Early Literacy and Pre-K
Get your kids on the fast track with bedtime stories, alphabet stories, and more. Want to request a title? Get your West Caldwell Public Library Card ready and click on the title of the book to reserve your copy today.
Alphabets and Concepts
A B C: A Child’s First Alphabet Book – Alison Jay (JJ JAY)
Bear Sees Colors – Karma Wilson (JJ WILSON)
Big Bug – Henry Cole (JJ COLE)
Cheers for a Dozen Ears: A Summer Crop of Counting – Felicia Sanzari Chernesky (JJ CHERNESKY)
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! – Bill Martin (JJ MARTIN)
Chicken Soup with Rice – Maurice Sendak (JJ SENDAK)
The Feelings Book – Todd Parr (JJ PARR)
Higher! Higher! – Leslie Patricelli (JJ PATRICELLI)
Hop On Pop – Dr. Seuss (JER SEUSS)
L M N O Peas – Keith Baker (JJ BAKER)
The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses (J 612.8 COL)
Max Counts His Chickens – Rosemary Wells (JJ WELLS)
Miss Spider’s ABC – David Kirk (JJ KIRK)
Mouse Paint – Ellen Stoll Walsh (JJ WALSH)
Mouse Shapes – Ellen Stoll Walsh (JJ WALSH)
Pinkalicious – Victoria Kann (JJ KANN)
Planting a Rainbow – Lois Ehlert (JJ EHLERT)
Red, Green and Blue – Alison Jay (JJ JAY)
Super Hero ABC – Bob McLeod (JJ MCLEOD)
Ten Apples on Top! – Dr. Seuss (J ER SEUSS)
Ten Hungry Rabbits – Anita Lobel (JJ LOBEL)
Ten in the Bed – Jane Cabrera (JJ CABRERA)
White Rabbit’s Color Book – Alan Baker (JJPB BAKER)
Wow! Said the Owl: A Book About Colors – Tim Hopgood (JJ HOPGOOD)
Family Read-Alouds
Family Huddle – Peyton Manning
Imogene’s Antlers – David Small
Anansi and the Magic Stick – Eric A Kimmel (J398.2 KIM)
Armadilly Chili – Helen Ketteman J398.2 KET
The Best Pet of All – David LaRochelle
The Chicken Sisters – Laura Numeroff
Chopsticks – Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Crazy Hair Day – Barney Saltzberg
The Day the Crayons Quit – Drew Daywalt
Dragons Love Tacos – Adam Rubin
Dream Big , Little Pig – Kristi Yamaguchi
Edward and the Pirates – David McPhail
Falling for Rapunzel – Leah Wilcox
Home-field Advantage – Justin Tuck
Little Green Witch – Barbara McGrath (J398.2 MCG)
Miss Brooks Loves Books! (And I Don’t ) – Barbara Bottner
Miss Rumphius – Barbara Cooney
Rude Cakes – Rowboat Watkins
The Scrambled States of America – Laurie Keller
Snowmen All Year – Caralyn Buehner
Sophie’s Squash – Pat Zietlow Miller
Three Cheers for Tacky the Penguin – Helen Lester
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly – Alan Madison
The Web Files – Margie Palatini
Winston the Book Wolf – Marni McGee
Bedtime Stories
Go Away, Big Green Monster! – Ed Emberley
Good Night, Sleep Tight – Mem Fox
Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? – Jane Yolen
I am Not Sleepy, and I Will Not Go to Bed – Lauren Child
Little Owl’s Night – Divya Srinivasan
Llama Llama Red Pajama – Anna Dewdney
Olivia – Ian Falconer
One Starry Night – M. Christina Butler
Nightsong – Ari Berk
Sleep Like a Tiger – Mary Logue
Grades 1-3
Check out our selection of best books for Grades 1-3 below. Want to request a title? Get your West Caldwell Public Library Card ready and click on the title of the book to reserve your copy today.
Fiction
The Critter Club series – Callie Barkley
Extra Yarn – Mac Barnett
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs – Judi Barrett
FKS series – Jim Benton
According to Humphrey series – Betty G. Birney
Heidi Heckelbeck series – Wanda Coven
Mercy Watson to the Rescue – Kate DiCamillo
Bink and Gollie – Kate DiCamillo
Mouse Scouts – Sarah Dillard
Owl Diaries – Rebecca Elliot
Captain Awesome series – Stan Kirby
Princess in Black series – Shannon Hale
Dory Fantasmagory series – Abby Hanlon
Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon – Torben Kuhlmann
Ling and Ting: Twice as Silly – Grace Lin
Stink and the Incredible Super Galactic Jawbreaker – Megan McDonald
Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth / Fancy Nancy – Jane O’Connor
The Magic Treehouse series – Mary Pope Osborne
ABC Mysteries series – Ron Roy
Dragon Masters series – Tracey West
Humorous Fiction
Ivy and Bean – Annie Barrows
The Bad Guys – Aaron Blabey
Flat Stanley series – Jeff Brown
Bad Kitty series – Nick Bruel
Read the Book, Lemmings! – Ame Dyckman
Babymouse series – Jennifer L. Holm
Horrible Harry series – Suzy Kline
Alvin Ho series – Lenore Look
Clementine series – Sara Pennypacker
Ricky Ricotta series – Dav Pilkey
Splat the Cat series – Rob Scotton
Non-Fiction
I Am… series – Various Authors
Locomotive – Brian Floca
The Iridescence of Birds – Patricia MacLachlan
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear – Lindsey Mattick
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down – Andrea Davis Pinkney
Grades 3-5
Check out our selection of best books for Grades 3-5 below. Want to request a title? Get your West Caldwell Public Library Card ready and click on the title of the book to reserve your copy today.
Fiction
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda series – Tom Angleberger
American Girl series – Various Authors
Ivy & Bean series – Annie Barrows
El Deafo – Cece Bell
The Penderwicks series – Jeanne Birdsall
Humphrey series – Betty Birney
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook – Leslie Connor
The Goat – Anne Fleming
Kid Owner – Tim Green
Inside Out and Back Again – Thanhha Lai
Lucky Luna – Diana Lopez
Rain Reign – Ann Martin
11 Birthdays – Wendy Mass
Pax – Sara Pennypacker
My Life as a Book – Janet Tashjian
Justin Case – Rachel Vail
Historical Fiction
Dear America series – Various Authors
The War that Saved My Life – Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Stella by Starlight – Sharon M. Draper
Some Kind of Courage – Dan Gemeinhart
Full of Beans – Jennifer L. Holm
Number the Stars – Lois Lowry
Wonderstruck – Brian Selznick
I Survived series – Lauren Tarshis
Gone Crazy in Alabama – Rita Williams-Garcia
Adventure and Fantasy
Spirit Animals series – Various Authors
Aru Shah series – Roshani Chokshi
The Magisterium series – Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
NERDS series – Michael Buckley
Fairy Tale Reform School series – Jen Calonita
How to Tame Your Dragon series – Cressida Cowell
The Tale of Despereaux – Kate DiCamillo
Unicorn Rescue Society series – Adam Gidwitz
Knights vs. series – Dan Greenburg
The Princess Academy – Shannon Hale
Warrior series – Erin Hunter
A Wrinkle in Time series – Madeleine L’Engle
Whatever After series – Sarah Mlynowski
Wings of Fire series – Tui. T. Sutherland
Nevermoor series – Jessica Townsend
Dragonbreath series – Ursula Vernon
Mystery
The 39 Clues – Various Authors
Chasing Vermeer – Blue Balliett
The Sisters Grimm series – Michael Buckley
Under the Egg – Laura Marx Fitzgerald
A Tangle of Knots – Lisa Graff
The Missing series – Margaret Peterson Haddix
Nooks & Crannies – Jessica Lawson
Holes – Louis Sachar
A Series of Unfortunate Events – Lemony Snicket
Classics
The One and Only Ivan – Katherine Applegate
Peter Pan and Wendy – J.M. Barrie
The Girl Who Drank the Moon – Kelly Barnhill
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook – Leslie Connor
Sticks and Stones – Abby Cooper
The BFG – Roald Dahl
Flora and Ulysses – Kate DiCamillo
The Black Stallion – Walter Farley
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate – Jacqueline Kelly
Listen, Slowly – Thanhha Lai
Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
The Magician’s Nephew – C.S. Lewis
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon – Grace Lin
Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery
Wonder – R.J. Palacio
Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
The Red Pencil – Andrea Davis Pinkney
Ghost – Jason Reynolds
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J. K. Rowling
Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms – Katherine Rundell
The Secret Horses of Briar Hill – Megan Shepherd
Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White
Non-Fiction
Who Was…? series – Various Authors
Bones: Skeletons and How They Work – Steve Jenkins
Ken Jennings’ Junior Genius Guides – Ken Jennings
The Building Blocks of Science series – Joseph Midthun
We Are the Ship – Kadir Nelson
Bomb – Steve Sheinkin
Some Writer! The Story of E. B. White – Melissa Sweet
I Survived True Stories: Five Epic Disasters – Lauren Tarshis
Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson