20,000 Leagues by Jules VerneAdventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain
A Little Princess by Burnett
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll weird but you have to read it, right?
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery
Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne
Classic Fairy Tales by Andersen, The Grimms, and Perrault
Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit anything by Nesbit really
Gulliver’s Travels by Swift
Holes by Louis Sachar a modern one I love
Horatio Hornblower series by Forester
Johnny Tremain by Forbes
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Kidnapped by Stevenson
King Arthur – TH White
Mary Poppins by PL Travers
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by O’Brien
Narnia series by CS Lewis
Nick of Time by Ted Bell – excellent epic novel for boys
Nurse Matilda by Christina Brandt (Nanny McPhee was based on these)
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry another modern great
Peter Pan by JM Barrie
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi the real non-Disney version which misses the point
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Shakespeare adaptations by Bruce Colville love these: Twelfth Night, Hamlet,
Macbeth, Midsummer, Tempest, and Romeo and Juliet
Ships before
Swiss Family Robinson by Wyss
The Great Brain series by Fitzgerald
The Hobbit by Tolkein
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle by
The Lost Princess and THe Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald and lots of others books by him
The Phantom Tollbooth by
The Ransom of the Red Chief by O Henry
The
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
The Wizard of OZ series by Baum
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn by Mark Twain
Treasure Island
Where the Red Fern Grows by Rawls
Wind in the Willows by Grahame
and I didn't even get into poetry, The Highwayman, It Couldn't be Done, If, ...
4 comments:
Oooh, you've opened up a topic for which I hold much passion! I like your list. How about Matilda, or other Dahl books, The Black Cauldron series by Lloyd Alexander, The Bronze Bow by Speare (or her other books), Call it Courage by Sperry, the Narnia series by Lewis, Ella Enchanted by Levine, Fablehaven series by Mull, Harry Potter series by Rowling, Little House series by Wilder, Magyk series by Sage, The Matchlock Gun by Edmonds, The Mouse and the Motorcycle or Runaway Ralph by Cleary, Almost Starring Skinnybones by Park, Wayside School Series by Sachar, Princess Academy by Hale... Have you heard of the Accelerated Reader program? Leah's school uses that and I went through their list of books to "screen" her advanced level books. At her age she just doesn't need some of the content she technically could read. Let me know if you would like to see the website for the list.
Hey just the person to ask. How do you encourage a child's reading who's ability to read is far beyond their ability to comprehend? Andrew doesn't understand a lot of the stuff he should be reading. What should I do?
ooo Genevieve, I love your additions, a lot of them I didn't put on because we have read them already like Narnia, HP and Little House. Some of my list I've ...oh wait, I see Narnia on there... I was trying to jot down ones I might forget about. Thanks.
Kristin, break it down and ask "Narration" questions, by paragraph, section, or chapter. Just ask questions like, "What happened to Nick when he tried to cross the bridge?" "What is that mouse's name with the sword?" Things like that see if he understood what he was reading. If he's not getting it break it down into smaller bits, even sentence by sentence. When he gets good, keep asking questions and throw in some interpretation questions, too, "How would you have felt if that happened to you?" "What do you think Susan's face looked like when she saw the ice crack?" Next ask him to tell back to you what happened in each section in his own words, in a few sentences, prompt questions always help the process. Once he can do that, writing is going to be no problem for him either.
Love juvenile literature. Definitely add EG Speare. After my Children's Lit. class in college I made a list of must reads. I should probably finish it.
(I'll have to call you later, I'm involved in a fierce game of Candyland with Sarah and Ben-- got to run!)
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