Sts. Peter & Paul School’s Summer Reading List for Grade 2
Students may pick three books from the list below.  

Title	Author

Fiction - Series
Young Cam Jansen (Series)	Adler, David
The Stupids (Series)	Allard, Harry
Bemelmans,

Madeline (Series)

Ludwig

Berenstain Bear Series	Berenstain, Jan and Stan
Poinsettia (Series)	Bond, Felicia Rex and Lilly (Series)	Brown. L. Clifford (Series)	Brown, Marc Arthur’s Loose Tooth	Hoban, Lillian Frog and Toad (Series)	Lobel, Arnold
If You Give a Pig a
Pancake	Numeroff, Laura Penguin Series	Pfister, Marcus Curious George (Series)	Rey, H.A.
Henry and Mudge (Series)	Rylant, Cynthia

The Cat in the
Hat

Dr. Seuss

Fiction
The Jolly
Postman	Ahlberg, Janet and Allen
Two Terrible Frights	Aylesworth, Jim Little Rabbit’s Loose Tooth	Bate, Lucy Martin’s Hats	Blos, Jean
And I Mean It, Stanley	Bonsall, Crosby Mine’s the Best	Bonsall, Crosby My Brother, Ant	Byars, Betsy Verdi	Cannon, Janel The Mixed-Up Chameleon	Carle, Eric
The Very Busy Spider*	Carle, Eric The Very Hungry Caterpillar*	Carle, Eric ABC, I Like Me	Carlson, Nancy I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato	Child, Lauren

Strega Nona*	de Paola, Tomie Here We All	de Paola, Tomie Olivia*	Falconer, Ian Miss Malarkey Doesn’t Live in Room 10	Finchler, Judy Iggy Pig's Snowball Fight	French, Vivian Millions of Cats*	G’ag, Wanda
A Country Far Away	Gray, Nigel
The Day of Ahmed’s Secret	Heide, Florence Parry
Hoff,

Sammy the Seal

Sid

Amazing Grace*	Hoffman, Mary
Amy Loves the Fall	Hoban, Julia
The Mystery of the Flying Orange Pumpkin	Kellogg, Steven
Horrible Harry and the Dungeon	Kline, Suzy
Leo the Late Bloomer	Kraus, Robert
The Day the Goose Got Loose	Lindburgh, Reeve A Color of His Own	Lionni, Leo Lottie’s New Beach Towel	Mathers, Petra
The 100th Day of School	Medearis, Angela Shelf
The Rainbow Fish*	Pfister, Marcus The Rainbow Fish and the Big Whale	Pfister, Marcus The Balloon Farm 	Potter, Harvey The Dog Who Had Kittens 	Robertas, Polly Eggbert	Ross, Tom
Where the Wild Things
Are*	Sendak, Maurice
Chato’s Kitchen	Soto, Gary
Katie and the Night Noises	Sweeney, Jacqueline Farmer Duck	Wadell, Martin Apples	Wallace, Nancy
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything	Williams, Linda

Poetry/Songs
Goody O’Grumpity*	Brink, Carol Ryrie I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly*	Jackson, Alison Who Stole the Cookies*	Moffatt, Judith Rainsong/Snowsong*	Sturges, Philomel Eric Carle’s Animals, Animals*	Whipple, Laura

Nonfiction
Abe Lincoln's Hat	Brenner, Martha Check It Out: A Book about Libraries	Gibbons,Gail Compost:Growing Gardens from
   Your Garbage	Glaser, Linda
Martin L. King Day	Lowery, Linda Martin L. King	King, Coretta Work	Morris, Ann
Bugs	Parker, Nancy &Wright, J.R.
Chickens	Smith, Gail Saunders

Folktales/Fables

And Sunday Makes Seven*	Baden, Robert
(Costa Rica)
Min-Yo and the Moon Dragon	Hillman, E (Asia)
Raven: A Trickster from the	McDermott, G.
Pacific Northwest
The Tortoise and the Hare	Stevens, Janet

*Good choices for reading aloud*