~ indicates we have read
*indicates we own it
#indicates I disapprove
Winnie the Pooh series by AA Milne and Ernest H. Shepard (Winnie-The-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six). Accept no substitutes for the original stories!
~*Beatrix Potter series
The Little House by Virginia Burton
~The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack (read 2008)
~*The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
~Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
~Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Ox-Cart Man by Barbara Cooney
~*Stone Soup and other folk tale retellings by Marcia Brown
~Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney (CM idea of duty in bringing beauty to the world)
The Story of Little Babaji by Helen Bannerman or other retelling of the Sambo story with more appropriate illustrations
Brer Rabbit books by Joel Chandler Harris, read the online etext
Poems and Prayers for the Very Young by Martha Alexander
~*A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (illustrated by Eulalie, Jessie Wilcox Smith, or Alice and Martin Provenson)
Poetry, Aesop's fables, Mother Goose and nursery rhymes
Advisory Favorites
The Church Mice and others in this series by Graham Oakley. These are delightful.
Hiawatha by Longfellow, illustrated by Susan Jeffers
Paul Revere's Ride by Longfellow, illustrated by Ted Rand
My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Ted Rand
Picture books depicting Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, such as The Elephant's Child
Roxaboxen by Barbara Cooney
The Tale of Three Trees illustrated by Angela Elwell Hunt
Wynken, Blynken and Nod illustrated by either Susan Jeffers or Barbara Cooney
Board Books for Toddlers
Books illustrated by Beatrix Potter (Meet Peter Rabbit and others)
My Little Book About God illustrated by Eloise Wilkin
Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones
~*The Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Felicia Bond
Mother Goose for Kids illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
Poems to Read to the Very Young pictures by Eloise Wilkin
single-poem books illustrated by Dianne O'Quinn Burke, such as Wee Willie Winkie
Mother Goose illustrated by Eloise Wilkin
A Child's Garden of Verses compiled by Cooper Edens with a Jessie Willcox Smith picture on the cover
My First Bible in Pictures by Kenneth Taylor, with reverent, non-cartoonish color drawings by Richard and Francis Hook
Beginning First Readers
most children will be beginning to read in Year 1, but these are included here for children who start earlier
Frog and Toad readers by Arnold LobelLittle Bear readers by Else Holmelund Minarek
George and Martha series by James Marshall
Frances books by Russell Hoban
Henry and Mudge series by Cynthia Rylant
http://amblesideonline.org/00.shtml
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