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Classics List for Children and Youth Source: Appendix B of Oliver Van DeMille's A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a New Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century, ©2000.
Classics to Read to Young ChildrenClassics for you to read aloud to young children. Aesop’s Fables - Aesop Andersen’s Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Anderson Beauty and the BeastThe Bible The Blind Men and the Elephant“Casey at Bat” Charlotte’s Web - E. B. White Chicken LittleA Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens CinderellaDinotopia series - James Gurney Dr. Seuss series The Emperor’s New ClothesThe Fourth Wise ManThe Gift of the Magi - Carol Lynn Pearson The Giving Tree“God Save the Flag” Goldilocks and the Three BearsThe Goose That Laid the Golden EggGrimm’s Fairy Tales - Wilhelm & Jacob Grimm “The Highwayman” Hansel and Gretel Jack and the Beanstalk Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling The Legend of Sleepy Hollow“Lincoln, The Man of the People” “Little Boy Blue” The Little Engine that CouldThe Little House on the Prairie series - Laura Ingalls Wilder The Little Red HenThe McGuffey Readers Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes “Paul Revere’s Ride” Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter The Pied Piper of HamlinPinocchio, The Adventures of - Carlo Colladi Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter The Princess and the PeaPuss-in-Boots Rapunzel Riki Tiki Tavi Rip Van WinkleRobin Hood, The Merry Adventures of - Howard Pyle RumpelstiltskinSleeping Beauty The Song of Hiawatha Snow WhiteTales of the Arabian Nights The Three Billy Goats Gruff The Three Little Pigs The Ugly Duckling Tom Thumb "Twas the Night Before Christmas" The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Winnie-the-Pooh series - A. A. Milne The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Frank Baum
Classics for Youth For older youth to read and discuss with their mentors. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Animal Farm Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl The Anne of Green Gables series - L. M. Montgomery The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin“Battle Hymn of the Republic” Ben Hur: A Tale of Christ - Lew Wallace The Bible Brighty of the Grand Canyon Black Beauty - Anna Sewell The Black Stallion series - Walter Farley The Chronicles of Narnia series - C. S. Lewis The Collected Verse of Edgar A Guest“Concord Hymn” A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court - Samuel Clemmens The Constitution of the United States David Copperfield Davy Crockett Legends - Irwin Shapiro The Declaration of Independence The DeerslayerDon Quixote de la Mancha - Miguel De Cervantes Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeThe Dred Scott Decision The Education of Henry Adams Eight Cousins Emily Post’s Etiquette Ender’s Game “In Flanders Fields” FlatlandThe Foundation series Frankenstein“The Gettysburg Address” “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” The Great Brain series Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift Hamilton’s MythologyHamletHeidi - Johanna Spry The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom History RebornHuckleberry Finn, The Adventures of - Mark Twain “I Have a Dream” Ivanhoe - Walter Scott The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O’Dell Joan of Arc - Mark Twain Jo’s Boys - Louisa May Alcott A Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) The Jungle BookKing Arthur and the Round Table - Thomas Malory Laddie - Gene Stratton Porter The Last of the Mohicans - James Cooper “Let America be America Again” The Lincoln-Douglas Debates The Little Britches series Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Men - Louisa May Alcott Little Women - Louisa May Alcott The Lonesome GodsLord of the Rings series “The Man with the Hoe” Mathmaticians are People, Too (2 volumes) Moby Dick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass National Velvet Noah Webster’s Original 1828 Dictionary North to Freedom“O Captain! My Captain!” “Old Ironsides” Old Yeller - Fred Gipson Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens On NumbersPaul Bunyan - Esther Sheperd The Phantom Tollbooth“The Present Crisis” “The Road Not Taken” The Real Benjamin Franklin The Real George Washington The Real Thomas Jefferson The RobeRobinson Crusoe - Daniel DeFoe Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare The Sackett series The Saxon Math series The Secret Garden - Francess Hodgson Burnett Shipwrecked Soldiers, Statesmen, and Heroes Sonnets of Shakespeare Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers Stuart Little - E. B. White The Summer of the Monkeys - Wilson Rawls The Swiss Family Robinson - Johaan Wyss Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of - Mark Twain Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson The Trumpet of the Swans - E. B. White “Ulysses” The Voyages of Doctor DolittleThe Walking Drum Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls White Fang - Jack London William TellThe Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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