100 Great Read-alouds

[RedRowan]

 

Here is a list from the Bookit Program, a reading incentive program.

http://bookitprogram.com/parents/

100 Great Books to Read To Your Kids
The National Education Association surveyed its members and compiled a list of the top 100 children's books as part of its annual Read Across America celebration.

	Infant to Preschool
	The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr. The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister Corduroy by Don Freeman The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
	4-8 Years
	The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch The Mitten by Jan Brett Stellaluna by Janell Cannon Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by John Archambault The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff The Lorax by Dr. Seuss Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg Math Curse by Jon Scieszka Are You My Mother by Phillip D. Eastman Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss The Napping House by Audrey Wood Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper Curious George by Hans Augusto Rey Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox Arthur series by Marc Brown Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish The Art Lesson by Tomie De Paola Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina Clifford, the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch
	9-12 Years
	Charlotte's Web by E. B. White Hatchet by Gary Paulsen The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L 'Engle Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli The BFG by Roald Dahl The Giver by Lois Lowry James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Mrs. Frisby and the Rats fo Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson Matilda by Roald Dahl Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Lois Sachar Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett Stuart Little by E. B. White Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Chirstopher Paul Curtis
	Young Adult
	Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls The Cay by Theodore Taylor The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
	All Ages
	The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Heidi by Johanna Spyri

[RedRowan]

Oct. 9, 2008 at 10:01 PM

I'll be heading to the library this weekend!

(Original Poster)

[saltycoqui]

Feb. 17, 2009 at 10:17 AM

That's a great list. I have some of those books already and my Dee has come home with some from the school library. Unfortunately my children have not shown the same love of reading I had at their age. I'll keep trying!