Tried and True Books
Age 2-5
Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Greedy Python by Eric Carle
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Sheep in a Jeepby Nancy E. Shaw
Alphaboat by Michael Chesworth
Richard Scarry’s Funniest Storybook Ever
“I Can’t” Said the Ant by Polly Cameron
Books by Caroline Repchuck:
-- Polly Pup
-- Tessa Truck
-- Percy Pig
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
Love you Forever by Robert Munsch
Storybook Treasury of Dick and Jane
Magic Castle Reader (Groiler Series)
-- Color Clown Comes to Town
-- Butterfly Express
-- Grumpy Kangaroo
-- One Monkey on Top
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Age 5-8
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert
Zeralda’s Ogre by Tomi Ungerer
Leif the Lucky by D’Aulaire
My First Little House Books Series:
Winter Days in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Annie and the Wild Animals by Jan Brett
Town Mouse, Country Mouse by Jan Brett
Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Grimms Fairy Tales
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Tomten by Viktor Rydberg
Christmas Tomten by Viktor Rydberg
The Tomten and the Fox by Astrid Lindgren, Harald Wiberg, Karl-Erik Forsslund
Christmas at the Tomten’s Farm by Harold Wiberg
Merlin and the Dragons by Jane Yolen
Little Toot & the Loch Ness Monster by Charles Micucci
The Selkie Girl by Susan Cooper
The Silver Cow by Warwick Hutton
Aesop's Fables
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
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Age 9-12+
Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Zenda and the Gazing Ball - A series by Ken Petti and John Amodeo
American Girl Series
--Kirsten
--Kit
--Samantha
--Molly
--Felicity
Norse Gods and Giants by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’ Aulaires
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table through “ Great Illustrated Classics”
Idunna and the Magic Apples by Marianna Mayer
Bullseye Step into Classics:
--Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
--Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
Pippy Longstocking by Astrid Lundgren
Celtic Fairy Tales collected by Joseph Jacobs
Smith of Wootton Major by JRR Tolkien
James Herriot’s Treasury for Children
Tartan Magic Series by Jane Yolen
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Little House Series
Call of the Wild by Jack London
White Fang by Jack London
The Boggart by Susan Cooper
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
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Age 13-15+
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
Rudyard Kipling Poems
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Tangle Coated Horse by Ella Young
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Outsiders by SE Hinton
The Time Machine by HG Wells
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Age 15-18
Shanara series by Terry Brooks
No Fear Shakespeare --All Plays
Odinism in the Modern World by Wulfstan OR
Eight Tales of Terror by Edgar Allen Poe
Beowulf
Sagas of the Icelanders
Poetic Edda Larrington translation (historically how the ancient Scandinavians wrote poetry called “Skaldic Poetry”)
Myths of the Norsemen by H. A. Guerber
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by JRR Tolkien
Pearl by JRR Tolkien (Poetry like Beowulf)
Sir Orfeo by JRR Tolkien (Poetry like Beowulf)
Viking Trilogy by Tim Severin (Odinn's Child, Sworn Brother & King's Man)
The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell (The Winter King, Enemy of God & Excalibur)
