Favorite Read Alouds

	Favorite "Living Books" For Reading Alone or Aloud by Cindy Madsen

	First through eighth grade The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans Miss Rumphius by BarbaraCooney The Jolly Postman by Jan Ahlberg Miss Nelson is Missing by Allard The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle Bread and Jam for Francis by Russell Hoban Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak Saint George and the Dragon by M. Hodges Sam, Bangs and Moonshine Evaline Ness Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack Millions of Cats Blueberries For Sal by Robert McClosky Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McClosky Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Burton World Treasury of Children's Literature by Fadiman Linnea in Monet's Garden by Christian Bjork The Iron Man by Hughes Tales of Oliver Pig by Leeuvan Frog and Toad All Year by Arnold Lobel Cam Jansen by David Adler The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish Winnie The Pooh by A.A.Milne Aesop's Fables Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett The Children's Book of America by Bennett The Cricket in Times Square by George Seldon Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse by George Seldon Charlotte's Web by E.B. White Stuart Little by E.B.White My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmunds The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling Bunnicula by Howe The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith Pretty Polly; Martin's Mice; Harry's Mad by Dick King-Smith Riding The Pony Express by Clyde Robert Bulla Stories From the Arabian Nights by Retold by Houseman Paddington Bear by Michael Bond Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald Homer Price by Robert McClosky Henry Huggins books by Beverly Cleary Danny Dunn books by J. Williams & Raymond Abrashkin The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth Miss Pickerell books by Ellen MacGregor Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren Little House In the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace The American Girls Series American Girl History Mystery Series The Green Knowe Series by Lucy M. Boston Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham The Fairy Caravan by Beatrix Potter Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry James and the Giant Peach; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Mathilda; The B.F.G.; The Witches; Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting Peter Potts by Clifford Hicks Hitty, her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field Elfsong by Ann Turner The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli Magical Tales From Many lands by by Margaret Mayo The Adventures of King Midas; The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks The Wainscott Weasel by Tom Seidler Arthur, High King of Britain by Michael Morpurgo The Black Stallion by Walter Farley Misty of Chincoteague; King of the Wind-M. Henry Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin Tatterhood and Other Tales by ed. Ethel Johnston Phelps The Moffats . by Eleanor Estes The Four Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Dragon's Milk by Susan Flher The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key Lyrico by Elizabeth Vincent Foster Listen to the Nightingale by Rumer Godden A Wrinkle In Time . by Madeline L'Engle The Dark Is Rising Series by Susan Cooper The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuin Robin's Country by Monica Furlong The Orphan Train Quartet by Joan Lowry Nixon The Prydain Chronicle by Lloyd Alexander The Great Piratical Rumbustification by by Margaret Mahy The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum The Borrows by Mary Norton Bedknob and Broomstick by Mary Norton The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgkins Burnett A Little Princess by Francis Hodgkins Burnett Ella Enchanted Dealing With Dragons by Patricia Wrede Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild Mary Poppins In Cherry Tree Lane by P.L. Travers Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh The Animals of Farthing Wood by by Colin Dann The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene Dubois Brer Rabbit by Enid Blyton (or anyone that you can find) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbraith & E.Carey Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer Heidi by Johanna Spyri The Saga of Erik the Viking by Terry Jones Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth F. Lewis Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski The Cay Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Sounder by by William Armstrong The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Calico Captive by Elizabeth Speare A Girl Named Disaster Catherine Called Birdy by K. Cushman The Ballad of Lucy Whipple by K. Cushman Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Redwall by Brian Jacques Sounder by Armstrong White Fang; Call of the Wild by Jack London Hatchet by Gary Paulsen My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Water Sky by Jean Craighead George Captains Courageous; The Jungle Book-R. Kipling Little Women; Little Men; Jo's Boys; Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott The Royal Diaries Series With Lee in Virginia by G.A. Henty Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome Treasure Island; Kidnapped by Robert Lewis Stevenson The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge Laddie; Freckles; A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter The Giver by Lois Lowry Year of the Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank King Arthur and the Nights of the Round Table by Sir Thomas Malory Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O'Dell The Hobbit; Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Shining Company; The Eagle of the Ninth; Song for a Dark Queen; The Sword and the Circle by Rosemary Sutcliff The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Huckleberry Finn; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court-M. Twain Highschool Watership Down by Richard Adams Enders Game by Orson Scott Card Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane The Good Earth by Pearl Buck Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Around the World in Eighty Days; Journey to the Center of the Earth; Mysterious Island; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Fahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury The War of the World; The Invisible Man; The Time Machine by H.G.Wells Animal Farm by George Orwell The Hornblower Series by C.S. Forester Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque The Four Horses of the Apocalypse by Vicente B. Ibanez To Kill A Mockingbird by Lee Harper Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes The Count of Monte Cristo; The Three Musketeers; The Man with the Iron Mask by Alexander Dumas The Scarlet Pimpernell by Baroness Emma Orczy The Last of the Mohicans; The Deerslayer by James Fennimore Cooper Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo Gulliver's Travels by the Annotated Isaac Asimov version Bless Me Ultima Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe Walden; Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau Screwtape Letters; The Great Divorce by C.S.Lewis David Copperfield; Oliver Twist; Great Expectations; Bleak House by Charles Dickens Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pride And Prejudice; Sense And Sensibility; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Out of Africa; Babatte's Feast by Isak Dinesen Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Middlemarch; Adam Bede by George Eliot Moby Dick by Herman Melville Vanity Fair by Thackery Tom Jones by Henry Fielding The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitztgerald The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice And Men; The Pearl; Tortilla Flat; Cannery Row by John Steinbeck The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner A Farewell To Arms; The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoyevsky Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Pinskey) Beowulf The Illiad of Homer; The Odyssey of Homer Shakespeare by you can easily start reading some of his easier plays in the seventh grade General Resources Bequest of Wings; Longer Flight by Annis Duff What Your First Grader Needs to Know by E.D. Hirsch Jr. The Homeschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith Endangered Minds by Jane Healy You Can Teach Your Child Successfully by Ruth Beechick What Is A Family by Edith Schaeffer The Art of Education by Linda Dobson The Complete Home Learning Sourcebook-R. Rupp Child Light Tape Library-S. Macaulay and D. Lopez Wisdom's Way of Learning by Marilyn Howshall The Ultimate Guide to Student Contests by Scott Pendleton "Mindwalk: A Film for Passionate Thinkers" by video Reading /Writing Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann The Writing Road to Reading by Romalda Spalding Easy Grammar by Wanda C. Phillips Grammar Smart Junior by Liz Buffa The Elements of Style by William Strunk jr. & E.B. White Comprehensive Composition by Kathryn Stout Any Child Can Write by Harvey Weiner The Art of Science Writing by D. Worsley & B. Mayle Word Wizardry by Margaret & William Kennda Writers Inc.; Write Source 2000; Writers Express by Sebranek/Meyer/Kemper (D.C.Heath) Deep Revision; Personal Fiction Writing by M. S. Wills Wordsmith by Janie B. Cheaney Families Writing by Peter Stilman How To Read A Book by Mortimer J. Adler Company of the Creative by David Larsen Creative Storytelling by Jack Maguire The Storyteller's Guide by Bill Mooney & David Holt The Adventures of Dr. Alphabet: 104 Unusual Ways to Write Poetry in the Classroom & Community by Morice Joyful Noise; I Am Phoenix by Paul Fleishman Favorite Poems Old and New by Helen Ferris A Children's Book of Verse by Brimax Books 101 Famous Poems by Compiled by Roy J. Cook The Baby's Good morning Book by Kay Chorao The Baby's Goodnight Book by Kay Chorao Othello Complete & Unabridged by by Shakespeare The Play Illustrated in Panel-by-Panel color paintings by Oscar Zarate by Workman Publishing, New York Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children by Nesbitt Oxford School Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night Dream by ed. Roma Gill Math Lane County Mathematics Project: Problem Solving In Mathematics by Dale Seymour Family Math by Stenmark, Thompson, and Cossey Hands-On Algebra; Hands On Math-F. M. Thompson The Book of Think; The I Hate Mathematics! Book by Marilyn Burns Polyhedron Models by Magnus J. Wenninger Anchor Math by Leslie A. Hart Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic;Young Children Continue to Reinvent Arithmetic by Constance Kamii The Joy of Mathematics by Theoni Pappas Mathematics: A Human Endeavor; Elementary Algebra; Geometry by Harold Jacobs NCTM Curriculum and Evaluation Standards For School Mathematics -order from Cuisinaire Catalog Fibonacci Fun by Trudi Hammel Garland Math Games "Math-It" by Elmer W. Brooks "Mega Math" by Scott Flansburg & Kevin Trudeau "Set"; "Quizmo"; "24 Game" Science Science Scope by Kathryn Stout Lab Science: The How, Why, What, Who 'n' Where Book -Barbara Edtle Shelton Creepy Crawlies and the Scientific Method-S. Kneidel Turning Kids On to Science in the Home by Dr. Tik Liem Ranger Rick's Nature Scope Discovery Series Microscope Adventure by Kym Wright by Unit Studies by Wright Publishing; P.O. Box 225; Middlefield, CT, 06455 The Microscope Book by Shar Levine & Leslie Johnstone Usborne Book The World of the Microscope by Chris Oxlade &Corinne Stockley Super Charged Science Projects: Magnets and Electric Current Super Charged Science Projects: ElectroMagnets in Action by Barrons Educational Series Earth Science: 49 Science Fair Projects by Bonnet & Keen 700 Science Fair Projects for Everyone by Compiled by UNESCO Science Experiments by Robert Gardner Mr. Wizard's Supermarket Science by Don Herbert Invention Book by Steven Caney The Science Book by Sara Stein Pocket Book of Science by Robin Kerrod Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Bradford Comstock Periodic Kingdom by P.W.Watkins Exploring Chemical Elements and Their Compounds by David L. Heiserman Stephen Hawking's Universe by David Filkin Forty Days to Knowing the Night Sky by The Body Book by Donald M Silver and Patricia J. Wynne Start Exploring Gray's Anatomy Illustrations to Color by Freddy Stark Young Oxford Book of Astronomy by Simon & Mitton The Stars; Find the Constellations by H.A.Rey The Nature Company Guides: Skywatching by D. H. Levy Einsteins's Universe by Nigel Calder The Way Life Works by Mahlon Hoagland The Nature Encyclopedia by Dorling/Kindersly Fun with Nature: A Take-Along Guide by Northword Press The Usborne Nature Trail Book of Garden Wildlife by Su Swallow The Nature Notes of An Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden The Enchanted Gardening Book by Alice Herck Our Garden Year by Jane Johnson Utah Wildfowers by Richard Shaw Red-TailsIn Love by Marie Winn All the Birds in North America by American Bird Conservancy's Field Guide Introducing Birds to Young Naturalists by Ilo HIller Earthwatch Earthcycles and Ecosystems by Bath Savan The Handy Weather Answer Book by Walter A. Lyons The Handy Science Answer Book Compiled by the Science & Technology Dept of the Carnegie Library The Handy Space Answer Book by Englebert & Dupuis Nature Company Discovery Library: The Human Body Dr. Marie Rose The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas Blood & Guts by Linda Allison The Color Atlas of Human Anatomy by ed. by Vanio Vannini & Guiliano Pogliani A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking Flatland by Edwin A. Abott Sphereland by Dionys Burger The Double Helix by James D. Watson Vital Dust by Christian DeDuve Understanding Physics (3 Vols) by Isaac Assimov The Cartoon Guide to Physics by Larry Gonick & Art Huffman Wild Goose Company Science Experiments are great -- TOPS Science gives you great scientific knowledge with simple equipment History/Geography The complete Idiot's Guide to Geography by Thomas E. Sherer, Jr. The Book of Where by Neill Bell The Geography Coloring Book by Wynn Kapit Mapping the World by Heart by David Smith Exploring Planet Earth by John Tiner Everything Is Somewhere: The Geography Quiz Book by Jack McClintock & David Helgren Guides to History Plus by Kathryn Stout Critical Thinking In United States History Series by Critical Thinking Press A History of US by Joy Hakim The Light and the Glory for Children by Peter Marshall From Sea to Shining Sea For Children by Peter Marshall Great Women in American History by Janney The Real Benjamin Franklin by Allison /Skousen/Maxfield The Five Thousand Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen A Child's History of the World by W.M. Hillyer The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem VanLoon The Kingfisher Illustrated History of the World The Usborne Book of World History The DK History of the World George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster 1912 Facts About Titanic by Lee W. Merideth Logan Marshall's Original 1912 Classic: The Sinking of the Titanic, Abridged & ed. by Bruce M. Caplan "Civilization" -- video series "From Earth to the Moon" -- video series "The Civil War" -- video series Fine Arts Sister's Wendy's Story of Painting by Sister Wendy Beckett Frank Lloyd Wright For Kids Kathleen Thorne-Thomsen Leonardo da Vinci for kids by Janis Herbert How to Use Child-size Masterpieces for Art Appreciation by Aline D. Wolf Understanding Art by Mittler Ragans Discovering Great Artists by MaryAnn F. Kohl & Kim Solga "Sister Wendy's Story of Painting" by video series "Sister Wendy in Conversation with Bill Moyers" by video