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 within 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 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 nonfiction  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, contemporary, fantasy, science fiction, romance, realism  40,000 – 80,000 words (about 100 pages shorter than an adult novel)  Example: Celine

Celine