kumon recommended reading list

KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST - Level 7A ~ Level 3AThese are read-aloud books to be used by a parent when reading to the student.

1Barnyard Banter

Denise Fleming

LEVEL 7A

2Each Peach Pear Plum

Janet and Allen Ahlberg

3Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown

4Here Are My Hands

Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault

5I Heard A Little Baa

Elizabeth MacLeod

6Read Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young

collected by Jack Prelutsky

7Quick as a Cricket

Audrey Wood

8Three Little Kittens

retold by Paul Galdone

9Where’s My Teddy?

Jez Alborough

10Whose Mouse Are You?

Robert Kraus

11All the Colors of the Earth

Sheila Hamanaka

12Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing

Judi Barrett

13Have You Seen My Duckling?

Nancy Tafuri

14Lunch

Denise Fleming

15The Carrot Seed

Ruth Krauss

16Kitten’s First Full Moon

Kevin Henkes

17The Napping House

Audrey Wood

18On Market Street

Arnold Lobel

19Ten Black Dots

Donald Crews

20Ten Terrible Dinosaurs

Paul Strickland

1Hop on Pop

Dr. Seuss

LEVEL 6A

2Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?

Nancy White Carlstrom

3Eating the Alphabet, Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z

Lois Ehlert

4Black? White! Day? Night!

Laura Vaccaro Seeger

5Big Red Barn

Margaret Wise Brown

6Noisy Nora

Rosemary Wells

7Sheep in a Jeep

Nancy Shaw

8Silly Sally

Audrey Wood

9How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?

Jane Yolen

10Angus and the Cat

Marjorie Flack

11Swimmy

Leo Lionni

12If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Laura Numeroff

13Alligators All Around

Maurice Sendak

14Feast for 10

Cathryn Falwell

15One Was Johnny: A Counting Book

Maurice Sendak

16Ten Nine Eight

Molly Bang

17Harold and the Purple Crayon

Crockett Johnson

18In the Tall, Tall Grass

Denise Fleming

19Mr. Gumpy’s Outing

John Burningham

20Guess How Much I Love You

Sam McBratney

1Mean Soup

Betsy Everitt

LEVEL 5A

2The Doorbell Rang

Pat Hutchins

3What do you do with a kangaroo?

Mercer Mayer

4The Icky Bug Alphabet Book

Jerry Pallotta

5My Very First Mother Goose

edited by Iona Opie

6A Rainbow of My Own

Don Freeman

7The Listening Walk

Paul Showers

8The Little Red Hen


9The Runaway Bunny

Margaret Wise Brown

10We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Michael Rosen

11Chicka Chicka Boom Boom


12Old Black Fly

Jim Aylesworth

13One Hundred Hungry Ants

Elinor J. Pinczes

14The ABC Bunny

Wanda Gag

15Harry the Dirty Dog

Gene Zion

16The Gigantic Turnip

Aleksei Tolstoy

17Green Eggs and Ham

Dr. Seuss

18Miss Spider’s Tea Party

David Kirk

19Ask Mr. Bear

Marjorie Flack

20The Treasure

Uri Shulevitz

1Henny Penny


LEVEL 4A

2Alphabears: An ABC Book

Kathleen Hague

3Bat Jamboree

Kathi Appelt

4Curious George

H.A. Rey

5Make Way for Ducklings

Robert McCloskey

6Millions of Cats

Wanda Gag

7Stone Soup

Marcia Brown

8The Three Billy Goats Gruff

P.C. Asbjornsen and J.E. Moe

9Tikki Tikki Tembo

retold by Arlene Mosel

10A House is a House for Me

Mary Ann Hoberman

11Chicken Soup with Rice

Maurice Sendak

12Fireman Small

Wong Herbert Yee

13Mother Goose Numbers on the Loose

Leo and Diane Dillon

14Possum Come A-Knockin’

Nancy Van Laan

15This Is the House that Jack Built

Simms Taback

16There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout!

Teri Sloat

17Leo the Late Bloomer

Robert Kraus

18Sheila Rae, the Brave

Kevin Henkes

19The Empty Pot

Demi

20Too Much Noise

Ann McGovern

1A My Name is Alice

Jane Bayer

LEVEL 3A

2Each Orange Had Eight Slices: A Counting Book

Paul Giganti

3Sea Squares

Joy N. Hulme

4Bread and Jam for Frances

Russell Hoban

5Little Bear

Else Homelund Minarik

6Lyle, Lyle Crocodile

Bernard Waber

7Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Virginia Lee Burton

8Ming Lo Moves the Mountain

Arnold Lobel

9Strega Nona

Tomie dePaola

10Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

William Steig

11The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant

Jean de Brunhoff

12The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter

13A Giraffe and a Half

Shel Silverstein

14Horton Hatches the Egg

Dr. Seuss

15Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present

Charlotte Zolotow

16One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale

Demi

17Six-Dinner Sid

Inga Moore

18The Salamander Room

Anne Mazer

19Umbrella

Taro Yashima

20Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Verna Aardema

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KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST - Level 7A ~ Level 3AThese are books for the student to practice on his or her own. Parents should offer help when needed.

1Truck

Donald Crews

LEVEL 7A

2Pancakes for Breakfast

Tomie dePaola

3Changes, Changes

Pat Hutchins

4The Red Book

Barbara Lehman

5Free Fall

David Wiesner

6Tuesday

David Wiesner

7The Everything Book

Denise Fleming

8Do You Want to Be My Friend?

Eric Carle

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1Anno’s Counting Book

Mitsumasa Anno

LEVEL 6A

2Clown

Quentin Blake

3Orange Pear Apple Bear

Emily Gravett

4Frog Goes to Dinner

Mercer Mayer

5ABC: A Child’s First Alphabet Book

Alison Jay

6The New Alphabet of Animals

Christopher Wormell

7Alphabet City

Stephen T. Johnson

8My Very First Book of Words

Eric Carle

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1Museum ABC

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

LEVEL 5A

2Alphabatics

Suse MacDonald

3The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book

Lisa Campbell Ernst

4Alphabet Explosion! Search and Count from Alien to Zebra

John Nickle

5Yo, Yes!

Chris Raschka

6Have You Seen My Cat?

Eric Carle

7Rain

Robert Kalan

8Mice Squeak, We Speak

Arnold Shapiro

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1Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle

LEVEL 4A

2I Went Walking

Sue Williams

3It Looked Like Spilt Milk

Charles G. Shaw

4Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers

Merle Peek

5Not a Box

Antoinette Portis

6Hattie and the Fox

Mem Fox

7Rosie’s Walk

Pat Hutchins

8In the Tall, Tall Grass

Denise Fleming

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1Here Are My Hands


LEVEL 3A

2Cookie’s Week

Cindy Ward

3The Lady with the Alligator Purse

Nadine Bernard Westcott

4Freight Train

Donald Crews

5Drummer Hoff

Barbara Emberley

6We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Michael Rosen

7More Spaghetti, I Say

Rita Golden Gelman

8You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You Very Short Stories to Read Together

Mary Ann Hoberman

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KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST

Level 2A ~ Level BII

1The Chick and the Duckling

Mirra Ginsburg

LEVEL 2A

2A Hat for Minerva Louise

Janet Morgan Stoeke

3The Easy-to-Read Little Engine that CouldWatty Piper and Walter Retan

4The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle

5Jump, Frog, Jump!

Robert Kalan

6The Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss

7Clifford, the Big Red Dog

Norman Bridwell

8Farmer Duck

Martin Waddell & Helen Oxenbury

9Herman the Helper

Robert Kraus

10Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See?

Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle

11The Snowy Day

Ezra Jack Keats

12The Giving Tree

Shel Silverstein

13If You Give a Moose a Muffin

Laura Numeroff

14The Adventures of Taxi Dog

Debra and Sal Barracca

15Here’s a Little Poem

compiled by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters

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1little blue and little yellow

Leo Lionni

LEVEL AI

2Peter’s Chair

Ezra Jack Keats

3A Tree Is Nice

Janice May Udry

4Peanut Butter and Jelly

Nadine Bernard Westcott

5Madeline

Ludwig Bemelmans

6Arthur’s Eyes

Marc Brown

7All Kinds of Families

Norma Simon

8Curious George Flies a Kite

Margret Rey

9Little Bear’s Friend

Else Homelund Minarik

10Caps for Sale

Esphyr Slobodkina

11Henry and Mudge: The First Book

Cynthia Rylant

12Amelia Bedelia Helps Out

Peggy Parish

13Good Night, Good Knight

Shelley Moore-Thomas

14Ira Sleeps Over

Bernard Waber

15The Hat

Jan Brett

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1May I Bring A Friend?

Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

LEVEL AII

2Nate the Great and the Snowy Trail

Marjorie Weiman Sharmat

3The Fire Cat

Esther Averill

4Cork and Fuzz: Short and Tall

Dori Chaconas

5Days with Frog and Toad

Arnold Lobel

6Purple, Green and Yellow

Robert Munsch

7Freckle Juice

Judy Blume

8Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

Mem Fox

9Martha Speaks

Susan Meddaugh

10The Story About Ping

Marjorie Flack & Kurt Wiese

11Blueberries for Sal

Robert McCloskey

12The Story of Ferdinand

Munro Leaf

13Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears

Verna Aardema

14Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Judi Barrett

15The Magic School Bus: Inside the Earth

Joanna Cole

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1Curious George Takes a Job

H.A. Rey

LEVEL BI

2A Chair for My Mother

Vera B. Williams

3Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak

4Arthur’s Pen Pal

Lillian Hoban

5The Golly Sisters Go West

Betsy Byars

6The Gardener

Sarah Stewart

7Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Dr. Seuss

8Lon Po Po

Ed Young

9There’s a Nightmare in My Closet

Mercer Mayer

10One of Each

Mary Ann Hoberman

11Corduroy

Don Freeman

12Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs

Tomie dePaola

13Doctor De Soto

William Steig

14The Mitten

Alvin Tresselt

15The Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Spring

Lucille Clifton

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1 The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo

Judy Blume

LEVEL BII

2 The Josefi na Story Quilt

Eleanor Coerr

3 The Cable Car and the Dragon

Herb Caen

4 The Little House

Virginia Lee Burton

5 The Biggest Bear

Lynd Ward

6 Aliens for Breakfast

Jonathan Etra & Stephanie Spinner

7 Paul Bunyan

Steven Kellogg

8 The Drinking Gourd

F.N. Monjo

9 The New Kid on the Block

Jack Prelutsky

10 Fantastic Mr. Fox

Roald Dahl

11 Fables

Arnold Lobel

12 Snowed In with Grandmother Silk

Carol Fenner & Amanda Harvey

13 Amos & Boris

William Steig

14 The Littles

John Peterson

15 Flat Stanley, He Leads a Very Full Life!

Jeff Brown

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Level CI ~ Level F

1Liang and the Magic Paintbrush

Demi

LEVEL CII

2My Diary from Here to There

Amada Irma Perez

3When Jessie Came Across the Sea

Amy Hest

4Maple Moon

Connie Brummel Crook & Scott Cameron

5Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express

Margaret K. Wetterer

6Charlotte’s Web

E.B. White

7Frindle

Andrew Clements

8Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

Paul Fleischman

9McBroom’s Wonderful One-Acre farm

Sid Fleischman

10Cinderella

Charles Perrault

11Mr. Popper’s PenguinsRichard and Florence Atwater

12One Day in the Prairie

Jean Craighead George

13The Chalk Box Kid

Clyde Robert Bulla

14Stone Fox

John Reynolds Gardiner

15Old Mother West Wind

Thornton W. Burgess

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1Owl Moon

Jane Yolen

LEVEL CI

2The Day Gogo Went to Vote: South Africa, April 1994Eleanor Batezat Sisulu & Sharon Wilson

3Amazing Grace

Mary Hoffman

4The Snow Walker

Margaret K. & Charles M. Wetterer

5The Hundred Dresses

Eleanor Estes

6My Father’s Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett

7The Shrinking of Treehorn

Florence Parry Heide

8Action Jackson

Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan

9Star of Fear, Star of Hope

Jo Hoestlandt

10The Rough-Face Girl

Rafe Martin

11Judy Moody Gets Famous

Megan McDonald

12A New Coat for Anna

Harriet Ziefert

13Bunnicula

James Howe

14The Orchestra

Mark Rubin

15Knights in Shining Armor

Gail Gibbons

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1Jumanji

Chris Van Allsberg

LEVEL D

2The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

Paul Goble

3Sam, Bangs & Moonshine

Evaline Ness

4Many Moons

James Thurber

5Eloise

Kay Thompson

6Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Eleanor Coerr

7The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Arthur Ransome

8The Hundred Penny Box

Sharon Bell Mathis

9Sarah, Plain and Tall

Patricia MacLachlan

10The Big Wave

Pearl S. Buck

11Help! I’m a Prisoner in the Library!

Eth Clifford

12Ella Enchanted

Gail Carson Levine

13Mama’s Bank Account

Kathryn Forbes

14Henry Reed, Inc.

Keith Robertson

15Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Robert C. O’Brien

16The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

17The Doll’s House

Rumer Godden

18The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick

19My Side of the Mountain


20The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1The Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

LEVEL E

2Li Lun, Lad of Courage

Carolyn Treffinger

3Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

4Old Yeller

Fred Gipson

5Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O’Dell

6James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl

7The Enormous Egg

Oliver Butterworth

8It’s Like This, Cat

Emily Cheney-Neville

9Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

10Pippi Longstocking

Astrid Lindgren

11…and now Miguel

Joseph Krumgold

12Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way

Donald J. Sobol

13The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

C.S. Lewis

14Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

15Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli

16The Borrowers

Mary Norton

17Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson

18Tuck Everlasting

Natalie Babbitt

19By the Great Horn Spoon!

Sid Fleischman

20Tatterhood and Other Tales

Ethel Johnston Phelps

1The Princess and the Goblin

George MacDonald

LEVEL F

2Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

3The Red Pony

John Steinbeck

4Secret of the Andes

Ann Nolan Clark

5The Shakespeare Stealer

Gary Blackwood

6The House of Dies Drear

Virginia Hamilton

7A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

8Homesick: My Own Story

Jean Fritz

9Dicey’s Song

Cynthia Voigt

10Thimble Summer

Elizabeth Enright

11Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis

12The Wheel on the School

Meindert DeJong

13Sounder

William H. Armstrong

14From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E.L. Konigsburg

15The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

16Harriet the Spy

Louise Fitzhugh

17Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

18Strawberry Girl

Lois Lenski

19Black Ships Before Troy

Rosemary Sutcliff

20Escape: The Story of the Great Houdini

Sid Fleischman



Level G ~ Level I

1Jacob Have I Loved

Katherine Paterson

LEVEL H

2The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

3The Pinballs

Betsy Byars

4Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

5The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

6King of the Wind

Marguerite Henry

7Johnny Tremain

Esther Forbes

8Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

T.S. Eliot

9The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare

10The Story of My Life

Helen Keller

11The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

12Goodnight, Mr. Tom

Michelle Magorian

13Call It Courage

Armstrong Sperry

14Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor

15Daddy-Long-Legs

Jean Webster

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1A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L’Engle

LEVEL G

2Caddie Woodlawn

Carol Ryrie Brink

3Boy

Roald Dahl

4The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

5Julie of the Wolves


6The Bad Beginning

Lemony Snicket

7I, Robot

Isaac Asimov

8Song of the Buffalo Boy

Sherry Garland

9Amos Fortune Free Man

Elizabeth Yates

10Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

Jean Lee Latham

11Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

12Dragonwings

Laurence Yep

13A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

14M.C. Higgins, the Great

Virginia Hamilton

15The Other Side of Truth

Beverly Naidoo

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1The Master Puppeteer

Katherine Paterson

LEVEL I

2Ginger Pye

Eleanor Estes

3archy and mehitabel

Don Marquis

4My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrell

5Farewell to Manzanar

Jeanne Watasuki Houston & James Houston

6The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyell and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

7My Life and Hard Times

James Thurber

8Cry, the Beloved Country

Alan Paton

9Across Five Aprils

Irene Hunt

10The High King

Lloyd Alexander

11The White Stag

Kate Seredy

12The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

13I, Juan de Pareja

Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

14The Hero and the Crown

Robin McKinley

15The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder

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Level J ~ Level L

1A White Heron and Other Stories

Sarah Orne Jewett

LEVEL J

2To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee

3Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

4The Time Machine

H.G. Wells

520,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne

6Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

7Annie John

Jamaica Kincaid

8Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

9The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

10A Separate Peace

John Knowles

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1The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

John Le Carré

LEVEL K

2Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

3Lyrical Ballads

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

4Hamlet

William Shakespeare

5Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

6King Oedipus

Sophocles

7The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Oscar Wilde

8A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare

9Night

Elie Wiesel

10Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

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1101 Great American Poems

Various authors

LEVEL L

2Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

William Blake

3The World’s Greatest Short Stories

Various authors

4The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin

5Lord of the Flies

William Golding

6The Waste Land and Other Poems

T.S. Eliot

7Macbeth

William Shakespeare

8Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

9Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller

10The French Lieutenant’s Woman

John Fowles

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