KDL Recommends

A wordless picture book presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a girl playing with toys which is actually a picture on a magazine cover, which is part of a sign on a bus, and so on.

Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air.
Lexile Level: NP
Guided Reading Level: H

Mr. Gumpy accepts more and more riders on his boat until the inevitable occurs.
Lexile Level: 390
Guided Reading Level: L

Captain Barnacle Black Ear, baddest of the Buccaneer Bunnies, is ashamed of his book-loving son, Henry, until the day a great storm approaches.
Lexile Level: 910
Guided Reading Level: Q

Harold goes for an adventurous walk in the moonlight with his purple crayon.
Lexile Level: 490
Guided Reading Level: K

A book about a book, a magical red book, without any words, and the friendship that develops around it.

Five tales recounting the adventures of two best friends – Frog and Toad.
Lexile Level: 400
Guided Reading Level: K

While visiting the art museum, Katie has an adventure stepping in and out of five paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cezanne. Includes information about post-impressionism and the particular paintings and artists in the story.
Lexile Level: 340
Guided Reading Level: L

Edward loves to read about Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, and one afternoon he becomes so absorbed in his book that he finds himself deep in Tarzan’s jungle.
Lexile Level: 680
Guided Reading Level: L

A young boy agrees to give a disgusting monster first his soccer ball, then his bike in return for eating the boy’s peas, but when the monster asks for his puppy, the boy makes a surprising discovery.
Lexile Level: NP
Guided Reading Level: L

A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king.
Lexile Level: 740
Guided Reading Level: J

The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.

By the time the Velveteen Rabbit is dirty, worn out, and about to be burned, he has almost given up hope of ever finding the magic called Real.
Lexile Level: 820
Guided Reading Level: Q