Grade 3
202 stories, poems and plays that fit grade 3.
Picture books
50 titles · Short, illustrated, made for reading together.
A Book for Puchku
Deepanjana Pal
A Butterfly Smile
Mathangi Subramanian
A Whistling Good Idea
Rahul Raghavan
Ammachi's Incredible Investigation
Vinayak Varma
Anna's Extraordinary Experiments with Weather
Nandita Jayaraj
Annual Haircut Day - ONCE AGAIN!
Rohini Nilekani
Beauty Is Missing
Priya Kuriyan
The Birthday Menu
Meenu Thomas
The Boy and the Drum
Umesh P N
DIVE!
Rajiv Eipe
Dum Dum-a-Dum Biryani!
Gayathri Tirthapura
The Elephant Bird
Arefa Tehsin
Fire! Fire!
Aditi Ghosh
The Girl Who Could Not Stop Laughing
Meera Ganapathi
The Grand Patch-up
Karthika G
Gul in Space
Richa Jha
I Love Me
Menaka Raman
Jadav and the Tree-Place
Vinayak Varma
Kottavi Raja and his Sleepy Kingdom
Yasaswini Sampathkumar
The Laddoo Code
Saksham Arora
Lazy Mama
Vidya Pradhan
The Little Bird in the Big Mountains
Bulbul Sharma
The Magic Powder - A Folktale from Myanmar
Greystroke
More or Less? Need to Guess!
Gayathri Tirthapura
Nani's Walk to the Park
Deepa Balsavar
The New Girl
Srividhya Venkat
The Night the Moon Went Missing
Shreya Yadav
One by Two
Maya Bisineer
Password, please?
Vahishta Mistry
Puchku Seeks a Song
Deepanjana Pal
The Right Way School
Shabnam Minwalla
Sailing Ships and Sinking Spoons
Jamyang Gyaltsen
Same-same or Different?
Roopa Pai
The Seed Savers
Bijal Vachharajani
Shoecat Thoocat
Shalini Srinivasan
Stage Fright
Yamini Vijayan
The Sunshower Song
Vinayak Varma
Sweet Sunday
Geetha Rao
The Tailor of Gloucester
Beatrix Potter
Teaching Pa
Amrutash Misra
The Tiffin Gang
Shweta Ganesh Kumar
Unni's Wish
Meryl Garcia
The Velveteen Rabbit
Margery Williams
The Weightlifting Princess
Sowmya Rajendran
Welcome to the Forest
Bhavna Menon
Whale in the Sky
Siddharth Chakravarty
What happened to the shawl?
Arvind Gupta
What's That Smell?
Ashwitha Jayakumar
When I Grow Up
Priyadarshini Gogoi
Whoop, Goes the Pufferfish
Sejal Mehta
Short stories
71 titles · One sitting, one story.
A Helping Hand
Payal Dhar
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Stitch in Time
Himadri Das; Veena Prasad
Around the World With a Chilli
Nayan Chanda
Arya in the Cockpit
Nandita Jayaraj
Bambi: A Life in the Woods
Felix Salten
The Beginning of the Armadillos
Rudyard Kipling
The Butterfly That Stamped
Rudyard Kipling
The Case of the Missing Water
Shalini Srinivasan
The Cat That Walked by Himself
Rudyard Kipling
Chipko takes root
Jeyanthi Manokaran
The Crab That Played with the Sea
Rudyard Kipling
Creatures of Old
Veena Prasad
The Dragon Tamers
E. Nesbit
The Elephant's Child
Rudyard Kipling
Emil and the Detectives
Erich Kastner
How Old is Muttajji?
Roopa Pai
How Pintu Found Pi
Sarat Talluri Rao
How They Bring Back the Village of Cream Puffs When the Wind Blows It Away
Carl Sandburg
How the Alphabet Was Made
Rudyard Kipling
How the Camel Got His Hump
Rudyard Kipling
How the First Letter Was Written
Rudyard Kipling
How the Hat Ashes Shovel Helped Snoo Foo
Carl Sandburg
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
Rudyard Kipling
How the Whale Got His Throat
Rudyard Kipling
The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told
E. Nesbit
In Which Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party, and We Say Good-bye
A. A. Milne
In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole
A. A. Milne
In Which Christopher Robin and Pooh Come to an Enchanted Place, and We Leave Them There
A. A. Milne
In Which Eeyore Finds the Wolery and Owl Moves Into It
A. A. Milne
In Which Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents
A. A. Milne
In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One
A. A. Milne
In Which It Is Shown That Tiggers Don't Climb Trees
A. A. Milne
In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath
A. A. Milne
In Which Piglet Does a Very Grand Thing
A. A. Milne
In Which Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water
A. A. Milne
In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump
A. A. Milne
In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place
A. A. Milne
In Which Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore Joins In
A. A. Milne
In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle
A. A. Milne
In Which Rabbit Has a Busy Day, and We Learn What Christopher Robin Does in the Mornings
A. A. Milne
In Which Tigger Comes to the Forest and Has Breakfast
A. A. Milne
In Which Tigger Is Unbounced
A. A. Milne
In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees
A. A. Milne
In Which a House Is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore
A. A. Milne
In Which a Search Is Organdized, and Piglet Nearly Meets the Heffalump Again
A. A. Milne
Kaakaasaurus
Shalini Srinivasan
Kali Wants to Dance
Aparna Karthikeyan
Long Live Friendship! A Humorous Play for Children
Meera Dixit
Lost in the Internet
Kris Stokes; Madhurima Chakraborty
Mangalyaan: A Journey to Mars
Nikhil Gulati
Mission Cycle
Rohini Mohan
My Father's Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett
The Mystery of the Cyber Friend
Zac O'Yeah
Only Fools Go to School
Chatura Rao
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter
Raju's First Flight
Nandita Jayaraj
The Reluctant Dragon
Kenneth Grahame
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Rudyard Kipling
The Scavenger Hunt
Ajit Narra
The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
Rudyard Kipling
The Sound of Water
Shalini Srinivasan
Stormy, Misty's Foal
Marguerite Henry
The Tale of the Toilet
Veena Prasad
There's a Hole in my Galaxy
Ananya Dasgupta
The Three Questions
Leo Tolstoy
Tine and the Faraway Mountain
Shikha Tripathi
Turtle Story
Kartik Shanker
The Two Skyscrapers Who Decided to Have a Child
Carl Sandburg
Who Stole Bhaiya's Smile?
Sanjana Kapur
Poems
11 titles · Read them out loud. Then read them again.
Fog
Carl Sandburg
From a Railway Carriage
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Jumblies
Edward Lear
The Lamplighter
Robert Louis Stevenson
Limericks (set)
Edward Lear
The Owl and the Pussy-cat
Edward Lear
The Pasture
Robert Frost
Poems from Now We Are Six (set)
A. A. Milne
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll
Windy Nights
Robert Louis Stevenson
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
Eugene Field
Myths, fables and folk tales
57 titles · Stories people told long before anyone wrote them down.
Ashputtel
Brothers Grimm
Baba Yaga and the Little Girl with the Kind Heart
Arthur Ransome (retold)
The Badger and the Bear
Zitkala-Sa
The Bremen Town-Musicians
Brothers Grimm
Chinese fairy tales (set I)
Richard Wilhelm (collected)
Cinderella
Charles Perrault
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Brothers Grimm
The Emperor's New Clothes
Hans Christian Andersen
Fables IV: Belling the Cat, and four more
Aesop
Fables V: The Miller, His Son, and the Donkey, and four more
Aesop
Fables VI: The Dog in the Manger, and four more
Aesop
The Fisherman and His Wife
Brothers Grimm
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Arthur Ransome (retold)
The Foolish, Timid Rabbit
Jataka (Babbitt)
The Frog-Prince
Brothers Grimm
Hansel and Gretel
Brothers Grimm
The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde
The Herd Boy and the Weaving Maiden
Richard Wilhelm (collected)
How We Got the Name 'Spider Tales'
W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair (collected)
Iktomi and the Coyote
Zitkala-Sa
Iktomi and the Ducks
Zitkala-Sa
Iktomi and the Muskrat
Zitkala-Sa
Indian fairy tales (set)
Joseph Jacobs (collected)
Jack and the Beanstalk
Traditional (Jacobs)
Jack the Giant-Killer
Traditional (Jacobs)
The Little Match Girl
Hans Christian Andersen
Little Red Riding Hood
Charles Perrault
Little Red-Cap
Brothers Grimm
The Mirror of Matsuyama
Yei Theodora Ozaki (retold)
Momotaro, or the Story of the Son of a Peach
Yei Theodora Ozaki (retold)
The Monkey and the Crocodile
Jataka (Babbitt)
The Nightingale
Hans Christian Andersen
The Princess and the Pea
Hans Christian Andersen
Puss in Boots
Charles Perrault
The Quarrel of the Quails
Jataka (Babbitt)
Rapunzel
Brothers Grimm
Rumpelstiltskin
Brothers Grimm
The Selfish Giant
Oscar Wilde
Shen of the Sea (selected stories)
Arthur Bowie Chrisman
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood
Charles Perrault
Snowdrop
Brothers Grimm
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Hans Christian Andersen
The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad
Yei Theodora Ozaki (retold)
Tales from Silver Lands (selected stories)
Charles J. Finger
Thumbelina
Hans Christian Andersen
The Toad and the Boy
Zitkala-Sa
The Tongue-Cut Sparrow
Yei Theodora Ozaki (retold)
The Tree-Bound
Zitkala-Sa
The Turtle Who Couldn't Stop Talking
Jataka (Babbitt)
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Brothers Grimm
The Ugly Duckling
Hans Christian Andersen
The Valiant Little Tailor
Brothers Grimm
West African folk tales (set II)
W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair (collected)
West African folk tales: Anansi and others (set)
W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair (collected)
Whittington and His Cat
Traditional (Jacobs)
Wigwam Evenings: Sioux folk tales (set I)
Charles A. Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman
The Wild Swans
Hans Christian Andersen
Chapter books and novels
13 titles · Longer reads, chapter by chapter.
The Adventures of Peter Cottontail
Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Emerald City of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit
Kari the Elephant
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
The Marvelous Land of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Ozma of Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Phoenix and the Carpet
E. Nesbit
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
E. Nesbit
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
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