What is an Easy Reader?
Easy Readers are intended for beginning readers and often are written with controlled vocabularies. They are usually written at first grade reading level and have fewer than 10 lines per page. Often they have between 40 and 70 pages, with labels like "I Can Read" or "Step into Reading."
There is a prize for the best Easy Readers, named after Theodor Seuss Geisel.
Prizewinning Easy Readers
Bink and Gollie by Publication Date: 2010Winner of the 2011 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award! In a brilliant collaboration, best-selling authors Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee, along with acclaimed illustrator Tony Fucile, introduce an outrageously funny pair of friends. Meet Bink and Gollie, two precocious little girls — one tiny, one tall, and both utterly irrepressible. They share three comical adventures involving painfully bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion. Full of quick-witted repartee, this brainchild of Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo and award-winning author Alison McGhee is a hilarious ode to exuberance and camaraderie, imagination and adventure, brought to life through the delightfully kinetic images of Tony Fucile.
I Spy Fly Guy! by Call Number: CL ER Arn65i 2009Publication Date: 2009When Fly Guy and Buzz play hide-and-seek, Fly Guy hides in his favourite place-the garbage can. But as Buzz finishes counting, the garbage man drives away with the garbage and Fly Guy, too! A very worried Buzz follows the truck to the dump, where he sees zillions of flies. Where is Fly Guy?!
Reading Levels
- Reading LevelsThis chart includes reading levels by grade, with various scales such as Basal, Guided Reading (Fountas & Pinnell), & Lexile.
The UD library catalog is not searchable by lexile, so it is best to look up books on lexile.com as you browse the catalog
Picture Books
Picture books are books that are intended to be read aloud to children from 0 to 8 years old, with a few picture books even intended for older children (like The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris van Allsburg). The text might be simple or complex, plain or poetic. They may be hand-sized (like The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter) or quite tall. However, they rarely have more than 32 pages.
Fiction Vs. Young Adult?
Fiction is the name given to stories that are made up rather than fact. Most picture books are fiction, but we use the term in this library to apply to novels, sometimes called chapter books, for students in grades 3 through 6.
Fiction for older children (usually grade 7+) & teens/adults is called Young Adult (shelved in North tower on 1st floor).