I know that books are really good when I check a title out for a younger child and an older child is excited to see the book and reread it. Two series of books that my older children fondly remember and were excited to see in our library basket this month are the Jenny Linsky books and the Melendy Quartet.
Thanks go to Kimberlee for bringing them to my attention again.
Preschool - Second Grade Read Alouds
The Big Snow
This book brought back memories of various animals that I saw as a young child when my family lived in Toronto for eight months. The book is well written and the illustrations add to the story's beauty.
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Tasha Tudor
The Christmas Donkey
Christmas In The Stable
I really like this book.
Corduroy
I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Corduroy when I was young and I still do. This story about a young girl and her bear is a classic.
What child doesn't enjoy hearing about Curious George's antics? My younger children crowd around whenever I start reading a Curious George book. When I was a child, my favorite book in this series was Curious George Rides a Bike.
Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale
The Seven Silly Eaters
This book is a favorite with my children.
This Is the Stable
We Three Kings
by Gennady Spirin
and more...
Norman The Doorman
by Don Freeman
I wish that our library still had (and that Amazon still sold) the larger version of this book. The smaller illustrations, while still good, don't provide the same impact as the original.
The Other Wise Man
by Henry Van Dyke, retold by Pamela Kennedy
Small Pig
by Arnold Lobel
Fifth Grade
Bobbsey Twins: The Secret at the Seashore
Laura Lee Hope
The Boxcar Children: Mystery Ranch
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Emil and the Detectives
by Erich Kastner
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Nancy and Plum
by Betty MacDonald
and more...
Second Grade
Norman The Doorman
I wish that our library still had (and that Amazon still sold) the larger version of this book. The smaller illustrations, while still good, don't provide the same impact as the original.
The Other Wise Man
Small Pig
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Norman the Doorman illustration by Don Freeman |
Fifth Grade
The Boxcar Children: Mystery Ranch
Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky
and Captains of the City Streets
by Esther Averill
Two and Two Are Four
by Carolyn Haywood
Nancy and Plum
by Betty MacDonald
Two and Two Are Four
Sixth Grade
Eighth Grade
Emil and the Detectives
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Nancy and Plum
This story by the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
series' author received two thumbs up from my daughter. I haven't read the book, but after flipping through an original edition and a new copy of the book, I exclaimed, "I prefer the original illustrations." Agnes replied, "They are definitely better, but the new illustrations fit the story."
The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill
Thanks go to Kimberlee, once again, for bringing this book to our attention.
The Saturdays
by Elizabeth Enright
The Silmarillion
by J.R.R. Tolkien
This is the fifth or sixth time that my daughter has read her father's old copy of The Silmarillion. She is our Tolkien fan.
Understood Betsy
by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Tenth Grade
Thanks go to Kimberlee, once again, for bringing this book to our attention.
The Saturdays
The Silmarillion
This is the fifth or sixth time that my daughter has read her father's old copy of The Silmarillion. She is our Tolkien fan.
Understood Betsy
Tenth Grade
Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky
Modern Saints: Their Lives and Faces, Book 1
Nancy and Plum
The Saturdays
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Nancy and Plum illustration by Hildegarde Hopkins |
My Husband
An American Knight: The Life of Colonel John W. Ripley, USMC
I have heard my husband recommending this book to some of his friends. He is really enjoying reading it and will occasionally share little bits of what he has read with me.
We and Our Children by Mary Reed Newland
Read Aloud
Saints for Young People for Every Day of the Year by the Daughters of St. Paul
Audiobooks
The Princess and the Goblin
by George MacDonald, read by Ian Whitcomb
The Princess and Curdie
by George MacDonald, read by Ian Whitcomb
The Princess and Curdie