List of novels, chapter books, novellas and dedicated story collections read through the year with J1, from age 3.75 to age 4.75.
Looking back: 2003 reading list is here.
Mordecai Richler
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Better for six-year-olds?
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Ursala K. LeGuin
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Esther Averill
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Edward and Nancy Blishen
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We prefer the Corrin-edited, Faber-published age-level story books to the Blishen-edited volumes, but it’s good to have alternatives.
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Gertrude Chandler Warner
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Primer-style language. An exciting, age-appropriate story, but like Beginner Books, better suited for emerging readers than for reading aloud.
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James Thurber
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Kenneth Grahame
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Michael Hague illustrations.
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Tove Jansson
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Astrid Lindgren
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James Thurber
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Doris Lee illustrations. Usual Thurber weirdness and wonderful language.
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Eileen Colwell (compiler)
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Solid. Looking forward to read the other three volumes in the box set in coming years.
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Farley Mowat
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Terrific. Will seek out more Mowat.
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L. Frank Baum
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Mostly Librivox audiobook, some chapters read by me. So glad we had a facsimile edition in the house--pictures are terrific.
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Jean Craighead George
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Russell Erickson
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| A child-appropriate thriller. | |
Anton Chekov
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William Stobbs illustrations. Ultimately heart-breaking but the kid didn't track the details enough to mind.
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Jill Barklem
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| These deserve to be better known in the States--lovely! | |
Joan G. Robinson
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| Adorable and so warm. Get omnibus/treasury? | |
Tomie De Paola
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Terrific. Perfect for age level. Will read the sequels.
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Miriam E. Mason
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J loved this. Perfect age-level and interest level for a TK/Kinder boy, with bonus feminism and history for me. “Mom, I’m going outside to look for four-leaf clovers near gray rocks so I can find seven and put them under my pillow and wish for a gun.”
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