KOLBE ACADEMY Recommended Reading List

 

AGES 2-7


Aardema, Verna: Who’s in Rabbit’s House?
Adamson, Joy: Born Free
Aesop: Aesop’s Fables
Allan, Tony: The Time Traveller Book of Pharaohs and Pyramids
Amery, Heather: The Time Traveller Book of Rome and Romans
Andersen, Hans Christian: Andersen’s Fairy Tales The Emperor’s New Clothes
Anno, Mitsumasa: Anno’s Journey
Arabian Nights: Collected and edited by Andrew Long
Asbjornsen, Peter C.: East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Atwater, Richard & Florence: Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Baker, Betty: Little Runner of the Longhouse
Baskin, Leonard: Hose’s Aviary
Belloc, Hilaire: The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts; Cautionary Tales
Bonsall, Crosby Newell: Who’s a Pest?
Brooke, Leslie L.: Johnny Crow’s Garden
Broun, Heywood: The Fifty-First Dragon
Brown, Marcia: Stone Soup
Brown, Margaret Wise: The Little Fireman; Goodnight Moon
Brunhoff, Jean de: The Story of Babar
Buck, Pearl: The Big Wave
Burman, Ben Lucian: High Water at Catfish Bend
Burton, Virginia Lee: The Little House; Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Byars, Betsy: The Midnight Fox
Caldecot, Randolph: Picture Books
Carle, Eric: The Very Busy Spider; The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Carroll, Louis: Alice in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass
Cerf, Bennett: Bennett Cerf’s Book of Riddles
Chase, Richard: The Jack Tales
Civardi, Anne: The Time Traveller Book of Viking Raiders
Collodi, Carlo: Pinocchio
Colum, Padraic: The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles; Children of Odin; The Children’s Homer
Cullum, Albert: Aesop in the Afternoon; Shake Hands with Shakespeare; Greek Tears and Roman Laughter
cummings, e.e.: Fairy Tales
D’Aulaire, lngri: D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths; Norse Gods & Giants
DeJong, Meindert: The Wheel on the School; The Last Little Cat
De La Mare, Walter: Come Hither; The Turnip; Songs of Childhood; Little Red Riding Hood
DuBois,William Pene: The Twenty-One Balloons
Durrell, Gerald: My Family and Other Animals
Eastman, P. D.: A Fish Out of Water; Sam and the Firefly; Go, Dog, Go!; Are You My Mother?
Edgewood, Maria: The Parent’s Assistant; Moral Tales
Eliot, T. S.: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
Estes, Eleanor: The Hundred Dresses
Farley, Walter: The Black Stallion; Little Black, a Pony
Fatio, Louise: The Happy Lion
Field, Eugene: Little Boy Blue
Fritz, Jean: What’s the Big Idea, Benjamin Franklin?
Frost, Robert: You Come Too
Gag, Wanda: Tales from Grimm; Millions of Cats; The Funny Thing; More Tales from Grimm
Godden, Rumer: The Mousewife
Gramatky, Hardie: Little Toot
Greenaway, Kate: An Apple Pie; Mother Goose; Birthday Book; Marigold Garden; Under the Window; The Language of Flowers
Grimm, The Brothers: Household Stories; Fairy Tales
Guilfoile, Elizabeth: Nobody Listens to Andrew
Haldane, J. B. S.: My Friend Mr. Leakey
Harris, Joel Chandler: Uncle Remus
Hawes, Charles Boardman: The Dark Frigate
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales
Henry, Marguerite: Misty; King of the Wind
Hergé: Tintin in America; Cigars of the Pharaoh; The Blue Lotus; The Broken Ear; The Black Island; King Ottokar’s Sceptre; The Crab with the Golden Claws; The Shooting Star; The Secret of the Unicorn
Hindley, Judy: The Time Traveller Book of Knights and Castles
Holling, Holling C.: Paddle to the Sea; Pagoo; Seabird; Tree in the Trail
Hong, Lily Toy: The Empress and the Silkworm
Ipcar, Dahlov: One Horse Farm
Jacobs, Joseph: Jack and the Bean-Stalk; Johnny-Cake; Tattercoats
Jarrell, Randall: The Animal Family
Jaspersohn, William: How the Forest Grew
Kaufman, Mervyn D.: Thomas Alva Edison
Kaune, Merriman B.: My Own Little House
Keats, Ezra Jack: Hi, Cat!; The Snowy Day
Kessler, Leonard: Mr. Pine’s Mixed-Up Signs
Kingsley, Charles: Water Babies; The Heroes
Kipling, Rudyard: Just So Stories; Jungle Book
Krasilovsky, Phyllis: The Very Little Girl
Kunhardt, Dorothy: Pat the Bunny
Lamb, Charles: Beauty and the Beast; Tales from Shakespeare
Lamorisse, Albert: The Red Balloon
Lang, Andrew: The Blue Fairy Book
Larrick, Nancy: Piping Down the Valleys Wild
Lawson, Robert: Rabbit Hill
Leaf, Munro: The Story of Ferdinand
Lear, Edward: Nonsense Omnibus
Lee, Dennis: Alligator Pie
Lexau, Joan M.: Olaf Reads
Lindsay, Vachel: Johnny Appleseed
Lionni, Leo: Frederick
Lobel, Arnold: Mouse Tales; Frog and Toad are Friends
Lofting, Hugh: Dr. Dolittle’s Circus; The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
Lopshire, Robert Put Me in theZoo
Martell, Hazel Mary: Na Ceiltigh, "The Celts" - Window into History Series
McCloskey, Robert: Make Way for Duckling; Homer Price; Blueberries for Sal
McCord, David: One at a Time
MacDonald, George: At the Back of the North Wind
Milligan, Spike: Silly Verse for Kids
Milne, A. A.: Winnie the Pooh Series
Minarik, Else Homelund: Little Bear; A Kiss for Little Bear
Moore, Clement C.: The Night Before Christmas
Mother Goose
Pearce, Philippa: Tom’s Midnight Garden
Perrault, Charles: Fairy Tales
Piper, Watty: The Little Engine That Could
Potter, Beatrix: Tales of Peter Rabbit; The Tailor of Gloucester; The Tale of Benjamin Bunny; The Tale of Kim Kitten; The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy Winkle
Prescott, Orville: A Father Reads to His Children
Prysen, Alf: Little Old Mrs. Pepperpot
Ransome, Arthur: Old Peter’s Russian Tales
Rawls, Wilson: Where the Red Fern Grows; Summer of the Monkeys
Reeves, James: The Merry-Go-Round
Rey, H. A.: Curious George; Curious George Takes a Job; Curious George Rides a Bike; Curious George Gets a Medal; Curious George Flies a Kite; Curious George Learns the Alphabet; Curious George Goes to the Hospital; Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys; Katy No-Pocket
Riley, James Whitcomb: Poetry for Small Children
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox: Under the Tree
Robinson, Barbara: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Rosetti, Christina: Sing Song
Ruskin, John: The King of the Golden River
Salten, Felix: Bambi - translated by Whittaker Chambers
Sanchez-Silva, José Maria: The Boy and the Whale
Sandburg, Carl: The Sandburg Treasury: Prose and Poetry for Young People
Schenk de Regniers, Beatrice: May I Bring a Friend?
Scott, Geoffrey: Egyptian Boats
Dr. Seuss: Green Eggs and Ham; The Cat in the Hat; One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish; Horton Hears a Who; Horton Hatches an Egg; The Cat in the Hat Comes Back; And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street; If I Ran the Zoo; Hop on Pop; Dr. Seuss’ ABC; Fox in Socks; Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
Steele, Mary Q.: Journey Outside
Stevenson, Robert Louis: A Child’s Garden of Verses
Stoutenburg, Adrien: American Tall Tales
Taylor, Mildred: Roll of Thunder; Hear My Cry
Thurber, James: The Thirteen Clocks; Many Moons
Tolkein, J.R.R.: Farmer Giles of Ham
Tolstoy, Leo: Fables and Fairy Tales
Trelease, Jim: The Read-Aloud Handbook
Vinton, Iris: Look Out for Pirates
Watson, Clyde: Father Fox’s Pennyrhymes
Wilde, Oscar: Stories for Children - Illustrated by P. J. Lynch
Williams, Margery: The Velveteen Rabbit