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Book for Beginning Readers

Here you’ll find excellent, engaging early reader books for your beginning readers.

Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative

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  • Good friends, Gerald and Piggie, decide they should go for a drive. But before they go, they need one thing after another which delays the trip, giving readers plenty of comic relief.
    BookNew York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2012. — EZR WILLEMS
  • One of the most classic beginner books, adults and children can both enjoy the rhyming text.
    BookNew York : Random House, c1957. — EZR SEUSS
  • Plenty of rhyming words and silliness comprise this story about a pig in a wig who travels in a boat adding more and more friends until the boat is too crowded.
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015] — EZR FIC VIRJAN
  • Big and little dogs, red and green dogs all go to a dog party in this wild and crazy rhyming story.
    BookNew York : Beginner Books, c1989. — EZR EASTMAN
  • Penny debates what she should do with the marble she finds on her neighbor’s lawn.
    BookNew York, NY : Greenwillow Books, c2013. — EZR FIC HENKES
  • Buzz is excited to befriend a fly named Fly Guy just in time for The Amazing Pet Show. The two friends begin a friendship full of fun and adventure in this humorous first book of the series.
    BookNew York : Scholastic, c2005. — EZR FIC ARNOLD
  • Walt’s stalk of grass friends are growing. As his friends grow and discover their strengths, Walt hopes he will discover what he is best at, too.
    BookNew York : Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group, 2016. — EZR WILLEMS
  • These animals can do all sorts of amazing things while balancing apples on top of their heads in this beginning reader filled with both silly humor and illustrations.
    BookNew York : Beginner Books, c1989. — EZR FIC LESIEG
  • Charming and perfect for beginning readers, you’ll meet Cat the Cat’s friends like Mouse the Mouse, Duck the Duck, Fish the Fish, and even an unexpected alien friend.
    BookNew York : Balzer + Bray, c2010. — EZR WILLEMS
  • The first book in a fun series that encourages readers to continue onto the next book.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, 2002, c1972. — EZR SHARMAT
  • Kids will enjoy following along with Amelia's wacky antics.
    BookNew York : HarperCollins, 1992. — EZR FIC PARISH
  • The warm and caring friendship between Frog and Toad will engage young readers as they follow along with this classic story.
    BookNew York, Harper & Row [1970] — EZR FIC LOBEL