- A.A. Milne books (Winnie the Pooh, etc.) 3
- Alice in Wonderland
- Anne of Green Gables and sequels 9
- Arabian nights
- Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
- Babar books
- Beany Malone books
- Beatrix Potter books
- Beauty: A Retelling Of The Story of Beauty and the Beast by
Robin McKinley
- Betsy and Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
- The big snow by Elmer and Bertha Hader
- Black Beauty
- Blue Ribbons for Meg and Old Bones at the running of Kentucky
Derby.
- Bobbsey Twins
- The Borrowers series 2
- The Boxcar Children series 2
- Buffy and the New Girl- a Little Golden Book based on the TV
show "Family Affair"
- Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
- Cherry Ames
- Children of Green Knowe
- A child's garden of verses
- Cinderella and folk/fairy tales
- The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
- Cynthia Voigt's Homecoming, Dicey's Song, Solitary Blue
- Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
- David Copperfield
- Door in the Wall
- Dr. Seuss books (all) 4
- Dracula
- E.B. White books (Charlotte's Web, etc.) 4
- the Egermeier's Bible Stories
- Ellen Raskin books
- by Ellenberg(?) Betty June and Friends
- Five Children and It,
- The Five Little Peppers (and the 5 sequels) 6
- Five on a Treasure Island
- Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka
- Freddy the Talking Pig series by Brooks
- From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- GeneStratton Porter titles (Freckles, Girl of the Limberlost,
etc.
- the Ginny and Geneva books by Catherine Wooley
- The Good Master by Kate Seredy
- Hans Brinker 2
- Hardy Boys 2
- Harriet the Spy
- Heidi
- Henry Huggins series by Cleary
- Hitty her first hundred years, by Rachel Field
- The Hobbit
- Houseboat Girl by Lois Lenski
- everything by Judy Blume
- Kidnapped
- King Arthur
- Lad: A Dog
- Landmark biographies
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Little house books 7
- Little Engine That Could
- Little Golden Books
- Little Maid Series
- Little Prince
- Little Rabbit That Wanted Red Wings (interesting that they
sort of contrast in morals - the first is to put forth a positive
goal and work hard to reach it, the second is to be content with
who you are!)
- Little Women (and all the sequels Little Men, Jo's Boys) 12
- A Little Princess,
- Little Men
- Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A
Swiftly
- Titlting Planet
- KING OF THE WIND by Marguerite Henry
- Mandy by Julie Andrews (publ under Julie Edwards
- Maria Gripe's The Glassblower's Children"
- Maud Hart Lovelace Betsy-Tacy series
- McElliot's Pool by Seuss
- Mop Top by Don Freeman
- Mother Goose
- Mother West Wind stories, by Burgess
- Mr. Popper's Penguins
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
- Mushroom Planet books by Eleanor Cameron
- Nancy Drew series 7
- Naria Chronicles 3
- Patricia McKillip's Riddlemaster series
- Phantom Tollbooth 3
- The Pink Motel" by Carol Ryrie Brink
- Pippi Longstockings books
- The Pokey Little Puppy
- The Princess and Curdie
- The Princess and the Goblin
- Pushcart War
- Raggedy Ann and Andy
- Ricka, Ricka, and Dicka
- Robin Hood
- "Saturdays" series by Elizabeth Enright
- Secret Garden 4
- Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree
- The Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr books 2
- Snow White
- The Snowy Day
- Story of the Amulet
- Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
- Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising series
- the Thornton Burgess animal books
- Tom Sawyer
- Tom's Midnight Garden
- Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Tree Wagon
- Uncle Wiggly series
- What Katy Did
- Wind in the Willows
- "The Wisdom of Solomon"
- Wizard of Oz series 5
- Zane Grey books
Australian children's classics -
- The Muddle Headed Wombat (Ruth Park),
- Blinky Bill (Dorothy Wall),
- Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (May Gibbs),
- The Magic Pudding (Norman Lindsay)
Our favorite seasonal books:
- Polar Express
- The Littlest Angel
- Miracle on 34th St.
- Yes, Virginia, There is A Santa Claus
- Twas the Night Before Christmas
- "Over The River"
Our favorite more challenging books we read as children:
- To Kill a Mockingbird 2
- Dracula
- Snow Falling on Cedars
- Jane Austen books ("Pride and Predjudice," "Emma," etc.)
- Annabelle and Edgar Johnson (?) books (esp. "Torrie")- and
other historic fiction, with a touch of romance!
- Agatha Christie
- Gone With the Wind
- The Sound of Music
- Ray Bradbury
- Jane Eyre
