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Books, books and more books for K-2 and preschoolers! Check out the Joel's Library Jam recommended book lists.

You'll find even more books for K-2 and preschoolers at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County's website.

Books about emotions

  • When Sophie Gets Angry … Really Really Angry by Molly Bang
  • What Makes Me Happy by Catherine Anholt
  • Today I Feel Silly by Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Glad Monster, Sad Monster by Ed Emberley and Anne Miranda
  • Sometimes I Feel Like a Storm Cloud by Lezlie Evans
  • Yesterday I Had the Blues by Jeron Ashford Frame
  • Sometimes I Feel Like a Mouse by Jeanne Modesitt
  • Something Might Happen by Helen Lester
  • The Feel Good Book by Todd Parr
  • Sometimes I'm Bombaloo by Rachel Vail
  • If I Were a Lion by Sarah Weeks
  • Felix and the Worrier by Rosemary Wells

Books about trying hard

  • Loretta, Ace Pinky Scout by Keith Graves
  • Thomas' Snowsuit by Robert Munsch
  • Sweet and Sour Lily by Sally Warner

Books about eating (or lunch)

  • This is the Way We Eat Our Lunch by Edith Baer
  • Eating Fractions by Bruce McMillan
  • One Saturday Morning by Barbara Baker
  • Never Take a Pig to Lunch and Other Poems about the Fun of Eating by Nadine Westcott
  • Harry Goes to Day Camp by James Ziefert
  • What a Good Lunch! Eating by Shigeo Watanabe

Books about houses and animal houses

  • A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman
  • Whose House? by Barbara Seuling
  • The Someday House by Anne Shelby
  • A Place to Bloom by Lorianne Siomades
  • The Oak Tree by Laura Jane Coats
  • On the Hill by Lisa Jahn-Clough
  • A Glorious Day by Amy Schwartz
  • Our Tree House by Mercer Mayer
  • The Trouble with Normal by Charise Harper
  • A Castle on Viola Street by DyAnne Disalvo
  • Emmy's Dream House by Justine Fontes
  • Animal House by Melissa Bay Mathis
  • Daisy Rabbit's Tree House by Penny Dale
  • Lizard's Home by George Shannon
  • Over in the Meadow by Ezra Jack Keats
  • Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown

Books that include the alphabet

  • Alphabet Mystery by Audrey Wood
  • Eating the Alphabet - Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert
  • Animal Action ABC by Karen Pandell & Nancy Sheehan
  • Alphabears: An ABC Book by Kathleen Hague
  • The Butterfly Alphabet Book by Kjell B. Sandved
  • Tomorrow's Alphabet by George Shannon
  • A Tallgrass Prairie Alphabet by Claudia McGehee
  • Babar's ABC by Laurent de Brunhoff
  • African Animals ABC by Philippa-Alys Browne
  • I Spy in the Ocean by Damon Burnard
  • Sleepy ABC by Margaret Wise Brown
  • The Graphic Alphabet by David Pelletier
  • G is for Goat by Patricia Polacco
  • Alison's Zinnia by Anita Lobel
  • Animals A to Z by David McPhail
  • Matthew A.B.C. by Peter Catalanotto

Great Books for Early Readers

  • Yours Truly, Goldilocks by Alma Flor Ada
  • Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery by David A. Adler
  • To Be a Kid by Maya Ajmera
  • Alison's Puppy by Marion Dane Bauer
  • Three Cheers for Catherine the Great! by Cari Best
  • Willy the Champ by Anthony Browne
  • Butterfly House by Eve Bunting
  • Ant Plays Bear by Betsy byars
  • Cloudy Day Sunny Day by Donald Crews
  • Casey Jones's Fireman: The Story of Sim Webb by Nancy Farmer
  • Pinky and Rex and the New Neighbors by James Howe
  • Paperboy by Mary Kay Kroeger and Louise Borden
  • Days with Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
  • The Bookstore Ghost by Barbara Maitland
  • Beezy by Megan McDonald
  • The Honest-to-Goodness Truth by Patricia C. McKissack
  • The Great Race by David McPhail
  • Martha Walks the Dog by Susan Meddaugh
  • Am I Beautiful? by Else Minarik
  • The Very Boastful Kangaroo by Bernard Most
  • Baby in a Basket by Gloria Rand
  • Come! Sit! Speak! by Charnan Simon
  • Pig, Pigger, Piggest by Rick Walton
  • Tough Cookie by David Wisniewski
  • You and Me: Poems of Friendship by Salley Mavor
  • Picture Book of George Washington Carver by David Adler
  • Sammy, Dog Detective by Colleen Bare
  • How to Be a Friend: A Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them by Laurene Brown
  • The New Baby at Your House by Joanna Cole
  • Soaring with the Wind: The Bald Eagle by Gail Gibbons
  • The Three Sillies by Steven Kellogg
  • The Ugly Duckling by Jerry Pinkney


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