Child Book List

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”

-George Bernard Shaw

Here is a list of books for children of different age groups.  It's so important to read with our kids!  I'm sure there are going to be many books that should be on this list that are missing.  Leave a comment and let us know some of your favorites.  

Infants and Preschoolers:

• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? - Bill Martin, Jr.
• Corduroy - Don Freeman
• Go Dog, Go! - P.D. Eastman
• Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown
• Harold and the Purple Crayon - Crockett Johnson
• The Lion and the Mouse - Jerry Pinkney
• The Mitten - Jim Aylesworth
• Pat the Bunny - Dorothy Kunhardt 
• The Story of Ferdinand - Munro Leaf
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
• Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak

4 - 8 yrs.:

• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Judith Viorst
• Amelia Bedelia - Peggy Parish
• Are You My Mother? - Philip D. Eastman
• Arthur Series - Marc Tolon Brown
• Caps for Sale - Esphyr Slobodkina
• The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom - John Archambault
• Clifford the Big Red Dog - Norman Bridwell
• Curious George - Hans Augusto Rey
• Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr. Seuss
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - Laura Joffe Numeroff
• Lily's Purple Plastic Purse - Kevin Henkes
• The Little Engine That Could - Watty Piper
• The Lorax - Dr. Seuss
• Love You Forever - Robert N. Munsch
• Oh, the Places You'll Go - Dr. Seuss
• The Paper Bag Princess - Robert N. Munsch
• The Polar Express - Chris Van Allsburg
• Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon - Patty Lovell
• Stellaluna - Janell Cannon
• Strega Nona - Tomie De Paola
• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs - Jon Scieska
• The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams

9 - 12 yrs.:

• Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
• The BFG - Roald Dahl
• The Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner
• Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
• Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
• The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
• The Giver - Lois Lowry
• Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
• Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh
• The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks
• Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell
• James and the Giant Peach: A Children's Story - Roald Dahl
• A Light in the Attic - Shel Silverstein
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
• Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
• A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli
• Matilda - Roald Dahl
• Mr. Popper's Penguins - Richard Atwater
• Mrs. Piggle Wiggle - Betty MacDonald
• My Father's Dragon - Ruth Styles Gannett
• Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
• The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
• Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 - Beverly Cleary
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildren D. Taylor
• Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan
• Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Louis Sachar
• Stone Fox - John Reynolds Gardiner
• The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing - Judy Blume
• Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare
• A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'Engle

Young Adult:

• Artemis Fowl Series - Eoin Colfer
• The Cay - Theodore Taylor
• Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
• The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien 
• Leven Thumps Series - Obert Skye 
• Summer of the Monkeys - Wilson Rawls 
• Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls

All Ages:

• The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
• Heidi - Johanna Spyri
• Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
• Where the Sidewalk Ends: the Poems and Drawing of Shel Silverstein - Shel Silverstein
• The Wizard of OZ - L. Frank Baum

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.” 

-C.S. Lewis