Summer reading – 4 year old recommendations

Here are a few of the books Felicity would like to recommend to you for your summer reading. Felicity is 4 years old and loves being read to. I’ll add that these are books we both agreed to put on the list because if I let her completely choose, it would be full of Dora, Princess, Fancy Nancy, Pinkalicious, etc. Since most everyone has heard of those books we tried to add some less familiar books (and books I, as the parent really enjoy reading as well).

1. Anna Hibiscus Double Trouble – We love the Anna Hibiscus beginning chapter books, and so we went ahead and bought the picture book as well. Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa and this is the story of her two brothers being born. Both the chapter and picture books aren’t available at our library, so we did decide to splurge on them after so many recommendations for them. They are definitely worth the investment and are wonderful stories about a family growing up in Africa.

2. Hattie & Hudson – This was on our list last week, but since we just added it to our personal library, we have been reading it quite a lot. Felicity loves it!

3. No More Monsters for Me – This is a recent favorite. It’s also a great beginning reader book as the words are pretty simple, minus the main character’s name, Minneapolis Simpkin.

4. The Giant Jumperee – Everyone here loves this book about a little bitty frog scaring everyone, including an elephant, bear, and cat.

5. The Snatchabook – This poor little guy just wants someone to read him a story. He doesn’t go about it in the best way, but makes it up to everyone in the end.

6. Mostly Monsterly – This has been a favorite around here for years. Bernadette is a very sweet monster who goes to monster school and doesn’t quite fit it, but she learns to be true to herself, even if it means being different.

7. Minerva Louise – Minerva Louise is a silly chicken who always takes things very literally, kind of like Amelia Bedelia. We have several of her books and they are all equally silly. Many of these are hard to find, but if you do find them they are worth it!

8. Piggies – Another book that has been a favorite for years. We have the paperback version and it’s definitely seen better days.

9. Take Me Home Country Roads – All of the girls loved picture books that are songs, especially ones that we know, anything from the itsy bitsy spider, to Take Me Home Country Roads. There are several John Denver songs turned into books with beautiful illustrations and we love them all.

10. You are My Cupcake – This is a super simple board book probably more appropriate for a baby or toddler, but Felicity still regularly picks it out to read. It’s full of cute sayings like you are my cupcake, my sticky little gumdrop.

Have you read any of these? Do you have any to add?

***As usual, links are amazon affiliate links.