Children’s classic books.

July 7, 2007

Do you read books to your children? Hope you do. Because it is very important to read and reread books that have predictable, often repetitive passages. For more of us reading aloud is a bedtime tradition.
This is the list of children’s classics that must be read at the appointed age.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Peter Pan by James Barrie
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz by L.Frank Baum
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (with Tenniel’s illustrations.)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Multimedia)
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (another copy)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Struwwelpeter/Slovenly Peter by Heinrich Hoffmann. Other translations and the German original are also available at 19th-century German Stories site.
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
The Light Princess by George MacDonald
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy M. Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea by Lucy M. Montgomery
Anne of the Island by Lucy M. Montgomery
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

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