Books we've loved!
Reading is a big part of how we homeschool. This is a list that I've tried to keep up over the years of some of our favorites and those worth saving space on your bookshelves, especially so for pre-readers on up to age 12. Listed in alphabetical order, here goes:
- A Bear Called Paddington and others by Michael Bond
- A Cricket in Times Square by George Seldon
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland
- All Things Bright and Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander
- And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street! by Dr. Seuss
- Angelo by David Macaulay
- Anno's Journey by Mitsumasa Anno
- Arabel's Raven by Joan Aiken
- Arabian Nights
- Archimede's & the Door of Science
- Are You My Mother? by P. D. Eastman
- Amelia Bedelia and others by Peggy Parish
- A Wonderbook by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- At the back of the North Wind
- Babar books by Laurent De Brunhoff
- Bedtime for Frances and other Frances books by Russell Hoban
- Beowulf
- Big Friendly Giant by Roald Dahl
- Blackhearts at Battersea by
- Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
- Borrowers
- Buffalo Bill by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
- Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
- Chatterer the Red Red Squirrel by Thornton W. Burgess
- Child's History of England
- Child's History of the World
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming
- Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Cinderella by The Barefoot Book Series
- Chronicles of Narnia
- Coppelia: The Girl with Enamel Eyes the Barefoot Book Series
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- Cricket in Times Square
- Curious George and others by Margret Rey
- Daphne and Chloe by The Barefoot Book Series
- Do You Know What I Know? by Helen Borten
- Door in the Wall
- Dr. Doolittle
- Dr. Dolittle's Puddlyby Adventures by
- Dr. Seuss’s ABC by Dr. Seuss
- Edward Lear Alphabet by Edward Lear, illustrated by Carol Newsom
- The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl
- Fancy Nancy books by Jane O'Conner
- Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
- Finn Family Moomintroll and others by Tove Jansson
- Five Children and It
- Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
- Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
- Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss
- Curious George & others by Hans A. Rey
- Frog and Toad are Friends and others by Arnold Lobel
- George and Martha by James Marshall
- George Washington by Ingri D'Aulaires
- Ginger Pie by Elinor Estes
- Golden Key
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Jan Brett
- Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
- Goodnight Moon and others by Margaret Wise Brown
- Great Glass Elevator
- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
- Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson
- Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
- Heidi by
- House at Pooh Corner
- House of Sixty Fathers by Meinhart de Jong
- Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
- Hundred and One Dalmations
- If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
- I know an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly by Glen Rounds
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
- Johnny Appleseed by Madeline Olsen
- Little Bear and others by Elise Minarik
- Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Little Men
- Little Red Hen and others by Paul Galdone
- Little Tim and The Brave Sea Captain by Edward Ardizzone
- Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky
- Little Women
- Madeline and others by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- Many Moons by James Thurber
- Mary Poppins
- Mattimeo
- Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
- Mistress Masham's Repose by
- Moffats
- Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
- Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
- Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of Nimh
- Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
- My Side of the Mountain
- Nonsense Poems and others by Edward Lear
- One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
- One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
- Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling
- Peter Pan by J.M Barrie
- Phantom Tollbooth
- Phoenix and the Carpet
- Pilgrim's Progress
- Pinocchio
- Pippi Longstocking
- Pocahontas by Ingri d'Aulaires
- Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowry, illus. by Gustaf Tenggren
- Poems to Read to the Very Young by Eloise Wilkin
- Pollyanna
- Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
- Princess and Curdie
- Princess and the Goblin
- Put Me In the Zoo by Robert Lopshire Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
- Railway Children
- Redwall
- Return to Gone Away Lake
- Rocks in my Socks by Patricia Thomas
- Rumplestiltskin
- Secret Garden
- Shadrach
- Sleeping Beauty by The Barefoot Book Series
- Story of Babar and others by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff
- Stone Soup and others by Marcia Brown
- Story of Dr. Doolittle and others
- Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
- Summertime in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Swan Lake by The Barefoot Book Series
- Swallows and Amazons and others by Arthur Ransom
- Tale of Peter Rabbit & others by Beatrix Potter
- Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Tim and Lucy Go To Sea by Edward Ardizzone
- Three Billy Goats Gruff by Peter Christien Asbjrnsen
- Through the Looking Glass
- Trumpet of the Swan
- The Adventures of Tom Bombadil by Tolkien
- The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown
- The Exploits of Moominpappa by Tove Jansson
- The Golden Key by George McDonald
- The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Holy Twins: Benedict and Scholastica
- The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
- The Hundred Dresses by Elinor Estes
- The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
- The Lorax by Dr. Suess
- The Phantom Tollbooth by
- The Pheonix and the Carpet by Edith Nesbit
- The Poky Little Puppy by Gustaf Tenggren
- The One Hundred and One Dalmations by Dodie Smith
- The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
- The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
- The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
- The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
- The Way to Start a Day by Byrd Baylor
- The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
- The Wild Cats of Rome by
- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Twenty Elephant Restaurant by Russell Hoban
- Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
- Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
- Very Hungry Caterpillar and others by Eric Carle
- Water Babies
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- When We Were Very Young and Now We are Six by A.A. Milne
- Wind and the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- Winnie the Pooh series by AA Milne and Ernest H. Shepard
- Wonderbook by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema