Batt School for International Leadership
Primary Grades Book List

Whoever You Are by Mem Fox

The Wump World by Bill Peet

The Day Gogo Went to Vote by Eleanor Batezat Sisulu

Isla by Arthur Dorros

Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester

Be Good to Eddie Lee by Virginia Fleming

The Magical Garden of Claude Monet by Laurence Anholt

Hallelujah Handel by Douglas Cowling

Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles

The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby

A Country Far Away by Nigel Gray

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

Amelia’s Road by Linda Jacobs Altman

Sleds on Boston Commons by Louise Border

Berenstain Bears’ Trouble with Money by Stan and Jan Berenstain

Eleanor by Barbera Cooley

The Empty Pot by Demi

The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins

Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move by Judith Alexander Viorst

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe

When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest
Clara and the Bookwagon by Nancy Smiler Levinson

Dad, Jackie, and Me by Myron Uhlberg

Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki

The Bat Boy and His Violin by Gavin Curtis

So You Want to be President by Judith St. George

Dear Whiskers by Ann Whitehead Nagda

Anna the Bookbinder by Andrea Cheng & illustrated by Ted Rand

Sequoyah: The Man Who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford

Mother to Tigers by George Ella Lyon

Faraway Home by Jane Kurt

The Rajah’s Rice by David Barry
When Chandra, an Indian village girl who bathes the raja’s elephants, cures the beasts after they fall ill, the raja offers her jewels as a reward. She refuses, accepting only a measure of rice for the hungry villagers: two grains on the first square of a chessboard, four on the second, and so on, doubling the amount for each subsequent square. Although the amount seems insignificant at first, it grows at an alarming rate, since doubling has little effect on small numbers, but an increasingly enormous effect as the numbers grow larger.