Reading Lists

We love to read.  I probably read aloud to our kids a couple hours a day and they still beg me to read more.  There are so many wonderful books I'd recommend and so many I never read as a child; I think I'm making up for lost time.

Here are of some books we've read aloud.  It's not a completely exhaustive list, but what I've kept track of in the last couple years.  If it's a favorite book that the kids absolutely loved it will be marked with an asterisk (*).

Books are in alphabetical order by authors last name.


Books Read Aloud to Kids

Chapter Books

American Girl Series- Meet Addy*
American Girl Series- Addy Learns a Lesson*
Avi- Crispin- The Cross of Lead*
Black, David- Kingdom's Dawn
Brother Andrew- God's Smuggler *
Burnett, Frances Hodgson- The Little Princess *
Burnett, Frances Hodgson- The Secret Garden*
Cleary, Beverly- Dear Mr. Henshaw
Collins, Suzanne- Gregor The Overlander *
Collins, Suzanne- Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane*
Dahl, Roald- The BFG*
Dahl, Roald- George's Marvelous Medicine*
Dalgliesh, Alice- The Courage of Sarah Noble
Dalgliesh, Alice- The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
Edmonds, Walter- The Matchlock Gun
Estes, Eleanor- The Hundred Dresses*
Fleischman, Paul- Bull Run
Forbes, Esther- Johnny Tremain
Janeway, Elizabeth- The Vikings
Jeremiah, David- The 12 Ways of Christmas
Hannula, Richard M.- Trial and Triumph
Lord, Bette Bao- In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Lowry, Lois- Number The Stars *
Hesse, Karen- Out of the Dust*
Holling, Holling C.- Paddle to the Sea
Marrin, Albert- Hitler
Marshall, Peter- The Light and The Glory For Children
Marshall, Peter- From Sea to Shining Sea
Mason, Renee- Homescholing All The Way Through High School
Montgomery, Lucy M.- Anne of Avonlea*
Montgomery, Lucy M.- Anne of Green Gables*
Parks, Barbara- Junie B. Jones Has A Monster Under Her Bed*
Parks, Barbara- Junie B. Jones is a Party Animal*
Parks, Barbara- Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth*
Pene du Bois, William- 21 Balloons
Pennypacker, Sarah- Clementine
Philbrick, Rodman- The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg*
Rawls, Wilson- Where the Red Fern Grows*
Riordan, Rick- The Last Olympian*
Riordan, Rick- The Lightning Thief*
Riordan, Rick- The Sea of Monsters*
Shub, Elizabeth- The White Stallion
Sobel, Syl- The U.S. Constitution & You
Spangler, Ann- Praying The Names of Jesus*
Speare, Elizabeth George- The Witch of Blackbird Pond *
Sterling, Dorothy- Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
Strobel, Lee- The Case For Christ For Kids
Taylor, Mildred- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Ten Boom, Corrie- The Hiding Place *
Twain, Mark- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer *
Vos, Catherine- The Children's Bible
Wilder, Laura Ingalls- Little House in the Big Woods
Wilder, Laura Ingalls- Little House on the Prairie

Picture Books
Adler, David- Fraction Fun
Barrett, Judy- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Barrett, Judy- Pickles to Pittsburgh
Brown, Margaret Wise- Bunny's Noisy Book
Brown, Margaret Wise- The Little Fir Tree
Brown, Margaret Wise- The Little Scarecrow Boy
Brown, Margaret Wise- Sneakers, The Seaside Cat
Cronin, Doreen- Diary of a Worm
D'Aulaire, Ingri & Edgar- Abraham Lincoln
D'Aulaire, Ingri & Edgar- Columbus
D'Aulaire, Ingri & Edgar- Leif The Lucky
D'Aulaire, Ingri & Edgar- Pochahontas
Demi- Marco Polo
de Regniers, Beatrice Schenk- May I Bring a Friend?
Freedman, Russell- Lincoln, A Photobiography *
Freeman, Don- Dandelion
Gerstein, Mordicai- The Man Who Walked Between The Towers
Gramatke, Hardie- Little Toot and the Loch Ness Monster
Hall, Donald- Ox Cart Man*
Heinrichs, Ann- The Magic of Language: Adverbs
Hill, Laban Carrick- Dave the Potter, Artist, Poet, Slave
Jones, Sally Lloyd- The Jesus Storybook Bible*
Krull, Kathleen & Paul Brewer- Lincoln Tells a Joke
Lawson, Robert- They Were Strong and Good
Martin, Bill Jr.- White Dynamite & Curly Kidd
Mayer, Mercer- The Queen Always Wanted to Dance
Mayer, Mercer- There's Something in my Attic
Mayer, Mercer- There are Monsters Everywhere
Mayhew, James- Katie Meets the Impressionists
McCloskey, Robert- One Morning in Maine
Monet, Claude- Monet's Impressions
Monjo, F.N.- The Drinking Gourd
Niz, Xavier- Rembrandt
Olson, Kay M.- Benjamin Franklin- An American Genius
Parish, Herman- Amelia Bedelia, Rocket Scientist?
Pinkney, Jerry- The Lion and the Mouse
Priceman, Marjorie- How to Make a Cherry Pie and See The U.S.A.*
Priceman, Marjorie- How to Make an Apple Pie and See The World*
Russian Folktale- Babushka
Recorvits, Helen- My Name is Yoon*
Say, Allen- The Bicycle Man
Scholastic- Magic School Bus Gets Ants in the Pants
Scholastic- The Magic School Bus In The Haunted Museum
Shannon, David- A Bad Case of the Stripes
Sherman, Pat- Ben & The Emancipation Proclamation
Waters, Kate- Samuel Eaton's Day
Weatherford, Carole Boston- The Beatitudes From Slavery to Civil Rights
Winter, Jeanette- Follow The Drinking Gourd
Ziefert, Harriet- A New Coat for Anna*

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