Reading to Your Children - Books to Get You Started

Under 5
Read picture books
Ages 5 & up
Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White
Little House on the Praire, (and others by) Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, Betty MacDonald
Ages 6 & up
The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting
Treasures in the Snow, Patricia St. John
Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren
Cheaper by the Dozen, Gilbreth
Ages 7 & up
Little Lord Fauntleroy, (and others by) Frances Hodgson Burnett
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Margaret Sidney
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Ages 8 & up
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham
Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
Call of the Wild, Jack London
White Fang, Jack London
Just David, (and others by) Eleanor H. Porter
Ages 9 & up
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Oliver Twist (and others by) Charles Dickens
The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden
Treasure Island, (and others by) Robert Louis Stevenson
Swill Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss
High School-Adult
Pride and Prejudice, (and others by) Jane Austen
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
The House of Seven Gables, (and others by) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby Dick, Herman Melville

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