Baby Books/ infant board books Infant - 2 years

Length varies Little or no text Bright art Nursery rhymes Includes novelty books such as bathtub

books and lift-the-flap Use: Teaching colors, shapes, object names Example: Freight Train

Freight Train – Donald Crews

Toddler Picture Books

Under 300 words – 12 pages Read-alouds that can be completed withi

n ten minutes Bright art that tells the story Repetitive language Happy endings Example: The Very Hungry Catepillar

The Very Hungry Catepillar

Early Picture Books

Average 24 - 32 pages – 1000 words Art gives details of story Simple story with beginning, middle,

and end Present tense Some repetitive language Example: Where The Wild Things Are

Where The Wild Things Are

Picture Books Average 32 pages – up to 1500 words Up to 48 pages and 2000 words for nonfic

tion Sentences ten words or under Simple prefixes and suffixes Possessives and past tense are okay Art supports the text Example: Weslandia

Weslandia

Easy Readers 32 to 48 pages – up to 1500 words As few as 3 – 5 sentences per page Vary sentence length up to ten words. Color illustrations Trade trim size Characters have some trait that makes

them easy to identify Controlled vocabulary Example: Railroad Toad

Railroad Toad

Chapter Books First novels Past beginning readers stage Wide vocabulary More complicated sentence structure Ages 5-8 Similar to easy-to-read (short paragraphs,

plenty of white space, pictures) Example: Sarah, Plain and Tall

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Mid-grade Books

12,000 – 25,000 words 8-12 years 7-11 years or 9-13 years Read widely and deeply – not too

much homework just yet Example: Bud, Not Buddy

Bud, Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis

Young Adult/Teen Books

Teenage protagonist Range of genres: historical, contemporar

y, fantasy, science fiction, romance, realism

40,000 – 80,000 words (about 100 pages shorter than an adult novel)

Example: Celine

Celine