“In the case of good books, it is not how many you can get through, but rather how many get through you.” -Mortimer Adler
This is a list of some of the books we’ve read aloud to the kids- click on the highlighted ones to read about how they “got through us.”
Despereaux by Kate DiCamilio
The Wilderking Trilogy by Jonathan Rogers
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamilio
Shiloh by Barry Moser
The Indian and the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Heidi by Johana Spyri
The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamilio
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamilio
The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
Dangerous Journey: The Story of Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith
Kidnapped! by Robert Louis Stevenson
Wise Words by Peter Leithart
The Charlatan’s Boy by Jonathan Rogers
The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic by Jennifer Trafton
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
The Yearling by Marjorie Rawilings
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
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Marian,
I have an old VHS of Heidi that I show my first graders near the end of every school year. We watch it in small segments and talk about it as we go. They LOVE this movie.
I’ve had students come back the next year and ask about it. It was always one of my favorite books.
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