The Story Diploma is designed for children below school age, families, and early childhood education workers. The Story Diploma includes many different kinds of books and enjoyable stories to include in readalongs, as well as age appropriate guided reading.
The Story Diploma is completed by reading or listening to ten (10) books. You can select books from the suggestions in the lists or choose your own. Track the number of books read by coloring the Reading Gull picture, which can be picked up from the library or print your own. You can find it here.
When your Reading Gull is colored and assembled, an adult can take a photo of it. As a prize for completion, visit the library and show your picture or tell about the books you read, and you can get a Reading Diploma and a crown for your Reading Gull! Day cares and other children’s groups can receive a Group Diploma.
Audiobooks can be read for the Story Diploma and in general, books in any language count. When you click on a book cover from the Story Diploma website, you can find a short description of the book and a link to find out in which libraries the book is available.
Ask at your local library for more information about completing the Reading Diploma as well as book tips. Reading aloud with children is fun and a great way to spend time together!
Never, not ever!
Be brave little penguin
Catch that chicken!
A hug for you
Shhh! Quiet!
Albert Talbot: Master of Disguise
I'm not (very) afraid of being alone
I'm not (very) afraid of the dark
Weirdo
Grumbug!
Rabbit Bright
Scooper and Dumper
New In Town
I Am Enough
What happened to you?
I am NOT a prince
All Sorts
Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn
I'm Sticking with You
Tomorrow I'll be kind
Peppa is kind
Something's Wrong! - A Bear, a Hare, and Some Underwear
Sulwe
Be you!
A fox called Herbert
One Day on Our Blue Planet ... In the Ocean
The song of the tree
Look What I Found in the Woods
If winter comes, tell it I'm not here
Counting Creatures
Betsy Buglove saves the bees
Woodland Dreams
Mouse seasons
My friend Earth
A Song of Gladness - A story of hope for us and our planet
Boo!
Busy spring
Nature Trail
A Shelter for Sadness
The Goody
Red Red Red
Where happiness begins
How can you lose an elephant?
No More Naps!
Leaves
Dragons don't share
Sometimes I Feel...
I'm (almost) always kind
Only a Tree Knows How to Be a Tree
Meesha Makes Friends
The Bad Day
When Cucumber lost his cool
A Home for Luna
Five more minutes
Sisters
Brothers
Poor Louie
Shu Lin's grandpa
We are family
The Forgettery
My favourite Finnish things
The invisible
It's a Moose!
Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit!
Illustrated myths from around the world
My Peppa adventure
Paddington's London treasury
Poppy and Sam's favourite fairy tales
Charlie and the chocolate factory
A midsummer night's dream
Good night stories for rebel girls
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales
You Choose Fairy Tales
Who will comfort Toffle?
Peasant Pig and the terrible dragon