An on-going list of books we love to read over and over, new ones we discover and books we use for homeschooling! Feel free to leave comments and suggestions! Always looking for a good read!!
“Homeschooling Core and Living Books”
Long Night Moon
For The Birds the life of Roger Tory Peterson by Peggy
Basket Moon by Mary Lyn Ray (Character study)
Winter in Songming by Page McBrier (China study)
Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog’s Tale by Laurie Myers
Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock
The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess
Follow the Drinking gourd:an Underground Railroad Story by Cari, Meisler
American Cowboys- Jeff Svage
American History Stories by Mara L. Pratt
The Story Book of Science by Jean Henry Fabre
When Knights were bold by Eva March Tappan
The Crossing (sacagawea) by Donna Napul
I will come back for you: a family hiding during WW II
Eight Days: a story of Haiti by Edwidge Danticat
These Hands(civil rights) by Margaret Mason
101 Great American Poems Dover Thrift Editions
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky and Arnold Lobel
Wonder Struck by Brian Selznick
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Story of Thomas Alva Edison by Margaret Cousins
If you lived in Colonial Times by Ann McGovern
The Sword in the Tree by Clyde Robert Bulla
13 American Artists Children Should Know
Civil War on Sunday by Mary Pope Osborne
Abraham Lincoln For the People by Anne Colver
The Late Loon by Dean Bennett
Counting on the Woods– George Ella Lyon
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
This is…Series
Fiona’s Lace by Blacco
Same Sun Here by House
“Books we love to Read”
He Came with the Couch by David Slonim
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Magic Tree house by Mary Pope Osborne
EyeLike Nature: Sticks by PlayBac
I Love You Through and Through by Bernadette Rossetti-Shutak
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Demolition by Sally Sutton
Bats at the Beach by Brian Lies
Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant
Go, Dog. Go! byP.D. Eastman
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
The Enormous Egg
ABC Safari by Karen Lee
Alphabet City