My Children’s Recommended Reading List (As of 3/3/2019)

Title	Author	Age Range
The Gardener	Sarah Stewart	P
Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon	Patty Lovell	P
Me…Jane	Patrick McDonnell	P
Sandra Boynton board books	Sandra Boynton	P
Blueberries for Sal	Robert McCloskey	P
The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	P
Eloise	Kay Thompson	P
A Chair for My Mother	Ver B. Williams	P
A Bear Called Paddington	Michael Bond	P
Grace for President	Kelly DiPucchio	P
Chrysanthemum	Kevin Henkes	P
Tar Beach	Faith Ringgold	P
Mirette on the High Wire	Emily Arnold McCully	P
Sleep Like a Tiger	Mary Logue	P
Extra Yarn	Mac Barnett	P
The Mermaid and the Shoe	K.G. Campbell	P
Not All Princesses Dress in Pink	Jane Yolen	P
Knuffle Bunny	Mo Willems	P
Owl Moon	Jane Yolen	P
The Dot	Peter H. Reynolds	P
And Tango Makes Three	Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell	P
The Invisible String	Patrice Karst	P
You Are Stardust	Elin Kelsey	P
Berestain Bears series	Stan & Jan Berenstain	P
The Poky Little Puppy	Jannette Sebring Lowry	P
Rosie Revere, Engineer	Andrea Beaty	P
Little Critter series	Mercer Mayer	P
Dear Zoo (board book)	Rod Campbell	P
Intersetellar Cinderella	Deborah Underwood	P
Harry the Dirty Dog	Eugene Zion	P
The Little Engine that Could	Watty Piper	P
The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales	Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith	P
A Sick Day for Amos McGee	Philip C. Stead	P
Everything by Dr. Suess	Dr. Suess	P
Olivia series	Ian Falconer	P
It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown	Charles M. Schulz	P
The Jolly Postman	Janet & Allan Ahlberg	P
This Book Just Ate My Dog!	Henry Holt	P
The Polar Express	Chris Van Allsburg	P
Pinkalicious series	Victoria & Elizabeth Kann	P
Pete the Cat series	Eric Litwin	P
Velveteen Rabbit	Margery Williams	P
Love You Forever	Robert Munsch	P
The Nightmare Before Christmas	TimBurton	P
The Complete Adventures of Curious George	Margaret and H.A. Rey	P
Grandpa Green	Lane Smith	P
The Snowman (pictures only)	Raymond Briggs	P
Don’t Let the Pidgeon Drive the Bus	Mo Willems	P
Goodnight Moon	Margaret Wise Brown	P
The Snowy Day	Ezra Jack Keats	P
The Very Hungry Catepillar	Eric Carle	P
Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak	P
Harold and The Purple Crayon	Crockett Johnson	P
Last Stop on Market Street	Matt de La Pena	P
Madeline	Ludwig Bemelmans	P
The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh	A.A. Milne	P
The Gruffalo	Julia Donaldson	P
The Story of Ferndinand	Monro Leaf	P
Frog and Toad are Friends	Arnold Lobel	P
The Boy Who Loved Words	Roni Schotter	P
There is a Bird on Your Head	Mo Willems	P
The Hundred Dresses	Eleanor Estes	P
The Little House	Virginia Lee Burton	P
Tuesday	David Wiesner	P
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Judith Viorst	P
Make Way for Ducklings	Robert McCloskey	P
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs	Judi Barrett	P
No, David!	David Shannon |	P
The Day the Crayons Quit	Drew Daywalt	P
Elephant and Piggie Books	Mo Willems	P
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (series)	Laura Joffe Numeroff	P
Fancy Nancy books	Jane O Conner	P
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault	P
The Giving Tree	Shel Silverstein	P
Goodnight Moon	Margaret Wise Brown	P
Rainbow Fish	Marcus Pfister	P
The Runaway Bunny	Margaret Wise Brown	P
Corduroy	Don Freeman	P
The Mitten	Jan Brett	P
Strega Nona	Tomie De Paola	P
The Velveteen Rabbit	Margery Williams	P
The True Story of The Three Little Pigs	Jon Scieszka	P
Jumanji	Chris Van Allsburg	P
The Paperbag Princess	Robert N. Munsch	P
Fly guy series		4+
Grimm’s Fairy Tales	Brothers Grimm	4+
Danny and the Dinosaur	Syd Hoff	5+
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly series	Lucille Colandra	5+
Rainbow Magic Series	Daisy Meadows	5+
Wizard of Oz	L. Frank Baum	5+
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Roa	6+
Matilda	Roald Dahl	6+
The BFG	Roald Dahl	6+
Amelia Bedelia books	Peggy Parish	6+
Shel Silverstein works of poetry	Shel Silverstein	6+
Anne of Green Gables series	L.M. Montgomery	6+
The Magic Tree series, age 6+		6+
Junie B Jones books	Barbara Park	6+
Ivy + Bean Series	Annie Barrows	6+
The Chocolate Touch	Patrick Skene Catling	6+
The One and Only Ivan	Katharine Applegate	6+
Clementine	Sara Pennypacker	6+
The Cricket in Times Square	George Selden	6+
The Night Gardner	Jonathan Auxier	6+
The Princess in Black	Shannon Hale and Dean Hale	6+
Tuck Everlasting	Natalie Babbitt	6+
The Borrowers	Mary Norton	7+
Charlotte’s Web	EB White	7+
Stuart Little	EB White	7+
Trumpeter Swan	EB White	7+
Ramona & Beezus books	Beverly Cleary	7+
Mr. Popper’s Penguins	Richard Atwater	7+
The Mouse and the Motorcycle	Beverly Cleary	7+
Freckle Juice	Judy Blume	7+
Mary Poppins	Dr. P.L. Travers	7+
The Littles	John Peterson	7+
Little House on the Prairie series	Laura Ingalls Wilder	7+
Dogman series	Dav Pilkey	7+
Captain Underpants series	Dav Pilkey	7+
Pee Wee Scouts series	Judy Delton	7+
My Side of the Mountain	Jean Craighead George	7+
Boxcar Children series	Gertrude Chandler Warner	7+
The Rainbow Magic Fairy Series, age 7+		7+
Stellaluna	Janell Cannon	7+
The Castle in the Attic	Elizabeth Winthrop	8+
The Swiss Family Robinson	Johann David Wyss	8+
Bunnicula	Deborah and James Howe	8+
James and The Giant Peach	Roald Dahl	8+
The Chronicles of Narnia series	CS Lewis	8+
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series	Betty MacDonald	8+
Sarah, Plain and Tall	Patricia Macklachlin	8+
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes	Eleanor Coerr	8+
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH	Rober C. O’Brien	8+
Super Fudge books	Judy Blume	8+
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane	Katie DiCamillo	8+
The Magician’s Elephant	Katie DiCamillo	8+
Tale of Desperaux	Katie DiCamillo	8+
Harriet the Spy	Louse Fizthugh	8+
A Boy Called Bat	Elana Arnold	8+
All-of-a-kind Family	Sydney Taylor	8+
Dick King-Smith books, age 8+		8+
Black Beauty	Anna Sewell	8+
Mandy	Julie Andrews	8+
The Ordinary Princess	MM Kaye	8+
The Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling	8+
The I Survived Series	Lauren Tarshis	8+
How to Eat Fried Worms	Thomas Rockwell	8+
Goosebumps series	R.L. Stine	8+
Choose Your Own Adventure books, age 8+		8+
The Sisters Grimm series	Peter Ferguson	8+
Coraline	Neil Gaiman	8+
Peter Pan	J.M. Barrie	8+
How to Train Your Dragon series	Cressida Cowell	8+
Zathura	Chris Van Allsburg	8+
Gaia Girls series	Lee Welles	8+
Little Women	Louisa May Alcott	8+
American Girl Books	various	8+
The Indian in the Cupboard	Lynne Reid Banks	8+
Little Britches: Father and I were Ranchers	Ralph Moody	8+
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles	Julie Andrews Edwards	8+
Pinocchio	Carlo Collodi	8+
Secret Garden	Frances Hodgsen Burnett	9+
The Phantom Tollbooth	Norton Juster	9+
The Whipping Boy	Sid Fleischman	9+
Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson	9+
A Gathering of Days	Joan W. Blose	9+
A Little Princess	Frances Hodgsen Burnett	9+
Because of Winn Dixie	Katie DiCamillo	9+
City of Ember	Jeanne Duprau	9+
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler		9+
The Cricket in Times Square	George Selden	9+
Sideways Stories from Wayside School	Louis Sachar	9+
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeline L’Engle	9+
The Dork Diaries	Rachel Renne Russell	9+
Harry Potter series	J.K. Rowling	9+
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series	Rick Riordian	9+
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	9+
A Series of Unfortunate Events series	Lemony Snickett	9+
Bridge to Teribethia	Katherine Paterson	9+
The Hobbit	J.R.R Tolkien	9+
The Root Cellar	Janet Lunn	9+
Lord of the Rings series	J.R.R. Tolkien	9+
The Light Princess	George McDonald	9+
Number the Stars	Lois Lowry	9+
The Water Horse	Dick King-Smith	9+
The Giver	Lois Lowry	9+
Where the Red Fern Grows	Wilson Rawls	9+
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	10+
Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	10+
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles	Patricia C Wede	10+
Holes series	Lous Sachar	10+
Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	10+
The Redwall Series	Brian Jacques	10+
Carl Hiassen books, age 10+		10+
Neil Gaiman books, age 10+		10+
Esperanza Rising	Pam Munoz Ryan	10+
I am Malala	Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick	10+
Wonder	R.J. Palacio	10+
Peter and the Starcatchers	ave Barry and Ridley Pearson	10+
The Book Thief	Marcus Zusack	10+
Anne Frank	Anne Frank	11+
The Face on the Milk Carton series	Caroline B Cooney	12+
Both Sides of Time series	Caroline B Cooney	12+
Ender’s Game	Orson Scott Card	12+
The Hunger Game series	Suzanne Collins	12+
Legend series	Marie Lu	12+
The Outsiders	S. E. Hinton	12+
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	12+