107 Books to Read Before Age 7 (FREE Printable List!)

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AN AWESOME printable list of 107 books for kids under 7, that's clean, Christian, encouraging, fun, great quality, and trustworthy. These are NOT all huge, long books either. Some great picture book recommendations for toddlers here!

Wow! Have you looked lately for books for your little ones and been completely overwhelmed? There are SO many- and how can we know they are good books that are of high literary quality and don't counter with our beliefs and family culture until we've bought them? My sweet friend Hayley and I wanted to combine forces and share a powerful list of 107 books that we feel like every child should have read to them (or read) before age 7.

So- let's be honest... who doesn't judge a book by the cover? I frequently find these great lists... then I have to pull up amazon, search for the book, and see by the cover that we already own it. It's super time-consuming to research these lists, and that's why I've compiled ALL 107 books for you, here on this page! You can scroll through them at your leisure and shop via Amazon if you would like! If you prefer the printable version, scroll to the bottom where you can subscribe and get it right away!

Classics

Corduroy
By Don Freeman
The Story about Ping
By Marjorie Flack
A Pair of Red Clogs
By Masako Matsuno
Blueberries for Sal
By Robert McCloskey
No, David!
By David Shannon
Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 (Chicka Chicka Book, A)
By Bill Martin Jr., Michael Sampson
Weslandia
By Paul Fleischman
The Runaway Bunny
By Margaret Wise Brown
Good Night, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann
Madeline
By Ludwig Bemelmans
Miss Rumphius
By Barbara Cooney
The Mitten
By Jan Brett
Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak
The Snowy Day
By Ezra Jack Keats
Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
By Michael Rosen
Roxaboxen
By Alice McLerran
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
By Beatrix Potter
Ten Apples Up On Top!
By Theo. LeSieg
Stellaluna
By Janell Cannon
Ox-Cart Man
By Donald Hall
The Little House
By Virginia Lee Burton
Strega Nona
By Tomie dePaola
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
By Virginia Lee Burton

New Favorites

King Jack and the Dragon
By Peter Bently
Peanut Butter & Cupcake
By Terry Border
If I Built a Car
By Chris Van Dusen
I Know a Wee Piggy
By Kim Norman
The Mine-O-Saur
By Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Not Quite Narwhal
By Jessie Sima
The House of Four Seasons
By Roger Duvoisin
Llama Llama Red Pajama
By Anna Dewdney
Miss Maple's Seeds
By Eliza Wheeler
As an Oak Tree Grows
By G. Brian Karas
Ish (Creatrilogy)
By Peter H. Reynolds
Ladybug Girl
By David Soman, Jacky Davis
Rosie Revere, Engineer
By Andrea Beaty
Truck Stop
By Anne Rockwell
The Gruffalo
By Julia Donaldson
Tea Party Rules
By Ame Dyckman
Otis
By Loren Long
Little Owl's Night
By Divya Srinivasan
Caterina and the Lemonade Stand
Penguin Young Readers
The Seven Silly Eaters
By Mary Ann Hoberman
One Cool Friend
By Toni Buzzeo

Everything Eric Carle

Little Cloud
By Eric; Gauch, Patricia Lee (EDT) Carle
The Grouchy Ladybug
By Eric Carle
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
By Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle
Hello, Red Fox
By Eric Carle

Treasuries

Classic Fairy Tales Vol 1
By Scott Gustafson

Non-Fiction

My Baby Blue Jays
By John Berendt
An Egg Is Quiet
By Dianna Hutts Aston
A Seed Is Sleepy
By Dianna Aston
Over and Under the Snow
By Kate Messner
D'Aulaires' Book of Animals (New York Review Books (Hardcover))
By Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Little Pink Pup
By Johanna Kerby
Over and Under the Pond
By Kate Messner

Biographies

Snowflake Bentley
By Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Malala's Magic Pencil
By Malala Yousafzai

First Chapter Books

The Princess in Black
By Shannon Hale, Dean Hale
Billy And Blaze
By C.W. Anderson

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