Treasury · Age

Books for a reader aged…

The lists are not sorted by year at school, so this is the door for the question parents actually ask: what is there for a reader this old? Choose an age and the lists answer at that age.

A reader aged

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281 of these books cover age 4. The 490 that name no age at all are left off rather than guessed at — choose any age to bring them back.

Don't miss these at 4

These lists were made by different people for different reasons, and they are not trying to agree. The books below are the ones on at least two of them, the ones on the most lists first.

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, 1936 · ages 4–7 · Lexile 670L · AR 3.7 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
on 5 lists Beautiful Feet, Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, NY Public Library
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, 1947 · ages 4–5 · Lexile 360L · AR 1.8 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
on 4 lists Deep Roots Grade, Halsted - Best Friends, Mensa Kids, NY Public Library
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey, 1976 · ages 4–6 · Lexile 600L · AR 4.1 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
on 3 lists Deep Roots Grade, Halsted - Best Friends, Mensa Kids
Curious George by H.A. Rey, 1941 · ages 4–7 · Lexile 600L · AR 2.6 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
on 3 lists Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, NY Public Library
Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol, 1963 · up to age 10 · Lexile 610L · AR 4.1 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
on 3 lists Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, The Good & The Beautiful
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey, 1941 · ages 4–7 · Lexile 710L · AR 4.1 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
on 3 lists Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, NY Public Library
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág, 1928 · ages 4–8 · Lexile 580L · AR 3.5 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
on 3 lists Halsted - Best Friends, Mensa Kids, NY Public Library
Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, 1901 · ages 4–6 · Lexile 610L · AR 4.2 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
on 3 lists Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, TJEd Early Recommended
Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola, 1975 · ages 4–8 · Lexile 730L · AR 3.9
on 3 lists Beautiful Feet, Mensa Kids, NY Public Library
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown, 1942 · age 4 · Lexile 600L · AR 2.7 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
on 3 lists Beautiful Feet, Deep Roots Grade, Halsted - Best Friends
Ben’s Trumpet by Rachel Isadora, 1979 · ages 4–8 · Lexile 530L · AR 2.2 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
on 2 lists Halsted - Best Friends, NY Public Library
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban, 1964 · ages 4–8 · Lexile 490L · AR 3.4 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
on 2 lists Deep Roots Grade, NY Public Library

18 books qualify at this age; these are the 12 on the most lists.

The whole of every list is still here: the Merit door.

The grade-level collections

The lists on this page were written for many ages at once. The Treasury's own collections, gathered one grade at a time, are a separate piece of work and are not finished.

Not open yet. Nothing here is being shown half-built: when a grade-level collection exists, it appears here with its own shelf.

Until then, the ages above and the lists behind the other two doors are the whole of what the catalog can honestly offer.