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Recommended Reading List English 355 Children’s Lit
pb = picture book
or = older readers
Animal Stories
Toba Sojo, The Animal Frolic
Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
Rydyard Kipling, Jungle Book
Feliz Salten, Bambi, Bambi=s Children
Randa Jerrell, The Bat-Poet
Guido Rocca, Gaetano the Pheasant
Jacqueline Jackson, Chicken Ten Thousand
Dorothy Lathrop, Who Goes There?, Hide and Seek
Sterline North, Rascal
Mary and Conrad Buff, Dash and Dart, Forest Folk
Tom Robinson, Buttons
Miska Miles, Nobody=s Cat
John Schoenherr, The Barn
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Recommended Reading List English 355 Children’s Lit
Janet Stevens, Tops and Bottoms
Aileen Fisher, Valley of the Smallest
C.W. Anderson, The Blaze Stories
Eric Knight, Lassie Come Home
Glen Rounds, The Blind Colt
Marguerite Henry, Kind of the Wind, Bright of the Grand Canyon, Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Joseph Lippincott, Wilderness Champion, Wahoo Bobcat
Phillip Strong, Honk: The Moose
Will James, Smoky
Rutherford Montgomery, Yellow Eyes
Mary O=Hara, My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead, Green Grass of Wyoming
Theodore Waldeck, The White Panther
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling, The Yearling
James A. Kjelgaard, Big Red
Victor B. Scheffer, Little Calf, The Year of the Seal
Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey
Walt Morey, Gentle Ben, Gloomy Gus, Kavik the Wolf Dog
Peter Hallard, Puppy Lost in Lapland
Lucy M. Boston, A Stranger at Green Knowl
Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows, Summer of the Monkeys
Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings
Berta and Elmer Hader, The Big Snow
Leo Lionni, Inch by Inch, Swimmy
Ed Young, Seven Blind Mice
Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad Together PB
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Shiloh
Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn Dixie
Historical Fiction
Virginia Sorenson, Miracles on Maple Hill, Plain Girl
Jean Fritz, The Cabin Faced West, Brady, other titles
Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn
Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Little House Books, Little House in the Big Woods
Lucile Morrison, The Lost Queen of Egypt
Henry Treece, Vikings Dawn
Elizabeth George Spear, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, The Bronze Bow, The Sign of the Beaver
Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
Rebecca Caudill, Tree of Freedom
Scott O=Dell, The Island of Blue Dolphins, The King=s Fifth, The Captive, Sing Down the Moon
Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, My Brother Sam is Dead
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Recommended Reading List English 355 Children’s Lit
Carolyn Reeder, Shades of Gray
Patricia Polacco, Pink and Say pb
Emily Arnold McCully The Orphan Singer pb Beautiful Warrior pb
Tomie De Paola Charlie Needs A Cloak, The Clown of God & others pb
Gary Paulsen, Solider=s Heart,
Karen Hesse, Letters from Rifka, Out of the Dust
Karen Cushman, Matilda Bone, The Ballad of Lucy Whipple, Catherine, Called Birdy, The Midwife=s Apprentice
Sid Fleischman, The Whipping Boy
Ann Rinaldi, A Break with Charity:A Story about the Salem Witch Trials, A Stitch in Time
Cynthia De Felice, Weasel
Allen Say Grandfather’s Journey pb
Jean Van Leeuwen Across the Wide Dark Sea: The Mayflower Journey pb
Faith Ringgold Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky pb
Jeanne M. Lee The Song of Mulan pb
Elvira Woodruff The Memory Coat pb
Patricia Reilly Giff, Nory Ryan=s Song
Margaret and Raymond Chang, In the Eye of the War
Bette Greene, Summer of my German Soldier
Anna Myers, Fire in the Hills
Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising
Theodore Taylor, The Cay
Yoshiko Uchida, Journey to Topaz
Marc Talbert, The Purple Heart
Eloise Lownsbery, Out of the Flame
Walter D. Edmonds, The Matchlock Gun
Scott O=Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
Irene Hunt, Across Five Aprils
William H. Armstrong, Sounder
Laurence Yep, Dragonwings
Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
Lois Lowry, Number the Stars
Avi, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Eve Bunting Train to Somewhere, Dandelions, I Am the Mummy Heb Nefert pb
Nonfiction
David Kherdian, The Road from Home: The Story of an American Girl
Daniel S. Davis, Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II
Steve Jenkins, The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest
Biography
Andrea Davis Pinkney & Brian Pinkney Duke Ellington
Alice Dagliesh, The Columbus Story
Patricia Martin, Pocahontas
Clyde Robert Bulla, Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims
Aliki Brandenburg, A Weed is a Flower
Aileen Fisher, Jeanne J=Arc
Doris Faber, I Will Be Heard
Sidney Bosen, Galileo and the Magic Numbers
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Recommended Reading List English 355 Children’s Lit
Shannon Garst, Crazy Horse
Shirley Graham, Booker T. Washington
Howard Greenfeld, Gertrude Stein
Russell Freedom, Lincoln: A Photobiography, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
Andrea Davis Pinkney, Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
Cornelia Meigs, Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of ALittle Women@
James H. Daugherty, Daniel Boone
Jean Lee Latham, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Tomie dePaola, 26 Fairmount Avenue
Concept
Donald Crews, Freight Train, Truck
Lois Ehlert, Color Zoo
Talking Animals
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
Kevin Henkes, Owen
Marc Brown Arthur stories
EB White Charlotte’s Web
Science Fiction
Robert Heinlen, Tunnel in the Sky, Podkayne of Mars
Madeleine L=Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Wind in the Door, Many Waters, A Ring of Endless
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Recommended Reading List English 355 Children’s Lit
L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game
Contemporary Realism
David Shannon No David & others pb,
John Fitzgerald, The Great Brain (Series)
Betsy Byars, The Summer of the Swans
Judy Blume, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Fudge Books
Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins
Joseph Krumbold, And Now Miguel, Onion John
Jean George, My Side of the Mountain, Julie of the Wolves
Emily Neville, It=s Like This, Cat
Armstrong Sperry, Call it Courage
Eleanor Estes, The Hundred Dresses
Meindert DeJong, The Wheel on the School
Eve Bunting Smoky Night
Mary Stolz, By the Highway Home, The Noonday Friends, A Wonderful, Terrible Time
Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy
Zilpha Snyder, The Egypt Game
Virginia Hamilton, M.C. Higgins the Great
Elaine Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Beverly Clearly, Henry Huggins, Ramona the Pest, Mitch and Amy, Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Dear Mr. Henshaw
Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline, Madeline=s Rescue pb
Robert McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal pb
Lynd Ward, The Biggest Bear pb
Marie Hall Ets., Play with Me
Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day
Jane Yolen, Owl Moon
McCully, Emily Arnold, Mirette on the High Wire
Laura Adams Armer, Waterless Mountain
Joseph Krumgold, Onion John
David Shannon, No, David!
Molly Bang, When Sophie Get Angry-Really, Really Angry
Eve Bunting, Smoky Night
Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Egypt Game
Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves
Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game
Cynthia Voigt, Dicey=s Song,A Solitary Blue
Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room, Hatchet
Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee, Wringer
Cynthia Rylant, Missing May
Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons
Ruth White, Belle Prater=s Boy
Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy
Audrey Couloumbis, Getting Near to Baby
Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder
Sharon Creech, The Wanderer
Natalie Savage Carlson, The Family Under the Bridge, The Empty Schoolhouse
Theodore Taylor, The Cay
Mia Wofciechowska, Shadow of a Bull
Susan Hinton, The Outsiders, That Was Then, This is Now
Megan MCDonald, Judy Moody series
Barbara Park, Junie B series
Fantasy
Robert C Obrien Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH
CS Lewis The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia)
JRR Tolkien The Hobbit
JRR Tolkien The Lord of the Rings series OR
Roald Dahl Matilda, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, James & the Giant Peach, Witches
William Steig, Abel=s Island, Sylvester & the Lost Pebble PB
David Shannon, A Bad Case of Stripes pb
Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House pb
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There pb
Chris Van Allsburg, Jamanji, The Polar Express & others pb
Arthur Yorinks, Hey, Al pb
Wanda Gag, Millions of Cats
Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Wanda Gag, ABC Bunny pb
Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron, The High King series, The Fortunetellers pb
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan, A Wizard of Earthsea series
Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising, The Grey King & others
Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword, The Hero and the Crown & others
Virginia Hamiliton, In the Beginning: Creation Stories from around the World
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Recommended Reading List English 355 Children’s Lit
Patricia McKissack, The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
Nancy Farmer, The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, A Girl Damed Disaster
Louis Lowry, The Giver, Gathering Blue OR
Phillip Pullman, The Golden Compass & His Dark Material Series OR
Traditional
Arnold Lobel, Fables
Eloise McGraw, The Moorchild
Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
Robert D. San Souci Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story pb
Rebecca Hickox The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story pb
Shirley Climo, The Korean Cinderella, The Egyptian Cinderella pb
Rafe Marten, The Rough Face Girl pb
Jerry Pinkey, The Ugly Duckling, Sam & the Tigers, The Talking Eggs, John Henry & others pb
Marcia Brown, Stone Soup: An Old Tale
Charles Perrault, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper
Philip Reed, Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes
Authur Ransome, The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship: A Russian Tale
Brothers Grimm, Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs, Little Red Ridding Hood, Rumpelstiltskin
Gerald McDermott, Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti, The Golem: A Jewish Legend
Verna Aardema, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People=s Ears pb
Paul Goble, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, & other Native American folk tales pb
Trina Schart Hyman, Saint George and the Dragon, Herschel of Ostropol, Snow White pb
Rita Lesser, Hansel and Gretel
John Steptoe, Mufaro=s Beautiful Daughters pb
Ed Young, Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China pb
Robert D. San Souci, The Talking Eggs
Charles Perrault, Puss=n Boots
David Wisniewski, Golem
Paul O. Zelinsky, Rapunzel, Rumplestiltskin
Simms Taback, Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
Gerald McDermott, Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest
Julius Lester, John Henry
Hans Christian Andersen, The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Eric Kimmel, Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Anne Isaacs, Swamp Angel
Simms Taback, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Informational
Antonio Frasconi, The House that Jack Built
David Macaulay, Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction, Castle
Margaret Musgrove, Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions
Judith St. George, So You Want to Be President?
Elizabeth Seeger, The Pageant of Chinese History
Janet Gaylord Moore, the Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasure of Art
Patricia Lauber, Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mound St. Helens
Jennifer Armstrong, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
Poetry
Nancy Willard, A Visit to William Blake=s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
John Updike, A Child=s Calendar
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Recommended Reading List English 355 Children’s Lit
Minfong Ho, Hush! A Thai Lullaby
Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise, Poems for Two Voices
Shel Silverstein Where The Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic
Jack Prelutsky Ride A Purple Pelican,
Calef Brown Polka Bats and Octopus Slacks, Dutch Sneakers & Flea Keepers
Arnold Adoff Black is Brown is Tan
List Not By Genre
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
D. Manus Pinkwater, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
Robb White, Deathwatch OR
Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard
Bette Greene, Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe
Patricia Reilly Griff, Fourth Grade Celebrity
E.L. Konigsburg, Fathers= Arcane Daughter, George, The View From Saturday
Dathryn Lasky, The Night Journey
Patricia Maclachlan, Sarah Plain and Tall
Cynthia Voight, Jackaroo
Elizabeth Winthrop, Castle in the Attic
Robin McKinley, Beauty, The Blue Sword, Hero and the Crown
Patricia McKillip, Riddlemaster of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, Harpist in the Wind
Helen Oxenbury, Dressing
Jan Brett, Beauty and the Beast (other titles also)
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
Robert C. O=Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
L.L. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables series
Mary Norton, The Borrowers, Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, Search for Delicious
Sarah Stewart, The Gardner
Multi-cultural Literature
Arnold Adoff Black is Brown is Tan
John Updike, A Child=s Calendar
Patricia Polacco Pink and Say, The Keeping Quilt, Mrs. Katz and Tush
Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons
Linda Sue Parks A Single Shard
Pam Munoz Ryan Esparanza Rising
John Steptoe Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters