I love a good reading list for young readers and as recommendations for read-alouds for families. This is my start at one, and I’ll be adding to the list as I think of other loved books.
Book List for Young Readers
Peter Rabbit, and other works of Beatrix Potter
Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne (the classic version)
Ferdinand, Leaf
Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Carle
The Little Engine That Could, by Piper
The Three Bears, Golden Book Classic
Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown
The Dog Who Wanted to Play, Fred Ash
The Mitten, Jan Brett
Gingerbread Friends, Jan Brett
Hurry Up Franklin, by Paulette Bourgeois (Author), Breanda Clark (Illustrator)
The Wonders That I Find, Meghan J. Ward (Author), Tay Odynski (Illustrator)
The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room, by Stan Berenstain (Author), Jan Berenstain (Author)
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Merrigold’s Very Best Home, Marcia Lee Laycock
Home for a Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown
Floss
Just Like Floss
Only One Woof, James Herriot
Moses The Kitten, James Herriot
James Herriot Treasury for Children
Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jan Brett
The Little House on the Prairie, series
The Wind in the Willows
Frog and Toad, series
Just So Stories
Black Beauty
Lassie Come Home
Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
The Borrowers, Norton
Paddle To The Sea, Holling C. Holding
Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Atwater
Jar of Tears, Templeton
The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Cleary
Higher Ways, MG Fantasy
Watership Down
O’Malley, The Mail-Order Dog
Where The Red Fern Grows
Owls In The Family
The Yearling
The Railway Children
Misty of Chincoteague, by Marguerite Henry
Marguerite Henry Treasury of Horses (all her books)
The Good Master, by Kate Seredy
The Singing Tree, by Kate Seredy
Julie of the Wolves
Big Red, by Jim Kjelgaard
Irish Red, Jim Kjelgaard
Stormy, Jim Kjelgaard
Snow Dog, Jim Kjelgaard
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Christmas Carol, Dickens
The Grave Thief, Dee Hahn
A Little Princess, Burnett
Number the Stars
Sarah, Plain and Tall
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Magician’s Nephew
The Last Battle
The Secret Garden
Stuart Little, by E.B. White
The Hobbit
A Wrinkle in Time
Dear Canada, series
Books for Older Teens
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Little Men, Alcott
Jo’s Boys, Alcott
The White Stag, by Kate Seredy
The Twelve Dancing Princesses, and Other Fairy Tales (Midland Book)
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
Around the World in Eighty Days
Gulliver’s Travels
Beowulf
Till We Have Faces, A Myth Retold
Smith of Wootten Major/Farmer Giles of Ham
The Adventures of Pinocchio, Collodi
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy, Oxford Classics, by Barrie
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll
Aesop’s Fables, by Aesop
King of the Wind
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Call of the Wild
White Fang
D’Aularies Greek Myths
The Children’s Homer
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Hind’s Feet on High Places
The Importance of Being Ernest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
Tales from Shakespeare, by the Lambs
Shakespeare’s Plays
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Iliad of Homer
The Odyssey
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Persausion, Jane Austen
Brave New World
The Screwtape Letters
The Great Divorce
Animal Farm
All The Light We Cannot See
POETRY & LYRICAL BOOKS
Jamberry, Degen
Sheep in a Jeep, Shaw
Go Dog, Go, by Eastman
Summer North Coming, Bentley
My Little Book of Poems, Golden Books Classics
A House is a House For Me
The Seven Silly Eaters
