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A Bad Case of Stripes

Written by: David Shannon
Illustrated by: David Shannon
Published by: Blue Sky Press
Read by: Sean Astin
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 12 minutes

A Tale of Two Beasts

Written by: Fiona Roberton
Illustrated by: Fiona Roberton
Published by: Kane Miller Books
Read by: Sarah Silverman
Suggested grade level: 1st – 3rd
Run time: 7 minutes

Arnie the Doughnut

Written by: Laurie Keller
Illustrated by: Laurie Keller
Published by: Henry Holt & Company – Macmillan Publishers
Read by: Chris O’Dowd
Suggested grade level: 1st – 2nd
Run time: 15 minutes

As Fast As Words Could Fly

Written by: Pamela M. Tuck
Illustrated by: Eric Velasquez
Published by: Lee & Low Books Inc.
Read by: Dulé Hill
Suggested grade level: 3rd – 4th
Run time: 16 minutes

Brave Irene

Written by: William Steig
Illustrated by: William Steig
Published by: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Read by: Al Gore
Suggested grade level: 1st – 2nd
Run time: 14 minutes

Carla’s Sandwich

Written by: Debbie Herman
Illustrated by: Sheila Bailey
Published by: Flashlight Press
Read by: Allison Janney
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 11 minutes

Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream

Written by: Crystal Hubbard
Illustrated by: Randy DuBurke
Published by: Lee & Low Books
Read by: Kevin Costner and Jillian Estell
Suggested grade level: 3rd – 4th
Run time: 14 minutes

Chester’s Way

Written by: Kevin Henkes
Illustrated by: Kevin Henkes
Published by: Greenwillow Books
Read by: Vanessa Marano & Katie Leclerc
Suggested grade level: K – 1st
Run time: 10 minutes

Clark the Shark

Written by: Bruce Hale
Illustrated by: Guy Francis
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers
Read by: Chris Pine
Suggested grade level: K – 2nd
Run time: 7 minutes

Enemy Pie

Written by: Derek Munson
Illustrated by: Tara Calahan King
Published by: Chronicle Books
Read by: Camryn Manheim
Suggested grade level: 1st – 3rd
Run time: 10 minutes

Guji Guji

Written by: Chih-Yuan Chen
Illustrated by: Chih-Yuan Chen
Published by: Kane/Miller Book Publishers
Read by: Robert Guillaume
Suggested grade level: K – 1st
Run time: 6.5 minutes

Hanukkah in Alaska

Written by: Barbara Brown
Illustrated by: Stacey Schuett
Published by: Henry Holt and Co.
Read by: Molly Ephraim
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 7 minutes

Harry the Dirty Dog

Written by: Gene Zion
Illustrated by: Margaret Bloy Graham
Published by: Harper Collins
Read by: Betty White
Suggested grade level: K – 2nd
Run time: 5 minutes

Here Comes the Garbage Barge

Written by: Jonah Winter
Illustrated by: Red Nose Studio
Published by: Schwartz & Wade Books
Read by: Justin Theroux
Suggested grade level: 3rd – 4th
Run time: 11 minutes

Hey, That’s My Monster

Written by: Amanda Noll
Illustrated by: Howard McWilliam
Published by: Flashlight Press
Read by: Lily Tomlin
Suggested grade level: K – 2nd
Run time: 12 minutes

How I Learned Geography

Written by: Uri Shulevitz
Illustrated by: Uri Shulevitz
Published by: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books
Read by: Ed O’Neill
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 5 minutes

I Need My Monster

Written by: Amanda Noll
Illustrated by: Howard McWilliam
Published by: Flashlight Press
Read by: Rita Moreno
Suggested grade level: K – 1st
Run time: 11 minutes

If I Ran for President

Written by: Catherine Stier
Illustrated by: Lynne Avril Cravath
Published by: Albert Whitman & Company
Read by: Lonnie Chavis, Parker Bates and Mackenzie Hancsicsak
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 8 minutes

Knots on a Counting Rope

Written by: Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault
Illustrated by: Ted Rand
Published by: Square Fish
Read by: Bonnie Bartlett & William Daniels
Suggested grade level: 3rd – 4th
Run time: 11 minutes

Library Lion

Written by: Michelle Knudsen
Illustrated by: Kevin Hawkes
Published by: Candlewick
Read by: Mindy Sterling
Suggested grade level: K – 2nd
Run time: 12 minutes

Me and My Cat

Written by: Satoshi Kitamura
Illustrated by: Satoshi Kitamura
Published by: Andersen Press
Read by: Elijah Wood
Suggested grade level: K – 1st
Run time: 5.5 minutes

Mice Twice

Written by: Joseph Low
Illustrated by: Joseph Low
Published by: Aladdin Paperbacks
Read by: Ty Burrell
Suggested grade level: K – 1st
Run time: 9 minutes

My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother

Written by: Patricia Polacco
Illustrated by: Patricia Polacco
Published by: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Read by: Melissa Gilbert
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 10 minutes

No Mirrors in My Nana’s House

Written by: Ysaye M. Barnwell
Illustrated by: Synthia Sant James
Published by: HMH Books for Young Readers
Read by: Tia & Tamera Mowry
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 6.5 minutes

No More Noisy Nights

Written by: Holly L. Niner
Illustrated by: Guy Wolek
Published by: Flashlight Press
Read by: Tony Hale
Suggested grade level: K – 1st
Run time: 6 minutes

Please Please the Bees

Written by: Gerald Kelley
Illustrated by: Gerald Kelley
Published by: Albert Whitman & Company
Read by: Rashida Jones
Suggested grade level: 1st – 3rd
Run time: 5 minutes

Private I. Guana

Written by: Nina Laden
Illustrated by: Nina Laden
Published by: Chronicle Books
Read by: Esai Morales
Suggested grade level: 1st – 3rd
Run time: 8 minutes

Quackenstein Hatches a Family

Written by: Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Illustrated by: Brian T. Jones
Published by: Abrams Books
Read by: Kristen Bell
Suggested grade level: 1st – 2nd
Run time: 6 minutes

Rent Party Jazz

Written by: William Miller
Illustrated by: Charlotte Riley-Webb
Published by: Lee & Low Books Inc.
Read by: Viola Davis
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 11 minutes

Romeow & Drooliet

Written by: Nina Laden
Illustrated by: Nina Laden
Published by: Chronicle Books
Read by: Haylie Duff
Suggested grade level: 3rd – 4th
Run time: 10 minutes

Sebastian’s Roller Skates

Written by: Joan de Deu Prats
Illustrated by: Francesc Rovira
Published by: Kane/Miller Books Publishers
Read by: Caitlin Wachs
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 6.5 minutes

Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch

Written by: Eileen Spinelli
Illustrated by: Paul Yalowitz
Published by: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Read by: Hector Elizondo
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 11.5 minutes

Sophie’s Masterpiece

Written by: Eileen Spinelli
Illustrated by: Jane Dyer
Published by: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Read by: CCH Pounder
Suggested grade level: 1st – 3rd
Run time: 7.5 minutes

Stellaluna

Written by: Janell Cannon
Illustrated by: Janell Cannon
Published by: HMH Books for Young Readers
Read by: Pamela Reed
Suggested grade level: K – 2nd
Run time: 11 minutes

Strega Nona

Written by: Tomie dePaola
Illustrated by: Tomie dePaola
Published by: Simon & Schuster
Read by: Mary Steenburgen
Suggested grade level: 1st – 2nd
Run time: 12 minutes

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

Written by: William Steig
Illustrated by: William Steig
Published by: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Read by: Reid Scott
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 12 minutes

Thank You, Mr. Falker

Written by: Patricia Polacco
Illustrated by: Patricia Polacco
Published by: Philomel Books
Read by: Jane Kaczmarek
Suggested grade level: 3rd – 4th
Run time: 16.5 minutes

The Case of the Missing Carrot Cake

Written by: Robin Newman
Illustrated by: Deborah Zemke
Published by: Creston Books, LLC
Read by: Wanda Sykes
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 21 minutes

The Coal Thief

Written by: Alane Adams
Illustrated by: Lauren Gallegos
Published by: Rodina Press
Read by: Christian Slater
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 7 minutes

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Written by: Brothers Grimm & Jim LaMarche
Illustrated by: Jim LaMarche
Published by: Chronicle Books
Read by: Chrissy Metz
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 6 minutes

The House That Jane Built

Written by: Tanya Lee Stone
Illustrated by: Kathryn Brown
Published by: Henry Holt and Company
Read by: Kiernan Shipka
Suggested grade level: 3rd – 4th
Run time: 9 minutes

The Hula-Hoopin’ Queen

Written by: Thelma Godin
Illustrated by: Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Published by: Lee & Low Books
Read by: Oprah Winfrey
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 13 minutes

The Kiss That Missed

Written by: David Melling
Illustrated by: David Melling
Published by: Barron’s Educational Series
Read by: Karan Brar
Suggested grade level: K – 1st
Run time: 5 minutes

The Kissing Hand

Written by: Audrey Penn
Illustrated by: Ruth E. Harper and Nancy M. Leak
Published by: Tanglewood Press
Read by: Barbara Bain
Suggested grade level: K – 1st
Run time: 5 minutes

The Night I Followed the Dog

Written by: Nina Laden
Illustrated by: Nina Laden
Published by: Chronicle Books
Read by: Amanda Bynes
Suggested grade level: 1st – 2nd
Run time: 6 minutes

The Rainbow Fish

Written by: Marcus Pfister
Illustrated by: Marcus Pfister
Published by: North-South Books
Read by: Ernest Borgnine
Suggested grade level: K – 1st
Run time: 6 minutes

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Written by: Beatrix Potter
Illustrated by: Beatrix Potter
Published by: Penguin Random House
Read by: Rose Byrne
Suggested grade level: K – 1st
Run time: 7 minutes

The Tooth

Written by: Avi Slodovnick
Illustrated by: Manon Gauthier
Published by: Kane/Miller Book Publishers
Read by: Annette Bening
Suggested grade level: 1st – 2nd
Run time: 5 minutes

To Be a Drum

Written by: Evelyn Coleman
Illustrated by: Aminah Robinson
Published by: Albert Whitman & Company
Read by: James Earl Jones
Suggested grade level: 2nd – 3rd
Run time: 7 minutes

Turkey Trouble

Written by: Wendi Silvano
Illustrated by: Lee Harper
Published by: Two Lions
Read by: Marc Maron
Suggested grade level: 1st – 2nd
Run time: 6 minutes

When Pigasso Met Mootisse

Written by: Nina Laden
Illustrated by: Nina Laden
Published by: Chronicle Books
Read by: Eric Close
Suggested grade level: K – 2nd
Run time: 7 minutes

White Socks Only

Written by: Evelyn Coleman
Illustrated by: Tyrone Geter
Published by: Albert Whitman & Company
Read by: Amber Rose Tamblyn
Suggested grade level: 3rd
Run time: 10 minutes

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

Written by: Mem Fox
Illustrated by: Julie Vivas
Published by: Kane/Miller Book Publishers
Read by: Bradley Whitford
Suggested grade level: 1st – 2nd
Run time: 5 minutes