Our Favorite Read-Alouds (Kindy through Fourth Grade)
I wanted to share a list of our favorite read-alouds with you today! I set myself the fun but somewhat painful challenge of choosing our top five favorites for kindy through grade four (ok, I fudged a teeny bit by including more than one per author). These are the books we all adored, that made us laugh out loud, that we were excited to visit with more than once like a most cherished friend.
There are so many more that didn’t make this top-five list (full lists of favorites are included in the Lavender’s Blue grades curriculum). And most of these are wonderful for more than one age group (the kindy books are still perfect in first grade and so on) but please pre-read and decide what’s appropriate (or what might need editing) for your family.
Kindergarten
Milly Molly Mandy stories by Joyce Lancaster Brisley
Children of Noisy Village and Happy Times in Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren
Winnie the Pooh stories by A.A. Milne
Collected works of Jan Brett
Collected picture book works of Robert McCloskey
First Grade
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Anna Hibiscus stories by Lauren Tobia Atinuke
Brambley Hedge stories by Jill Barklem
Ivy and Bean stories by Annie Barrows
Clementine stories by Sara Pennypacker
Second Grade
Tashi stories by Anna Fienberg and Barbara Fienberg
Tumtum and Nutmeg stories by Emily Bearn
James Herriot’s Treasury for Children
Pippi Longstocking stories by Astrid Lindgren
Where the Sidewalk Ends (and other titles) by Shel Silverstein
Third Grade
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
The Secret Garden (please be prepared to edit as you read) and The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
King Arthur and Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green
City, Mosque, Cathedral, Castle, and Pyramid by David McCauley
Fourth Grade
Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, and Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
The Magic Half by Annie Barrows
Little House series (first 8 books) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Penderwicks series by Jeanne Birdsall