Picture Books and Easy Readers for Boys
Author Title Summary
Adventure
Birney Tyrannosuarus
Tex A dinosaur cowboy
helps scare off some cattle rustlers.
Buehner Superdog:
Heart of a Hero Overlooked because
he’s small, a dog changes into superhero.
Nolan Shadow
of the Dinosaurs A dog digs up a
dinosaur bone and the dinosaurs come alive.
Pinkney The
Adventures of Sparrowboy A boy
realizes he can fly just like his comic book hero.
Sadler Alistair
in Outer Space Alistair is
kidnapped by a spaceship full of Goots
Schnetzler Widdermaker Cowpoke
Pete tries to tame the meanest bull in the west.
Van Allsburg Jumanji Two
children play a board game that changes their world.
Animals and Insects
Cornette The
Purple Coyote A boy
pays a tough price to learn why a coyote is purple.
French Diary
of a Wombat A wombat
describes his daily life and meeting his new neighbors.
Donaldson The
Gruffalo A
mouse uses the fear of the gruffalo to keep from being eaten.
Cronin The
Diary of a Worm A worm finds some good and bad
things about life.
Kellogg The
Mysterious Tadpole Louis’
tadpole is not turning into an ordinary frog.
MacDonald Snarlyhissopus The news about a
hippopotamus becomes distorted.
Vaughan Wombat
Stew Dingo is intent on eating wombat, but his friends
help him out.
Vyner Swim
for Cover An
adventure on the coral reef.
Family and Friends
Carrick Patrick’s
Dinosaurs Patrick is
afraid of dinosaurs until he realizes they’re extinct.
Krauss The
Carrot Seed Everyone
tells a boy his carrot won’t grow, but he has faith.
Monsell Underwear Friends show a
grumpy buffalo how to have fun.
Wood Sweet
Dream Pie The whole
neighborhood is affected when Ma makes her pie.
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Carroll Jabberwocky Illustrations add to
this classic Lewis Carroll poem.
Fleischman Weslandia Wesley creates
his own world by growing strange new plants.
Steig Sylvester
and the Magic Pebble In a moment
of panic, Sylvester wishes he was a rock.
Stevens Jackalope A jackrabbit
asks his fairy godrabbit to make him scary.
Wiesner Sector
7 On
a field trip, a boy is taken to Sector 7 and learns about clouds.
Wiesner Tuesday Frogs
explore while the people are sleeping.
Humorous
Allard The
Stupids Die The Stupid family think they are dead when the
lights go out.
Frank The
Toughest Cowboy A tough
cowboy finds companionship with a miniature poodle.
Kaska My
Lucky Day When a
pig knocks on the door, fox thinks it’s his lucky day.
Noble The
Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash A
boa wreaks havoc on a class trip to the farm.
Palatini Bad Boys Two wolves
disguise themselves to raid a sheep farm.
Pilkey Dog
Breath: The Horrible Trouble with Hally
Tosis The family dog has bad
breath.
Slobodkina Caps
for Sale Monkeys
steal all of a peddler’s hats while he is napping.
Timberlake The
Dirty Cowboy A
cowboy’s dog doesn’t recognize him after his bath.
Familiar Stories with a
Twist
Harris The
Three Little Dinosaurs A humorous
retelling of the three little pigs.
Palatini Mount Olympus Basketball A gods versus mortals basketball game.
Pilkey Kat
Kong A
spoof of King Kong with cats and mice.
Pilkey Dogzilla A monstrous
mutt terrorizes a city of mice.
Scieszka The
Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales Retelling of some familiar fairytales.
Scieszka The
True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf
The story told from the wolf’s side.
Wiesner The
Three Pigs The
three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world.
Easy Readers
ER Adler Young Cam
Jansen (series)
ER Byars My Brother,
Ant
ER Eastman Go, Dog, Go
ER Fowler Rookie Read-About
Science Series
ER Gantos Rotten Ralph (series)
ER Lobel Frog and Toad
(series)
ER McPhail A Bug, a Bear,
and a Boy (series)
ER Palmer A Fish Out of
Water
ER Rylant Henry and
Mudge (series)
ER Thomas Good Night, Good
Knight
ER Yolen Commander Toad
(series)
ER Scooby Doo
ER Spiderman
ER Starwars
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