Recommended Books for Service Learning Project: "Under the Literacy Umbrella"

Books with lively language and vivid illustrations:

  
14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy, illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez

 
A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker, illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton

Ain't Gonna Paint No More by Karen Beaumont, illustrated by David Catrow

Bark, George by Jules Feiffer

The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. by Kate Messner

The Curious Garden by Peter Brown

Dawdle Duckling by Toni Buzzeo, llustrated by Margaret Spengler

In the Small, Small Night by Jane Kurtz, illustrated by Rachel Isadora

Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein

Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet by Yuyi Morales

Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book by Yuyi Morales

Knuffle Bunny by Mo Wilhems

Los Gatos Black on Halloween by Marisa Montes, illustrated by Yuyi Morales

My Abuelita by Tony Johnston, illustrated by Yuyi Morales

Night Noises by Mem Fox, illustrated by Terry Denton 

 
Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated) by Florence Heide Parry, illustrated by Lane Smith

Rain Romp: Stomping Away a Grouchy Day by Jane Kurtz, illustrated by Dyanna Wolcott

Ready or not, Dawdle Duckling by Toni Buzzeo, llustrated by Margaret Spengler

Sleepover at Gramma's House by Barbara Joose, illustrated by Jan Jutte

The Spider and the Fly based on the poem by Mary Howitt, illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi

There Was A Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea by Jennifer Ward, illustrated by Steve Gray

There Was an Old Monkey Who Swallowed a Frog by Jennifer Ward, illustrated by Steve Gray