Grammar books for the younger years

I don't officially teach grammar until the kids reach 10 or so, but that doesn't mean we don't talk about words and parts of speech or punctuation until then.  Over the years we've used a variety of picture books, games, Mad Libs, and Schoolhouse Rock.

I put together a list of books geared towards the younger grades (elementary to perhaps middle school). They are first broken down by category and, at the end, there is a master list of all the books.  We have read some, but not all, so please know that I'm unsure of the content and/or quality of many of them.  I've very excited though to have found some new gems and even my older boys (ages 13 and 12) will have some books to study!

Grammar Books for the Younger Years

Adjectives

Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide to Grammar - Adjectives – Andrew Carter

Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Adjective? – Brian P. Cleary

If You Were an Adjective – Michael Dahl

Many Luscious Lollipops:  A Book About Adjectives – Ruth Heller

Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky: More About Adjectives – Brian P. Cleary

The Bug Book (Adjectives) – Maria Fleming

  

Adverbs

Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What is an Adverb? – Brian P. Cleary

Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide to Grammar - Adverbs – Andrew Carter

If You Were an Adverb – Michael Dahl

Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More About Adverbs – Brian P. Cleary

Suddenly Alligator:  Adventures in Adverbs – Rick Walton

Tillie’s Tuba (Adverbs) – Maria Fleming

Up, Up and Away: A Book about Adverbs – Ruth Heller

  

Alliteration

Dr. Suess’ ABCs

Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke – Pamela Duncan Edwards

If You Were Alliteration – Trisha Speed Shaskan

Little Book of Alliterations – Felix Archer

Some Smug Slug – Pamela Duncan Edwards

Superhero ABC – Bob McLeod

The Big Book of Absolutely Animalistic Alliterations – Anna Childs

  

Comparatives/Superlatives

Alphabest: The Zany, Zanier, Zaniest Book About Comparatives and Superlatives – Helaine Becker

Breezier, Cheesier, Newest, and Bluest:  What are Comparatives and Superlatives? – Brian P. Cleary

Pig, Pigger, Piggest:  Adventures in Comparing – Rick Walton

      

Compound Words

If You Were a Compound Word – Trisha Speed Shaskan

Once There Was a Bull…(frog):  Adventures in Compound Words – Rick Walton

Thumbtacks, Earwax, Lipstick, Dipstick: What is a Compound Word? – Brian P. Cleary

  

Conjunctions

But and For, Yet and Nor: What is a Conjunction – Brian P. Cleary

Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal!:  A Book About Interjections and Conjunctions – Ruth Heller

If You Were a Conjunction – Nancy Loewen

Just Me and & 6,000 Rats: A Tale of Conjunctions – Rick Walton

  

Contractions

I’m and Won’t, They’re and Don’t: What’s a Contraction? – Brian P. Cleary

If You Were a Contraction – Trisha Speed Shaskan

Karate Contractions (Grammar All-Stars)– Gail Herman

  

Homophone/Homonym

Dear Deer: A Book of Homophones – Gene Barretta

Eight Ate: A Feast of Homonym Riddles – Marvin Terban

How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear? What are Homonyms and Homophones? – Brian P. Cleary

If You Were a Homonym or a Homophone – Nancy Loewen

  

Idioms

Even More Parts (Idioms) – Tedd Arnold

In a Pickle: and Other Funny Idioms – Marvin Terban

It Figure!: Fun Figures of Speech – Marvin Terban

Mad as a Wet Hen: And Other Funny Idioms – Marvin Terban

More Parts (Idioms) – Tedd Arnold

Parts (Idioms) – Tedd Arnold

Punching the Clock: Funny Action Idioms – Marvin Terban

Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms – Marvin Terban

   

 Interjections

Cool!  Whoa!  Ah and Oh!: What is an Interjection? – Brian P. Cleary

Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal!:  A Book About Interjections and Conjunctions – Ruth Heller

If You Were an Interjection – Nancy Loewen

Metaphor/Simile

Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story – Loreen Leedy

It Figures!: Fun Figures of Speech – Marvin Terban

Similes and Metaphors (Language Rules!) – Ann Heinrichs

Skin Like Milk, Hair of Silk: What are Similes and Metaphors? – Brian P. Cleary

Stubborn as a Mule and Other Silly Similes – Nancy Jean Loewen

You’re Toast and Other Metaphors We Adore – Nancy Jean Loewen

  

 Nouns

A Cache of Jewels and other Collective Nouns – Ruth Heller

A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime: More About Nouns – Brian P. Cleary

A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What is a Noun? – Brian P. Cleary

A Zeal of Zebras: An Alphabet of Collective Nouns – Woop Studios

Chicken in the City (Nouns) – Liza Charlesworth

Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide to Grammar – Nouns & Pronouns – Andrew Carter

Herd of Cows, Flock of Sheep:  Adventures in Collective Nouns – Rick Walton

If You Were a Noun – Micheal Dahl

Merry-Go-Round: A Book About Nouns – Ruth Heller

Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day – Robin Pulver

  

Onomatopoeia

If You Were Onomatopoeia – Trisha Speed Shaskan

  

Palindrome

Go Hang a Salami!  I’m a Lasagna Hog! And other Palindromes – Jon Agee

Madam and Nun and 1001: What is a Palindrome? – Brian P. Cleary

 Plurals

Feet and Puppies, Thieves and Guppies: What are Irregular Plurals? – Brian P. Cleary

If You Were a Plural Word – Trisha Speed Shaskan

Prefix/Suffix

Happy Endings: A Story About Suffixes – Robin Pulver

If You Were a Prefix – Marcie Aboff

If You Were a Suffix – Marcie Aboff

Pre- and Re-, and Mis- and Dis: What is a Prefix? – Brian P. Cleary

  

Prepositions

Around the House the Fox Chased the Mouse:  Adventures in Prepositions – Rick Walton

Behind the Mask:  A Book About Prepositions – Ruth Heller

Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide to Grammar – Prepositions – Andrew Carter

If You Were a Prepostion – Nancy Loewen

Under, Over, by the Clover: What is a Preposition? – Brian P. Cleary

  

Pronouns

Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide to Grammar – Nouns & Pronouns – Andrew Carter

I and You and Don’t Forget Who: What is a Pronoun? – Brian P. Cleary

If You Were a Pronoun- Nancy Loewen

Mine, All Mine! A Book About Pronouns – Ruth Heller

The Planet Without Pronouns – Justin Martin

  

Punctuation

Alfie the Apostrophe – Moira Rose Dononhue

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Matter – Lynne Truss

Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide to Grammar – Punctuation & Sentences – Andrew Carter

Greedy Apostrophe: A Cautionary Tale – Jan Carr

If You Were a Comma – Molly Blaisdell

If You Were a Period – Nicholas Healy

If You Were a Question Mark – Shelly Lyons

If You Were an Apostrophe – Shelly Lyons

If You Were an Exclamation Point – Shelly Lyons

If You Were Quotation Marks – Molly Blaisdell

Punctuation Takes a Vacation – Robin Pulver

The Girl’s Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can’t Manage Without Apostrophes! – Lynne Truss

The Mystery of the Missing Socks (quotation marks) – Justin McCory Martin

Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, Every Punctuation Mark Counts! – Lynne Truss

When Comma Came to Town – Samantha Berger

Synonym/Antonym

If You Were a Synonym – Michael Dahl

If You Were an Antonym – Nancy Loewen

Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know: What is a Synonym? – Brian P. Cleary

Stop and Go, Yes and No: What is an Antonym? – Brian P. Cleary

Straight and Curvy, Meek and Nervy: More About Antonyms– Brian P. Cleary

Stroll and Walk, Babble and Talk: More About Synonyms – Brian P. Cleary

  

Verbs

A Verb for Herb – Maria Fleming

Bullfrog Pops!: Adventures in Verbs and Direct Objects – Rick Walton

Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide to Grammar - Verbs – Andrew Carter

If You Were a Verb – Michael Dahl

Kites Sail High:  A Book About Verbs – Ruth Heller

Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day – Robin Pulver

Slide and Slurp, Scratch and Burp: More About Verbs – Brian P. Cleary

To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What is a Verb? – Brian P. Cleary

  

Books Covering Multiple Parts of Speech

Basher Basics: Grammar – Simon Basher and Mary Budzik

Grammar Made Fun: Learning Parts of Speech with Silly Poems that Teacg – Ponn Sabra

Grammarland – M. L. Nesbitt

Mad Libs

Painless Grammar: Barron’s Painless Junior – Marciann McClarnon

Schoolhouse Rock!

Super Grammar – Tony Preciado and Rhode Montijo

Words are Fun – Michael Dahl (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, conjunction, interjection, preposition – each is also available individually)

  

Misc

E-mergency – Tom Lichtenheld

Francine Fribble, Proofreading Policewoman – Justin Martin

If You Were a Capital Letter – Trisha Speed Shaskan

Silent Letters Loud and Clear – Robin Pulver

The Mega-Deluxe Capitalization Machine – Justin Martin

The No-Good, Rotten, Run-on Sentence – Liza Charlesworth

   

All the books in alphabetical order:

A Zeal of Zebras: An Alphabet of Collective Nouns – Woop Studios

Alfie the Apostrophe – Moira Rose Dononhue

Alphabest: The Zany, Zanier, Zaniest Book About Comparatives and Superlatives – Helaine Becker

Basher Basics: Grammar – Simon Basher and Mary Budzik

Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story – Loreen Leedy

Dear Deer: A Book of Homophones – Gene Barretta

Dr. Suess’ ABCs

E-mergency – Tom Lichtenheld

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Matter – Lynne Truss

Eight Ate: A Feast of Homonym Riddles – Marvin Terban

Even More Parts (Idioms) – Tedd Arnold

Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke – Pamela Duncan Edwards

Go Hang a Salami!  I’m a Lasagna Hog! And other Palindromes – Jon Agee

Grammar Made Fun: Learning Parts of Speech with Silly Poems that Teach – Ponn Sabra

Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide to Grammar series – Andrew Carter

            Adverbs

            Verbs

            Adjectives

            Nouns & Pronouns

            Punctuation and Sentences

            Prepositions

Grammar Tales series

            The No-Good, Rotten, Run-on Sentence – Liza Charlesworth

            When Comma Came to Town – Samantha Berger

            The Mystery of the Missing Socks (quotation marks) – Justin McCory Martin

            Francine Fribble, Proofreading Policewoman – Justin Martin

            The Planet Without Pronouns – Justin Martin

            Chicken in the City (Nouns) – Liza Charlesworth

            The Bug Book (Adjectives) – Maria Fleming

            A Verb for Herb – Maria Fleming

            Tillie’s Tuba (Adverbs) – Maria Fleming

            The Mega-Deluxe Capitalization Machine – Justin Martin

Grammarland – M. L. Nesbitt

Greedy Apostrophe: A Cautionary Tale – Jan Carr

Happy Endings: A Story About Suffixes – Robin Pulver

In a Pickle: and Other Funny Idioms – Marvin Terban

It Figure!: Fun Figures of Speech – Marvin Terban

Karate Contractions (Grammar All-Stars)– Gail Herman

Language Adventure series – Rick Walton

Bullfrog Pops!: Adventures in Verbs and Direct Objects

Suddenly Alligator:  Adventures in Adverbs

Pig, Pigger, Piggest:  Adventures in Comparing

Around the House the Fox Chased the Mouse:  Adventures in Prepositions

Just Me and & 6,000 Rats: A Tale of Conjunctions

Herd of Cows, Flock of Sheep:  Adventures in Collective Nouns

Once There Was a Bull…(frog):  Adventures in Compound Words

Little Book of Alliterations – Felix Archer

Mad as a Wet Hen: And Other Funny Idioms – Marvin Terban

More Parts (Idioms) – Tedd Arnold

Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day – Robin Pulver

Painless Grammar: Barron’s Painless Junior – Marciann McClarnon

Parts (Idioms) – Tedd Arnold

Punching the Clock: Funny Action Idioms – Marvin Terban

Punctuation Takes a Vacation – Robin Pulver

Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms – Marvin Terban

Schoolhouse Rock!

Silent Letters Loud and Clear – Robin Pulver

Some Smug Slug – Pamela Duncan Edwards

Stubborn as a Mule and Other Silly Similes – Nancy Jean Loewen

Super Grammar – Tony Preciado and Rhode Montijo

Superhero ABC – Bob McLeod

The Big Book of Absolutely Animalistic Alliterations – Anna Childs

The Girl’s Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can’t Manage Without Apostrophes! – Lynne Truss

Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, Every Punctuation Mark Counts! – Lynne Truss

You’re Toast and Other Metaphors We Adore – Nancy Jean Loewen

Word Fun – Michael Dahl

Combined book of noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, conjunction, interjection, preposition

Other books in series….If You Were A….prefix, suffix, synonym, homonym or homophone, contraction, quotation marks, comma, compound word, antonym, period, apostrophe, capital letter, plural word, question mark, exclamation point, onomatepoeia

Words are Categorical series – Brian P. Cleary

            Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What is an Adverb?

            Under, Over, by the Clover: What is a Preposition?

            Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Adjective?

            I’m and Won’t, They’re and Don’t: What’s a Contraction?

            Skin Like Milk, Hair of Silk: What are Similes and Metaphors?

            To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What is a Verb?

            I and You and Don’t Forget Who: What is a Pronoun?

            A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What is a Noun?

            How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear? What are Homonyms and Homophones?

            Slide and Slurp, Scratch and Burp: More About Verbs

            But and For, Yet and Nor: What is a Conjunction

            Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky: More About Adjectives

            Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More About Adverbs

            Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know: What is a Synonym?

            Feet and Puppies, Thieves and Guppies: What are Irregular Plurals?

            Cool!  Whoa!  Ah and Oh!: What is an Interjection?

            Stop and Go, Yes and No: What is an Antonym?

            A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime: More About Nouns

            Stroll and Walk, Babble and Talk: More About Synonyms

            Straight and Curvy, Meek and Nervy: More About Antonyms

Breezier, Cheesier, Newest, and Bluest:  What are Comparatives and Superlatives?

            Thumbtacks, Earwax, Lipstick, Dipstick: What is a Compound Word?

            Madam and Nun and 1001: What is a Palindrome?

            Pre- and Re-, and Mis- and Dis: What is a Prefix?

World of Language series – Ruth Heller

            Behind the Mask:  A Book About Prepositions

            Many Luscious Lollipops:  A Book About Adjectives

            A Cache of Jewels and other Collective Nouns

            Kites Sail High:  A Book About Verbs

            Merry-Go-Round: A Book About Nouns

            Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal!:  A Book About Interjections and Conjunctions

            Up, Up and Away: A Book about Adverbs

            Mine, All Mine! A Book About Pronouns

Doing it all

One of my good friends will start homeschooling this summer. She told me that she is starting to second guess herself and worry that she can't do it all. Namely, she said my lists are making her feel like she'll never be able to read all those books. My advice to her, and anyone else out there is, DON'T. Don't read them all. These are just lists with ideas. Yes, I've looked at reviews and researched them and decided these were the best ones (that I could find) for my family. But we WON'T be reading them all. We read what we can find at the library, or from our bookshelves. If we really, really want to study something and can't find any books locally we might buy a few. But we will NOT be reading them all. They are suggestions. (For example, we're studying American History right now. We just finished Paul Revere. Of the 34 books listed thus far, we've only read 24 of them. Some we'll read the next time around or fit into bedtime stories. Some we just dropped.)

The lists are my GENERAL PLAN, as in, it will probably change. We start reading and move on when we're ready. I don't worry about reading a set number of pages a day. I just make sure we read.

When we were first married my husband worked for a company cleaning carpets. His boss explained that the time they take driving to appointments, measuring the rooms, talking to the customers, etc., while important, did not pay. It was the actual cleaning of the carpet that earned money. He encouraged them to do everything as quickly and efficiently as possible and to work the hardest at cleaning the carpets. "Keep the wand moving!" Keep cleaning the carpet because that's what brings in the money.

We've applied the same principle to our homeschool. Keep moving forward. Keep reading. Keep learning. Does it matter if you "fall behind" your plans? No. Will your children suffer terribly if they only make it through ancient history twice instead of three times? No. Everyone has gaps in their education. Everyone. Public schooled, private schooled or homeschooled. Everyone has gaps. So relax and understand that your homeschooled child will have gaps. Just focus on what is most important to you first and the rest will fall into place.

Here are my thoughts about "scheduling".

This is what my day looks like (normally, mostly, not always)

We wake up, eat breakfast and get dressed for the day.

We start school between 9 and 11.
This is what we do ------
Pray
Read the scriptures (right now it's the Old Testament)
Idiom of the day
History - we read whichever book we're on, whichever page, for about 10 to 15 minutes.
Picture book or song time geared towards the Littles. 10 minutes
Science - we read whichever book we're on, whichever page, for about 10 to 15 minutes.
Go upstairs for math.
The two Littles run off and play. I work with the two older boys for 15 to 20 minutes.
The Olders then work on handwriting/Explode the Code/Grammar or play or do chores.
I work with 6-yr-old. We do math (about 10 minutes), reading (10 minutes) and handwriting (5 minutes)
We break for lunch.

After lunch----
I read from our Read-aloud book. 10 to 15 minutes
We do our Elective (composer, artist, poetry, etc - 5 to 10 minutes)
I work with each older boy individually on reading/spelling (about 30 minutes each). Littles play with the older boy who is not working with me.
Then they play, I relax or clean or hide in the bathroom and cry. Depends.

It's taken me a while to get to this point of just going with the flow. I thought I had to fit so many things within terms or semesters or weeks or whatever. I felt like if I wasn't finishing something "on time" I'd failed. But those are false deadlines. They have no real meaning in life. Some states require a certain amount of days for school. They usually don't tell you how to structure each day though. You get to decide that. Relax. Just keep moving forward. Keep the wand moving.

Ancient Europe including Greece and Rome

A list for Ancient Europe, up through high school. We've read quite a few of these so the reviews are at Goodreads. Where a book is listed under 'we don't want to use again', that means I've read it and don't want to use it again! Some of the books for high school I want to read first to make sure we can discuss anything I may not agree with philosophically or religiously.

ANCIENT EUROPE

Baldwin’s Famous Stories available at www.mainlesson.com

Monument Builders
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 36-37
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 122-123

Minoans
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 38-39
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 124-127

Mycenaeans
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 38-39
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 128-131

Greece- 1100 BC to 146 BC
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 40-41
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 154-161
CHOTW (Child’s History of the World) 91-130

Elementary
Books to use again
First Marathon: The Story of Pheidippides - Susan Reynolds
Great Alexander The Great - Joe Lasker
Hour of the Olympics - Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House)
Theseus and the Minotaur - C.J. Naden (not the best though – try Spinner book first)
Trojan Horse - Emily Little

Books we don’t want to use again
Favorite Greek Myths - Mary Pope Osborne
Greek Myths - Geraldine McCaughrean
Growing up in Ancient Greece – Chelepi
Parthenon - Elizabeth Mann
Roman Twins - Roy Gerrard
Theseus and the Minotaur - Warwick Hutton
Trojan Horse - David Clement –Davies
Twelve Labors of Hercules – James Riordan

Books we want to try to find
Adventures in Ancient Greece - Linda Bailey
Alexander the Great: The Legend of a Warrior King - Peter Chrisp
An Ancient Greek Temple: The Story of the Building of the Temples in Ancient Greece - John Malam
Ancient Greece - Louise Schofield
Ancient Greeks (Elite) - Nicholas Sekunda (more for visual)
Army of Alexander the Great - Nicholas Sekunda (more for visual)
Asterix at the Olympic Games - Rene Giscinny (many more Asterix books if kids like them)
Brave Three Hundred - Baldwin 50 Famous Stories
Conqueror and Hero: The Search for Alexander - Stephen Krensky
Damon and Pythias; and A Laconic Answer (Greek)- Baldwin 50 Famous Stories
Discoveries, Inventions and Ideas: The Ancient Greeks - Jane Shuter
Eureka! - Baldwin's 30 More Famous Stories (287 BC - Archimedes)
Flying Horse: The Story of Pegasus - Jane Mason
Greek Hoplite - Martin Windrow (more for visual)
Greek Hoplite - Nicholas Sekunda (more for visual)
Greeks (Footsteps in Time) - Sally Hewitt (crafts and short descriptions)
In Search of Knossos: The Quest for the Minotaur's Labyrinth - Giovanni Caselli
Jason and the Argonauts - Felicity Brooks
Jason and the Golden Fleece - Claudia Zeff
Modern Rhymes...Greece By Susan Altman
Monster in the Maze: The Story of the Minotaur - Stephanie Spinner
Mr. Semolina-Semolinus: A Greek Folktale - Anthony Manna
Paper Through the Ages - Shaaron Cosner
Parthenon - Peter Chrisp
Run With Me, Nike - Cassandra Case
Spartan Army - Nicholas Sekunda (more for visual)
Sword of Damocles (Greek) - Baldwin 50 Famous Stories
World in the Time of Alexander the Great - Fiona MacDonald
Usborne Greeks
You Wouldn't Want to be in Alexander the Great's Army - Jaqueline Morley
You Wouldn't Want to be a Greek Athlete - Michael Ford

Middle School
Books to use:
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad – Rosemary Sutcliff
Wanderings of Odysseus – Rosemary Sutcliff (sequel to Black Ships)
Alexander the Great - Gunther (336 BC)
Alexander the Great - Robert Green
Archimedes and the Door to Science - Jeanne Bendick
Children’s Homer -- Padriac Colum
Cupid and Psyche - M. Charlotte Craft
D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths - Ingri D'aulaire
Exploits of Xenophon - Geoffrey Household (354 BC)
Famous Men of Greece – John Haaren (online, Baldwin Project - also Greenleafpress.com guide)
Gods and Goddesses of Olympus - Aliki
Golden Days of Greece - Olivia Coolidge (time of Pericles)
Golden Fleece: And the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles - Padraic Colum
Greek Gazette - Paul Dowswell (Newspaper series)
Greek Gods and Goddesses - Geraldine McCaughrean
Greek Gods and Heroes - Robert Graves
Greek Myths for Young Children – Heather Amery
Greek News - James Putman (528 to 326 BC)
Hittite Warrior – Joanne Williamson
How Would You Survive As an Ancient Greek? - Fiona MacDonald
I Wonder Why the Greeks Built Temples – Fiona MacDonald
In Search of a Homeland - Penelope Lively (story of the Aeneid)
In Search of Troy : One man's quest for Homer's fabled city - Giovanni Caselli
Librarian Who Measured the Earth - Kathryn Lasky
Plutarch's Lives - Clough (begin reading a little every day or once a week from here on out)
Robber Baby: Stories From the Greek Myths - Anne Rockwell
Spartan - Caroline Dale Snedeker
Tales of the Greek Heroes – Roger Green
Theras and His Town - Caroline Dale Snedeker (Greece)
Trojan War - Olivia Coolidge
Twelve Labors of Hercules – Georges Moroz

High School:
Aeneid - Virgil, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Aeschylus - translated by Richmond Lattimore
Greek Way - Edith Hamilton
Histories - Herodotus, translated by Selincourt
Iliad - translated by Richmond Lattimore
Last Days of Socrates - Plato, translated by Tredennick
Odyssey - translated by Richmond Lattimore
Republic - Plato, translated by Waterfield
Sophocles - Grene and Lattimore
Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis
Trial and Death of Socrates – translated by Benjamin Jowett

Scythians - 700 BC to 106 BC
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History162-163

Macedonians
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 42-43

Etruscans
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 44-45

Romans - 750 BC to 250 AD
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 46-47
Time Traveler 66-96
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 184-195
Child’s History of the World 131-179

Elementary
Books to use again
Detectives in Togas – Henry Winterfeld
Mystery of the Roman Ransom - Henry Winterfeld (sequel to Detectives in Togas)
Hannibal and His 37 Elephants - Marilyn Hirsh (Carthage to Rome)
Pompeii: Buried Alive – Kunhardt (79 AD)
Vacation Under the Volcano - Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House)

Books we don’t want to use again
Roman Twins - Roy Gerrard
Rome Antics - David Macauley

Books we want to try to find
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction - David Macaulay
Roman Colosseum - Elizabeth Mann
Roman Colosseum - Fiona MacDonald
Romulus and Remus - Anne Rockwell, also try by Geraldine McCaughrean
See You Later, Gladiator - Jon Scieszka
So You Want to Be a Roman Soldier - Fiona Macdonald
Story of Regulus - Baldwin 50 Famous Stories
Usborne Romans
Who Were the Romans? (Usborne Starting Point History) - Phil Roxbee Cox
You Wouldn't Want to be a Roman Gladiator - John Malam
You Wouldn't Want to be a Roman Soldier - David Stewart

Middle School:
Alexander and Bucephelas; and Diogenes (Greek) - Baldwin 50 Famous Stories
Ancient Rome!: Exploring the Culture, People & Ideas of This Powerful Empire - Avery Hart
Ancient Rome: The Nature Company Discoveries Library - Paul Roberts (Time Life Books) (for visual)
Androcles and the Lion - Dennis Nolan
Androclus and the Lion (Roman) - Baldwin 50 Famous Stories
Asterix the Gaul - Rene Goscinny
Asterix the Gladiator - Rene de Goscinny
Augustus Caeser’s World – Genevieve Foster (44 BC to 12 AD)
Beric the Briton: Roman Invasion - G. A. Henty
Bronze Bow – Elizabeth George Speare (time of Jesus)
Buried City of Pompeii: Picturebook (I Was There) - Shelley Tanaka
Caesar's Gallic Wars - Kate Gilliver (58-50 BC)
Calvaryman – Peter Conolly (prequel is The Legionary)
Cincinnatus - Baldwin 50 Famous Stories
Cornelia's Jewels - Baldwin 50 Famous Stories
Early Roman Armies - Nicholas Sekunda (visual)
Famous Men of Rome – John Haaren, edited by Cynthia Shearer
For the Temple – G.A. Henty
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine – Jeanne Bendick
Gladiator - Richard Watkins
Going to War in Ancient Times - Moira Butterfield
Growing Up in Ancient Rome - Mike Corbishley
Hannibal - Robert Green
Hannibal and His 37 Elephants - Marilyn Hirsh (Carthage to Rome)
Horatius at the Bridge - Baldwin 50 Famous Stories
How Would You Survive as an Ancient Roman? Anita Ganeri
Legionary – Peter Conolly (sequel is The Calvaryman)
Modern Rhymes...Rome By Susan Altman
Outcast - Rosemary Sutcliff (Roman Britain)
Roman Army - John Wilkes (visual)
Roman Colosseum - Don Nardo
Roman Fort – Fiona MacDonald
Roman News - Andrew Langley
Roman Record - Paul Dowswell (Newspaper series)
Science in Ancient Rome
Triumph for Flavius - Caroline Dale Snedeker
We Were There With Caeser's Legions - Robert Webb
Young Carthaginian-The Times of Hannibal - G. A. Henty

High School:
Ben Hur – Lew Wallace (read first)
Beyond the Desert Gate - Mary Ray (sequel to the Ides of March)
Building History: Roman Roads and Aqueducts - Don Nardo
Discovery of New Worlds - M.B. Synge
Eagle of the Ninth – Rosemary Sutcliff (117 – Roman Britian)
For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem - G. A. Henty (70AD)
I, Claudius - Robert Graves (10 BC to 54 AD - Rome, also a movie)
Ides of April - Mary Ray (Roman w/Chrisitanity - sequel is Beyond the Gate)
Lantern Bearers – Rosemary Sutcliff (450 – after Silver Branch - Roman Britain)
Last Days of Pompeii - Edward Lytton
Lives Of Famous Romans - Olivia Coolidge
Julius Caesar and Ancient Rome in World History - James Barter
On the Shores of the Great Sea - M.B. Synge
Plutarch Roman Lives – translated by Robin Waterfield
Quo Vadis? - Henryk Sienkieicz, W. S. Kuniczak (read first)
Silver Branch – Rosemary Sutcliff (sequel to Eagle of the Ninth)
Sword at Sunset – Rosemary Sutcliff (sequel to Lantern Bearers – Roman Britain, start of King Arthur)

Celts - 800 BC to 50 AD
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 48-49
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 182-183

Barbarians
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 50-51
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 194-195,

Activities

1. Watch Ancient Aegean by Schlessinger Media

Greece
1. Use activities from Ancient Greece!: 40 Hands-On Activities to Experience This Wondrous Age - Avery Hart

2. Make a scroll. Glue length of paper to 2 dowels. (Paint to look old first if desired and glue decorative knobs on end). Decorate with Greek alphabet.

3. Make a pot out of clay or playdoh.

4. Make a mask (from the theater) using poster board, yarn, dyed pasta, etc.

5. Olympic games including wrestling.

6. Run a marathon.

7. Reenact a battle or Horiatus at the bridge.

8. Greek feast - pita bread, caesar salad, barley, grape juice, baklava, hummus,

9. Watch Ancient Greece by Schlessinger Media.

10. Write on a wax tablet or use shortening hardened in fridge (on a margarine lid).

11. Carve a stone sculpture out of Ivory soap.

Rome
1. Make bracelets and armor like the Romans wore.

2. Design an aqueduct.

3. Make 'Hannibal's Elephant Ears' to eat.

4. Build a catapult. http://www.knightforhire.com/catapult.htm or buy from Love to Learn

5. Roman feast. Eat with fingers the use wet towel to clean. Lower class ate bread. Upper bread, meats, fruits, olives.

6. Build model of Pompeii and blow up Mount Vesuvius.

7. Watch Ancient Rome from Schlessinger Media.

8. Write on a wax tablet or use shortening hardened in fridge (on a margarine lid). Would be especially good for Rome since Detectives in Togas talks about this a lot.

Middle Ages Middle East and Africa

This list is geared towards elementary/middle school. Reviews will be posted at Goodreads.

MIDDLE AGES MIDDLE EAST and AFRICA

North Africa - 400 to 1500
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 260
History of North Africa – Diagram Group (also History of South, West and East Africa)
Peoples and Cultures of North Africa – Peter Mitchell

Arabs - 600 to 1260
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 206-209
Arabs: In the Golden Age (People's of the Past) - Mokhtar Moktefi

West Africa - 800 to 1500
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 262-263
Adventures of Spider – Joyce Cooper Arkhurst
Ancient West African Kingdoms (History Opens Windows) – Jane Shuter
Ancient West African Kingdoms – Mary Quigley
Fire Children – Eric Maddern
History of West Africa – Diagram Group
Zomo the Rabbit – Gerald McDermott

Turks - 950 to 1450
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 252-253

East Africa - 1000 to 1500
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 261
History of East Africa – Diagram Group
Safari – Caren Stelson
This Place is Wild – Vicki Cobb

Middle Ages Far East

Another day...another list....

This one is for the Far East, middle ages (about 500 AD to 1500 AD). I know I'm fairly light on some of the countries so any suggestions are greatly appreciated. There just doesn't seem to be a whole lot for this time period in the Far East. And this list is for mostly elementary/middle school ages.

MIDDLE AGES FAR EAST

Mongols - 1200 to 1400
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 74-75
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 250-251
Empire of the Mongols – Michael Burgan
Genghis Khan – Demi
Genghis Khan: Invincible Ruler of the Mongol Empire – Zachary Kent
Life During the Great Civilizatons – The Mongol Empire – Don Nardo
Lost Civilizations: Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire – Thomas Streissguth
Mongols – Robert Nicholson

India - 550 to 1500
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 264-265

Southeast Asia - 500 to 1500
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 266-267

China - 580 to 1500
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 72-73
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 268-269
Adventures of Marco Polo – Russell Freedman
Animals Marco Polo Saw – Sandra Markle
Looking for Marco Polo – Alan Armstrong
Marco Polo – Demi
Marco Polo: A Journey Through China – Fiona MacDonals
Marco Polo for Kids – Janis Herbert
Marco Polo’s Journey Through China – Diana Childress
Marco? Polo! (Time Warp Trio) – Jon Scieska

JAPAN - 500 to 1500
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 76-77
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 270-271

KOREA
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 76-77

Middle Ages America

Here is the list for books we'll use when studying the middle ages and what is happening in the Americas. It's mostly geared towards the elementary and middle school ages. We will most likely do this right before we go into American history (as in the Pilgrims and such).

MIDDLE AGES AMERICAS

North America - 700 to 1500
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 276-277
Between Earth and Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places - Joseph Bruchac
Clamshell Boy (Makah) - Terri Cohlene
Dancing Drum (Cherokee)- Terri Cohlene
The Earth Under Sky Bear's Feet - Joseph Bruchac
Geronimo - Joseph Bruchac
Indian Book – Holling C. Holling
Is My Friend At Home? Pueblo Fireside Tales - John Bierhorst
Ka-Ha-Si and the Loon (Eskimo) - Terri Cohlene
Little Firefly (Algonquian) - Terri Cohlene
Many Nations – Joseph Bruchac
More Than Moccasins (Activity Guide) – Laurie Carlson
Native Americans (First Discovery Books) - Gallimard Jeunesse
North American Indians – Douglas Gorsline
Quillworker (Cheyenne) - Terri Cohlene
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back - Joseph Bruchac
Turquoise Boy (Navajo) - Terri Cohlene
Very First Americans – Cara Ashrose
Wabi - Joseph Bruchac
Who Were the First North Americans? - Philippa Wingate

Aztecs - 1300 to 1500
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 82-83
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 278-279
Aztec News - Philip Steele
Growing Up in Aztec Times - Marion Wood
Sad Night: The Story of an Aztec Victory and a Spanish Loss - Sally Schofer Matthews
Two Mountains: An Aztec Legend - Eric Kimmel
You Wouldn't Want to be an Aztec Sacrifice - Fiona MacDonald

Incas
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 84-85
Usborne 282-283
Incas (See Through History) - Tim Wood
Macchu Picchu: The Story of the Amazing Incas and Their City in the Clouds - Elizabeth Mann
Secret of the Andes

Central America - 500 to 1500
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 280-281
Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest - Gerald McDermott
Jabuti the Tortoise - Gerald McDermott
Papagayo: The Mischief Maker - Gerald McDermott
Stories from the Amazon - Saviour Pirotta
Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest - Gerald McDermott

Anasazi - 550 AD to 1300 AD
Anasazi - Leonard Everett Fisher
The Ancient Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde - Caroline Arnold

Middle Ages Europe

Here is the list of books we'll use for our study of the Middle Ages, with an emphasis on Europe. I have other lists for other geographic regions. We've already read some of these, but the rest will be studied in another year or two.

We'll start at the top and read our way through. If I feel like we've covered an area well enough, we'll move on without reading all of them. We won't use all those spines either! I need to get my hands on some of them to figure out which ones I want for sure. Also, I won't be able to find some of these at the library. I have a lot of books listed in order to give me options!

As we read them and decide which ones are best I'll edit the list and post my reviews at Goodreads.

MIDDLE AGES EUROPE
About 500 to 1600 AD

Spines (read a little bit every day in addition to the books listed below)
Famous Men of the Middle Ages - Poland and Haaren, edited by Cynthia Shearer (394 to 1471)
Famous Men of the Renaissance and Reformation - Poland and Haaren, edited by Cynthia Shearer (1304 to 1572 )
Famous Men of the 16th and 17th Century – Robert Shearer (1519 -1715)
Heroes of the Middle Ages – Eva March Tappan
Story of the Middle Ages – Micheal McHug and John Southwort
Story of Liberty – Charles Coffin (start with Magna Charta and read a little each week)
Middle Ages – Dorothy Mills
Middle Ages: A Cultural Atlas – Mike Corbishley
Hamster History of England – Janis Mitchell
Looking at History – R. J. Unstead
Rats, Bulls and Flying Machines – Deborah Mazzotta Prum (1350 -1642 – begin reading around time we start da Vinci)

Elementary/Middle School Read-alouds
Door in the Wall – Maguerite De Angeli
Apple and the Arrow – Conrad Buff (William Tell, 1291)
King Arthur and His Knights
Try these:
Classic Starts: The Story of King Arthur – Howard Pyle, edited by Tania Zamorsky
King Arthur (Usborne) – Felicity Brooks
Tales of King Arthur – Hudson Talbott (if we like check others in series)
King Arthur (Troll Illustrated Classics) – Don Hinckle and Howard Pyle
King Arthur and His Knights – Maude Radford Warren

Between the Forest and the Hills – Ann Lawrence
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - J.R.R. Tolkein
Otto of the Silver Hand - Howard Pyle
Don Quixote and the Windmills - Erick Kimmel
Stories of Don Quixote Written Anew for Children - James Baldwin

Elementary/Middle School (listed chronologically)
Byzantine
Byzantines – Thomas Chubb
Arabs – Harry Ellis
Silk Route – John Major

Europe
Usborne Time Traveler 2-31
Across a Dark and Wild Sea – Don Brown (521, Ireland)
Augustine Came to Kent - Barbara Willard (597)
Son of Charlemagne - Barbara Willard (781)
Two Travelers – Chris Manson
Marvelous Blue Mouse – Chris Manson
Dragon and the Raven - G.A. Henty (870 - Danish invasions of England)
Wulf the Saxon – G. A. Henty (1066)
Tower of London – Leanard Everett Fisher
White Isle - Caroline Dale Snedeker (Roman Britian)
Red Keep: A Story of Burgundy in 1165 - Allen French
If All the Swords in England: A Story of Thomas Becket - Barbara Willard (1170, Henry II)
Hidden Treasure of Glaston – Eleanore Jewett (1171)

Crusades
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 240-243
Crusaders – Walter Buehr
Winning His Spurs (aka Boy Knight) - G.A. Henty (Crusades, 1190, King Richard)
Big John’s Secret – Eleanore Jewett (1218)
Lost Baron: A Story of England in the Year 1200 - Allen French (under King John/Robin Hood)
Tales of Robin Hood – Tony Allan
Robin Hood – Howard Pyle
Star & Sword – Pam Melnikoff
Ivanhoe - Marianna Mayer (Richard Lion Heart and Robin Hood)
Red Falcons of Tremoine – Hendry Peart
Stories from the Crusades - Janet Harvey Kelman

Genghis Khan and Mongol Invasion (1213-1227)
Genghis Khan – Demi

Empire in the East – Earle Rice OR
Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde – Harold Lamb
Time Warp Trio: You Can’t, But Genghis Khan

Magna Charta
King John and the Magna Carta – L. DuGarde Peach (Ladybird books)
Magna Charta - James Daugherty (1217)

Knights and Castles
Castle Diary – Richard Platt (1285)
Making of a Knight – Patrick O’Brien
Medieval Feast – Aliki
Knights in Shining Armor - Gail Gibbons
Page, Esquire and Knight - Marion Florence Lansing
Knights, Castles and the Feudal Life – Walter Buehr
Castle - David Macaulay
When Knights were Bold - Eva March Tappan
Archers, Alchemists and 98 Other Medieval Jobs – Priscilla Galloway (1000-1500)
Medieval World series – various authors – Manners and Customs, Law and Punishment, Medicine and the Plague, Trade and Travel, etc. – Lynne Elliott, Marc Cels, Kay Eastwood, Marsha Groves, Joanne Findon, etc.

Saint Brendan and the Voyage Before Columbus – Michael McGrew
Canterbury Tales - Barbara Cohen (1340ish)
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Marcia Williams
Pied Piper of Hamelin – Robert Browning (1300)
In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce - G.A. Henty (1314)
Fine Print: A Story About Johann Gutenberg - Joann Johansen Burch (late 1400s, Germany)
Pippo the Fool – Tracey Fern (1377-1446)
Prince Henry the Navigator – Leanard Everett Fisher (1394-1460)
Joan of Arc - Diane Stanley (1412-1431)
At Agincourt – G. A. Henty (1415)
Marguerite Makes a Book – Bruce Robertson (1400-1425)
Illuminations – Jonathan Hunt
Trumpeter of Krakow - Eric Kelly (1461)
Year of Columbus – Genevieve Foster (1492)
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists, Leonardo da Vinci - Mike Venezia
Leonardo da Vinci - Diane Stanley (1452-1519)
Leonardo, the Beautiful Dreamer - Robert Byrd (Leonardo da Vinci)
Leonardo’s Horse – Jean Fritz
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists, Michelangelo - Mike Venezia
Michelangelo - Diane Stanley (1494)
Michelangelo’s Surprise – Tony Parillo
World of Columbus and Sons – Genevieve Foster (1451 to 1537)
Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day - Scott O'Dell (William Tyndale - 1525)
Good Queen Bess - Diane Stanley (1533 to 1603)
World of Captain John Smith – Genevieve Foster (1580-1631)
Renaissance: Understanding People of the Past - Mary Quigley
Renaissance - Jane Shuter
Apprentice – Pilar Molina Llorente
Matilda Bone - Karen Cushman

Shakespeare
William Shakespeare & the Globe – Aliki
Bard of Avon - Diane Stanley (1561 to 1661)
World of Shakespeare - Claybourne and Trayes
Shakespeare Stealer trilogy – Gary Blackwood (free time reading if wanted)
Begin reading Shakespeare once a week. We own most of the following resources:
Beautiful Stores from Shakespeare – E. Nesbit
The Tempest - Marianna Mayer
William Shakespeare's Winter Tales - Bruce Coville
Hamlet - Bruce Coville
Twelfth Night - Bruce Coville
Romeo and Juliet - Bruce Coville
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bruce Coville
Stories from Shakespeare – Anna Claybourne
Tales from Shakespeare – Marcia Williams
Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare – Charles Lamb

Cathedral - David Macaulay
By Pike and Dyke – G.A. Henty (1579)
By England's Aid - G.A. Henty (1588 – sequel to By Pike and Dyke)
The Siege – Stephen Shapiro (1585 – Holland)
Ship – David Macaulay
A 16th Century Galleon – Richard Humble
Westward Ho! - Charles Kingsley (Elizabeth and Drake – 1575 - 1588)
Red Hugh: Prince of Donegal (1587)
Peter the Great - Diane Stanley (1672-1725)

Vikings
Children's Atlas of Civilizations 56-57
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History 210-213
Time Traveler 34-63
Viking Tales –Jennie Hall (Norway, 850-933, online)
The Vikings – Elizabeth Janeway (900-1000)
Leif the Lucky - Ingri D'aulaire and Edgar P. D'aulaire
Viking Adventure – Clyde Robert Bulla
Everyday Life of a Viking Settler – Giovanni Caselli
Leif’s Saga – Jonathan Hunt
Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow - Allen French (maybe elementary age)
Sword Song - Rosemary Sutcliff
Beorn the Proud - Madeleine Polland
Beowulf - Michael Morpurgo
Beowulf the Warrior - Ian Serraillier
Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children - H.E. Marshall
Book of Norse Myths - Ingri and Edgar d'Aulaire
Viking Quest series - Lois Walrid Johnson

Books we don’t want to use again
The Hero Beowulf - Eric Kimmel

Explorers
America Begins – Alice Dagliesh
Explorers Who Got Lost – Diane Sansevere-Dreher
Exploration and Conquest – Betsy Maestro
Picture History of Great Explorers – Gillian Clements
They Put Out to Sea – Roger Duvoisin
By Right of Conquest - G.A. Henty (1595)

High School (mostly in order)
May want to repeat some of the books from earlier
Life in Medieval Times - Marjorie Rowling
Mystery of History Volume 3 – Linda Hobar (use student text only)
Renaissance - Paul Johnson
A History of the English Speaking People – Winston Churchill
Renaissance and Reformation Times - Dorothy Mills
History of the Kings of Britain - Geoffery of Monmouth
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World
Lantern Bearers – Rosemary Sutcliff (450)
Shining Company – Rosemary Sutcliff (600)
More King Arthur (maybe Howard Pyle)
Song of Roland - Dorothy Sayers (778)
Saga of the Volsungs - translated by Jesse Byock
1066 The Year of Conquest - David Howarth
Magna Charta – James Daugherty (1167-1216)
1215 The Year of Magna Carta - Danny Danziger and John Gillingham
The Scottish Chiefs - Jane Porter (1296-1305 Scots against English)
Canterbury Tales (1340s)
Divine Comedy – Sayers translation (just read bits of it to get a feel for it)
St. George for England –G.A. Henty (1340)
White Company – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
March on London – G. A. Henty (1381)
Men of Iron – Howard Pyle (1400s)
Joan of Arc - Mark Twain 1412-1431)
The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson (War of the Roses, 15th century)
Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain (1530)
The Prince - Machiavelli (1531 - translated by Bull?)
Queen Eleanor - Polly Brooks (mother of Richard the Lion-Hearted)
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott (Richard and Robin Hood)
Warriors of God, Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade – James Reston
Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth – Jane Resh Thomas (1558)
Under Drake's Flag - G.A. Henty (Sir Francis Drake, 1560s)
The Lion Of The North – G. A. Henty (1618 -1648 – ‘30 Years War’)
A Messenger for Parliament - Erik Christian Haugaard (1641-1651)
Cromwell’s Boy – Erik Christian Haugaard (sequel to A Messenger for Parliament – 1643)
Governor of England: A Novel on Oliver Cromwell - Marjorie Bowen
Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Samuel Putnam
Shakespeare – read some of his works
Paradise Lost – translated by Elledge (1667)
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (1789-1799)
Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Emmuska Orczy
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew – Daniel Pool

Preschool Read Alouds aka Picture Books

Here is my list of books to read to my two youngest (currently 6 and 3). The two older boys have heard many of these before, but that doesn't stop them from listening to them again! (They still come sit by me when I'm reading Goodnight Moon out loud!!!) Some are new to us so we'll see how it goes. I probably will only go through this once, but read each book several times. Reviews will be posted at Goodreads.

This list is alphabetical because I was double listing too many books. I may or may not use it alphabetically though. I'll probably just grab whichever ones I can find at the library and keep track of what we read so I can make sure to hit them all.

The books in bold are ones we have read and for which I have reviews at Goodreads.

1,2,3 to the Zoo - Eric Carle
A House for Hermit Crab - Eric Carle
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Judith Viorst
Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday - Judith Viorst
Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear me….) - Judith Viorst
Angus and the Ducks – Marjorie Flack (several other Angus books too)
Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing - Judi Barrett
Are You My Mother? P.D. Eastman
Bearymore – Don Freeman
Berlioz the Bear - Jan Brett
Best Nest - P.D. Eastman
Big Dog, Little Dog – P.D. Eastman
Big Sneeze - Ruth Brown
Biggest Bear – Lynd Ward
Billy’s Picture – H.A. Rey
Blueberries for Sal – Robert McCloskey
Brown Bear, Brown Bear... – Bill Martin Jr.
Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man – Robert McCloskey
Caps for Sale - Esphyr Slobodkina
Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss
Cat in the Hat Comes Back - Dr. Seuss
Chester, the Worldly Pig – Bill Peet
Chewy Louie – Howi Schneider
Chicka Chicka 123 - Bill Martin Jr.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom - Bill Martin Jr.
Chicken Little
Corduroy - Don Freeman
Crictor - Tomi Ungerer
Curious George – H.A. Rey
Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? - Eric Carle
Dr. Seuss's ABC
Dragons, Dragons - Eric Carle
Empty Pot - Demi
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed – Eileen Christelow
Flap Your Wings - P.D. Eastman
Foolish Tortoise - Eric Carle
Foot Book - Dr. Seuss
Fox in Socks - Dr. Seuss
Fred and Ted Like to Fly - P.D. Eastman
Frederick - Leo Lionni
Gingerbread Baby - Jan Brett
Go, Dog. Go! - P.D. Eastman
Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Jan Brett
Good Dog, Carl – Alexandra Day (read others in series if we like)
Good Night, Gorilla - Peggy Rathmann
Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown
Greedy Python - Eric Carle
Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss
Gregory’s Shadow – Don Freeman
Grouchy Ladybug - Eric Carle
Guess How Much I Love You – Sam McBratney
Hand, Hand, Finger, Thumb – Al Perkins
Harold and the Purple Crayon - Crockett Johnson
Harry the Dirty Dog – Gene Zion (read others in series)
Hello, Red Fox - Eric Carle
Henny Penny – Litle Golden Book
Home for a Bunny – Margaret Wise Brown
Honey, Honey, Lion - Jan Brett
Honeybee and the Robber - Eric Carle
Hop on Pop - Dr. Seuss
Horton Hatches the Egg - Dr. Suess
Horton Hears a Who - Dr. Suess
Hug - Jez Alborough
I Love You Forever – Robert Munsch
If I Were in Charge of the World - Judith Viorst
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - Laura Joffe Numeroff- read others from this series
Imogene’s Antlers – David Small
Inch by Inch - Leo Lionni
Inside Outside Upside Down - Stan Berenstain
Katy No-Pocket – Emmy Payne
Lentil - Robert McCloskey
Leo the Late Bloomer - Robert Kraus
Little Blue and Little Yellow - Leo Lionni
Little Engine that Could - Watty Piper
Little Golden Books
Little House - Virginia Lee Burton
Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear - Don and Audrey Wood
Little Red Caboose – Marian Potter
Little Red Hen - Little Golden Book
Little Toot – Little Golden Book
Lost in the Woods – Carl R. Sams
Magic Hill – A.A. Milne
Make Way for Ducklings - Robert McCloskey
May We Sleep Here Tonight – Tan Koide
McDuff Moves In – Rosemary Wells (read others in McDuff series if we like)
Merry Christmas, Big Hungry Bear - Don and Audrey Wood
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel - Virginia Lee Burton
Milk and Cookies – Frank Asch
Millions of Cats – Wanda Gag
Miss Rumphius – Barbara Cooney
Mister Seahorse - Eric Carle
Mitten - Jan Brett
Mixed Up Chameleon - Eric Carle
Mother Goose – pick any version
Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? – Dr. Seuss
Nana Upstairs and Downstairs - Tomi de Paola
Napping House - Don and Audrey Wood
No Jumping on the Bed - Tedd Arnold
Norman the Doorman – Don Freeman
Now One Foot, Now the Other - Tomie de Paola
Old Hat New Hat - Stan Berenstain
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish - Dr. Seuss
One Morning in Maine – Robert McCloskey
Opposites - Eric Carle
Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm - Alice Provensen
Panda Bear, Panda Bear...- Bill Martin Jr.
Pet of the Met – Lydia Freeman
Pete's a Pizza - William Steig
Please Say Please! Penguin's Guide To Manners - Margery Cuyler
Poky Little Puppy – Little Golden Book
Polar Bear, Polar Bear... - Bill Martin Jr.
Polite Elephant – Richard Scarry
Pretzel – H.A. Rey
Quick as a Cricket - Don and Audrey Wood
Rooster's Off to See the World - Eric Carle
Runaway Bunny - Margaret Wise Brown
Saggy, Baggy Elephant – Little Golden Book
Sam and the Firefly – P.D. Eastman
Shy Little Kitten – Little Golden Book
Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth - Eric Carle
Stone Soup - Marcia Brown
Story About Ping -Marjorie Flack
Story of Ferdinand - Munro Leaf
Stranger in the Woods – Carl R. Sams
Strega Nona - Tomie de Paola
Tale of Peter Rabbit (and other Beatrix Potter books) – Beatrix Potter
Tawny Scrawny Lion - Kathryn Jackson
Taxi That Hurried – Irma Simonton Black
Ten Apples Up On Top! - Theo LeSieg
That's Good! That's Bad! in the Grand Canyon - Margery Cuyler
That’s Good! That’s Bad! - Margery Cuyler
Things People Do - Anne Civardi
Thy Friend, Obadiah – Brinton Turkle (others in series if we like it)
Tikki Tikki Tembo -Arlene Mosel
Time of Wonder – Robert McCloskey
Tiny Seed - Eric Carle
Tootle – Gertrude Crampton
Ugly Duckling (there are lots of versions, pick one!)
Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams Bianco
Very Best Home for Me – Jane Werner Watson
Very Busy Spider - Eric Carle
Very Clumsy Click Beetle - Eric Carle
Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
Very Lonely Firefly - Eric Carle
Very Quiet Cricket - Eric Carle
We're Going on a Bear Hunt – Michael Rosen
What Do People Do All Day? - Richard Scarry
What Spot? - Crosby Bonsall
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
Whistle for Willie – Ezra Jack Keats
Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne (read them all)