NoPlaceLikeHome Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 I realize that this has been done in some fashion or another before and I also have the WTM but I still think it would be great to brainstorm a list of great books with high literary value:D If they have moral lessons that is a plus;) Anyone?:lurk5: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakia Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Oh my gosh, I wouldn't even know where to start! But I want to subscribe to this thread, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 I think this topic is too broad and daunting for me! There are just too many choices.... Do you want great classics for all ages, such as Tolkeins works or the Narnia series? Do you want other great children's classics, such as Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, Frog and Toad, The Wind in the Willows, Amelia Bedelia? Or do you want more specific historical fiction for different time periods, such as The Golden Goblet, The Bronze Bow, or Rosemary Sutcliff's many wonderful books? Laura Ingalls Wilders books, or Francis Hodgins Burnetts books? Or do you want non-fiction that is really literary, such as Rachael Carsons works? (The Sea Around Us, et al) Walden? Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek? I like books such as Napoleon's Buttons, too.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoPlaceLikeHome Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 I think this topic is too broad and daunting for me! There are just too many choices.... Do you want great classics for all ages, such as Tolkeins works or the Narnia series? Do you want other great children's classics, such as Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, Frog and Toad, The Wind in the Willows, Amelia Bedelia? Or do you want more specific historical fiction for different time periods, such as The Golden Goblet, The Bronze Bow, or Rosemary Sutcliff's many wonderful books? Laura Ingalls Wilders books, or Francis Hodgins Burnetts books? Or do you want non-fiction that is really literary, such as Rachael Carsons works? (The Sea Around Us, et al) Walden? Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek? I like books such as Napoleon's Buttons, too.... Those all sound great:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoPlaceLikeHome Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 My ds has just read the following: Series of Unfortunate Events- all 13 books Harry Potter- 1st 3 books Just started Percy Jackson series and Red Pyramid- I hope these have literary value:) At least ds loves these. Multiple books by Roald Dahl and Beverly Cleary Book of Three series I will have to check what else he has read recently;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloggermom Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Here is our Kindergarten - 2nd grade lists: Kindergarten The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne The Complete Tales of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter Nonsense Poems by Edward Lear Anderson's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson The Little House by Virginia Burton Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey Make Way for Ducklings by Robery McCloskey The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton The Mountain that Loved a Bird by Alice McLerran The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams First Grade Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Second Grade Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame The Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder The BFG by Roald Dahl Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Heidi by Johanna Spyri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloggermom Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 (edited) Here is our 3rd - 4th grade lists: 3rd Grade The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss Charlotte's Webb by E.B. White The Moffats by Eleanor Estes Trumpet of the Swan by Fred Marcellino Homer Price by Robert McCloskey Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnett On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder By the Shores of the Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder The Lost World by Sir Arthur Doyle The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald The Princess and the Curdie by George MacDonald Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb Fourth Grade Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Little Men by Louisa May Alcott Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott The Borrowers by Mary Norton Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne Kidnapped by Robert Lois Stevenson The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene Dubois King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Call of the Wild by Jack London White Fang by Jack London Edited April 2, 2012 by Bloggermom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloggermom Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 (edited) Here is our 5th - 6th grade list - 5th Grade An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt The Story of My Life by Helen Keller Michael Faraday, Father of Electronics by Charles Ludwig Anne of Greene Gables by L.M. Montgomery Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes Old Yeller by Fred Gibson The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Sixth Grade Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig The Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen The Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew and John Sherrill Mysterious Island by Jules Verne Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein Yearling by Majorie Kinnan Edited April 2, 2012 by Bloggermom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoPlaceLikeHome Posted April 2, 2012 Author Share Posted April 2, 2012 Wow!!! Great lists:D Are all of the books in your lists originals or adaptations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloggermom Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Wow!!! Great lists:D Are all of the books in your lists originals or adaptations? I adapted from several lists and narrowed it to what I thought were the best of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besroma Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 :lurk5: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 So I'm curious-did your fifth grader read these books, or are they read-alouds? I KNOW my fifth grader could not read 20,000 Leagues or Oliver Twist-his attention span and reading comprehension would not permit it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnbacademy Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Books from Lamplighter Publishing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curriculumhoarder Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 For what ages? For an avid reader or a reluctant one? An advanced reader or an average one? My 13yo has read 1984, Animal Farm, McCullough's John Adams, African Myths of Origin (Penguin books), Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Long Road from Home, Endless Steppes, Lord of the Rings, Sargent York, etc, etc, etc. She's read (or had read to her) over 1875 books in the last 5 years that we've been hsing. And, those do not include any books that I deem just for fun (I count nonfiction, historical fiction, award winners, classics, cultural studies and the like). She's a reader ;). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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