Pre-School  - Age 7

A Bear Called Paddington: Michael Bond
Aesop’s Fables
Amelia Bedelia: Peggy Parish
Anderson’s Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Anderson
Andy and the Lion:  James Daugherty
The Amazing Bone:  William Steig
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain: Alice Dalgliesh
Bedtime for Frances:  Russell Hoban
A Birthday for Frances: Russell Hoban
Blaze and the Lost Quarry: C.W. Anderson
Blueberries for Sal: Robert McCloskey
Caps for Sale: Esphyr Slobodkina
The Cat in the Hat:  Dr. Seuss
Chicken Little:  Steven Kellog
A Child’s Garden of Verses:  Robert Louis Stevenson
Curious George:  H.A. Rey
Dinosaurs:  Gail Gibbons
The Egg: MP Robertson
Eloise:  Kay Thompson
Five Chinese Brothers: Claire H. Bishop
Floss: Kim Lewis
Flossie and the Fox:  Patricia McKissack
Frederick: Leo Lionni
The Frog and Toad Books:  Arnold Lobel
Goodnight Moon:  Margaret Wise Brown
Harry the Dirty Dog: Gene Zion
Henry and Mudge Series: Cynthia Rylant
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie: Laura Joffe Numeroff
If You Give a Pig a Pancake: Laura Joffe Numeroff
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices:  Paul Fleischman
Just So Stories: Rudyard Kipling
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie: Peter Roop
Linnea in Monet’s Garden: Christina Bjork and Lena Anderson
Little Bear Series:  Elsa Minarik
Little Engine That Could: Watty Piper
Lon Po Po:  A Red Riding Hood Tale from China:  Ed Young
Madeline series  Ludwig Bemelmans
The Magic Fish: Freya Littledale
Make Way for Ducklings:  Robert McCloskey
Many Moons:  James Thurber
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel:  Virginia Lee Burton
Millions of Cats:  Wanda Gag
Miss Nelson is Missing: Harry Allard
Miss Rumphius: Barbara Cooney
Mother Goose: The Classic Volland Edition: illustrated by Frederick Richardson
Mouton’s Impossible Dream: Anik McGrory
Mr. Putter & Tabby Series: Cynthia Rylant
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Series: Betty MacDonald
My First Mother Goose: illustrated by Rosemary Wells
Napping House: Audrey Wood
Nate the Great and the Lost List: Marjorie Sharmat
A New Coat for Anna: Harriet Ziefert
The Night Before Christmas: Clement Clarke Moore
Old Turtle: Douglas Wood
Oxcart Man:  Potter
The Polar Express: Chris Van Allsburg
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children:  edited by Jack Prelutsky
Rapunzel:  Paul O. Zelinsky
The Real Mother Goose: illustrated by Blanch Fisher Wright
The Reluctant Dragon: Kenneth Grahame
Sing a Song of Popcorn-Every Child’s Book of Poems: Beatrice Schenk deRegniers
The Snowy Day: Ezra Jack Keats
Stellaluna:  Janell Cannon
Stevie:  John Steptoe
Stone Soup:  retold by Marcia Brown
The Story About Ping: Majorie Flack and Kurt Wiese
The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant:  Jean de Brunhoff
The Story of Ferdinand the Bull: Munro Leaf
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble:  William Steig
The Tale of Peter Rabbit: Beatrix Potter (and other Beatrix Potter stories)
The Velveteen Rabbit:  Or How Toys Became Real:  Margery Williams Bianco
The Very Hungry Caterpillar:  Eric Carle
Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears:  Verna Aardema
Winnie the Pooh: A.A. Milne

AGES 8 – 11

Adam of the Road: Elizabeth Gray
The Adventures of Pinocchio:  Carlo Collodi
Aesop’s Fables
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland:  Lewis Caroll
Amelia Bedelia: Peggy Parish
At the Back of the North Wind:  George MacDonald
A Bear Called Paddington: Michael Bond
Billy and Blaze: C.W. Anderson
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad: Rosemary Sutcliff
The Blue Fairy Book: Andrew Lang
Blue Willow: Doris Gates
The Borrowers:  Mary Norton
The Boxcar Children Series: Gertrude Chandler Warner
Bread and Jam for Francis: Russell Hoban
Caddie Woodlawn:  Carol Ryrie Brink
Caps for Sale: Esphyr Slobodkina
Cathedral:  David Macauley
A Child’s Garden of Verses: Robert Louis Stevenson
The Children of Green Knowe:  Lucy M. Boston
Children Just Like Me:  Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley
The Chronicles of Narnia: C.S. Lewis
The Complete Peterkin Papers:  Lucretia P. Hale
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths:  Ingi and Edgar Parin D’Aulaires
Detectives in Togas: Henry Winterfeld
Doctor De Soto: William Steig
A Drop of Water: Book of Science and Wonder: Walter Wick
Emperor’s New Clothes: Ruth Gross
Encyclopedia Brown Series: Donald J. Sobal
Find the Constellations: H. A. Rey
Five Children and It   E. Nesbit
From Sea to Shining Sea: edited by Amy Cohn
Grandfather Tang’s Story   Ann Tompert
Grandma’s Attic Series   Arleta Richardson
The Great Kapok Tree   Lynne Cherry
Grimm’s Fairy Tales: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years:   Rachel Field
Homer Price: Robert McCloskey
House at Pooh Corner:  A.A. Milne
Humbug Mountain: Sid Fleishman
In A Circle Long Ago:  A Treasury of Native Lore from North America:  retold by Nancy Van Laan
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson:  Bette Bao Lord
James and the Giant Peach:  Roald Dahl
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices:  Paul Fleischman
John Henry: retold of Julius Lester
Jumanji:  Chris Van Allsburg
The Jungle Book:  Rudyard Kipling
King of the Wind: Marguerite Henry
Little House in the Big Woods series  Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Little Prince:  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Littles: John Peterson
Lives of Artists:  Masterpieces, Messes and What the Neighbors Thought:  Kathleen Krull
The Magic Amulet  E. Nesbit
Magic School Bus series
Make Way for Ducklings: Robert McCloskey
Mary Poppins:  P.L. Travers
Math Curse    John Scieszka
Matilda   Roald Dahl
Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook: Joyce Lankester Brisley
Miss Hickory: Carolyn Bailey
Miss Rumphius: Barbara Cooney
Misty of Chincoteague: Marguerite Henry
The Moffats   Eleanor Estes
Mr. Popper’s Penguins: Richard and Florence Atwater
Nate the Great Series: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
One At A Time:  poetry by David McCord
Owls in the Family: Farley Mowat
Paul Bunyan: Steven Kellogg
The People Could Fly:  American Black Folk Tales:  retold by Virginia Hamilton
Perrault’s Fairy Tales:  Charles Perrault
The Peterkin Papers: Lucretia P. Hale
Pippi Longstocking series  Astrid Lindgren
Pompeii…Buried Alive: Edith Kunhardt
The Princess and the Goblin   George MacDonald
Rabbit Hill: Robert Lawson
The Railway Children: E. Nesbit
Racketty-Packetty House   Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Ramona Books: Beverly Cleary
Rapunzel:  Paul O. Zelinsky
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm:  Kate Douglas Wiggin
Saint George and the Dragon:  adapted by Margaret Hodges
Sarah, Plain and Tall:  Patricia MacLachlan
The Selfish Giant:  Oscar Wilde
The Silver Branch: Rosemary Sutcliff
Snowflake Bentley:  Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Stephen Biesty’s Incredible Cross-Sections:  Richard Platt
Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei: Peter Sis
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow:  French
Stuart Little: E.B. White
The Story of Dr. Dolittle: Hugh Lofting
The Story of the Treasure Seekers: E.Nesbit
Strawberry Girl: Lois Lenski
Thimble Summer: Elizabeth Enright
Through the Looking Glass:  Lewis Caroll
The Trojan Horse: Emily Little
The Ugly Duckling: Retold by Lorinda Bryan Cauley
The Velveteen Rabbit: Marjery Williams
The Water Babies: Charles Kingsley
What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?:  Jean Fritz
William Shakespeare & The Globe:  Aliki
The Wizard of Oz series (14 books)  L. Frank Baum

AGES 10 – 13

Adam of the Road   Elizabeth Gray
Anne of Green Gables series   L.M. Montgomery
The Arabian Nights:  Their Best Known Tales:  edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora Smith
The Arabian Nights Entertainments  Selected & edited by Andrew Lang
Black Beauty:  Anna Sewell
The Book of Three:  Lloyd Alexander
Bridge to Terabithia: Katherine Paterson
The Bronze Bow: Elizabeth George Speare
Caddie Woodlawn: Carol Ryrie Brink
The Call of the Wild:  Jack London
Cathedral:  David Macauley
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol:  Charles Dickens
The Cricket in Times Square: George Selden
The Dark is Rising series:  Susan Cooper
The Door in the Wall: Margarite D’Angeli
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems: Langston Hughes
A Drop of Water: Book of Science and Wonder:  Walter Wick
Eight Cousins: Louisa May Alcott
Eleanor Roosevelt:  Russell Freedman
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: E.L. Konigsburg
Four Ancestors:  Stories, Songs and Poems from Native North America:  retold by Joseph Bruchac
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-32: Joan Blos
Gentle Ben  Walt Morey
Harriet the Spy:  Louise Fitzhugh
Heidi:  Johanna Spyri
The High King: Lloyd Alexander
Ink on His Fingers: Louise Vernon
Island of the Blue Dolphins: Scott O’Dell
James and the Giant Peach: Roald Dahl
Johnny Tremain: Esther Forbes
Julie of the Wolves:  Jean Craighead George
King Arthur: Howard Pyle
King Arthur: Roger Green
The King’s Shadow: Elizabeth Alder
The Incredible Journey:  Sheila Burnford
Island of the Blue Dolphins:  Scott O’Dell
Lassie Come Home:  Eric Knight
The Light in the Forest   Conrad Richter
Lincoln:  A Photobiography:  Russell Freedman
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:  C.C. Lewis
Little Lord Flauntleroy: Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: Robert O’Brien
My Side of the Mountain: Jean George
National Velvet:  Enid Bagnold
The New Way Things Work: David Macaulay
The People Could Fly:  American Black Folktales:  Virginia Hamilton
Rascal  Sterling North
The Red Keep  Allen French
The Redwall series: Brian Jacques
Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:  Washington Irving
Robin Hood: Howard Pyle
Robin Hood: Roger Green
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry:  Mildred Taylor
The Secret Garden:  Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shadow of a Bull: Maia Wojciechowska
Shiloh: Phyllis Reynold’s Naylor
The Slave Dancer:  Paula Fox
Sounder:  William Armstrong
Stephan Biesty’s Incredible Cross-Sections:  Richard Platt
Swiss Family Robinson: Johann Wyss
Talking Walls:  Margy Burns Knight
A Tale of Two Cities:  Charles Dickens
This Was John Calvin: Thea Van Halsema
Thunderstorm in Church: Louise Vernon
Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold:  Fritz
Tuck Everlasting: Natalie Babbitt
Twenty-One Balloons: Wm. Pene Dubois
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers: Nancy Willard
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle: Hugh Lofting
Walk Two Moons:  Sharon Creech
The Way Things Work:  David Macaulay
The Wheel on the School: Meindert DeLong
William Shakespeare & The Globe:  Aliki
The Witch of Blackbird Pond:  Elizabeth George Speare
The Wolves of Willoughy Chase:  Joan Aiken
A Wrinkle in Time series  Madeline L’Engle
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories:  Isaac Bashevis Singer
 

OLDER READERS   AGE 12 – YOUNG ADULT

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865: Abraham Lincoln
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  Mark Twain
Agatha Christie mysteries
All Creatures Great and Small  and series James Herriot
All The President’s Men   Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
Around the World in Eighty Days   Jules Verne
Ben Hur   Lew Wallace
Brave New World   Aldous Huxley
The Bridge of San Luis Rey   Thornton Wilder
Candide   Voltaire
The Chocolate War:  Robert Cormier
The Chosen:  Chaim Potok
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court:  Mark Twain
The Count of Monte Cristo   Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment   Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield:  Charles Dickens
Don Quixote  Miguel Cervantes
Dracula   Bram Stoker
The Earthsea Triology:  Ursula K. LeGuin
El Bronx Remembered:  A Novella and Stories:  Nicholasa Mohr
Emma   Jane Austen
Fahrenheit 451   Ray Bradbury
Father Brown Mysteries   G.K. Chesterton
Four Days   United Press International & American Heritage magazine
Frankenstein:  Mary Shelley
George Washington: A Collection  George Washington
Gone With the Wind   Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath:  John Steinbeck
Great Expectations:  Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby   F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hero and the Crown   Robin MacLachlan
The Hiding Place: Corrie Ten Boom
The Hunchback of Notre Dame:  Victor Hugo
The Illiad and  The Odyssey:  Homer
The Invisible Man   H.G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau   H.G. Wells
Ivanhoe   Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre:  Charlotte Bronte
The Jewel of Seven Stars   Bram Stoker
Journey to America    Levitin
Journey to the Center of the Earth  Jules Verne
The Jungle Book   Rudyard Kipling
Kidnapped:  Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon’s Mines   H. Rider Haggard
Kon-Tiki   Thor Heyerdahl
The Last of the Mohicans   James Fenimore Cooper
Little Men   Louisa May Alcott
Little Women series:  Louisa May Alcott
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy:  J.R.R. Tolkien
Lorna Doone   Richard D. Blakemore
Lost Horizon   James Hilton
M.C. Higgins the Great:  Virginia Hamilton
The Man Without a Country   Edward Everett Hale
The Martian Chronicles   Ray Bradbury
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood:  edited by Howard Pyle
Les Miserables   Victor Hugo
Moby Dick:  Herman Melville
Le Morte D’Arthur   Sir Thomas Malory
Mutiny on the Bounty   Charles Nordhoff & J.N. Hall
My Antonia   Willa Cather
Mysterious Island   Jules Verne
Number the Stars   Lois Lowry
The Old Man and the Sea    Ernest Hemingway
Oliver Twist:  Charles Dickens
Old Yeller   Fred Gibson
Persuasion   Jane Austen
Phantom of the Opera   Gaston Leroux
Pilgrim’s Progress   John Bunyan
The Pioneers Go West:  Stewart
Pride and Prejudice:  Jane Austen
Profiles in Courage   John F. Kennedy
The Prophet   Kahlil Gibran
Rebecca   Daphne Du Maurier
The Red Badge of Courage:  Stephen Crane
Rob Roy  Sir Walter Scott
The Scarlet Letter:  Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Pimpernel   Emma Orczy
The Sea-Wolf  Jack London
Sense and Sensibility   Jane Austen
Sherlock Holmes series:  A. Conan Doyle
Silas Marner   George Eliot
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: J.R.R. Tolkien
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights:  Howard Pyle
Swallows and Amazons   Arthur Ransome
A Tale of Two Cities   Charles Dickens
Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe:  Edgar Allan Poe
Tarzan   Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Three Musketeers   Alexandre Dumas
The Time Machine   H.G. Wells
Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold   Jean Fritz
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn   Betty Smith
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea:  Jules Verne
Two Years Before the Mast   Richard Dana
Uncle Tom’s Cabin   Harriet Beecher Stowe
Up From Slavery   Booker T. Washington
Watership Down:  Richard Adams
Wuthering Heights:  Emily Bronte
The Yearling:  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings