The books listed in this letter are available through your local neighborhood library so that they will be available to you and your child all summer long. Be sure to ask your librarian for additional titles.

I count on your efforts to communicate the higher standards called for in our state and city.  Your example, encouragement, and support of your child's reading will go a long way toward helping us meet the high student learning goals that we all share.

Summer gives you more time to help your child develop a love for books and reading. The staff of the Boston Public Schools and the Boston Public Library are ready and willing to assist you in planning a summer reading program for your child.

Happy Reading!

Sincerely,

DR. THOMAS PAYZANT
Superintendent
Boston Public Schools

Grades K-3 SUMMER READING LIST

PICTURE BOOKS:

When Sophie Gets Angry, Really, Really Angry Bang
Mama & Papa Have a Store Carling
Bus Route to Boston Cocca-Leffler
Clic Clack Moo: Cows That Type Cronin, D.
Jamela's Dress Daly
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse Henkes
Come On Rain Hesse
Virgie Goes to School With Us Boys Howard
Hooway for Wodney Wat Lester
Sam and the Tigers Lester
The Ballot Box Battle McCully
Ma Dear's Aprons McKissack
Moses Goes to a Concert Millman
My Rows and Piles of Coins Mollel
Tomas And The Library Lady Mora
The Adventures Of Sparrowboy Pinkey
Officer Buckle and Gloria Rathman
Tea with Milk Say
No David! Shannon
Snapshots From The Wedding Soto
Pete's A Pizza Steig
The Gardener Stewart
Elizabeti's Doll Stuve-Bodeen
Mailing May Tunnell
The Bracelet Uchida
Yoko Wells
Dinosaurs Say Good Night Yolen

BEGINNING TO READ BOOKS:

Young Cam Jansen & the Library Mystery Adler
Cam Jansen Series Adler
Sleds on Boston Common Borden
Rex and Lily (series) Brown
Sid and Sam Buck
Biscuit (series) Capucelli
The Janitor's Boy Clements
Digby Hazen
Arthur's Back to School Days Hoban
Frog and Toad are Friends Lobel
Little Bear Minarik
Amelia Bedelia Parish
Henry & Mudge: Annie's Good Move Rylant
Poppleton in Fall (series) Rylant
Nate the Great & the Boring Beach Bag (series) Sharmat

CHAPTER BOOKS:

Amber Brown Series Danziger
26 Fairmount Avenue dePaola
Starting School Hurwitz
The Horrible Harry Series Kline
The Magic Tree House Series Osborne
Junie B. Jones Series Park
Captain Underpants and the Perilous Pilot.. Pinkney
Summer Reading Is Killing Me Scieszka
The Pool Party Soto
Mary on Horseback Wells

POEMS-RIDDLES-SONGS:

The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children Adedjouma
Laughing Tomatoes And Other Spring Poems Alarcon
Arroz con leche Delacre
Hush, Little Baby Frazee
For The Love Of The Game Michael Jordan And Me Greenfield
Down by the River Halloworth
Kids' Funniest Knock-Knocks Keller
Dinosaur Dinner with a Slice of Aligator Pie Lee
Riddle-Lightful: Oodles of Little Riddle Poems Lewis
Off to the Sweet Shores of Africa and Other Talking Drum Rhymes Unobagha
A Child's Calendar Updike

NURSERY RHYMES:

Skip Across the Ocean: Nursey Rhymes from Around the World Benjamin
A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes: English and Spanish Denton
Tomie dePaola's Favorite Nursery Rhymes dePaola
Tortillitas Para Mama: And Other Nursery Rhymes Griego
Hush! A Thai Lullaby Ho
Miss Mary Mack Hoberman
Over in the Meadow Keats
The Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose Lobel
Father Fox's Pennyrhymes Watson
The Lady with the Alligator Purse Westcott

FOLKTALES AND FAIRY TALES:

Koi and Kola Nuts Aardemo
Goldilocks & the Three Bears Gorbechev
Snow White: Silver Anniversary Edition Grimm & Hyman
Anansi and the Talking Melon Kimmel
John Henry Lester
Musicians Of The Sun McDermott
Aesop's Fables Pinkney
Cendrillion: A Caribbean Cinderella San Souci
In the Time of the Drums Siegelson
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat Taback
Rapunzel Zelinsky

INFORMATIONAL BOOKS:

A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart Adler
Barrio: Jose's Neighborhood Ancona
Yippee-Yay!: A Book about Cowboys ad Cowgirls Gibbons
Sophie Skates Isadora
The Boston Tea Party Kroll
Snowflake Bentley Martin, J.
The Life And Times Of The Honeybee Micucci
Megatooth O'Brien
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman Schroeder
Thunder From the Clear Sky Sewall
Sharks Simon
On the Same Day in March Singer

Selected Core Literature - Grade 3

The Stories Julian Tells Cameron
The Chocolate Touch Catling
The Mouse and the Motorcycle Cleary
Molly's Pilgrim Cohen
The Story of George Washington Carver Coil
Miss Rumphius Cooney
James and the Giant Peach Dahl
Helen Keller's Teacher Davidson
The Legend of Blue Bonnet dePaola
Good Grief, Third Grade McKenna
Following the Drinking Gourd Monjo
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Steptoe
Angel Child, Dragon Child Surat
Justin and the Best Biscuits Walter

LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL K -3:

Por qué zumban los mosquitos en los oidos de la gente Aardema
Un libro illustrado sobre Martin Luther King, Hijo Adler
El caso del forastero hambriento Bonsall
Willy el soñador Cole
Ambar en cuarto y sin su amigo  Danziger
La isla Dorros
Te presento a la orquesta Hayes
Zorro en la escuela  Marshall
El chico karateka  Morris
Si le das un pancello a un alce Numeroff
Paco y la bruja: Cuento popular puertorriqueno Pitre
Dos Amigos Rodero
Henry y Mudge con barro hasta el rabo: el segundo libro de sus adventuras  Rylant
Cincuenta en la zebra:  Contando con los animales  Tabor
Los cuentos del cerdito Oliver  Van Leeuwen
El hombre de los cangrejos Van West
El senor conejo y el hermoso regalo Zolotow

Los libros en Español están disponibles en la Biblioteca Central como también en las siguientes Bibliotecas de: Dudley, Connolly, Egleston Square, Parker Hill y las sucursales del South End. Los títulos que no se encuentrar en estas agencias, pueden ser ordenados Viá Préstamos, entre las Bibliotecas que integran el Sistema.

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
SUMMER READING PROGRAM, 2003

The Arts! "Read Think Create"

The Boston Public Library's Summer Reading program invites all readers to focus on the magical world of books. Special programs and activities are planned to encourage families to get involved in reading together.

For more information, call the nearest branch library.

Adams Street 617-436-6900
Brighton 617-782-6032
Charlestown 617-242-1248
Codman Square 617-436-8214
Connolly 617-522-1960
Dudley 617-442-6186
East Boston 617-569-0271
Egleston Square 617-445-4340
Faneuil 617-782-6705
Fields Corner 617-436-2155
Grove Hall 617-427-3337
Honan-Allston 617-787-6313
Hyde Park 617-361-2524
Jamaica Plain 617-524-2053
Lower Mills 617-298-7841
Mattapan 617-298-9218
North End 617-227-8135
Orient Heights 617-567-2516
Parker Hill 617-427-3820
Roslindale 617-323-2343
South Boston 617-268-0180
South End 617-536-8241
Uphams Corner 617-265-0139
Washington Village 617-269-7239
West End 617-523-3957
West Roxbury 617-325-3147

Central Library 617-536-5400
Children's Room ext. 2328
Copley Square