Books Recommended for Developing Phonological Awareness

• A My Name Is Alice by Jane Bayer (Dial)
• ABC of Monsters by Deborah Niland (McGraw)
• Alfred’s Alphabet Walk by Victoria Chess (Greenwillow)
• Alligators All Around by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins)
• Alpha Beta Chowder by Jeanne and William Steig (HarperCollins)
  
• Animalia by Graeme Base (Abrams)
  
• Aster Aardvark’s Alphabet Adventures by Steven Kellogg (Morrow)
  
• Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish by Lilian Obligado (Viking)
  
• Have You Ever Seen…? by Beau Gardner (Dodd)
  
• Six Sick Sheep: 101 Tongue Twisters by Joanna Cole (Morrow)

Rhymes

• Across the Stream by Mirra Ginsburg (Greenwillow)
  
• Animal Homes by Brian Wildsmith (Oxford)
  
• The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New by William and Ceil Baring-Gould (Potter)
  
• At the Crack of the Bat by Lillian Morrison (Hyperion)
  
• Bears by Ruth Krauss (Harper)
  
• Carrot/Parrot by Jerome Martin (Simon and Schuster)
  
• Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley (S&S Trade)
  
• Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg (Viking)
  
• Father Fox’s Pennyrhymes by Clyde Watson (Scholastic)
  
• The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss (Random House)
  
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (Harper)
  
• Have You Seen Birds? by Joanne Oppenheim (Scholastic)
  
• Hide and Snake by Keith Baker (Harcourt)
  
• Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss (Random House)
  
• Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss (Random House)
  
• A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman (Viking)
  
• Hunches is Bunches by Dr. Seuss (Random House)
  
• The Hungry Thing by Jan Slepian and Ann Seidler (Scholastic)
  
• I Can Read with My Eyes Shut by Dr. Seuss (Random House)
  
• I Was Walking Down the Road by Sarah Barchas (scholastic)
  
• I Wish That I Had Duck Feet by Theo LeSieg ((Random House)
  
• In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming (Holt)
• Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino (Scholastic)
  
• Jamberry by Bruce Degen (Harper)
  
• Jessie Bear, What Will You Wear? by Nancy Carlstrom (Macmillan)
  
• The Lady with the Alligator Purse by Nadine Westcott (Little, Brown)
  
• More Spaghetti, I say! by Rita Gelman (Scholastic)
  
• Mother Goose: A Collection of Classic Nursery Rhymes by Michael Hagu (Holt)
  
• A Mouse in My Roof by Richard Edwards (Doubleday)
  
• On Beyond Zebra! by Dr. Seuss (Random House)
  
• One Sun by Bruce McMillan (Holiday House)
  
• Pickles Have Pimples and Other Silly Statements by Judi Barrett (Atheneum)
  
• Play Day: A Book of Terse Verse by Bruce McMillan (Holiday House)
  
• Possum Come a-Knockin’ by Nancy Van Lann (Knopf)
  
• Red Dragonfly on My Shoulder by Sylvia Cassedy and Kunihiro Suetake (HarperCollins)
  
• The Shape of Me and Other Stuff by Dr. Seuss (Random House)
  
• Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw (Houghton Mifflin)
  
• Sheep, Sheep, Sheep, Help Me Fall Asleep by Arlene Alda (Delacorte)
  
• Silly Sally by Audrey Wood (Harcourt)
  
• Sing Hey Diddle Diddle: 66 Nursery Ryhmes with Their Traditional Tunes by Beatrice Harrop (Sterling)
  
• Strawberry Drums by Adrian Mitchell (Delacorte)
  
• Street Rhymes Around the World by Jane Yolen (Wordsong)
  
• There’s a Wocket in My Pocket by Dr. Seuss (Random House)
  
• Tickle-Toe Rhymes by Joan Knight (Franklin Watts)
  
• To the Moon and Back by Nancy Larrick (Delacorte)
  
• Tomie dePaola’s Mother Goose by Tomie dePaola (Putnum)
  
• The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins (Macmillan)

Songs and Chants

• And the Green Grass Grew All Around: Folk Poetry from Everyone by Alvin Schwartz (HarperCollins)
  
• Anna Banana: 101 Jump-Rope Rhymes by Joanna Cole (Morrow)
  
• Arroz Con Leche: Popular Songs and Rhymes from Latin America by Lulu Delacre (Scholastic)
  
• Baby Beluga by Raffi (Crown)
  
• Buffalo Girls by Bobette McCarthy (Crown)
  
• Butterscotch Dreams by Sonja Dunn (Heinemann)
  
• The Cat Who Loved to Sing by Nonny Hogrogian (Knopf)
  
• Down by the Bay by Raffi (Crown)
  
• I Made a Mistake by Miriam Nerlove (Atheneum)
  
• Eency Weency Spider by S. Schindler (Bantam)
  
• Frog Went A-Courting by Wendy Watson (Lothrop)
  
• Go Tell Aunt Rhody by Aliki (Macmillan)
  
• Hand Rhymes by Marc Brown (E.P. Dutton)
  
• I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Nadine Westcott (Little, Brown)
  
• If You’re Happy and You Know It by Nikki Weiss (Greenwillow)
  
• In a Cabin in a Wood by Darcie McNally (E.P. Dutton)
  
• Juba This and Juba That by Virginia Tashjian (Little, Brown)
  
• Mary Wore Her Red Dress by Merle Peek (Clarion)
  
• Miss Mary Mack by Joanna Cole (Morrow)
  
• Oh, A-Hunting We Will Go by John Langstaff (Atheneum)
  
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm by Tracey Pearson (Dial)
  
• Peanut Butter and Jelly by Nadine Westcott (E.P. Dutton)
  
• The Playtime Treasury by Pie Corbett (Doubleday)
  
• Roll Over by Merle Peek (Houghton Mifflin)
  
• Shake My Sillies Out by Raffi (McKay)
  
• She’ll be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain by Robert Quackenbush (Lippincott)
  
• Shimmy Shimmy Coke-Ca-Pop! by John and Carol Langstaff (Doubleday)
  
• Singing Bee! A Collection of Favorite Children’s Songs by Jane Hart (Lothrop)
  
• Skip to My Lou by Nadine Westcott (Little, Brown)
  
• Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear: A Classic Action Rhyme by Michael Hague (Morrow)
  
• There’s a Hole in the Bucket by Nadine Westcott (HarperCollins)
  
• This Old Man by Carol Jones (Houghton Mifflin)
  
• Tingalayo by Raffi (Crown)
  
• The Wheels on the Bus by Harriet Ziefert (Random House)
  
• The Zebra-Riding Cowboy: Folk Songs from the Old West by Angela Medearis (Holt)