Birthday Book Program
The Birthday Book Program gives you the opportunity to donate a book in honor of your child on the occasion of his/her birthday. Birthday books will be labeled with your child's name and placed in the library. We welcome any donation to The Covenant School Library, but here are a few suggestions of books we would like to see on our shelves. If at all possible please purchase hardback version of a book.
Grades Pre-K-3
Babuska’s Doll by: Patricia Polacco
Chicken Sunday by: Patricia Polacco
Just Plain Fancy by: Patricia Polacco
Thundercake by: Patricia Polacco
An Orange for Frankie by: Patricia Polacco
The Keeping Quilt by: Patricia Polacco
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by: Judy Barrett
Pickles to Pittsburg by: Judy Barrett
The Five Chinese Brothers by: Claire Huchet Bishop
Miss Nelson has a Field Day by: Garrett Christopher
Miss Nelson is Back by: Garrett Christopher
Bunny Bungalow by: Cynthia Rylant
Every Living Thing by: Cynthia Rylant
If You’ll be My Valentine by: Cynthia Rylant
The Relative’s Came by: Cynthia Rylant
The Cobble Street Cousin books (a series of ready-for chapters books) by: Cynthia Rylant
The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery by: Graeme Base
Jungle Dreams by: Graeme Base
1,2,3 to the Zoo by: Eric Carle
The Secret Birthday Message by: Eric Carle
“Slowly, slowly, slowly,’ said the Sloth by: Eric Carle
A Good Day by: Kevin Henkes
Lily’s Chocolate Heart by: Kevin Henkes
Shhh by: Kevin Henkes
Jamie O’Rourke and the Giant Potato by; Tomie Depaola
Click, clack, splish, splash: A Counting Adventure by: Doreen Cronin
Click, Clack, quackity-quack: An Alphabet Adventure by: Doreen Cronin
Dooby Dooby Moo by: Doreen Cronin
Giggle, Giggle, Quack by: Doreen Cronin
Wiggle by: Doreen Cronin
The Apple Pie Tree by: Zoe Hall
It’s Pumpkin Time! By: Zoe Hall
Goggles by: Ezra Jack Keats
Regards to the Man in the Moon by: Ezra Jack Keats
Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe by: Vera B. Williams
Stringbean’s Trip to the Shining Sea by: Vera B. Williams
Piggies by: Audrey and Don Wood
Heckedy Peg by: Audrey and Don Wood
Quick as a Cricket by: Audrey and Don Wood
Silly Sally by: Audrey and Don Wood
For Pete’s Sake by: Ellen Stoll Walsh
Hop Jump by: Ellen Stoll Walsh
Grades 3-6
The Van Gogh Café by: Cynthia Rylant
Falling Up: Poems and Drawings by: Shel Silverstein
A Light in the Attic by: Shel Silverstein
Jip: His Story by: Katherine Paterson
Park’s Quest by: Katherine Paterson
Chasing Redbird by: Sharon Creech
Ruby Hollar by: Sharon Creech
The Wanderer by: Sharon Creech
A Ring of Endless Light by: Madeline L’Engle
Two Under Par by: Kevin Henkes
The Janitor’s Boy by: Andrew Clements
Things Not Seen by: Andrew Clements
Lunch Money by: Andrew Clements
Room One-A Mystery or Two by: Andrew Clements
Otis Spofford by: Beverly Cleary
2095 by: Jon Scieszka
The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story by: Sid Fleischman
Anastasia Krupnik by: Louis Lowry
Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess by: Richard Platt
Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters by: Lesley Blume
Fair Weather by: Richard Peck
Ida B-- : and her plans to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and (possibly) save the world by: Katherine Hanniga
Island of the Aunts by: Eva Ibbotson
Mount Olympus Basketball by: Kevin O’Malley
Mr. Chickee's Funny Money by: Christopher Paul Curtis
Pirate Diary: the Journal of Jake Carpenter by: Richard Platt
The Squire’s Tale by: Gerald Morris
The Storyteller’s beads by: Jane Kurtz
Summer Reading is Killing Me by: Jon Scieszka
The Wreckers by: Iain Lawrence
Finally, we welcome any non-fiction books about:
Dogs
Cats
Fish/Fishing
Technology
Trains
United States Symbols (Mt. Rushmore, Statue of Liberty, etc.)
Football
Figure Skating
World Records (Guinness Books)
Swimming
Crafts