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Kids' Reading List: Animals

What's Up, Duck?

Calling all animal lovers!

Instill in your children your own fondness for the four-legged by reading to them some of the stories selected below. Kids are never too young to learn the importance of caring for other creatures!






Infant to 2 Years

What's Up, Duck?: A Book of Opposites*
Maisy's Nature Walk: A Maisy First Science Book
Nibble Nibble
My Animals
Hello Day
Blue Goose
Moo Baa La La La
Spots, Feathers, and Curly Tails

3 to 5 Years
Never Take a Shark to the Dentist (and Other Things Not to Do)
A Visitor for Bear
Big Bad Bunny
Tadpole Rex
Monkey and Me
Orange Pear Apple Bear
It's Moving Day!
I'm Bad!
A Kitten Tale
Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories
I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean
Duck Soup
Go, Dog, Go!
Millions of Cats
How to Heal a Broken Wing*
The Snow Day*

Books by Category

History | Boys | Girls | Fantasy | Growing Up | Animals | Illustration | Educational



Special thanks to the American Library Association for their recommendations.

*2009 list addition