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Literature Reading List
Nursery - 8th Grade

Compiled by
John Senior
(and in print)

 


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Nursery (7 Books)

The Complete Tales of Peter Rabbit (all 23 little books) by Beatrix Potter

A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway

Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose Coloring Book by Kate Greenaway

The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

 

Preschool (9 Books)

The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

The Complete Poems of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

The Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Nonsense Poems by Edward Lear

The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Anderson's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson

The Olive Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Ride a Cock-Horse and other Rhymes and Stories by Randolph Caldecott

 

Kindergarten (10 Books)

A Treasury  of Mother Goose

Perrault's Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Dr. Dolittle: A Treasury by Hugh Lofting

The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Favorite Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm

 

First Grade (10 Books )

The Aesop for Children by Aesop

The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Water Babies by Charles Kingsley

Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The Kate Greenaway Birthday Book by Kate Greenaway

The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning

 

Second Grade (12 Books )

Arabian Nights edited by Andrew Lang

Smoky by Will James

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgeson Burnett

 

Third Grade (12 Books )

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

Log of the Cowboy by Andy Adams

Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott

Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnett

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Verses by Hilaire Belloc

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Doyle

The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

The Princess and the Curdie (CD ROM) by George MacDonald

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb 

 

Fourth Grade (17 Books )

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

Captain's Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

The Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle

Around the World in80 Days by Jules Verne

The Boy Knight by G. A. Henty

Kidnapped by Robert Lois Stevenson

The John Carter Mars Collection (CD ROM) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Knight of the White Cross by G. A. Henty

Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The Cat of Bubastes by G. A. Henty

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

A Tale of the Western Plains by G. A. Henty

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Call of the Wild by Jack London

 

Fifth Grade (18 Books )

An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott

Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott

20,000 leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dogdes

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan: The Beasts of Tarzan, the Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Jungle Tales of Tarzan (CD ROM) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott

The Dash for Khartoum by G. A. Henty

The Ranch on the Beaver by Adams Adams

The Chessman of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Wells Brothers: the young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott

Bonnie Prince Charlie by G. A. Henty

In Freedom's Cause by G. A. Henty

 

Sixth Grade (22 Books )

Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott

Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley

Sketchbook by Washington Irving

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Moods by Louisa May Alcott

The Dragon and the Raven by G. A. Henty

Work by Louisa May Alcott

In the Reign of Terror by G. A. Henty

Won by the Sword by G. A. Henty

Under Drake's Flag by G. A. Henty

Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The Lion of St. Mark by G. A. Henty

Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland

Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

Facing Death by G. A. Henty

Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter

With Wolfe in Canada by G. A. Henty

Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens

Beric the Briton by G. A. Henty

A Girl of the Limberlost by Stratton-Porter

 

Seventh Grade (22 Books )

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wulf the Saxon by G. A. Henty

Winning his Spurs