Book List

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald

“B” Is for Betsy by Carolyn Haywood

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

Bambi by Felix Salten

A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond

Betsy Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace

Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Black Stallion by Walter Farley

The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar d’Aulaire

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner (original series of 19 books recommended)

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

Call of the Wild by Jack London

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Children’s Homer by Padraic Colum

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (or some collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales)

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel

Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

The Good Master by Kate Seredy

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge

The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes

The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

James Herriot’s Treasury for Children

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Little Britches, or Father and I Were Ranchers by Ralph Moody

Little Eddie by Carolyn Haywood

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Many Moons by James Thurber

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers

Men of Iron by Howard Pyle

Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Norse Gods and Giants by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle

Peter Pan by James Barrie

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (either a children’s version such as Dangerous Journey or the full version or both)

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter

The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

Rip van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Some version of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Howard Pyle version recommended)

Some version of tales from Chaucer (A Taste of Chaucer by Anne Malcolmson recommended)

Some version of the Robin Hood stories (Howard Pyle version recommended)

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit

Treasury of Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Uncle Remus (Brer Rabbit) stories by Joel Chandler Harris

Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings