K: Stories you can read yourself:
Poppleton, by Cynthia Rylant
Tales for Very Picky Eaters, by Josh Schneider
Upstairs Mouse, Downstairs Mole, by Wong Herbert Yee
Good Night, Good Knight, by Shelley Moore Thomas
1st: Folktales about growing things:
Hernke--The Empty Pot, by Demi
Syverson--The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush, by Tomie dePaola
Price--The Very Smart Pea and the Princess to Be, by Mini Grey
Freeman--Anansi and the Talking Melon, by Eric Kimmel
2nd: The Library Gingerbread Man, by Dot Enderle
3rd: Little Red Writing, by Joan Holub
4th: When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead
5th: Warner--Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Everything, by Maira Kalman; Ahrens and Curry--Schooled, by Gordon Korman