Alexander and the Terrible,
Horrible, No Good, Very
Bad Day
Song and Dance Man
Each Peach Pear Plum
Miss Nelson is Missing
Anno’s Counting Book
Moongame
Who is the Beast
Cloudy With A Chance of
Meatballs
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs
Little Rabbit’s Loose Tooth
The Other Way to Listen
Madeline
The Berenstain Bears
(Series and chapter books)
Paddington (series)
Franklin (series)
The Mitten
Ezra Jack
Arnold Lobel
Robert McCloskey
Maurice Sendak
K. Ackerman
K. Ackerman
J&A Ahlberg
H. Allard
M. Anno
F. Asch
K. Baker
J. Barrett
B. Barton
L. Bate
B. Baylor
L. Bemelmans
S & J. Berenstain
M. Bond
P. Bourgeois
J.Brett
Recommended Reading
Title
Author
Clifford (series)
The Snowman
Arthur’s Eyes
Stone Soup
Red Light Green Light
Gorilla
Story of Babar
The Escape of Marvin the Ape
Wednesday Surprise
Hey! Get Off Our Train!
The Little House
The Golly Sisters Go West
The Very Lonely Firefly
Wild, Wild Sunflower Child Anna
The Fourth Little Pig
The Ice Horse
Yonie Wondernose
Little Polar Bear
Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs
May I Bring A Friend
N. Bridwell
R. Briggs
Marc Brown
Marcia Brown
Margaret Brown
A Browne
J. Brunhoff
C& M Buechner
E. Bunting
J. Burningham
V. Burton
B.Byars
E. Carle
N. Carlstrom
T. Celse
C. Christiansen
M.de Angeli
H.de Beer
T. de Paola
B de Regniers
Reading List 2008-2009 Grade - 2
Required Reading
Title
Author
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
Young Helen Keller
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Sweet and Salty
Look at the Moon!
The Boat Ride
Hailstones and Halibut Bones
Stories to Read Aloud
Sing a Song of Popcorn
Anansi the Spider
The Red Balloon
Frog and Toad (series)
The Shining Stones
Aditi (series)
The One in the Middle is
a Green Kangaroo
The Christmas Carol
(Ladybird Classics)
Robin Hood (Ladybird Classics)
Black Beauty
(Ladybird Classics)
Sorry Best Friend!
The Giving Tree
Verna Aardema
A. Benjamin
Roald Dahl
Anupa Lal
Sandhya Rao
Herminder Ohri
Mary O’Neill
Asha Bhalekar
Beatrice de Regniers (editor)
Gerald McDermott
Pascal Lamorisse
A. Lobel
Shanti Pappu
Suniti Namjoshi
Judy Blume
Charles Dickens
Roger Lancelyn
Green
Anna Sewell
Githa Hariharan and Shama Futehally
Shel Silverstein
Recommended Reading
Title
Author
Curious George (series)
Nate the Great (series)
Chester the Worldly Pig
Miss Rumphius
Chicken Soup with Rice:
A Book of Months
Ouch!
Cam Jansen (series)
Magic Tree House (series)
Amelia Bedelia (series)
Ordinary Mr. Pai
A Face in the Water
All Free
Eyes on the Peacock’s Tail
George and Martha (series)
Mazzoo Mazzoo
The Magic Finger
A Very Busy Spider
The Owl Who was Afraid
of the Dark
River Story
The Seed
H.A. Rey
Marjorie Sharmat
Bill Peet
Barbara Cooney
Maurice Sendak
Natalie Babbit
David Adler
Mary Pope Osborne
Peggy Parish
Kalpana Swaminathan
Libby Hathorn
Mamta Padya
Vayu Naidu
J. Marshall
Sandya Rao
Roald Dahl
Eric Carlyle
Jill Tomlinson
Meredith Hooper
Deepa Balsavar
Reading List 2008-2009 Grade - 3
Required Reading
Title
Author
Charlotte’s Web
Boxcar Children (series)
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Rascal
Red Pony
Little House in the Big Woods
Panchatantra Tales
The Pearl
Trumpet of the Swan
The Giving Tree
The Wind in the Willows
Riki Tiki Tavi
Snow Queen
Andamans Boy
Aditi and the One-Eyed Monkey
Binya’s Blue Umbrella
Moin and the Monster
The Swallow and the Tom Cat
Poetry for Young People
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
E.B. White
Gertrude Warner
Roald Dahl
Sterling North
John Steinbeck
Laura Ingalls Wilder
John Steinbeck
E.B. White
Shel Silverstein
Kenneth Grahame
Rudyard Kipling
Hans Christian Andersen
Zai Whitaker
Suniti Namjoshi and Shefalee Jain
Ruskin Bond
Anushka Ravishankar
Jorge Amado
Robert Frost
Lewis Carroll
Recommended Reading
Title
Author
Where the Wild Things Are
Lyddi
Number the Stars
Stuart Little
Just So Stories
Pipi Longstocking
The Great Gilli Hopkins
Harriet the Spy
Heidi
The Hidden Treasure
King of the Skies
Pepper, The Capuchin
Monkey and Other Stories
Puffin Treasury of Modern
Indian Stories
The Boastful Centipede and
Other Stories in Verse
George’s Marvellous Medicine
Tuck Everlasting
The Railway Children
Crickets and Frogs
Maurice Sendak
Katherine Paterson
Lois Lowry
E.B. White
Rudyard Kipling
Astrid Lindgren
Katherine Paterson
Louise Fitzhugh
Johanna Spyri
Shashi Deshapnde
Rukhsana Khan
Paro Anand
Maya Dayal
Zai Whitaker
Roald Dahl
Natalie Babbitt
Edith Nesbit
Gabriella Mistral
Reading List 2008-2009 Grade - 4
Required Reading
Title
Author
Swami And His Friends
Through the Looking Glass
Number The Stars
Where The Sidewalk Ends
Beastly Tales from Here and
There
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Shiloh
Swiss Family Robinson
Gulliver’s Travels
Robinson Crusoe
Folk Tales Of India
Tales From The Panchatantra
Rusty Runs Off To London
Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales
The Selfish Giant
Grimm’s
Fairy Tales
The Wind in the Willows
Tiger Soup: An Anansi Story
from Jamaica
The Random House Book of
Poetry for Children
Just So Stories
R. K. Narayan
Lewis Carroll
Lois Lowry
Shel Silverstein
Vikram Seth
Beverly Cleary
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Johann Wyass
Johnathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
Learners Press
Clark Leonard
Ruskin Bond
Hans Christian Andersen
Oscar Wilde
Kenneth Grahame
Rudyard Kipling
Recommended Reading
Title
Author
Rusty, The Boy From The Hills
The Wizard of Oz
The Railway Children
Mary Poppins
Charlotte's Web
Anne of Green Gables
A Chest of Stories for Nine
Year Olds
Tuck Everlasting
Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory
The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe
The BFG
Just William (series)Stories
About This & That
Harry Potter series
Animal Stories
Three Investigator Series
Lamb Tales fromShakespeare
Tales of King Arthur
Robin Hood of Sherwood
Forest
Ruskin Bond
Frank Baum
E. Nesbit
P. L. Travers
E. B. White
L. M. Montgomery
Collected by PAT Thomson
Natalie Babbitts
Raold Dahl
C.S.Lewis
Raold Dahl
Richmal Crompton
Punja, Shobita
J K Rowling
Selected and edited by Peter Rolls
Alfred Hitchock