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Charlesbridge Monthly Recommended Reading List

Charlesbridge Recommendations for July 2011


Summer is officially here!

Celebrate the new season with these great books:

Pig Pig Returns
Camille's Team
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Big Blue
Families of the Deep Blue Sea
Going Lobstering
Hello Ocean
I Must Go Down to the Beach Again
Kyle’s Island
Last Day Blues
Mosquito Bite
Our California
Our Wet World
Ocean Counting
Ocean Soup
Pirate Bob
A Pirate’s Life for Me!
Ralph Masiello’s Ocean Drawing Book
Reign of the Sea Dragons
Safely to Shore
Sea Queens
Super Swimmers
Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out!
Underwater Counting
One Big Rain


Get patriotic on July 4th!

Celebrate the Fourth of July and learn about American history with these books:
The House That George Built
Presidential Pets
White House Kids
ABC Book of American Homes
The Bald Eagle’s View of American History
Children of the U.S.A.
The Flag We Love
Hail to the Chief: The American Presidency
Margaret Chase Smith: A Woman for President
This is America
Unite or Die


July 12th is Henry David Thoreau’s Birthday

Celebrate the life of this important American author and naturalist by reading Walden Then & Now and Henry David’s House.


July 16th is the anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11

Read all about man’s first steps on the moon in Eight Days Gone.


Traveling this summer?

Check out these books about transportation and trips to get in the traveling mood!

The Airplane Alphabet Book
The Boat Alphabet Book
Cars on Mars
Eight Days Gone
The Jet Alphabet Book
Mule Train Mail
Pig Pig Returns
Pilot Mom
Snowmobile
Steam, Smoke, and Steel
Subway Ride
Truck Stuck