Books

This is a list of great books to help practice various speech skills:

Articulation

/p/:
The Princess and the Pizza-  Mary Jane & Herm Auch

Pigs will be Pigs- Amy Axelrod
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse (Henkes) 

/b/:
The Baby Beebee Bird (Massie, Diane Redfield)
Mouse Mess (Riley)

/m/:
Is Your Mama a Llama? (Guarino)
Mouse Mess (Riley)
   

/f/: 

Little Bunny Foo Foo (ill. by P. B. Johnson)

Down on the Farm (M. Kutner - CD is awesome!) 
Five Little Speckled Frogs-  Steve Augarde  

Froggy book series- Johnothan London

/v/:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle)
The Very Busy Spider (Eric Carle) 

/s/: 

 Silly Sally (A. Wood)

The Seals on the Bus (L. Hort)

Mice are Nice (C. Ghigna)

/k/ & /g/: 

 Good Night, Gorilla (P. Rathmann)

Cookie's Week (C. Ward/T. DePaola)

The Kissing Hand (A. Penn)

A Pocket Full of Kisses (A. Penn) 
Froggy book series- Johnothan London 
K is for Kissing a Cool Kangaroo- Giles Andreae 

Huggly Takes a Bath- Ted Arnold
Green Wilma- Ted Arnold 
The Grouchy Ladybug- Eric Carle

/w/: 

 Mrs. Wishy Washy (J. Cowley)

Mr. Wishy Washy (J. Cowley)

A Whistle for Willie (E. J. Keats)

 /l/:

Llama Llama Red Pajama (A. Dewdney)

Llama Llama Mad at Mama (A. Dewdney)

Is Your Mama a Llama? (D. Guarino) 
Leo the Late Bloomer (Kraus) 

/r/:
Harry the Dirty Dog (Zion)
Big Red Barn (Brown)
Inside a Barn in the Country (Capucilli)
A House for a Hermit Crab (Carle)
Planting a Rainbow (Ehlert)
Red is Best (Stinson)
The Pirate Who Couldn't Say ARRR! (Neal)

/ch/:

Chicken Little (ill. by L. Rader)

Peter's Chair (E. J. Keats)

/sh/:

Sheep in a Shop (M. Apple)

Shoes (E. Winthrop) 
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish- Dr. Seuss 
 

Autism/Social Thinking

  

Ages 3-5

Go Away Big Green Monster (Emberley)

Are You My Mother (Eastman)

Come Down Now Flying Cow (Roland)

 

Ages 6-8

 David books (Shannon)

Winnie the Pooh books

Mercer Mayer Little Critter books

How Dinosaurs Play with their Friends (Yoln & Teague)

Beatrice Doesn't Want to (Numeroff)

The Terrible Underpants (Kaz Cooke)

Hunter's Best Friend at school (Laura Elliott)

Ages 8-10

Clown Fish

He Came with the Couch (Slonim)

Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big (Berkeley breathed)

A Wish for Wings That Worked (Berkeley breathed)

Mars Needs Moms

Nate the Great books

The Rainbow Fish (Pfister & James)

 

Language

Verbs

Future Tense Verbs

A Lion in the Night (Allen)
Do You Know What I'll do? (Zolotow)

Present Progressive (verb + -ing)

The Napping House (Wood)
Pancakes for Breakfast (DePaola)
There's an Alligator Under My Bed (Mayer)
Possum Come a-Knockin' (Van Laan)
The Very Worst Monster (Hutchins) 

Past Tense

Green Wilma (Ted Arnold)
Monster Manners (Cole)
Goodnight Owl (Hutchins)
Rosie's Walk (Hutchins)
Over in the Meadow (Keats)
Why Cowboys Sleep with their Boots On (Knowlton)
The Carrot Seed (Krauss)
Froggy Books Jonothan London

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Noun-Verb Agreement

Airplanes (Barton)
Airport (Barton)
Boats (Brown)
Goodnight Moon (Brown)
Alligators All Around (Sendak)

Pronouns

Arthur's Nose (Brown)
The Runaway Bunny (Brown)
Just My Friend and Me (Mayer)
Just Me and My Little Sister (Mayer)
Mine All Mine- A Book About Pronouns (Ruth Heller)

Prepositions 

Rosie's Walk (Hutchins)
Each Peach Pear Plum (Ahlberg)
Kate's Box (Chorao)
Everything has a Place (Lillie)
There's an Alligator Under My Bed (Mayer)
Caps For Sale (Slobodkina)

Adjectives/Descriptor Words 

The Last Puppy (Asch)
Little Fish, Big Fish Asch)
Beetle Bop (Denise Fleming)
Is Your Mama A llama? (Guarino)

 Possessive -'s 

Whose Mouse Are You? (Kraus)
The Season's of Arnold's Apple Tree (Gibbons)
Arthur's Nose (Brown)
Peter's Chair (Keats)

Plurals

Goodnight Moon (Brown)
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf (Ehlert)
Over in the Meadow (Keats)
A Color of His Own (Lionni)

Comparatives/Superlatives (big, bigger, biggest)

Is It Larger? Is It Smaller? (Hoban)
One Hot Day (Ruschak)

Negatives

Mr. Grumy's Outing (Burningham)
The Very Busy Spider (Carle)
Is Your Mama a Llama? (Guarino)
Chimps Don't Wear Glasses (Numeroff)
It Looked Like Spilt Milk (Shaw)
 

Vocabulary Development 

Antonyms

Exactly the Opposite (Hoban)
Is It Rough, Is It Smooth, Is It shiny? (Hoban)
Push, Pull, Empty, Full- A Book of Opposites (Hoban)
I Wish I were a Butterfly (Howe)
Silly Sally (Audrey Wood)

Synonyms

The Very Lazy Ladybug (Finn, Isabel and Jack Tickle)
Pigsty (Teague)
The Wind Blew (Hutchins)
The Napping House (Audrey Wood)

Idioms

Pigsty (Teague)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Barrett)
A Chocolate Moose for Dinner (Gwynne)
A King Who Rained (Gwynne)
Why the Chicken Crossed the Road (Mccauley)
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Numeroff)
If You Give a Mouse a Muffin (Numeroff)

Predicting

Who Sank the Boat? (Allen)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Asbjornsen)
The Mitten
I Wish I Were a Butterfly (Howe)
The Thing That Bothered Farmer Brown (Sloat)
Caps For Sale (Slobodkina)
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub (Audrey Wood)

Sequencing

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Very Busy Spider             (Eric Carle)
The Grouchy Ladybug 
Pancakes For Breakfast (dePaola)
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf (Buscaglia)

Problem Solving
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (Cronin)
Where Once There Was a Wood (Fleming)
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse (Henkes)
The Boy Who Held Back the Sea (Hort)