Great Read Alouds By Quasi-Age Level

Reading Aloud Creates Readers

My Youngest Enjoying a Classic While Camping

(Sure, I have pictures of my kids reading 'real' books, but don't we all enjoy a little Junk Food for the Mind every now and then?)

Great Books about Children's Books:
HONEY FOR A CHILD'S HEART - Hunt, Gladys
BOOKS THAT BUILD CHARACTER - Kirkpatrick, William

Home school catalogs with great book lists:
VERITAS PRESS
TRIVIUM PURSUIT: HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE; LIVES IN PRINT

Online Book Resources (Be sure to check these out!)
THE BALDWIN ONLINE CHILDREN'S LITERATURE PROJECT
THE AMERICAN LITERARY CLASSICS ONLINE LIBRARY
THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSICS

For the Younger Set:

Here are the books my boys loved when they were just wee ones. The first list is from the FIVE IN A ROW curriculum. If you haven't yet established the habit of reading aloud to your children, this is the best way to get started. You read the same book for five days in a row. Sounds boring and repetitive, right? Well, it isn't. You'd be surprised how much you can glean from a book after a few readings! These books bring back warm, wonderful memories of our first years homeschooling. But, you don't have to be a home schooling family to enjoy Five In A Row. These were our favorites:

The Story About Ping - Flack, Marjorie (Great memories of this one.)
The Rag Coat - Mills, Lauren
The Glorious Flight - Provensen, Alice
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel - Burton, Virginia Lee
Night of the Moonjellies - Shasha, Mark (Wow! We had a ball with this book!!)
Three Names - MacLachlan, Patricia
Owl Moon - Yolen, Jane
Mirette on the High Wire - McCully, Emily
They Were Strong and Good - Lawson, Robert and Alice
Make Way for Ducklings - McCloskey, Robert (Oh man, I could get weepy here...this was a precious book. They grow up WAY too fast.)
Miss Rumphius - Cooney, Barbara
The Little Red Light House and the Great Gray Bridge - Swift, Hidegarde

Our other Miscellaneous Favorites for Wee Ones.

The Little House - Burton, Virginia
Frog and Toad Series - Lobel, Arnold
Billy and Blaze Books - Anderson, C.W.
Blueberries for Sal - McCloskey, Robert
The Biggest Bear - Ward, Lynd
The Egg - Robertson, M. P.
Marguerite Writes a Book - Robertson, Bruce
James Harriot's Treasury for Children - Harriot, James
Winnie the Pooh Collection - Milne, A. A.
A Grain of Rice - Demi
Sword in the Tree - Demi
Horton Hatches the Egg - Suess
Wisdom and the Millers - Martin, Mildred (These are very, very conservative Mennonite stories. We used these as bedtime or breakfast devotions.)
Story Time With the Millers - Martin, Mildred
Prudence and the Millers - Martin, Mildred
School Days with the Millers - Martin, Mildred
Missionary Stories with the Millers - Martin, Mildred

I'll add more as I remember. All our books for younger children are packed so I'm doing this from memory.

As They Get Older:

Trailblazer Books - Jackson, Dave and Neta (Historical fiction missionary stories)
Christian Heroes Then and Now - Benge, Geoff and Janet (Missionary and American hero biographies)
Swiss Family Robinson
Railway Children - Nesbit, E.
Homer Price - McCloskey, Robert
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Charlotte's Web - White, E. B.
Stuart Little
Chronicles of Narnia
Misty of Chincoteague - Henry, Marguerite
Johnny Tremain - Forbes, Esther
Dangerous Journey (Rewriting of Pilgrim's Progress)
Blackthorn Winter - Wilson, Douglas
Lad: A Dog - Terhune, Albert
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle - McDonald
Cricket in Times Square - Selden
Paddle to the Sea - Holling, Holling
Sign of the Beaver - Speare
Cabin Faced West - Fritz, Jean
Witch of Blackbird Pond - Speare
The Bronze Bow
Little Britches
Winning His Spurs - Henty, G. A.

This isn't the complete list...Is the list ever complete? Let's hope not.

Comments

[Shauna]

Fantastic list! We're doing FIAR now and will be adding longer read-alouds this month, so this list is very helpful.