Approx. ages 3-6
(To be read aloud)
Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
The Brothers Grimm
Aesop’s Fables
Charles Perrault
Madame D’Aulnoy
Lady Lollipop by Dick King-Smith
Six Dinner Sid by Inga Moore
Amos & Boris by William Steig
Brave Irene by William Steig
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
The King’s Equal by Katherine Paterson
The Storm by Cynthia Rylant
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
The Complete Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem
Hickory by Palmer Brown
Approx. ages 6-8
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Stray by Dick King-Smith
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Babe by Dick King-Smith
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
The Real Thief by William Steig
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Editha’s Burglar by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Jane of Lantern Hill by LM Montgomery
Pigs Might Fly by Dick King-Smith
Approx. ages 9-11
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Dragon: Hound of Honor by Julie Andrews Edwards
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
White Fang by Jack London
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett
The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park