Japanese Fiction Sale!
 
 

Special Offers see all

Enter to WIN!

Weekly drawing for $100 credit. Subscribe to our Specials newsletter for a chance to win.
Privacy Policy

More at Powell's


Children's Summer Reading


spacer

Children's Summer Reading
Beginning Readers


There are 19 books in this aisle.

Featured Titles in Children's Summer Reading - Beginning Readers
Page 1 of 1

Sam and the Firefly (Beginner Books)
Sam and the Firefly (Beginner Books)
by P. D. Eastman
Publisher Comments
Illus. in color. The story of an incredible twosome that "provides interest, suspense and word repetition. Illustrations excellent. Recommended."--(starred) School Library Journal.... (read more)

List Price $8.99
Your price: $2.95
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


A Hole Is to Dig
A Hole Is to Dig
by Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak
Publisher Comments
What would you say about eye-brows? Miss Krauss and the many children who made suggestions, re-visions, additions (and subtractions) to this book say, "Eyebrows are to go over eyes." A face? "A face is something to have on the front of your head." Also,... (read more)

List Price $6.95
Your price: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


My Father's Dragon
My Father's Dragon
by Ruth Stiles Gannett and Ruth Chrisman Gannett
Publisher Comments
When Elmer Elevator hears about the plight of an overworked and underappreciated baby flying dragon, he stows away on a ship and travels to Wild Island to rescue the dragon.... (read more)

Your price: $6.99
New - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Little House
The Little House
by Virginia Lee Burton
Publisher Comments
Virginia Lee Burton won the Caldecott Medal in 1943 for her memorable picture book The Little House, a poignant story of a cute country cottage that becomes engulfed by the city that grows up around it. The house has an expressive face of windows and... (read more)

List Price $7.99
Your price: $3.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Ivy and Bean (Ivy and Bean #01)
Ivy and Bean (Ivy and Bean #01)
by Annie Barrows and Sophie Blackall
Publisher Comments
The moment they saw each other, Bean and Ivy knew they wouldn't be friends. But when Bean plays a joke on her sister, Nancy, and has to hide, Ivy comes to the rescue, proving that sometimes the best of friends are people never meant to like each other... (read more)

List Price $5.99
Your price: $4.00
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Utterly Me Clarice Bean
Utterly Me Clarice Bean
by Lauren Child
Publisher Comments
The acclaimed Child brings her trademark wacky wit and eccentric visual energy to this first full-length, fast paced, Clarice Bean episode.... (read more)

List Price $5.99
Your price: $3.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Hundred Dresses
The Hundred Dresses
by Eleanor Estes and Louis Slobodkin
Publisher Comments
Wanda Petronski, a little Polish girl in an American school, is laughed at because she always wears a faded blue dress, until her classmates learn a lesson. “Sensitive, intuitive, restrained.”--Saturday Review... (read more)

List Price $16.99
Your price: $10.95
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


The Chocolate Touch
The Chocolate Touch
by Patrick Skene Catling and Margot Apple
Publisher Comments
In this witty take on the legend of King Midas, John is about to learn that there is, indeed, such a thing as too much chocolate. Illustrations.... (read more)

List Price $5.99
Your price: $4.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Maggie B
The Maggie B
by Irene Haas
Synopsis
A little girl's wish to sail for a day on a boat named for her "with someone nice for company" comes true.... (read more)

Your price: $18.95
New - Hardcover

add to wish list


I Wish That I Had Duck Feet (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books)
I Wish That I Had Duck Feet (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books)
by Theodore Lesieg and B. Tobey
Publisher Comments
A young boy weighs the pros and cons of possessing various animal appendages — such as a duck's feet, a deer's antlers, a whale's spout, an elephant's trunk, and a long, long tail — only to decide that he's better off just being himself. A zany,... (read more)

List Price $8.99
Your price: $4.95
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


Little Toot
Little Toot
by Hardie Gramatky
Publisher Comments
Little Toot the tugboat conquers his fear of rough seas when he single-handedly rescues an ocean liner during a storm.... (read more)

List Price $8.95
Your price: $2.95
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


Just Grace
Just Grace
by Charise Meri Harper
Publisher Comments
The third-grader Grace Stewart gets stuck with the name “Just Grace” when she tries to distinguish herself from the three other Graces in her class. Grace is plenty different, though. She has a “teeny-tiny superpower,” for... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your price: $7.95
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


Camp Babymouse (Babymouse #6)
Camp Babymouse (Babymouse #6)
by Jennifer Holm and Matthew Holm
Publisher Comments
NEW YORK TIMES bestselling and Newbery Honor winning author Jennifer Holm teams up with Matthew Holm to bring you a fully illustrated graphic novel series packed with humor and kid appeal—BABYMOUSE!   With multiple Children's Choice awards and... (read more)

List Price $6.99
Your price: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Clementine (06 Edition)
Clementine (06 Edition)
by Sara Pennypacker
Publisher Comments
Penelope Crumb's best friend Patsy Cline Roberta Watson is becoming best friends with another girl in class, so Penelope decides she needs to win her back.  Compliments and presents fail—and Penelope is afraid she'll lose Patsy Cline... (read more)

List Price $14.99
Your price: $8.00
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


Dude Where's My Spaceship (Weirdplanet #01)
Dude Where's My Spaceship (Weirdplanet #01)
by Dan Greenburg and Dave Calver and Macky Pamintuan
Publisher Comments
Featuring a trio of alien siblings who crash-land on in the Nevada desert and take to Area 51, this Stepping Stone* book begins a fun new series for young readers. Illustrations.... (read more)

List Price $3.99
Your price: $1.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Unicorn's Secret #01: Moonsilver
Unicorn's Secret #01: Moonsilver
by Kathleen Duey
Publisher Comments
Heart Trilby has no family. She lives a hard and lonely life in the dusty village of Ash Grove -- until she finds a scarred, skinny mare in the forest. Against the wishes of her guardian, mean-spirited Simon Pratt, Heart adopts the mare and names her... (read more)

List Price $4.99
Your price: $2.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Dear Max
Dear Max
by D. J. Lucas and Sally Grindley and Tony Ross
Publisher Comments
Dear D.J. Lucas, My uncle bought me one of your books for Christmas. It's called Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Boy? I want to be a writer. I want to write a story now. Please will you help me? Love from Max And so begins Max's funny correspondence with... (read more)

Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse (Chet Gecko Mysteries)
The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse (Chet Gecko Mysteries)
by Bruce Hale
Publisher Comments
Chet Gecko loves a good mystery. Almost more than he loves his fee--stinkbug pie. So when fellow fourth grader Shirley Chameleon asks him to find her missing brother, Billy, Chet expects the case to be as easy a pie. But Billy's disappearance is part of... (read more)

List Price $5.99
Your price: $1.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


No Roses for Harry!
No Roses for Harry!
by Gene Zion
Publisher Comments
The popular hero of Harry the Dirty Dog does his best to be rid of Grandmother’s birthday present—a silly green sweater with yellow roses. ‘Will bring laughter and sympathy. Recommended for all picture book collections.’ —SLJ.... (read more)

Your price: $6.99
New - Trade Paper

add to wish list


There are 19 books in this aisle.

This way to more aisles in Children's Summer Reading
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...




Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.