Books with Strong Leads or Beginnings

All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan
Babushka Baba-Yaga by Patricia Polacco
Bat Poet byRandall Jarrell Bea
Mr. Jones by Amy Schwartz
Beasty Story by Bill Martin, Jr.
Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco
Bigmama’s by Donald Crews
But I’ll Be Back Again by Cynthia Rylant
Cabin Key by Gloria Rand
Charlie Anderson by Barbara Abercrombie
Cinder-Elly by Frances Minters
Coyote Cry by Byrd Baylor
Cross-Country Cat by Mary Calhoun
Fireflies! by Julie Brinckloe
Frog Prince, Continued by Jon Scieszka
Ghosts Hour, Spooks Hour by Eve Bunting
Going Home by Eve Bunting
Granpa by John Burningham
How Many Days to America by Eve Bunting
I Can Hear the Sun by Patricia Polacco
I Know A Lady by Charlotte Zolotow
I Know an Old Lady by G. Brian Karas
I Like To Be Little by Charlotte Zolotow
Imogene’s Antlers by David Small
Iron Man by Ted Hughes
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night by Janet Ahlberg
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Just a Dream by Chris van Allsburg
Liliana’s Grandmothers by Leyla Torres
Louis the Fish by Arthur Yorinks
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
Max Found Two Sticks by Brian Pinkney
Meteor! by Patricia Polacco
Monster Mama by Liz Rosenberg
Mr. Grigg’s Work by Cynthia Rylant
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Seashore Book by Charlotte Zolotow
Shreck! by William Steig
Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
Tar Beach by Faith Ringold
This Quiet Lady by Charlotte Zolotow
Thundercake by Patricia Polacco
Tiger Called Thomas by Charlotte Zolotow
To Market, To Market by Anne Miranda
Tree of Birds by Susan Meddaugh
Tree of Cranes by Allen Say
Tuesday by David Wiesner
We Are Best Friends by Aliki
Wednesday Surprise by Eve Bunting
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox
Willy the Wimp by Anthony Browne
Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull
June 29, 1999 by David Wiesner

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