Realistic Fiction Books for 1st Graders

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• Zombies Don't Eat Veggies! · Jorge Lacera
• A Fine, Fine School · Sharon Creech
• Again · Emily Gravett
• Arrowhawk · Lola M. Schaefer
• Bad Kitty · Nick Bruel
• Bagdad Ate It · Phyllis Green
• Basket · George Ella Lyon
• Bedhead · Margie Palatini
• Beware of Boys · Tony Blundell
• Big Bad Bruce · Bill Peet
• Chalk · Bill Thomson
• Copycat · Ruth Brown
• Dandy · Ame Dyckman
• Diary of a Wombat · Jackie French
• Dogku · Andrew Clements
• Dogzilla · Dav Pilkey
• Don't Fidget a Feather! · Erica Silverman
• Don't Need Friends · Carolyn Crimi
• Don’t Touch My Room · Patricia Lakin
• Drawn Together · Minh Le
• Except Antarctica! · Todd Sturgell
• Exclamation Mark! · Amy Krouse Rosenthal
• Gaston · Kelly DiPucchio
• Grandpa's Teeth · Rod Clement
• Guji Guji · Chen, Zhiyuan
• He Came With the Couch · David Slonim
• Heart of a Tiger · Marsha Diane Arnold
• Herbie's Troubles · Carol Chapman
• High-Wire Henry · Mary Calhoun
• Hoodwinked · Arthur Howard
• Hungry Hen · Richard Waring
• I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato · Lauren Child
• If I Built a Car · Chris Van Dusen
• Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale · Mo Willems
• Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse · Kevin Henkes
• Lion vs. Rabbit · Alex Latimer
• Little Rabbit's Loose Tooth · Lucy Bate
• Livingstone Mouse · Pamela Duncan Edwards
• Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp · Mercer Mayer
• Memoirs of a Goldfish · Devin Scillian
• Millie Waits for the Mail · Alexander Steffensmeier
• Minnie's Diner: A Multiplying Menu · Dayle Ann Dodds
• Miss Nelson Has a Field Day · Harry Allard
• Miss Nelson Is Back · Harry Allard
• Miss Nelson Is Missing · Harry Allard
• Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook · Michael Garland
• Mr. Tanen's Ties · Maryann Cocca-Leffler
• Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! · Candace Fleming
• Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea · Ben Clanton
• Never Spit on Your Shoes · Denys Cazet
• No Such Thing · Jackie French Koller
• Norman Didn't Do It! · Ryan T. Higgins
• One Lucky Girl · George Ella Lyon
• Peabody · Rosemary Wells
• Peter Spit a Seed at Sue · Jackie French Koller
• Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore! · David McPhail
• Poopsie Gets Lost · Hannah E. Harrison
• Poor Louie · Tony Fucile
• Press Here · Hervé Tullet
• Riptide · Frances Ward Weller
• Rotten Teeth · Laura Simms
• Round Trip · Ann Jonas
• Rugby and Rosie · Nan Parson Rossiter
• Stanley's Wild Ride · Linda Bailey
• Ted · Tony DiTerlizzi
• The Araboolies of Liberty Street · Sam Swope
• The Barnabus Project · Terry Fan
• The Bear and the Piano · David Litchfield
• The Box Turtle · Vanessa Roeder
• The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down · Paul Brett Johnson
• The Dog Who Had Kittens · Polly M. Robertus
• The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School · Laura Murray
• The Grannyman · Judith Byron Schachner
• The Great White Man-Eating Shark · Margaret Mahy
• The Recess Queen · Alexis O'Neill
• The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School · Judy Sierra
• The Soccer Mom From Outer Space · Barney Saltzberg
• The Toll-Bridge Troll · Patricia Rae Wolff
• The Wolf's Chicken Stew · Keiko Kasza
• The Yawns Are Coming · Christopher Eliopoulos
• There's a Ghost in This House · Oliver Jeffers
• Trouper · Meg Kearney
• Two bad Ants · Chris Van Allsburg
• We Forgot Brock! · Carter Goodrich
• What Do They Do with All That Poo? · Jane Kurtz
• What Happened to Patrick's Dinosaurs? · Carol Carrick
• Who Wet My Pants? · Bob Shea
• A Boy, a Dog and a Frog · Mercer Mayer
• Are You My Mother? · P. D. Eastman
• Fireworks · Matthew Burgess
• Frog Went A-Courtin' · John M. Langstaff
• Little Bear · Else Holmelund Minarik
• Mei Li · Thomas Handforth
• Owl at Home · Arnold Lobel
• Pancakes for Breakfast · Tomie dePaola
• Prayer for a Child · Rachel Field
• Put Me in the Zoo · Robert Lopshire
• Sam, Bangs & Moonshine · Evaline Ness
• Tomás and the Library Lady · Pat Mora