Recommended Books for Baby-Pre-school

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book by Eric Carle
Goodnight Moon (Board Book) by Margaret Wise Brown
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Corduroy by Don Freeman
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

Recommmended books for Ages 4-8

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch
The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale by Jan Brett
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf by Jon Scieszka
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by John Archambault
The Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
Are You My Mother? by Philip D. Eastman
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss
Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Curious George by Hans Augusto Rey
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox
Arthur Series by Marc Tolon Brown
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read Book 2) by Peggy Parish
The Art Lesson by Tomie De Paola
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
Clifford The Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss
The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch

Recommended books for Ages 9-12

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Boxcar Children: Books 1-4 by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Giver by Lois Lowry
James and the Giant Peach: A Children's Story by Roald Dahl
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Number the Stars (Laurel Leaf Books) by Lois Lowry
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set by C. S. Lewis
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Anne of Green Gables (Children's Classics) by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Little House (9 Book Set) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speares
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

Recommended books for young adults

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition : Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
The Cay by Theodore Taylor