Childhood Books We Love
Maybe-unheard-of Picture Books We Loves:
The Elm Tree and Three Sisters by Norma Sommerdorf
Miss Fanny’s Hat by Jan Karon
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell
Anatole by Eve Titus
Moses by Weatherford & Nelson
Authors: Deborah Hopkinson, Eve Titus, C.W. Anderson, Arnold Lobel, Ian Falconer, Don Freeman, Peggy Parish, Chris Van Allsburg, June O’Conner, Stan and Jan Berenstain
Books that are helping to lengthen a child’s attention span from picture books to chapter books:
Winnie the Pooh series by Milne
Peter Rabbit series by Beatrix Potter
The Order of Read-Aloud Chapter Books that we are enjoying together:
The Velveteen Rabbit (an edition with large, colorful pictures helps to make this a first chapter book)
Stuart Little by E.B. White (most of the chapters are short and action-based)
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (it helped that Vivienne saw the play first)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingles Wilder (Read it with a 4-year-old while doing this lapbook and you’ll have fun!)
Milly Molly Mandy (wonderful, wonderful, and more wonderful!)
