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:

  1. A Bear Called Paddington and others by Michael Bond
  2. A Cricket in Times Square by George Seldon
  3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  4. Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  5. Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland
  6. All Things Bright and Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander
  7. And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street! by Dr. Seuss
  8. Angelo by David Macaulay
  9. Anno's Journey by Mitsumasa Anno 
  10. Arabel's Raven by Joan Aiken
  11. Arabian Nights
  12. Archimede's & the Door of Science
  13. Are You My Mother? by P. D. Eastman
  14. Amelia Bedelia and others by Peggy Parish 
  15. A Wonderbook by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  16. At the back of the North Wind
  17. Babar books by Laurent De Brunhoff
  18. Bedtime for Frances and other Frances books by Russell Hoban
  19. Beowulf
  20. Big Friendly Giant by Roald Dahl 
  21. Blackhearts at Battersea by 
  22. Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
  23. Borrowers
  24. Buffalo Bill by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
  25. Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
  26. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  27. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
  28. Chatterer the Red Red Squirrel by Thornton W. Burgess
  29. Child's History of England
  30. Child's History of the World
  31. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming
  32. Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  33. Cinderella by The Barefoot Book Series
  34. Chronicles of Narnia
  35. Coppelia: The Girl with Enamel Eyes the Barefoot Book Series
  36. Corduroy by Don Freeman
  37. Cricket in Times Square
  38. Curious George and others by Margret Rey
  39. Daphne and Chloe by The Barefoot Book Series
  40. Do You Know What I Know? by Helen Borten 
  41. Door in the Wall
  42. Dr. Doolittle
  43. Dr. Dolittle's Puddlyby Adventures by
  44. Dr. Seuss’s ABC by Dr. Seuss
  45. Edward Lear Alphabet by Edward Lear, illustrated by Carol Newsom
  46. The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl
  47. Fancy Nancy books by Jane O'Conner
  48. Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien
  49. Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
  50. Finn Family Moomintroll and others by Tove Jansson
  51. Five Children and It
  52. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
  53. Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
  54. Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss
  55. Curious George & others by Hans A. Rey
  56. Frog and Toad are Friends and others by Arnold Lobel
  57. George and Martha by James Marshall
  58. George Washington by Ingri D'Aulaires
  59. Ginger Pie by Elinor Estes
  60. Golden Key
  61. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Jan Brett
  62. Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
  63. Goodnight Moon and others by Margaret Wise Brown
  64. Great Glass Elevator
  65. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
  66. Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson
  67. Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion 
  68. Heidi by 
  69. House at Pooh Corner
  70. House of Sixty Fathers by Meinhart de Jong
  71. Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
  72. Hundred and One Dalmations
  73. If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
  74. I know an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly by Glen Rounds 
  75. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
  76. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
  77. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
  78. Johnny Appleseed by Madeline Olsen
  79. Little Bear and others by Elise Minarik
  80. Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
  81. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  82. Little Men
  83. Little Red Hen and others by Paul Galdone
  84. Little Tim and The Brave Sea Captain by Edward Ardizzone
  85. Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky
  86. Little Women
  87. Madeline and others by Ludwig Bemelmans
  88. Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
  89. Many Moons by James Thurber
  90. Mary Poppins
  91. Mattimeo
  92. Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
  93. Mistress Masham's Repose by 
  94. Moffats
  95. Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
  96. Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
  97. Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of Nimh
  98. Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
  99. My Side of the Mountain
  100. Nonsense Poems and others by Edward Lear
  101. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
  102. One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
  103. Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling 
  104. Peter Pan by J.M Barrie
  105. Phantom Tollbooth
  106. Phoenix and the Carpet
  107. Pilgrim's Progress
  108. Pinocchio
  109. Pippi Longstocking
  110. Pocahontas by Ingri d'Aulaires
  111. Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowry, illus. by Gustaf Tenggren
  112. Poems to Read to the Very Young by Eloise Wilkin
  113. Pollyanna
  114. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
  115. Princess and Curdie
  116. Princess and the Goblin
  117. Put Me In the Zoo by Robert Lopshire Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
  118. Railway Children
  119. Redwall
  120. Return to Gone Away Lake
  121. Rocks in my Socks by Patricia Thomas
  122. Rumplestiltskin
  123. Secret Garden
  124. Shadrach
  125. Sleeping Beauty by The Barefoot Book Series
  126. Story of Babar and others by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff
  127. Stone Soup and others by Marcia Brown
  128. Story of Dr. Doolittle and others
  129. Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
  130. Summertime in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  131. Swan Lake by The Barefoot Book Series 
  132. Swallows and Amazons and others by Arthur Ransom
  133. Tale of Peter Rabbit & others by Beatrix Potter 
  134. Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  135. Tim and Lucy Go To Sea by Edward Ardizzone
  136. Three Billy Goats Gruff by Peter Christien Asbjrnsen
  137. Through the Looking Glass
  138. Trumpet of the Swan
  139. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil by Tolkien
  140. The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown
  141. The Exploits of Moominpappa by Tove Jansson
  142. The Golden Key by George McDonald
  143. The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
  144. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  145. The Holy Twins: Benedict and Scholastica
  146. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
  147. The Hundred Dresses by Elinor Estes
  148. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
  149. The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
  150. The Lorax by Dr. Suess 
  151. The Phantom Tollbooth by 
  152. The Pheonix and the Carpet by Edith Nesbit
  153. The Poky Little Puppy by Gustaf Tenggren
  154. The One Hundred and One Dalmations by Dodie Smith 
  155. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
  156. The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
  157. The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
  158. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter
  159. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle 
  160. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
  161. The Way to Start a Day by Byrd Baylor
  162. The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong 
  163. The Wild Cats of Rome by 
  164. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by 
  165. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  166. Twenty Elephant Restaurant by Russell Hoban
  167. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
  168. Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
  169. Very Hungry Caterpillar and others by Eric Carle
  170. Water Babies
  171. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
  172. When We Were Very Young and Now We are Six by A.A. Milne
  173. Wind and the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  174. Winnie the Pooh series by AA Milne and Ernest H. Shepard 
  175. Wonderbook by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  176. Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  177. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema




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