Respect Book List
For grades K-3
Children Just Like Me – Kindersley
Value of Respect: Abraham Lincoln – Johnson
The Wump World – Peet
Manners – Aliki
Martin Luther King Jr. – various biographies
Harriet Tubman – various biographies
Crow Boy – Yashima
Smoky Night – Bunting
The Mixed-up Chameleon – Carle
The Surprise Family – Reeser
The Biggest Bear – Ward
The Hundred Penny Box – Mathia
A Light in the Attic – Silverstein
Like Jake and Me – Jukes
Miss Rumphius – Cooney
Whoever You Are – Fox
Young Abe Lincoln – Harness
Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington – Harness
People – Spier
The Children’s Book of Heroes – Bennett
Puppy Love – King-Smith
He Bear, She Bear – Berenstain
I Am Rosa Parks – Parks
Why Do You Love Me? – Schlessinger
The Butter Battle Book – Seuss
I Like Me – Carlson
Frederick’s Fables – Lionni
The Story of Ferdinand – Leaf
Too Short Fred – Meddaugh
Berenstain Bears & Too Much Teasing – Berenstain
Frederick – Lionni
I Hate My Brother Harry – Dragonwagon
The Quarreling Book – Zolotow
Stellaluna – Cannon
Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse – Lionni
Are You My Mother – Eastman
Chester’s Way – Henkes
Fish Is Fish – Lionni
Inch by Inch – Lionni
The Ugly Duckling – Anderson
The Big Orange Splot – Pinkwater
Rosie the Cool Cat – Wilkon
For Older Kids
Black Beauty – Sewell
The Black Stallion – Farley
The Book of Virtues – Bennett
Charlotte’s Web – White
The Friendship – Taylor
It’s Like This, Cat – Neville
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Taylor
Summer of the Swans – Byars
The Trumpet of the Swan – White
Annie and the Old One – Miles
Felicia the Critic – Conford
Ordinary Spendors – Knapp
Altogether, One at a Time – Konigsburg
The House of Wings – Byars
Sixth-Grade Sleepover – Bunting
The Twelfth of June – Gould
Racing the Sun – Pitts
Holes – Sachar
Under the Blood Red Sun – Salisbury
Sideways Stories from Wayside School – Sachar
A View from Saturday – Konigsburg
Fables – Lobel
Aesop’s Fables – Aesop
Maniac Magee – Spinelli
A Little Book of Manners – Barnes
– Gene Bedley