Ages 1 to 6
**The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard
There is nothing so soothing as reading the simple stories about Pooh Bear and his friends in the Hundred Acre Woods.
**Beatrix Potter’s Stories – Like The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Squirrel Nutkin
Great stories again about the English countryside and the little animals living there.
Ages 5 to 10
**All the Diane Stanley storybooks
*Joan of Arc
*Peter the Great
*Good Queen Bess – about Queen Elizabeth the 1st of England
*Bard of Avon – About William Shakespeare
*Leonardo DaVinci
*Michelangelo
*Charles Dickens
*Cleopatra
*Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam
*The Last Princess – about the Princess Ka’iulani of Hawai’i
**The Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
These are delightful stories about how
**The Little Princess
This is a wonderful story about a young girl left at a school for girls in London while her father is fighting in India for England
**Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
**The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and the rest of the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
**American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne with wood engravings by Michael McCurdy
**The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard
This great book is about the adventures of the creatures of the wild wood in England
**All the Holling Clancy Holling storybooks
*Paddle-to-the-Sea – This book is about a carved figure of an Indian in a canoe that journeys from a melting snowbank down the mountain streams and into the Great Lakes and all the way down the Saint Lawrence River to the Atlantic Ocean . Our children learned a lot about nature, people of these areas and the geography from the mountains north of the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean .
*Seabird – This book is about whaling ships and the Atlantic Ocean from 1818 to 1918.
*Pagoo – This book is about the life of a Hermit Crab and his adventures in the Tidal Pools.
*Minn of the Mississippi – This is about the Mississippi
*Tree in the Trail – This book is about a tree near the Santa Fe Trail and the history surrounding the trail.
The Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire storybooks
*Columbus
*Leif the Lucky
*Benjamin Franklin
*Abraham Lincoln
*George Washington
*Pocahontas
*Buffalo
**The Aesop for Children with pictures by Milo Winter – This is my favorite version of Aesop’s Fables. The pictures are perfect for inspiring children and adults alike. There are 96 Fables in this book.
**The Blue Fairy Book and The Red Fairy Book both edited by Andrew Lang the complete and unabridged versions illustrated by H.J. Ford and G.P. Jacomb Hood (Blue) and H.J. Ford and Lancelot Speed (Red). - We loved reading these fairytales from the time my children could sit long enough to listen. Some are a wee bit violent but most are wonderful, you can edit as you read if you feel you have to. My children loved the drawings as much as the fairytales and often drew them.
**James Herriot’s Treasury for Children Illustrated by Ruth Brown and Peter Barrett
The same man wrote All Creatures Great and Small and these are some of the stories he adapted from those tales. Well written and endearing stories about a veterinarian who travels the Yorkshire England countryside helping animals.
**Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit
**Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
**And of course Shakespeare himself, unabridged
**Our Island Story
**The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
**Greek Myths by D’Aulaire
**School of the Woods by William J. Long – A great book about animals of the woods. The author gives each animal the name given to them by the Milicete Indians. A great way to learn about animals and their habits.
**Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin – Short stories in simple language that describes important stories from history, from Greece to England to America
**Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
One of our favorite stories ever. This delightful story is about a young princess and how she is helped and guided by a fairy grandmother who every child would want and how she is helped by a young boy named Curdie to overcome the Goblins. A lot of beautiful symbolism in a well written fantasy.
Ages 7 to 15
**The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
This book is written in antiquated English but there are so many fun and funny adventures that even if the children do not understand every word, they love the stories. We laughed a lot while we read this book! My children were ages 4 to 9 years old.
**Children of the New Forest by
My children loved this story. It takes place during the English Civil War; Cromwell’s uprising of 1642 to 1651. It is about a family of children whose parents were faithful to King Charles and their adventures as they have to hide in the New Forest . My children were ages 6 to 11.
**Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
This book was a slower but very interesting book about a man who set out to prove that the ocean currents could have brought an ancient raft from South America to Easter Island . Thor Heyerdahl fights against all odds to cut through government tape to be able to prove his theory. He creates a balsawood raft from the deep jungles of the Amazon and sets out on a journey that he captures in this book, Kon-Tiki. My children were ages 7 to12.
**The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
This is a wonderful fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien about Hobbits and adventures to lands where there is treasure hidden and protected by the giant dragon named Smog. My children sat captivated while we read this book, laughing and holding their breath at times. They were ages 6 to 11.
**The Kingdom and the Crown series by Gerald Lund
One of my favorite series of all time. I feel like I am walking with Jesus in the Galilee and through the streets of ancient Jerusalem
**In Freedom’s Cause by G.A. Henty
