Thursday, June 4, 2009

Classics for Young Children

This list is from A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century by Oliver DeMille and is found in appendix B.

Classics for you to read aloud to young children.
  • Aesop's Fables - Aesop
  • Andersen's Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Anderson (Especially these stories)
    • The Princess and the Pea
    • The Emperor's New Clothes
    • The Ugly Duckling
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • The Bible (and other scriptures per your religion)
  • The Blind Men and the Elephant
  • Casey At the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888
  • Charlotte's Web - E. B. White
  • Chicken Little
  • A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
  • Cinderella
  • Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara series
  • Dr. Seuss series
  • The Fourth Wise Man
  • The Gift of the Magi
  • The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
  • “God Save the Flag”
  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears
  • The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
  • The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales - Wilhelm & Jacob Grimm (Especially these stories)
    • Rapunzel
    • Red Riding Hood
    • Rumplestilskin
    • Hansel and Gretel
    • Tom Thumb
  • “The Highwayman”
  • Jack and the Beanstalk
  • Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  • “Lincoln, The Man of the People”
  • “Little Boy Blue”
  • The Little Engine That Could
  • Little House on the Prairie (Little House) series - Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • The Little Red Hen
  • McGuffey's Eclectic Readers
  • Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose
  • Paul Revere's Ride
  • Peter Pan
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
  • The Pied Piper of Hamlin
  • Pinocchio
  • Pollyanna
  • Puss-in-Boots
  • Riki Tiki Tavi
  • Rip Van Winkle
  • The Adventures of ROBIN HOOD - Howard Pyle
  • Sleeping Beauty
  • The Song of Hiawatha
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
  • The Three Billy-goats Gruff
  • The Three Little Pigs
  • 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
  • The Wind in the Willows
  • The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Frank Baum

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