You guys are awesome!! Look, here's a big list of all the great titles and series that you guys came up with. I tried to divide it loosely into genre but forgive me - some books really fall into more than one category, or defy category completely. There are just SO many great books out there - it's great to get tried and true recommendations. (I'll keep adding your suggestions to this list - could you, if you leave a comment with one or two, give me the author as well?)
Happy Reading!
Classics (or otherwise great)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series, by Betty Macdonald
Mary Poppins, by P.L. Travers
Ginger Pye, by Eleanor Estes
The Moffats
Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
The House on Pooh Corner, by A.A. Milne
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz series, by L. Frank Baum
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie
Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lingren
Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
Stuart Little
Trumpet of the Swan
Henry and Ribsy, by Beverly Cleary
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Ramona series
The Penderwicks, by Jeanne Birdsall
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodson Burnett
A Little Princess
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Little House in the Big Woods and series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Cheaper by the Dozen, by Frank B. Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Mandy, by Julie Andrews
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, by Ian Fleming
Mr. Popper's Penguins, by Richard and Florence Atkins
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden
Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls
Summer of the Monkeys
Five Little Peppers and How they Grew, by Margaret Sidney
Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh
Poppy, by Avi
The 13 Clocks, by James Thurber
Betsy-Tacy, by Maud Hart Lovelace
Shoes series, by Noel Streatfield
Shel Silverstein (poetry)
Lost Queen of Egypt, by Lucile Morrison
Recently Written
Roxie and the Hooligans, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, by Jaqueline Kelly
Gone-Away Lake and Return to Gone-Away, by Elizabeth Enright
My Father's Dragon series, by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Clarice Bean series, by Lauren Child
Anything Louis Sachar
Anything Judith Viorst
Mysteries
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg
The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Nancy Drew series, by Carolyn Keene
The Hardy Boys series, by Franklin W. Dixon
The American Girls Series
Fantasy
The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM, by Robert C. O'Brien
The Book of Three and series, by Lloyd Alexander
The Giver, and series, by Lois Lowry
The Return of the Twelves, by Pauline Clarke
Five Children, by E. Nesbit
It, by E. Nesbit
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach
The Twits
The Witches
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The BFG
Danny, Champion of the World
Matilda
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norman Jester
The Spiderwick Chronicles, by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
The Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale
The Goose Girl (and series)
The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo
The Mysterious Journey of Edward Tulane
The Mysterious Benedict Society series, by Trenton Lee Stuart
Dragon Slipper Series, by Jessica Day George
Princess of the Midnight Ball
Funny
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Judy Blume
Superfudge
Goosebumps Series, R.L. Stine
The Willoughbys, by Lois Lowry
Anastasia Krupnik series
Goonie Bird Greene
Historical Fiction
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin
A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck
The Great Brain series, by John Dennis Fitzgerald
Magic Treehouse Books, by Mary Pope Osborne
Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
The Wheel on the School, by Meindert deJong
Red Sails to Capri, by Ann Weil
Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry
For Older Kids
Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
Artemis Fowl series, by Eoin Colfer
The View From Saturday, by E.L. Konigsburg
The Egypt Game, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli
Stargirl
Frindle, by Andrew Clements
Nation, by Terry Pratchett
A Wrinkle in Time and series, by Madeline L'Engle
Anne of Green Gables series, by L.M. Montgomery
Emily of New Moon series
Dark is Rising series, by Susan Cooper
Percy Jackson series, by Rick Riordan
Chasing Vermeer, by Blue Balliett
Wright 3
The Calder Game
Great References
Honey for a Child's Heart, by Gladys Hunt (book of book lists for children 0 - 18)
Birds & Trees Love of Books List
Sarah Jane's list
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Oh my word. I'm so sorry I left you that long list of books with no authors. That wasn't very nice of me. I do apologize. The list you've compiled is awesome, however. Thanks for putting it together!
Not sure if your kids are too old for these, but have they read the Clarice Bean novels by Lauren Child (not the same as the Clarice Bean picture books). Great to read aloud. Utterly Me, Clarice Bean. Clarice Bean Spells Trouble. Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now.
Thanks Lynne, for taking the time to post the list...perfect for spring break and then summer holiday.
Thanks for the compilation!
Lia - no worries! Thank you for taking the time to think of suggestions!!
What a list! Have you read them all Lynne?
m - no, there are a lot on here that are new to me. can't wait.
Oh! Thank you so much for doing this! I will refer back often. There are so many in here that I love but have forgotten about. Another good place to find stories is vintage school readers from the thrift store. I just found an armload at mine!
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So many good books listed! I want to now make sure we have all of them so as my daughter gets older we can read them. I'd also like to add "There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom" by Louis Sachar. He also wrote "Holes" and the "Sideways Stories from Wayside School" books, but "There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom" is my favorite.
Also The Trumpet of the Swan by EB White, and the Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel.
This looks like a great list...I'm sure I'll come back to it often!
just a quick correction...the Betsy-Tacy books (a *great* set!) were written by Maud Hart Lovelace [She's from Minnesota, I'm from Minnesota... these books are near and dear to my heart :)]. The original couple were _illustrated_ by Lois Lenski.
This is a great list! For fans of Honey for a Child's Heart [like me], she has a blog by the same name. :)
I love Sideways Stories from Wayside School. I was surprised no one recommended any of Shel Silverstein's books. A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Giving Tree, Falling Up. I know they're mostly poems, but we love reading 5-6 at night and giggling.
I love le Petit Prince,d'Antoine de Saint-Exupery! There is a lot of books that i discover from your list, and i will have a look at them :)
Lynne, I'm so glad you did this post. We have been looking for new books to read together.. this should keep us busy for a while. I have a must read, "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane." We LOVED it!
I'll echo my love for "Frog and Toad" and "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane." A great author for young kids is Judith Viorst. She has a knack for writing stories that are absolutely meant to be read aloud.
As a grade schooler, I had a minor obsession with Lucile Morrison's Lost Queen of Egypt. It's a great read about a child growing up to be queen, full of detail about daily life in Egypt. For years all I could remember of this book was the cover and the illustrations (they're lovely) and how much I adored this book. Now I find that thousands like me were in the same boat. It's out of print but copies are still available, I highly recommend it.
Thank you so much! I was trying to do this on my own, and was totally defeated. My 6 year old is ecstatic, and has started a library list!
Oh this is so funny! We were blogging about the same thing at the same time! I just checked your blog for the first time in a few weeks (I don't get to read blogs much right now!) and I was making the same list too! Great minds think alike! Compare lists if you want...it was so great to read yours too:) Great post!
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Great list. I am currently reading 'Alice in Wonderland myself'.
Thanks for putting it together:)
We love Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, especially on CD read by Eric Idle. The way he reads it is so funny! We are listening to the sequel--Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator--right now in the car as we go to school and lessons. We are loving it so far too!
if you can ever find a copy the Gerald Durell's Talking Parcel (also known as the Battle for Cockatrice Castle) is fantastic and also The Brothers Lionheart, by Astrid Lindgren. My boys also love Cressida Cowell: How to train your Dragon.
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (sp?). Heidi (I can't recall the author just now) and Peter Pan by Sir James M. Barrie. All lovely.
The list you've compiled is awesome, however. Thanks for putting it together!
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