Summer Reading Highlight: Books for Preschool & Pre-K

Elena

Tired of reading the same three books with your little one? Over and over again?  On the hunt for new titles?  No problem.  Take a look at our nifty  Summer Reading Booklist for some reading inspiration!

If you haven't stopped by your local branch yet, make sure to visit and pick up our Summer Reading gameboard. Collect stickers by reading books with your young one, visiting library programs, and doing early literacy building activities this summer, and you will be entered into our grand prize bookset giveaway.

 

Book Cover: Alphabet Family Band
Bee-Bim Bop! By Linda Sue Park, Illustrated by Ho Baek Lee

Bee-bim bop ("mix-mix rice") is a traditional Korean dish. In bouncy rhyming text, a hungry child tells of helping her mother make bee-bim bop: shopping, preparing ingredients, setting the table, and sitting down to enjoy a favorite meal. The enthusiasm of the narrartor is conveyed in the whimsical illustrations, which bring details from the artist’s childhood in Korea to his depiction of a modern Korean-American family. The book includes Linda Sue’s own bee-bim bop recipe!

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Book Cover: Animal Talk
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop By Chris Raschka

As saxophonist Charlie Parker plays his instrument, shoes, birds, lollipops and signs dance to his music while his cat impatiently waits alone for him at home.

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Book Cover: Big Size Surprise
Drum City By Thea Guidone, Illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

A young boy begins banging on pots and pans in his front yard, enticing other children to join him, and before long the entire city is feeling the beat.

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Book Cover: Clive Is a Teacher
Hush! A Thai Lullaby By Minfon Ho, Illustrated by Holly Meade

A lullaby which asks animals such as a lizard, monkey, and water-buffalo to be quiet and not disturb the sleeping baby.

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Book Cover: Farmyard Beat
Looking for Bongo By Eric Velasquez

A boy's beloved toy is missing and he asks in both Spanish and English for help finding it.

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Book Cover: Music Is…
Moses Goes to a Concert By Isaac Millman

Moses and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where the orchestra's percussionist is also deaf. Includes illustrations in sign language and a page showing the manual alphabet.

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Book Cover: My First Dance: Tap
Parade By Donald Crews

Follow a parade from street closure to clean up

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Book Cover: One Love
Shake My Sillies OutBy Raffi, Illustrated by David Allender

In this favorite song, the sillies spread from the restless forest animals to a camp full of children.

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Book Cover: Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Tap Tap Boom Boomby Jane Cabrera

City dwellers dash and duck for cover to escape a rain storm.

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Summertime Rainbow
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin By Lloyd Moss, Illustrated by Marjorie Priceman

Ten instruments take their parts one by one in a musical performance.

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Looking for more? You can also review the books you read online through Beanstack and be entered for a change to win Beats headphones!

See you at the library!

 

This blog post reflects the opinions of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of Brooklyn Public Library.

 



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