I love the amount of reading my children do and am always on the lookout for the very best in children's literature to feed their hunger for books, books, and more books. I have found the local thrift store to be a good source to find many of the classics. Library sales and Paperback Swap (see the link in my sidebar) have been the other most used sources for building our growing library.
I have found many great book lists to use for directing me in choosing the very best. Here are some of my favorites:
-1000 Good Books (just click on your child's reading level)
-great living books (a fantastic book finder with only their very favorite recommendations for 'twaddle'* free books) *Twaddle = dumbed down literature; absence of meaning.
I also love the great recommendations found in these wonderful books:
-Honey for a Child's Heart
-Books Children Love: A Guide to the Best Children's Literature
-Books That Build Character: A Guide to Teaching Your Child Moral Values Through Stories
And as we have read our way through many of these wonderful stories, these have been some of our very favorites:
-Ned: Barnardo Boy (A must read - I can't tell you how much I cried through this one!!)
-Joel: A Boy of Galilee (Grabs your heart right away in the first scene)
-Heidi (Everyone has heard of this classic, but have you read it? It is precious!)
-Treasures of the Snow (Another must read story!)
-Teddy's Button (So sweet!)
-Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Another treasure!)
-The Railway Children (The BBC movie of this one is very good too - but nothing beats the book!)
-Farmer Boy (Our very favorite of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books with Little House in the Big Woods coming in a close second)
-Caddie Woodlawn
-The Swiss Family Robinson
-An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (you just can't go wrong with any of Louisa May Alcott's stories!)
-Hinds' Feet on High Places (This is a wonderful arrangement of this classic written for kids)
-Abigail Adams (We have read many of these wonderful Sower Series biographies, but this is by far our favorite so far!)
-Winnie the Pooh (If you have only watched Disney's version of Pooh, then you are missing out on the wonderful whimsy of A.A. Milne)
-The Chronicles of Narnia (Of course our list of favorites is not complete without this series even though I have not read them myself, my children assure me that they are the best!!)
-Kingdom's Dawn (Part of the Kingdom Series - we have the audio and the kids have been clamoring for the next one!!)
We have so many wonderful books that we have not yet read together and these are some of our up and coming books that we will be trying to complete this year ( I am sure I will have some new favorites to add by the time we are done!):
-The Bark Of The Bog Owl (From the Wilderking Trilogy - My friend Jen, my Mom and my Garrett have all read this now and have all said "You have got to read this book!!!" - I think I will take their word for it!)
-Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
-Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
-Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin (Marguerite Henry - an author we love! I am also trying to locate another of her titles called Cinnabar the One O'clock Fox - it has been hard to find - have any of you read it? Is it worth purchasing?)
-Pink Motel
-My Side of the Mountain
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-The Runt
and last but not least...
-Mother Carey's Chickens
These oughta keep us busy reading this winter! So what are your all-time favorite books?
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