Kids' Reading List: Educational

Bring learning into your home!
Education doesn't have to begin in the classroom. Take every opportunity to provide your children with reading material that will stimulate their minds and prepare them for elementary school long before their first days aboard the bus.
Education doesn't have to begin in the classroom. Take every opportunity to provide your children with reading material that will stimulate their minds and prepare them for elementary school long before their first days aboard the bus.
Infant to 2 Years
Rhymes Round the World *
Shades of People *
The Sleepy Little: A Bedtime Story from Alphabet Town *
Ten Tiny Babies *
Baby Signs: A Baby-Sized Guide to Speaking with Sign Language
What's Up, Duck?: A Book of Opposites
Maisy's Nature Walk: A Maisy First Science Book
The Very Clumsy Click Beetle's Favorite Words
Baby! Baby!
My Animals
A Good Day
Uh-Oh!
Hello Day
Blue Goose
Goodnight Moon
Moo Baa La La La
Pat the Bunny
Clap Hands
Spots, Feathers, and Curly Tails
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
3 to 5 Years
Book Fiesta!: A Children's Day/Book Day Celebration—Una celebración de El día de los niños/El día de los libros: A Bilingual Picture Book *
Opuestos: Mexican Folk Art Opposites in English and Spanish *
What Can You Do with a Paleta?/¿Qué puedes hacer con una paleta? *
Wombat Walkabout *
Orange Pear Apple Bear
It's Moving Day!
Millions of Cats
More books for older readers
Books by Category
History | Boys | Girls | Fantasy | Growing Up | Animals | Illustration | Educational

Embark on a learning adventure.
As your continue through school, make sure you're fostering their education in the evenings and during the summers. Reading informative books can expand their minds and help them further develop their interests.
As your continue through school, make sure you're fostering their education in the evenings and during the summers. Reading informative books can expand their minds and help them further develop their interests.
6 to 9 Years
Alvin Ho *
My People *
Willow *
John Henry *
Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings
Nic Bishop Frogs
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Diary of a Fly
Goin' Someplace Special
10 to 12 Years
Tofu Quilt *
Number the Stars *
Feathers
Ten Things I Hate About Me
12 Years and Up
Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial
Red Glass
After Tupac and D Foster
Help your children make reading a part of their everyday lives.
Books by Category
History | Boys | Girls | Fantasy | Growing Up | Animals | Illustration | Educational
* 2010 list addition