Causal Reasoning

These are books in which children are given frequent opportunities to understand the relationship between cause and effect; to find meaningful, cohesive order in events; and to help predict what is going to happen next in a story.
- Comet’s Nine Lives by Jan Brett
- Don’t Slam the Door by Dori Chaconas
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
- Jimmy’s Boa and the Big Birthday Bash by Trinka Hakes Noble
- That’s Good, That’s Bad by Margery Cuyler
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
- The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
- The Stray Dog by Marc Simont