Simmons Professor's Children's Picture Book List

This is a list that Amy Pattee, my Children's Literature professor at Simmons GSLIS put together. It isn't a "perfect" list, but it is a helpful point of reference.

Recommended Picture Book Reading

Bang, M. (1999). When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry. NY: Blue Sky Press.

Bemelmans, L. (1967). Madeline. NY: Viking Press.

Burton, V.L. (1939). Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Burton, V.L. (1942). The Little House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Brown, M.W. and Hurd, C. (1942). The Runaway Bunny. NY: Harper.

Brown, M.W. and Hurd, C. (1947). Good-Night Moon. NY: Harper and Brothers.

Brown, M.W. and Charlip, R. (1958). The Dead Bird. NY: W.R. Scott.

Browne, A. (1981). Hansel and Gretel. NY: Julia McRae Books.

Browne, A. (1998). Voices in the Park. NY: DK Publishing.

Clifton, L. and Grifalconi, A. (1983). Everett Anderson’s Goodbye. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Wilson.

Clifton, L. and Grifalconi, A. (1992). Everett Anderson’s Year. NY: Henry Holt.

Cooney, B. (1982). Miss Rumphius. NY: Viking Press.

Crews, D. (1992). Shortcut. NY: Greenwillow.

Crews, D. (1978). Freight Train. NY: Greenwillow.

Falconer, I. (2000). Olivia. NY: Atheneum.

Feelings, T. (1995). The Middle Passage. NY: Dial.

Gag, W. (1928). Millions of Cats. NY: Coward-McCann.

Gravett, E. (2006). Wolves. NY: Simon and Schuster.

Grimm, J. and Hyman, T.S. (1974). Snow White. Boston: Little Brown.

Henkes, K. (2004). Kitten’s First Full Moon. NY: Greenwillow.

Henkes, K. (2000). Wemberly Worried. NY: Greenwillow.

Hoban, L. and Hoban, R. (1964). Bread and Jam for Frances. NY: Scholastic.

Hutchins, P. (1968). Rosie’s Walk. NY: Macmillan.

Keats, E. J. (1962). The Snowy Day. NY: Viking Press.

Keats, E. J. (1969). Goggles. NY: Macmillan.

Macaulay, D. (1990). Black and White. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

McClosky, R. (1948). Blueberries for Sal. NY: Viking.

McCully, E. A. (1992). Mirette on the High Wire. NY: G.P. Putnum’s Sons.

Merriem, E. and Smith, L. (1987). Halloween A B C. NY: Macmillan.

Pinkney, A. D. and Pinkney, J. B. (1998). Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra. NY: Hyperion.

Raschka, C. (1998). Arlene Sardine. NY: Orchard Books.

Rathmann, P. (1995). Officer Buckle and Gloria. NY: Putnum.

Rey, H.A. (1941). Curious George. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Ringgold, F. (1991). Tar Beach. NY: Crown Publishers.

Ringgold, F. (1995). My Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. NY: Crown Publishers.

Say, A. (1993). Grandfather’s Journey. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Say, A. (2000). The Sign Painter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Sciezka, J. and Smith, L. (1992). The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. NY: Viking.

Sendak, M. (1963). Where the Wild Things Are. NY: Harper and Row.

Steptoe, J. (1969). Stevie. NY: Harper and Row.

Steptoe, J. (1987). Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters. NY: Lothrup, Lee and Shepard.

Tabak, S. (1999). Joseph Had a Little Overcoat. NY: Viking.

Tan, S. (2007). The Arrival. NY: Arthur A. Levine Books.

Van Allsburg, C. (1984). The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Zion. G. and Graham, M.B. (1956). Harry the Dirty Dog. NY: Harper.

Books about the loss of a pet

This can be a tough topic for children, but here are a few books that could help start a discussion about how it feels to lose a pet... and how grateful we are that they were part of our life for a time.

Desser the best ever cat by Maggie Smith
The tenth good thing about barney by Judith Viorst

Picture books on Mittens

The Mitten by Jan Brett

Mountain of Mittens by Lynn Plourde

Red Mittens by Laura Bann

Smitten by David Gordon

Three Little Kittens

Books about Underwear

How Underwear Got Under There: A Brief History by Kathy Shaskan and Regan Dunnick

Underwear: What we Wear Under There by Ruth Freeman Swain

Underwear: Do's and Don'ts by Todd Parr

Great Pop-Up Book Authors

David A. Carter (Yellow Square)

Matthew Reinhart (Cinderella)

Robert Sabuda (Alice in Wonderland)

Picture Books about Pizza

This list could come in handy for October, as it is National Pizza Month, didn't you know?

A Job with Wittilda by Caralyn Buehner
Did Dinosaurs eat pizza? mysteries science hasn't solved by Lenny Hort
Dragon Pizzeria by Mary Morgan
Dragons Don't Cook Pizza by Debbie Dadey
"Hi, pizza man!" by Virginia Walter
Hold the Anchovies! A Book about Pizza by Shelley Rotner
Let's Make Pizza by Mary Hill
The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) by Philomen Sturges
One Pizza, One Penny by K.T. Hao
Pete's a Pizza by William Steig
Pizza at Sally's by Monica Wellington
Pizza for the Queen by Nancy F. Castaldo
Pizza Kittens by Charlotte Voake
A Pizza the Size of the Sun by Jack Prelutsky (not entirely about Pizza, but any excuse to read Prelutsky is worth it)
The Princess and the Pizza by Mary Jane Auch
Rocky Bobocky, the Pizza Man by Emily Ellison


Not a picture book, but about pizza:
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Everybody loves pizza: the deep dish on America's favorite food by Penny Pollack

Wordless Picture Books

Absolutely Wordless
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Changes, Changes by Pat Hutchins
Flotsam by David Wiesner
Museum Trip by Barbara Lehman
Oops by Arthur Geisert
Rainstorm by Barbara Lehman
The Red Book by Barbara Lehman
The Surprise by Sylvia van Ommen
Trainstop by Barbara Lehman
The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard by Gregory Rogers

A few words, but mostly wordless
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Good Dog, Carl by Alexandra Day
Goodnight Gorrilla by Peggy Rathmann
In the Town All Year 'Round by Rotraut Susanne Berner


Graphic Novels without words
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Robot Dreams by Sara Varon


Cool lists of wordless books:
Univ. of Wisconsin's list of 40 Wordless books: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=103

also there is a subject heading for wordless stories:

Non-Princessy (subversive) Princess Books

Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure by Robert D. San Souci

The Princess and the Pea by Alain Vaes

The Princess and the Pizza by Mary Jane Auch

Rumplestiltskin's Daughter by Diane Stanley

Waking Beauty by Leah Wilcox