Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: School Stories Picture Books
Monsters Love School
Austin, Mike.
Nervous monsters attending school for the first time learn new things, make friends, and sample Chef... More
Miss Brooks Loves Books! (and I don't)
Bottner, Barbara.
A first-grade girl who does not like to read stubbornly resists her school librarian's efforts ... More
What Do Teachers Do (after YOU Leave School)?
Bowen, Anne.
Also available in Hoopla. Rhyming text reveals the surprising ways that teachers behave when their s... More
Late For School!
Calmenson, Stephanie.
Also available in Hoopla. When Mr. Bungles the teacher oversleeps, he goes to great lengths, trying ... More
Peanut Butter and Homework Sandwiches
Cook, Lisa Broadie.
When his teacher is out sick for a week, Martin MacGregor has a difficult time with the homework ass... More
Don't Be Silly, Mrs. Millie!
Cox, Judy.
A teacher makes her students laugh when she mixes up words, saying "goats" instead of &quo... More
A Fine, Fine School
Creech, Sharon.
When a principal loves his school so much that he wants the children to attend classes every day of ... More
First Day Jitters
Danneberg, Julie.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Sarah is afraid to start at a new school, but both she and t... More
The Day My Mom Came To Kindergarten
Fergus, Maureen.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Inviting her mother to visit her new class, a little kinderg... More
Miss Malarkey Leaves No Reader Behind
Finchler, Judy.
Also available in Overdrive. Miss Malarkey vows to find each of her students a book to love by the e... More
Substitute Creacher
Gall, Chris.
Mr. Creacher, a multi-tentacled substitute teacher, warns his prankish students not to misbehave, re... More
Rocking in My School Shoes
Litwin, Eric.
Also available in Hoopla. Pete the cat wears his school shoes when visiting the library, the lunchro... More
The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School
Murray, Laura.
A gingerbread man searches all over the school for the group of children that made him and then left... More
Wow! School!
Neubecker, Robert.
Izzy finds many things to be excited about on the first day of school. ... More
If You Take a Mouse to School
Numeroff, Laura.
Follows a boy and his mouse through a busy day at school. ... More
Amelia Bedelia's First Day of School
Parish, Herman.
A literal-minded first-grader's first day of school is filled with confusing adventures, much t... More
All are Welcome
Penfold, Alexandra.
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce a school where diversity is celebrated and songs, s... More
School's First Day of School
Rex, Adam.
"It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a ... More
The Twelve Days of Kindergarten
Rose, Deborah Lee.
Also available in Hoopla. A cumulative counting verse in which a child enumerates items in the kinde... More
Splat and the Cool School Trip
Scotton, Rob.
Also available in Hoopla. "When Splat the Cat and his class take a school trip to the zoo, all ... More
We [Love] Our School!
Sierra, Judy.
Rhyming text with rebuses follows a group of animals through their first day of school. ... More
Ming Goes to School
Sullivan, Deirdre.
Also available in Hoopla. Ming goes to preschool, where she bravely plays all kinds of games with ne... More
Emily's First 100 Days of School
Wells, Rosemary.
Starting with number one for the first day of school, Emily learns the numbers to one hundred in man... More
How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?
Yolen, Jane.
Also available in Hoopla. Explains how young dinosaurs should behave during a typical school day. ... More