Hunter Posted February 26, 2014 Author Share Posted February 26, 2014 :lol: See what I mean? Still eating crow! Okay, so let's take a look at this. What if we picked just ONE book a year like ElizaG mentioned? And the child had only had one difficult book per year leading up to this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmansWife Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Okay, so let's take a look at this. What if we picked just ONE book a year like ElizaG mentioned? And the child had only had one difficult book per year leading up to this? :svengo: Hunter....why do you torture us like this?? I couldn't even post 3 books for each grade level let alone one!! :willy_nilly: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted February 27, 2014 Author Share Posted February 27, 2014 :svengo: Hunter....why do you torture us like this?? I couldn't even post 3 books for each grade level let alone one!! :willy_nilly: I don't know. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmansWife Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 I don't know. :lol: Oh, I think you do know. I think you enjoy driving us crazy. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmansWife Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 The reviews describing the book make me think of some movie.....I can't remember what it was (I don't think it was the name of this book)...with something very similar. Does anyone know what I'm thinking of? And, no, this isn't a guessing game to see who knows what I'm thinking....I really don't know and *I* need the answer. I'm quoting myself.....because.....*drum roll please*....I figured it out!! Woot woot!! The movie is called Charly. I remember that is was very touching and sad, yet it was a good movie. And, guess what...it's based on that Algernon book. Wow....I love it when I discover that my memory, while slow, is still working. :lol: Drinks are on me everyone!! :cheers2: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted February 27, 2014 Author Share Posted February 27, 2014 I'm glad you figured out the movie! With one book, I think we pick longer and more difficult books. Suddenly Chrysalis's long and rigorous choices from a couple years back might work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4littlewomen Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 I went through this thread and combined the suggestions of everyone in one list. There may be a couple of books listed more than once and sometimes people just suggested works from a certain author so the author is listed. I generally put them in the grade level suggested by all of you. Are there any that seem really off on their age level? I have not read every one of these books so some may be out of place. This is obviously not in line with the 3 books per grade idea but it is still a great list of books to look through. Have fun :) Pre-K - 1st: A Bear Called Paddington Ballet Shoes Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales Big Susan Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey Cinderella Clamshell Boy Curious George, by H.A. Rey Eskimo Twins Favorite Poems, Old and New Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales Illustrated Children's Bible - Selena Hastings King Midas and the Golden Touch illustrated by KY Craft Little House on the Prairie Mandy Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton Mr. Popper's Penguins My Father's Dragon Oxford Treasury of Fairy Tales Raggedy Ann Raggedy Ann in Cookie Land Mother Goose Stone Soup, by Marcia Brown The Aesop for Children The Jungle Book The Little Engine that Could, by Watty Piper The Little House, by Virginia Lee Burton The Red Fairy Book The Steadfast Tin Soldier. Uncle Wiggily's Storybook Where the Sidewalk Ends Winnie-the-Pooh 2nd - 4th: 50 Famous Stories Retold (Baldwin) A Midsummer Night's Dream Adam of the Road Adventures of Robin Hood Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (in one volume) Amazons and Swallows Andrew Langs' Arabian Nights Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbitt Black Beauty Boxcar Children Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlotte's Web Christmas Carol Crickett in Time Square D'aulaires Greek Myths and Norse Myths Dr. Doolittle Everything For a Dog Gooney Bird Greene Island of the Blue Dolphins James and the Giant Peach Just So Stories Key to the Treasure King Arthur Lassie Come Home Little House books Little Pilgrim's Progress Mary Poppins Misty of Chicateague (or other Marguerite Henry Book) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Native American Myths Norse Myths Number the Stars Oliver Twist (and other Dickens) Peter and Wendy Peter Pan Pinocchio Pippi Longstocking Pollyanna Robinson Crusoe Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Stone Fox The Hundred Dresses The Incredible Journey The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe The Little Princess The Little Riders The Railway Children The Reluctant Dragon The Secret Garden The Trumpet of the Swan The Velveteen Rabbit, by Marjery Williams The Whipping Boy The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Year of Miss Agne Tuck Everlasting Understood Betsy Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Where the Red Fern Grows White Fang Witch of Blackbird Pond 5th- 8th: A Separate Peace A Wrinkle in Time Anne of Green Gables Arabian Nights Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne Black Ships Before Troy and Wanderings of Odysseus - Sutcliffe Call of the Wild Flowers of Algernon Gulliver's Travels Harry Potter series Heidi, by Johanna Spyri Huckleberry Fin Johnny Tremain Jonathan Livingston Seagull Kidnapped King of the Wind Little Women Loeb Plutarch's Lives VII Loeb The Gallic War My side of the Mountain Myths of the World (Padraic Colum) Pilgrim's Progress Poe Stories Red Badge of Courage Robinson Crusoe Secret Garden Shakespeare (Tales From Shakespeare maybe) Sherlock Holmes Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Swiss Famiy Robinson The Autobiography of Ben Franklin The Bronze Bow The Call of the Wild The Children's Homer (both the Iliad and Odyssey retellings in one book) The Chronicles of Narnia The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories by O. Henry The Giver The Hiding Place The Hobbit The Little Prince The Old Man and the Sea The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson The Three Musketeers The Time Machine The Westing Game Tom Sawyer Treasure Island Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe White Fang 9th - 12th: 1984 A Tale of Two Cities A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Animal Farm Anthology of Greek Plays Anthology of Shakespeare Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ Bullfinch's Mythology Catcher in the Rye Chaucer Crime and Punishment Diary of Anne Frank Dickens Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Dostoyevsky Edgar Allen Poe Fahrenheit 451 Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations Half the Sky Homer In His Steps Into the Wild Jane Eyre John Steinbeck Julius Caesar - Shakespeare Leaves of Grass - Whitman Les Miserables Lord of the Rings Mabinogion Macbeth (Shakespeare) Mark Twain (probably have to go with Huck Finn) Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare) Middlemarch Moby Dick Oedipus Rex On The Road Paradise Lost, by John Milton Pride & Prejudice Shakespeare Silas Marner Something by Agatha Christie Tales from Shakespeare - Lambs The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Aeneid (Virgil) The Age of Innocence The best King Arthur version I can find (which??) The Divine Comedy, by Dante The Grapes of Wrath The Iliad and The Odyssey The Inferno of Dante - Pinsky The Life of Fredrick Douglas The Oresteia (Aeschylus) The Republic Three Theban Plays (Sophocles) To Kill A Mockingbird Walden & Civil Disobedience What is the What? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4littlewomen Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Also, I am sure I am missing some so please let me know if something needs to be added. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted February 28, 2014 Author Share Posted February 28, 2014 Also, I am sure I am missing some so please let me know if something needs to be added. What a great idea! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrapbabe Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Bumping because I love this thread! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted April 12, 2014 Author Share Posted April 12, 2014 Bumping because I love this thread! :lol: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IfIOnly Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 I found this thread searching for literature suggestions. Thanks for all the great recommendations! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nature girl Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 I'm so glad this post was bumped. Now have several new books on my library hold list, and a "for later" list started in Excel. This also reminded me of some of my favorites from childhood...Ballet Shoes was one favorite I'd thought of many times over the years, but couldn't remember the title of! I'm going to buy it just for me. :) Honestly, I think The Wind in the Willows would be wasted on a first-grader . . . :D I am reading it aloud to dd9 now, and she loves it. But it has some really advanced vocabulary, (which I think is fine for littles) and some *long* passages of description with I don't think dd5 would get much out of. DD9 is at the perfect stage to hear the alliteration, pay attention to the sound of the language, see the pictures in her mind - and to appreciate the sarcasm, and the quirky characters. DD5 wouldn't get all that.I definitely agree with some pps who said that the right book at the wrong time might be not only wasted, but counterproductive. I would think that it would be important to be willing to put a book on the shelf for a year or two if it's over the head of a child.Anyway, just 2 more cents!! I've started reading books that I know are somewhat over my DD's head (partly because they're more fun for me, haha.) But she enjoys them too, even though I'm sure she isn't getting everything out of them that there is to be gotten. I'm hoping that once she's older and reads them herself (or we read them again together), they'll feel like old friends. Plus the language is so beautiful, and it's never too soon to introduce children to beautiful language. One thing I've noticed since starting to read the more advanced books to my 4yo is that the way she uses language in everyday speech has changed...She'll randomly throw in 10th grade vocabulary words in 4yo simple speech, it's hysterical, and she's started using similes. Last month she told me the sunset looked like an erupting volcano, and last week when I interrupted her, she told me to "be as silent as a blade of grass bending in the breeze.") :lol: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 I realize that this question was asked a couple of years, but perhaps someone else is looking for a recommendation. For the Poe stories, has anyone found a collection that they particularly like? I like the Whole Story editions which are now mostly out of print. They have fascinating sidebars and illustrations of items pertaining to the time and setting. Inexpensive used copies are available at Amazon and other vendors. The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories: The Whole Story You can see other titles in the collection here. Or, here's a list: White Fang, Little Women, Frankenstein, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Christmas Carol, The Call Of The Wild, Around the World in Eighty Days, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde amongst others. Regards, Kareni 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sukale Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Wanted to give a bump in case you need to buy a book as a Christmas gift. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 Oh, goodness. :lol: Some of these threads were so fun! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esse Quam Videri Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 So difficult and this would undoubtedly change, but here are some of our must reads- Preschool- The Real Mother Goose, The World Treasury of Children's Literature Vol. 1 and 2 K- James Herriot's Treasury for Children, Thornton Burgess Collection, The House at Pooh Corner 1- Little House in the Big Woods, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Charlotte's Web 2- Baby Island, The Sign of the Beaver, The Story of Dr. Dolittle 3- The Secret Garden, The Wizard of Oz, Black Beauty 4- Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Little White Horse, Narnia series (at least The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Silver Chair) 5- The Hobbit, Anne of Green Gables, Tales From Shakespeare 6- Where the Red Fern Grows, Little Women, Swiss Family Robinson 7- Lord of the Rings, Bulfinch's Mythology, A Christmas Carol 8- The Giver, Oliver Twist, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esse Quam Videri Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 What an amazing thread... So glad to stumble upon this 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnMomof7 Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 (edited) I'm actually making a list like this for my own kids! Poetry isn't included, that's separate IMO. It's also geared to readin independently in first and up. These aren't read alouds except in Baby/PK/K. Baby Goodnight Moon The Very Hungry Caterpillar Brown Bear, Brown Bear PK Harper Collins picture book treasury The Little Engine That Could The Story About Ping K Robert Munsch Grand Treasury (we are Canadian!!) Caps for Sale James Herriot Children's Treasury Level 1 Seuss Treasury Frog and Toad treasury Treadwell Primer (the Treadwells have great fairy tales/folk stories, simply told, and Mother Goose to boot) Level 2 My Father's Dragon Trilogy The Boxcar Children Treadwell First Reader Level 3 Charlotte's Web Little House in the Big Woods Homer Price Level 4 Heidi Brighty of Grand Canyon Aesop's Fables Level 5 Black Beauty The Jungle Book (we love Rikki Tikki!) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Level 6 Little Women Tom Sawyer Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare Level 7 Around the World in 80 Days King Arthur by Pyle Anne of Green Gables Level 8 Hound of the Baskervilles Robin Hood by Howard Pyle White Fang Most of these are tried and true for us, I haven't read the Pyles or Shakespeare yet, though :). Edited January 9, 2016 by Jennifer Bogart 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sukale Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Bump I look for this old thread every year at Christmas time. These books make great gifts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixpix5 Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Hmmmm... Kindergarten Beatrix Potter Collection Winnie the Pooh Collection Hans Christian Andersen Collection First Wizard of Oz Pinocchio My Father's Dragon Second Peter Pan Alice in Wonderland Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Third Wind in the Willow Laura Ingalls Wilder (one of them) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Fourth Chronicles of Narnia Jungle Book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban My phone is almost dead...will have to come back and add the rest later :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 (edited) The first thing that came to my mind when I read your original post was The Wind in the Willows. What a neat book about home and friendship. I was also thinking about Tuck Everlasting because Babitt is such a masterful writer and says so much with so few words. This book would also be a great jumping off point for talking about some philosophy. I'm kind of enamoured with A Little Princess right now as we are currently listening to the audio version. I like that this book gives clues about how to live in a gracious way but it is not preachy at all. And just for fun my kids just love Kiplings Just So Stories and if you get the audio version you have to get the one read by Jim Weiss. Little bits of these stories come into our conversations frequently (The greasy, green Limpopo River all set about with fever trees). Weiss' reading of these stories is beyond hilarous in some places. Oh, and I would be remiss if I didn't mention that Heidi is one of the most delightful books I have read and I still have it on my top 10 even though it has probably been 7-8 years since we read it last (maybe I will have to pull that one out again). Oh, and lastly, my kids are really enjoying Little Pilgrims Progress. This is Pilgrims Progress for children. I typically belive in only reading the unabridged versions but in this case I make an exception because the point of the book is to convey spiritual truths. I would gladly read the children's version to get the message through in a more delightful way. We read Heidi last Spring and my 5 year old was the one most interested. And. I just realized this was a bumped 2012 thread. I miss Hunter. Here I was thinking she'd come back! And Narnia is just fine at the 4th-5th grade level. I've got a boy who can read harder books (He read Phantom Tollbooth in Second Grade. And a illustrated Knights of the Round Table in 3rd). But it took until late 4th grade for him to be interested in Narnia. (I tried, quite a bit. But he just couldn't get through it before this past summer.) This year he read Treasure Island and is angling for more books like it. Edited November 30, 2017 by vonfirmath 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homemommy83 Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 This an awesome thread, thank you for bumping it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenecho Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 (edited) First, since I get a Bible, I would choose the Jesus Story Book Bible for younger age, The Children's illustrated Bible for Later Elementary, and a regular New American Standard or NIV for middle school. Lets assume preschool starts when they are born and we get 3 books for each year of preschool. Yes, I'm stretching it here. Age 0 Oh David Brown Bear, Brown Bear A really tactile book...not sure which one Age 1 Going to Bed Book or Time for Bed Very Hungry Caterpillar A Mother Goose Book of Poetry Age 2 A Book of Fairy Tales Hippos Go Berserk Where the Wild Things Are Age 3 Winnie the Pooh Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm The Little Engine that Could Age 4 Stellaluna The Monster at the End of This Book A Quiet Night In Age 5/KG Trafalgar True A Collection of Dr. Suess Piggie and Elephant (We are In a Book) 1st Grade Piggie and Elephant - I'm a Frog Junie B. Jones (not sure which one) Treasures of the Snow (by Patricia St. John) 2nd Grade A Little Princess The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Little House on the Prairie 3rd Grade The Secret Garden On the Banks of Plumb Creek Charlotte's Web 4th Grade Shell Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends Charlie and the Chocholate Factory The Borrowers 5th Bambi and Bambi's Children (lets just say they came in a set) Ordinary Princess Island of the Blue Dolphins 6th Watership Down My Side of the Mountain Origami Yoda (at least the first one) 7th The Hobbit Holes Anne of Avonlea (yep...I'd skip Gables...I think this one is better) 8th A Wrinkle In Time Summer of My German Soldier Lord of the Rings Trilogy REASONS You can see I'm starting short in the early years and going longer...with a step back around Kindergarten to give them some fun books that they could actually start to read themselves. Also, the going to bed books start about the time stories at bed start. There's counting books in there because that is such a fun way to teach that. And I tried to balance funny stories with more serious stories, cause kids need both (assuming this is all the books they got...desert Island thing). I also wanted a balance of classic and modern stories. The Monster at the End of This Book at age 4 is really strategic too, because it builds word sense (all the great bubble letters help them make connections between words and what's said.). Some explanation on some of the less well known ones... A Quiet Night In This book kinda saved my sanity a little. My children loved it, the story was wonderful, but it was an encouragement to me as a parent too...as it has a lot in there for parents to enjoy. If I only had three books a year to read my kids, this one I wouldn't mind reading over and over and over. Trafalgar True A favorite as a child...really, I loved all of the Serindipity books. As an adult reading them some of them rang a little heavy handed with the moral, but my children didn't seem to notice and loved them too. They are longer so get children ready for longer paragraphs and more ornate writing but the pictures are so engaging it holds them. Trafalgar was I think one of the best, one I didn't mind reading over and over...with it's message of sharing and it's selfless character examples, and cute bunny like creatures and a beautiful dragon! Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm One of my favorite books ever. It very gently teaches kids the facts about nature...things like animals dying and eating other animals are dealt with frankly and matter of factly, but it still has a gentleness in the way it deals (gives a "this is part of life, and that's ok" sense). In the middle are humorous antic of the animals. It's a longer book (not long as in long paragraphs...there's a picture for nearly every line ) but can be broken into short parts and could be read in little bits for days. Treasures of the Snow (by Patricia St. John) One of my favorite Christian books. The writing in it is just beautiful. It's got external adventure but the real story takes place internally, in the changes that happen in the girl and the boy who are the main characters of this stories (and we get to see both of them as protaganist and antagonist as we look at both of them through each other's eyes). In this book the villain is not external...it's the sin that separates us from each other. Yet it's perfectly aimed at children...the story is so much through their eyes and love that. It portrays them well as children, but gives them the same respect as an adult in those roles...doesn't patronize the characters at all. I loved it as a child and my children loved it too. 1st grade might be too early for some children, but I read it in KG. I think I read it to my own children in 2nd or 3rd. Ordinary Princess An altered fairy tale that is just...beautiful (with beautiful illustrations too...though it's a chapter book). It's about a princess who is given the gift of being ordinary by a grumpy fairy godmother. She runs away as a teen (for a good and nobel reason), becomes a kitchen maid in another castle, and on the way falls in love (but it is a gently growing love, built on something real, not love at first sight). I love the messages in this book, and the story is completely charming. Origami Yoda My kids and I both loved this so much. They could read themselves by then, but kept reading me parts they thought were funny, and in the end they asked me to read it to them, just cause, even though they'd already read it. It was such a great book. Great messages. Sort of school centered, so don't know how it would go with homeschoolers (these were my two older kids in public school). Some of the messages have to deal with how to deal with the insanity that is middle school. So, I don't know if homeschoolers could relate as well. But the humor is so good, and the story behind the humor is good too. Reminds me of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever in style. If I could add just one more book.... Click Clack Moo I would add it at age 4. It's another one that is good for word recognition. Sweet, funny story and also teaches a little bit about the political process...and that the typewriter is mightier than the pitchfork. Edited December 3, 2017 by goldenecho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 LOVE this old thread. thanks for bumping. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenecho Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 For high school...and probably not in this order... Norton Anthology of Poetry Norton Anthology of Short Fiction Romeo and Juliet The Crucible Mark Twain and Huck Finn (counting this as a duo) Oliver Twist OR Jane Eyre (hard to choose...both great Victorian lit) To Kill a Mockingbird Fahrenheit 451 Animal Farm The Hunger Games Trilogy Screwtape Letters In This Sign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlcc Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 I remember this thread. At the time it was posted I didn't have enough reading experience to respond. If I could have a do-over with my older children, here's what I would use through Year 9. Though perhaps this list will change as I keep reading new books. K/Primary: 1. Fairy tale collection 2. Herriot's Treasury for Children 3. Winnie the Pooh collection 1st: 1. Aesop's Fables 2. Beatrix Potter collection 3. Little House in the Big Woods 2nd: 1. Little Pilgrim's Progress 2. Princess and the Goblin 3. Farmer Boy 3rd: 1. Narnia 2. Wind in the Willows 3. Little House on the Prairie or The Long Winter 4th: 1. Little Britches #1 - Father and I Were Ranchers 2. Wind in the Willows 3. Understood Betsy or One Hundred Dresses 5th: 1. Little Britches #2 - Man of the Family 2. Robin Hood or King Arthur 3. Anne of Green Gables 6th: 1. Little Britches #3 - The Home Ranch 2. Robinson Crusoe 3. The Hobbit 7th: 1. Bulfinch's Mythology 2. Beowulf 3. Pilgrim's Progress 8th: 1. David Copperfield 2. Animal Farm 3. Fierce Wars, Faithful Loves 9th: 1. A Tale of Two Cities 2. Sir Gibbie or Ivanhoe 3. Aeneid 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAttachedMama Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 I too would just use the Lit picks from Memoria Press. ;) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdventuresinHomeschooling Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 (edited) I think for preschool and kindergarten, I'd get a good Anthology or collection of short stories, the Velveteen Rabbit, Stone Soup and The Story of Ferdinand For first: Aesop' Fables Peter Rabbit Grimm' Fairy Tales Second: Winnie the Pooh Little House books Hans Christian Anderson stories Third: Narnia books Mary Poppins Paddington Fourth: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory The Secret Garden or A Little Princess Swiss Family Robinson Fifth: Anne of Green Gables The Prince and the Pauper The Jungle Book Sixth: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Treasure Island The Hobbit Edited December 6, 2017 by AdventuresinHomeschooling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted December 14, 2017 Author Share Posted December 14, 2017 We read Heidi last Spring and my 5 year old was the one most interested. And. I just realized this was a bumped 2012 thread. I miss Hunter. Here I was thinking she'd come back! And Narnia is just fine at the 4th-5th grade level. I've got a boy who can read harder books (He read Phantom Tollbooth in Second Grade. And a illustrated Knights of the Round Table in 3rd). But it took until late 4th grade for him to be interested in Narnia. (I tried, quite a bit. But he just couldn't get through it before this past summer.) This year he read Treasure Island and is angling for more books like it. I haven't logged in for weeks, but logged in today, and see this thread bumped. I'm sorry for being so absent. Signing up for college is crazy involved when a state rehabilitation agency is involved. I'm wondering if I should skip using them next semester. Except my books came to $813 and they are going to pay for a big chunk of that. Despite having not attended a single day of classes at the college, I was pretty much the only new student at the orientation that knew their way around the campus. LOL. I've been there almost every day for the past couple months. Everyone in Financial Aid knows my face and name. LOL. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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