Other Living Books

List of very favorite books from other CM parents as listed in appendix to Catherine Levison's book More Charlotte Mason Education.

NC Wyeth by Douglas Allen
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
Children of Summer by Margaret Anderson
Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker
Adam and His Kin by Ruth Beechick
Archimedes and the Door of Science by Joanne Bendick
Linnea in Monet's Garden by Lena Anderson and Christina Bjork
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink (have)
Rules of Civility: The 110 Presepts that Guided our First President in War and Peace by Richard Bookhiser (for moral training)
Dangerous Journey by John Bunyan
The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield
Roger Caras (a natural history author)
Childhood of Famous Americans series (have a couple)
The History of the English Speaking People by Winston Churchill (4 vol set) or Henry Steele Commager (edited into 1 vol.)
One Hundred and One Famous Poems by Roy Cook (for high school)
Ingri D'Aulaire and Edgar Parin (all history books)
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty
The Whell on the School by Meindert DeJong
Insects by Jean Henri Fabre
Mighty Men by Eleanor Farjean
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (have)
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes
The World of Augustus Caesar by Genevieve Foster
The World of Columbus and Sons by Genevieve Foster
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Knights in Shining Armor by Gail Gibbons
Patriot's Handbook by George Grand (for high school)
Beethoven Lives Upstairs by Susan Hammond
Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Eli Whitney: Founder of Modern Industry by Wilma Pitchford Hays (Immortals of Engineering series)
Benjamin West and His Cat Grismalkin by Marguerite Henry
Robert Fulton by Marguerite Henry
Boy Craftsman by Marguerite Henry
My American Heritage by Ralph Henry and Lucille Pannell
Treasury for Chilfen by James Herriot
A Pioneer's Search for an Ideal Home by Phoebe Goodell Judson
The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
A Child's History of the World by VM Hillyer
A Child's Geography of the World by VM Hillyer
Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy by Michael Hoskin
Little Journeys to the Homes of Emminent Painers by Elbert Hubbard (lengthy narratives of 12 artists)
The Men Who Found America by Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson
A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children by Joan Peterson Kerr
Little Pear by Eleanor Lattimore
Miss Lea's Bible Stories for Children by Rosemary Lea
Houseboat Girl by Lois Lenski
Indian Captive by Lois Lenski
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
Prairie School by Lois Lenski
The Life and Times of William Shakespeare by Peter Levi
Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis (have)
Marie in Fourth Position: The Story of Degas' "The Little Dancer" by Amy Littlesugar
(all books) by George MacDonald
All the Place to Love by Mike Wimmer and Patricia MacLachlan
One Morning in Maine by Robert McXCloskey
The Golden Goblet by Eloise J McGraw (read aloud to omit some passages)
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise J McGraw (read aloud to omit some passages)
A Child's Story of America by Michael J McHugh and Dr Charles Morris (good overview for 4th grade)
The Boys' Life of Edison by William Meadocroft (Boys Life series)
Hero Tales from American Life by Francis Trevelyan Miller (100 short, true stories of courageous men, women and children for moral training)
Rutherford Montgomery (a natural history author)
The Little Britches series by Ralph Moody
The Lost Queen of Egypt by Lucile Morrison
Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
Robert Murphy (a natural history author)
Rich and Humble by Oliver Optic (and all other books)
Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Harriet Tubman, Conductor of the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
The Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Gratton Porter (have I think)
Selections from Lincold by L Price and Lewis Chrisman
Stories of the Pilgrims by Margaret B Pumphrey
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Antartica: Exploring the Frozen Continent by Maggie Scarf
How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer (overview of Christian world view perspectives for high schoolers)
Lucky Porcupine by Miriam Schlien
Science Stories by Foresman Scott & Co
Ernest Thompson Seton (a natural history author)
Exploring Nature with Your Child by Dorothy Shuttlesworth
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
A Good Start: A book for Young Men and Women by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (for moral training)
(all books) by Patricia St John
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Diane Stanley (about early Greek scientist Eratosthenes)
Stores From the Old Squire's Farm by CA Stephens
Talking Wire: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell by OJ Stevenson
Heroic Stories of Famous Men and Women by Jay Strong
From Log Cabin to the White House: Life of James A Garfield by William M Thayer
Story of Mankind by Hendrik Van Loon
The Child's Story Bible by Catherine Vos
Mr Lincoln's Whiskers by Winnick

Vital method of education = Reading worthy books

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

"We owe it to every child to put him in communication with the great minds that he may get at the great thoughts; with the minds, that is, of those who have left us great works; and the only vital method of education appears to be that children should read worthy books, many worthy books"
Charlotte Mason

Catherine Levison's reading list

Aesop's Fables
Anne of Green Gables series
At the Back of the North Wind
Black Beauty
Bleak House
Brother Jacob
The Caine Mutiny
The Call of the Wild
Conversations with Pioneer Women by Fred Lockley
The Custom of the Country
David Copperfield
Dr. Zhivago
Eight Cousins
Emma
A Gathering of Days
Great Dog Stories
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
Heidi
The House at Pooh Corner
The House of Seven Gables
Howard's End
Jane Eyre
Jo's Boys
Key to the Prison
Kidnapped
The Legend of Pocahontas
The Lifted Veil
Little House series
Little Men
A Little Princess
Little Women
Middlemarch
Oliver Twist
Persuasion
Pollyanna
The Portrait of a Lady
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince and the Pauper
Quite Early One Morning
Robin Hood
Robinson Crusoe
A Room with a View
The Scarlett Letter
The Secret Garden
Sense and Sensibility
Shakespeare
Silas Marner
The Swiss Family Robinson
A Tale of Two Cities
Tales from Shakespeare
Treasure Island
Treasures of the Snow
The Turn of the Screw
Twice Told Tales
Walden
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Winnie-the-Pooh
Wuthering Heights

Reading List

Adventures of Beowulf
Aesop's Fables (6-9 yrs)
Alice in Wonderland, Carroll (6-9 yrs)
Andersen's Fairy Tales (6-9 yrs)
The Battle of the Books, Boswelel (17-18 yrs)
Charles Dickens' novels (9-11 yrs)
Citizens of the World, Goldsmith (15-18 yrs)
Coming of Arthur, Malory
David Copperfield, Dickens (6-9 yrs)
Discoverer of the North Cape, Longfellow
Essay on Burns, Carleyle (15-18 yrs)
Essay on Man, Pope (15-18 yrs)
Essays on Goldsmith, Macaulay (17-18 yrs)
Grimm's Fairy Tales (6-9 yrs)
Gulliver's Travels, Swift (9-11 yrs)
The Heroes of Asgard, Keary (9-11 yrs)
History of English Literature (12-14 yrs)
Jessamy Bride, Frankfort Moore (15-18 yrs)
Just So Stories, Kipling (6-9 yrs)
Kidnapped, Stevenson (9-11 yrs)
Little Duke, Lang
Mrs. Gatty's Parables from Nature (6-9 yrs)
Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan (6-9 yrs)
Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
Robinson Crusoe, DaFoe (7-8 yrs)
Saga of King Olaf, Longfellow
Shakespeare's histories (12-14 yrs)
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (9-11 yrs)
She stoops to Conquer (a play) (17-18 yrs)
Tales from Shakespeare, The Lambs (6-9 yrs)
Tales of Troy and Greece, Andrew Lang (6-9 yrs)
Tanglewood Tales, Hawthorne (7-8 yrs)
The Virginians, Thackeray (15-18 yrs)
Walter Scott's Rob Roy (9-11 yrs)
Water Babies, Kipling (6-9 yrs)