Non Twaddle Booklist

(still under construction so forgive the gaps)

Preschool

The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, by Bill Martin, Jr.

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, by Bill Martin Jr.

Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown

Lyle Lyle Crocodile, by Bernard Waber

Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey

Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Joffe Numeroff

Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson

The Story of Ping, by Marjorie Flack

Kindergarten-1st Grade

Amelia Bedelia, by Peggy Parish

Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey

Bread and Jam for Frances, by Russell Hoban

Billy and Blaze, by C.W. Anderson

A Chair for My Mother, by Vera B. Williams

Corduroy, by Don Freeman

The Courage of Sarah Noble, by Alice Dalgliesh

Curious George, by H.A. Rey

Frog and Toad All Year, by Arnold Lobel

Frog and Toad are Friends, by Arnold Lobel

Harry the Dirty Dog, by Gene Zion

Little Bear, by Else Homelund Minarik

The Little Engine that Could, by Watty Piper

The Little House, by Virginia Lee Burton

Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans

Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton

The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats

Stone Soup, by Marcia Brown

Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf

Story About Ping, by Marjorie Flack

Junior High

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson

Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley

Animal Farm, by George Orwell

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank

Paradise Lost, by John Milton

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott

Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter

The House of Arden by E. Nesbit

Harding's Luck by E. Nesbit

Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore

Christy, by Catherine Marshall

The Divine Comedy, by Dante

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury

Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens

The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan

The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber

The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis

The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain

Sounder, by William H. Armstrong

Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch

The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Emma, by Jane Austen