Frustrated with public and school libraries? Create your own home library. Surround your kids with great literature that will fill their hearts and minds with all that is beautiful and ennobling. Here are some wonderful resources to get you started!
- https://goodandbeautifulbooklist.com/
- https://www.librariesofhope.com/
- https://knowledgekeepersbookstore.com/
- NickiTruesdell.com
And even more wonderful books to read together with your kids:
– The Great Brain series by John D. Fitzgerald
– The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
– Charlotte’s Web
– Trumpet of the Swan
– Stuart Little by E.B. White
– The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
– Where the Red Fern Grows
– Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
– Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, by Robert C. O’Brien
– Old Yeller, by Fred Gipson
– Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne
– The Black Stallion
– The Island Stallion by Walter Farley
– A Little Princess
– The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
– The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
– Alice in Wonderland
– Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
– The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
– The Wizard of Oz
– Ozma of Oz
– The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
– The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
– A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
– Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie
– Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi
– Little Women
– Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
– Dr. Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting
– The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
– The Just So Stories (esp. The Elephant’s Child), by Rudyard Kipling
– Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves
– Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
– The Fantastic Mr. Fox
– James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
– The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I mean Noel)
– The Mad Scientists’ Club, by Bertrand R. Brinley
For ages 12-13 up….
– The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling
– Journey to the Center of the Earth
– 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
– The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin
– A Christmas Carol
– A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
– The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
– Anne of Green Gables series, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
– Animal Farm, by George Orwell
– The Virginian, by Owen Wister
– The Time Machine
– The Invisible Man
– The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
– The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
– Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
– To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
– The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien
– Sherlock Holmes mysteries, by Arthur Conan Doyle
