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Mensa for Kids For Grades K-3

The Mensa Foundation recognizes and encourages education, gifted youth, and lifelong learning through resources like the Mensa for Kids website. The reading list books were selected with all enthusiastic readers in mind. Mensa membership is not required.(FOR GRADES K-3)




Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

by Judith Viorst


All-of-a-kind family: book 1

by Sydney Taylor




Amelia Bedelia

by Peggy Parish


Anansi the Spider

by Gerald McDermott


Bedtime for Frances

by Russell Hoban


Blueberries For Sal

by Robert McCloskey


The Cabin Faced West

by Jean Fritz


The carrot seed

by Ruth Krauss


The Cat In The Hat

by Dr Seuss


Char­lot­te's web

by E.B. White


Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

by Judi Barrett




The cricket in Times Square

by George Selden


Cu­ri­ous Ge­orge

by H A Rey






Frog and ­toad­ are friends

by Arnold Lobel


The Garden Of Abdul Gasazi

by Chris Van Allsburg


George and Martha

by James Marshall


Harry the Dirty Dog

by Gene Zion


How The Leopard Got His Claws

by Chinua Achebe


The Hundred Dresses

by Eleanor Estes


If I Never Forever Endeavor

by Holly Meade


Leo the late Bloomer

by Robert Kraus


The Little Engine That Could

by Watty Piper


Little House On The Prairie

by Laura Ingalls Wilder


Little Toot

by Hardie Gramatky






Make Way for Ducklings

by Robert McCloskey


Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

by Virginia Lee Burton




The Mouse And The Motorcycle

by Beverly Cleary


Mr. Popper's Penguins

by Richard and Florance Atwater


Mrs Frisby And The Rats Of Nimh

by Robert O'Brien


Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters An African Tale

by John Steptoe


Peppe the Lamplighter

by Elisa Bartone


Put Me In The Zoo

by Robert Lopshire




Ramona Quimby, Age 8

by Beverly Cleary


The Quiltmakers Gift

by Jeff Brumbeau


The Reluctant Dragon

by Kenneth Grahame


Sam The Minuteman

by Nathaniel Benchley


Sarah, Plain And Tall

by Patricia Maclachlan


Shiloh

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor


The Snowy Day By Ezra Jack Keats

by Ezra Jack Keats






Tale Of Despereaux

by Kate DiCamillo


The Story Of Babar

by Jean de Brunhoff


The Story Of Ferdinand

by Munro Leaf


Strega Nona: an old tale

by Tomie dePoala


Sylvester And The Magic Pebble

by William Steig


The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter


Where The Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak