1st Grade Aestas Libri

The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales

By Oscar Wilde

A collection of fairy tales for young readers.

ISBN 1-53795-505-5

The Princess and the Pea

Retold by John Cech

A retelling of the tale in which a girl proves that she is a real princess by feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds

ISBN 1-45491-678-8

Thumbelina

Retold by Brad Sneed

After being kidnapped by a toad, a beautiful girl no bigger than a thumb has many adventures and makes many animal friends before meeting the perfect mate just her size.

ISBN 0-8037-2812-3

Thumbelina

Retold by Sylvia Long

A tiny girl no bigger than a thumb is stolen by a great ugly toad and subsequently has many adventures and makes many animal friends, before finding the perfect mate in a warm and beautiful southern land.

ISBN  0-8118-5522-8

The Ugly Duckling

Retold by Jerry Pinkney

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

ISBN 0-688-15932-X

Henny Penny

By Paul Galdone

Henny Penny and her friends are on the way to tell the king the sky is falling when they are outwitted by the fox.

ISBN 0-88919-225-3

Jack and the Beanstalk

By Paul Galdone

Jack climbs the great beanstalk that grows from the bean he bought and confronts a giant at the top.

ISBN 0-89919-085-5

Jack and the Beanstalk

By Steven Kellogg

An illustrated retelling of the classic tale about a boy named Jack who uses his quick wits to outsmart a giant and make a fortune for himself and his widowed mother.

ISBN 0-688-15281-3

Puss in Boots

By Paul Galdone

A poor young man gains a fortune and meets a beautiful princess when his cat, the clever Puss, outwits the evil giant.

ISBN 0-89919-192-4

The Three Little Pigs

By Paul Galdone

Retells the fatal episodes in the lives of two foolish pigs and how the third pig managed to avoid the same.

ISBN 0-89919-275-8

Rapunzel

By Paul O. Zelinsky

A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower.

ISBN 0-14-230193-0

Rumpelstiltskin

By Paul O. Zelinsky

A strange little man helps the miller’s daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she give him her first-born child.

ISBN 0-14-055864-0

James Harriot’s Treasury for Children

By James Harriot

Taken together, these stories comprise a wondrous Harriot menagerie of all his books for children.

ISBN 1-25005-813-9

Ludwig Bemelmans

• Madeline and the Bad Hat
• Madeline in London
• Madeline’s Rescue

Stan and Jan Berenstain

• Back to School with the Berenstain Bears
• Bears in the Night
• The Berenstain Bears and the Bad Dream
• Bears on Wheels
• The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room
• The Bears’ Picnic
• The Bears’ Vacation
• The Berenstain Bear’s and the Missing Honey
• The Berenstain Bear’s and Mama’s New Job
• The Big Honey Hunt
• The Bike Lesson
• The Berenstain Bears and the Sitter
• Old Hat, New Hat
• The Berenstain Bears and the Slumber Party
• He Bear, She Bear
• The Berenstain Bears and Spooky Old Tree
• The Berenstain Bears Go to Camp
• The Berenstain Bears Trouble with Friends
• The Berenstain Bears and the Truth
• The Berenstain Bears Trouble with Grown ups
• Inside Outside upside Down
• The Berenstain Bears and the Week at Grandma’s
• The Berenstain Bears New Baby
• The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday
• The Berenstain Bears in the Dark
• The Berenstain Bears Big Bear, Small Bear
• The Berenstain Bears Lose Friend
• The Berenstain Bears Catch the Bus
• The Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor
• The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food
• The Berenstain Bears Moving Day
• The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV
• The Berenstain Bears By the Sea
• The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners
• The Berenstain Bears get Stage Fright
• The Berenstain Bears get Their Kicks
• The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Vacation
• The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies
• The Berenstain Bears Go out for the Team
• The Berenstain Bears No Girls Allowed
• The Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist
• The Berenstain Bears Blaze a Trail
• The Berenstain Bears Trouble at School

James Dean

• Pete the Cat series
• I Can Read! Pete the Cat Series
• Pete the Cat Storybooks

Kevin Henkes

• All Alone
• Barney Goes Camping
• The Biggest Boy
• Chester’s Way
• Chrysanthemum
• Circle Dogs
• A Good Day
• In the Middle of Fall
• Jessica
• Julius the Baby of the World
• Kittens First Moon
• My Garden
• Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse
• Old Bear
• A Weekend with Wendell
• Owen
• Penny and her Doll
• Shelia Rae, the Brave
• Penny and her Marble
• Waiting
• Penny and her Sled
• Penny and her Song
• Wemberly Worried

Russell Hoban

• A Baby Sister for Frances
• A Bargain for Frances
• Bedtime for Frances
• Best Friends for Frances
• A Birthday For Frances
• Bread and Jam for Frances
• Ace Dragon, Ltd.

Syd Hoff

• Barney’s Horse
• Captain Cat
• Chester
• The Horse in Harry’s Room
• Grizzwold
• The Littlest Leaguer
• Mrs. Brice’s Mice
• Oliver
• Sammy the Seal
• Who Will Be My Friends?

Leo Lionni

• Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
• The Alphabet Tree
• Fish is Fish
• The Biggest House in the World
• A Color of His Own
• Frederick
• Cornelius: a Fable An Extraordinary Egg
• Geraldine, the Music Mouse
• The Green Tail Mouse
• Let’s make Rabbits: a Fable
• Little Blue and Little Yellow
• Inch by Inch
• It’s Mine
• Swimmy
• Matthew’s Dream
• Tillie and the Wall
• Nicholas, Where Have You Been?
• Pezzettino

Arnold Lobel

• Days with Frog and Toad
• Frog and Toad All Year
• Frog and Toad are Friends
• Frog and Toad Together
• Owl at home
• Small Pig
• Uncle Elephant
• Grasshopper on the Road
• Ming Lo Moves the Mountain
• Mouse Soup
• Mouse Tales On Market Street

Else Holmelund Minarok

• Cat and Dog
• Father Bear Comes Home
• A Kiss for Little Bear
• Little Bear
• Little Bear and Marco Polo
• Little Bear’s Friend
• Little Bear’s Visit
• No Fighting, No Biting

H. A. Rey

• Curious George
• Curious George Takes a Job
• Curious George Rides a Bike
• Curious George Gets a Medal
• Curious George Flies a Kite
• Curious George Learns the Alphabet
• Curious George Goes to the Hospital
• Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys

Maurice Sendak

• Alligators All Around: an Alphabet
• Bumble-ardy
• Outside Over There
• Chicken Soup with Rice: a book of months
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Hector Protector; and, As I Went Over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures
• Higglety Pigglety Pop!, or There Must Be More to Life
• One Was johnny: a Counting Book
• Pierre: a Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue

William Steig

• Abel’s Island
• The Amazing Bone
• Amos and Boris
• Brave Irene
• Caleb and Kate
• Doctor DeSoto
• Dominic
• Farmer Palmer’s Wagon Ride
• Pete’s Pizza
• The Real Thief
• Roland the Minstrel Pig
• Solomon the Rusty Nail
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

Dr. Seuss

• And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street
• Fox in Socks
• The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
• The King’s Stilts
• The Cat in the Hat
• I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew
• Horton Hatches the Egg
• The Foot Book
• McElligot’s Pool
• I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! And Other Stories
• Thidwick the big-hearted Moose
• Bartholomew and the Oobleck
• If I Ran the Circus
• If I Ran the Zoo
• Scrambled Eggs Super!
• Mr. Brown Can Moo Can You?
• Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!
• The Lorax
• Horton Hears a Who!
• On Beyond Zebra
• A Great Day for Up
• Yertle the Turtle and other Stories
• There’s a Wocket in my Pocket!
• The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
• Oh, the Thinks you Can Think
• Green Eggs and Ham
• Happy Birthday to You!
• I can Read with My Eyes Shut!
• Hunches in Bunches
• One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
• Oh, Say can you Say?
• Hop on Pop
• The Sneetches and Other Stories
• Dr. Seuss Sleep Book
• Dr Seuss’s ABC