Book Lists for Teachers and Parents

Partner Books
One way to get kids reading for entertainment is to make it a social activity they can do with their friends. Humor and joke books are great for this. These books are great for getting kids to read with one another:
Garfield
Calvin & Hobbes
Guinness Book of World Records
Kids Discover Magazine
I Spy (good for EL kids as they learn more vocabulary)
Simpsons Comic Books
DK Books
Oh, Yuck!: The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty, Joy Masoff
Oh, Yikes!: History's Grossest Moments, Joy Masoff
Kat Kong, Dav Pilkey
Dogzilla, Dav Pilkey
The Big Book of Boy Stuff
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Jon Scieszka
Squids Will be Squids,Jon Scieszka
Ugliest: Amazing Facts About Ugly Animals
1000 Facts on the Human Body
Animals Nobody Loves, Seymour Simon
Question & Answer books or cards
Top Ten of Everything, Russell Ash
Animalia, Graeme Base
More sophisticated alphabet books like those by Jerry Pallota
MIstakes that Worked
Eat Your Words
Monkey Business, Wallace Edwards