: 2000)



Toddler:

•    Dog by Matthew Van Fleet, photographs by Brian Stanton (Simon & Schuster: 2007)

•    Bark, George by Jules Feiffer (HarperCollins Publishers: 1999)

•    The Cow Who Clucked by Denise Fleming (Henry Holt and Company: 2006)

•    How to Be by Lisa Brown (HarperCollins Publishers: 2006)

•    Do Pirates Take Baths by Kathy Tucker, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott (Albert Whitman & Company: 1997)



Preschool:

    •    Dogs by Gail Gibbons (Holiday House: 1997)

    •    Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young edited by Jack Prelutsky (Knopf Books for Young Readers: 1986)

    •    Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, illustrated by Susan Jeffers (Penguin Young Readers Group: 2001)

    •    The Wheels on the Bus by Raffi (Crown Books for Young Readers: 1990)

   

Ages 5-7:

    •    Sports: Rhymes About Running, Jumping, Throwing and More by Jack Prelutsky, illustrated by Chris Raschka (Random House Books for Young Readers: 2007)

    •    Dinosaur Dream by Dennis Nolan (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing: 1994)

    •    Froggy Goes the the Doctor by Jonathan London, illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz (Penguin Young Readers Group: 2004)



Ages 8-10

•    The Young Merlin Trilogy by Jane Yolen (Magic Carpet Books: 2004)

•    Adventures of the Treasure Fleet by Ann Martin Bowler, illustrations by Lak-Khee Tay-Audouard (Turtle Puglishing: 2006)

•    Smithsonian Q&A series (HarperCollins Publishers)

•    The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (Yearling: 2004)