* Jigsaw Jones
* Hank the Cowdog.
* Mr. Popper's Penguins
* The Littles.
* Cameron's books - The Stories Julian tells, etc.
* Sophie series by Dick King-Smith.
* Winnie the Pooh by Milne
* Paddington Bear by Michael Bond.
* There are some older books by Carolyn Haywood - such as Back to School With Betsy that show children in the 1950's just playing and having a good time.
* Beverly Cleary's The Mouse and the Motorcycle ?
* Has the mom seen Jim Trelease's Read Aloud Handbook? He offers lots of recommendation/suggestions by age with a synopsis of the storyline; in the 6th edition.
* Bill Peet stories,
* Esther Averill's The Cat Club series?
* I LOVE "My Father's Dragon" by Gannett
* The Carolyn Haywood stories: Little Eddie, Eddie and the fire engine, etc.
* Fine, Anne. Jamie & Angus Stories, Jamie and Angus Together
* Jenkins, Emily. Toys Go Out
* Cleary, Beverly. Ramona the Pest (or any of them)
* Hurwitz, Johanna. Russell and Eliza Books (Russell Sprouts, etc.)
* Olga da Polga by Michael Bond (author of Paddington Bear)
* Marc Brown's Arthur chapter books
* Berenstain Bears Chapter
* Clifford Chapter
* Dr. Doolittle books
* "Stuart Little,"
* "All-of-a-kind family".
* Just So Stories--Kipling;
* Aesop Fables
* Henry Huggins or Ramona books by Beverly Cleary.
* Magic Treehouse books.
* Mercy Watson books by Kate diCamillo.
* Ann Cameron's Huey and Julian stories
* Geronimo Stilton books
* Mrs. Piggle Wiggle stories
* Pippi
* 21 Balloons
* Usborne Condensed Classics for Children (Gulliver's Travels, Charlotte's Web and others)
* Boxcar Children,
* Babe and others by Dick King-Smith,
* Animal Friends series by Janette Oke
* Peg Parish's Amelia Bedelia.
* "The Littles" series by John Peterson
* A Toad for Tuesday (Erickson) for a beginning readaloud.
* I would recommend any Freddie Fernorter: Fearless First Grader books by Johnathan Rand. My son has loved them forever. I'm not sure how popular they are in your area. Rand is a Michigan author, but the kids love his books. He started with scary books (Michigan Chillers and AmericanChillers) but the Freddie Fernortner series is for younger children. They have suspense in them but there is always a good ending. The flying bicycle is a good one because it is more thrilling than scary.
* George Selden's "Cricket in Times Square"
* Sydney Taylor's "All of a Kind Family" books are very gentle and wonderful.
* Dick King Smith has a lot of gentle reads as well.
* How about the Beverly Cleary books, specifically the Henry Huggins series
* Cam Jansen books by Adler?
* Babar
* Joanna Horowitz's Russell and Elisa books
* Old mother west wind by Thornton Burgess
* Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
* Spaceship Under the Apple Tree by Slobodkin
* "The Trick Books" by Scott Corbett
* simple non-fiction books or poems
* Animal Ark books
* Kate DiCamillo's Mercy Watson books yet
* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory & The BFG by Roald Dahl
* The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
* Five Children and It and it's sequels by E. Nesbit Heidi by Joanna Spyri
* Phantom Tollbooth by Juster Norton
* Catwings series by Ursula LeGuin
* Moffat books by Eleanor Estes
* The Great Geppy by William Pene du Bois (and others by this author)
* Wind in the Willow
* other classics that have been adapted by disney... mary poppins, 101 dalmatians, incredible journey.
* Oliver Pig books
* Frog and Toad
* Please encourage your patron not to abandon picture books, and to consider simple nonfiction.
* Bunnicula books by James Howe
* Giggler Treatment by Roddy Doyle.
* I Can Read books by Nathaniel Benchley, books like Sam the Minuteman
* The Lighthouse Family series by Rylant.
* Biographies