Read Alouds

With my older children I was home all of the time, and we spent much of our days reading aloud.  Then we moved a time or two; my olders got older and busier; I had to start working; and I realized that my youngers were missing out on some of the best loved books that their sisters and I had enjoyed.  So, I began again, and I don't plan to slow down until there is nobody left to listen!

This is an incomplete list of the books I have read aloud over the past five years or so with my youngest three children.  I have not included picture books, seasonal books, or poetry (with the exception of Lear and Milne).

  • The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter
  • Winnie-The-Pooh by A.A.Milne
  • The House At Pooh Corner by A.A.Milne
  • When We Were Very Young by A.A.Milne
  • Now We Are Six by A.A.Milne
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
  • Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
  • The Wonder Clock by Katherine Pyle
  • The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
  • The Story of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting
  • The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting
  • Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
  • On the Shores of the Great Sea by M.B. Synge
  • The Discovery of New Worlds by M.B. Synge
  • The Awakening of Europe by M.B. Synge
  • The Struggle for Sea Power by M.B. Synge
  • A Book of Discovery by M.B. Synge
  • Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
  • Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
  • Racso and the Rats of NIMH by Jane Leslie Conly
  • Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
  • Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
  • Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
  • Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
  • The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo 
  • The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 
  • Gilgamesh the Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean
  • The Cat of Bubastes by G.A. Henty
  • The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw 
  • The Hittite Warrior by Joanne Williamson 
  • God King: A Story in the Days of Hezekiah by Joanne Williamson
  • Victory on the Walls: A Story of Nehemiah by Frieda Clark Hyman 
  • The Children's Homer by Padraic Colum
  • My Glorious Brothers by Howard Fast
  • The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare 
  • Twice Freed by Patricia St. John