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Sunday, March 1, 2009

I dearly love booklists

As a confirmed bibliophile, I have to admit one of my favorite things is booklists. Children's booklists, adult booklists, Christian booklists, I love them all.

So when Ang over at Hanging Out The Wash posted a booklist of classic children's literature, I had to look it over. She got the list from Best Children's Literature.

I am going to italicize those that we have already read and bold those I have read. If it is bolded, I will probably read it to my kids, or have them read.

Classic children's literature - Kindergarten through Grade 6

* Recommended children's literature for K-3, either for reading by children or for reading to them.

  • Adamson, Joy * Born Free


  • Aesop * Fables*


  • Alcott, Louisa May * Little Women


  • Andersen, Hans Christian * Fairy tales


  • Atwater, Richard and Florence * Mr. Popper's Penguins*


  • Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin * Miss Hickory


  • Barrie, J.M. * Peter Pan


  • Baum, L. Frank * The Wonderful Wizard of Oz


  • Bemelmans, Ludwig * Madeline series*


  • Bond, Michael * A Bear Called Paddington


  • Boston, L.M. * The Children of Green Knowe


  • Brink, Carol Ryrie * Caddie Woodlawn


  • Brown, Margaret Wise * Goodnight, Moon*


  • Brunhoff, Jean de * The Story of Babar*


  • Burnett, Frances Hodgson * The Secret Garden


  • Burton, Virginia Lee * Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel*


  • Butterworth, Oliver * The Enormous Egg


  • Clark, Ann Nolan * Secret of the Andes


  • Cleary, Beverly * Henry Huggins series


  • Coatsworth, Elizabeth * The Cat Who Went to Heaven


  • Dalgliesh, Alice * The Bears on Hemlock Mountain*
    * The Courage of Sarah Noble*

  • De Angeli, Marguerite * The Door in the Wall


  • De Jong, Meindert * The House of Sixty Fathers
    * The Wheel on the School

  • Dodge, Mary Mapes * Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates


  • Du Bois, William Pene * The Twenty-One Balloons


  • Edmonds, Walter D. * The Matchlock Gun


  • Estes, Eleanor * Ginger Pye
    * Moffats series


  • Farley, Walter * The Black Stallion


  • Field, Rachel * Hitty, Her First Hundred Years


  • Fritz, Jean * The Cabin Faced West


  • Gilbreth, Frank B. and Ernestine G. Carey * Cheaper By the Dozen


  • Gipson, Fred * Old Yeller


  • Godden, Rumer * The Mousewife*


  • Grahame, Kenneth * The Reluctant Dragon*
    * The Wind in the Willows


  • Gray, Elizabeth Janet * Adam of the Road


  • Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm * Grimm's Fairy Tales


  • Hawes, Charles * The Dark Frigate


  • Haywood, Carolyn * Betsy series*


  • Henry, Marguerite * King of the Wind
    * Misty of Chincoteague


  • Keith, Harold * Rifles for Watie


  • Kelly, Eric * The Trumpeter of Krakow


  • Kipling, Rudyard * Captains Courageous
    * Just So Stories for Little Children*
    * The Jungle Books


  • Kjelgaard, Jim * Big Red


  • Knight, Eric * Lassie Come Home


  • Krumgold, Joseph * ...and Now Miguel
    * Onion John


  • LaFarge, Oliver * Laughing Boy


  • Lamb, Charles and Mary * Tales from Shakespeare


  • Latham, Jean Lee * Carry on, Mr. Bowditch


  • Lawson, Robert * Ben & Me
    * Rabbit Hill


  • Leaf, Munro * The Story of Ferdinand*


  • Lear, Edward * Book of Nonsense*


  • Lenski, Lois * Strawberry Girl


  • Lewis, C.S. * Chronicles of Narnia series


  • Lindgren, Astrid * Pippi Longstocking series


  • Lofting, Hugh * Doctor Doolittle series (I remember reading one of these on a drive from Sydney to Melbourne, so it is hard for me to think of these without remembering the Aussie countryside)


  • London, Jack * The Call of the Wild
    * White Fang


  • MacDonald, Betty * Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle


  • MacGregor, Ellen * Miss Pickerell series


  • McCloskey, Robert * Blueberries for Sal* every year when we go pick blueberries

    * Homer Price
    * Make Way for Ducklings*


  • McSwigan, Marie * Snow Treasure


  • Meigs, Cornelia * Invincible Louisa


  • Milne, A.A. * The House at Pooh Corner*

    * Now We Are Six*

    * When We Were Very Young*

    * Winnie-the-Pooh*


  • Minarik, Else Holmelund * Little Bear


  • Montgomery, L.M. * Anne of Green Gables


  • Mukerji, Dhan Ghopal * Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon


  • Norton, Mary * The Borrowers series


  • O'Hara, Mary * My Friend Flicka


  • Pearce, Philippa * Tom's Midnight Garden


  • Perrault, Charles * Cinderella*


  • Potter, Beatrix * The Tale of Peter Rabbit*


  • Pyle, Howard * The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood


  • Rey, H.A. * Curious George series*


  • Richter, Conrad * The Light in the Forest


  • Selden, George * The Cricket in Times Square*


  • Seuss, Dr. * The Cat in the Hat*


  • Sewell, Anna * Black Beauty


  • Sorenson, Virginia * Miracles on Maple Hill


  • Speare, Elizabeth George * The Witch of Blackbird Pond


  • Sperry, Armstrong * Call It Courage


  • Spyri, Johanna * Heidi


  • Steinbeck, John * The Red Pony


  • Stevenson, Robert Louis * A Child's Garden of Verses*
    * Kidnapped
    * Treasure Island


  • Travers, Pamela L. * Mary Poppins series


  • Van Loon, Hendrik * The Story of Mankind


  • White, E.B. * Charlotte's Web
    * Stuart Little


  • Wilder, Laura Ingalls * Little House series


  • Williams, Margery * The Velveteen Rabbit*


  • Wyss, Johann * Swiss Family Robinson


  • Zion, Gene * Harry the Dirty Dog*

2 comments:

  1. You've done better than me! We read a lot of kids' books but I was surprised I hadn't been more thorough!

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  2. I loved Beverly Cleary as a child! I also loved Judy Blume... but I read one of her adult books and it really disturbed me...

    Charlotte's Web was also one of my favorites...

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