Since we started reading chapter books to M, I’ve intended to record what we read. I’ve gone through stretches with better and worse record-keeping. For the first months of 2009 I wasn’t reliable about writing our books down, but from April on I’ve kept a file of everything we’ve read, so while this list may not be absolutely complete, here are most of our read alouds from 2009.
All of A Kind Family, All of A Kind Family Uptown, and More All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
Magic Tree House Books: Monday with a Mad Genius, Dark Day in the Deep Sea and Eve of the Emperor Penguin (she’s read others on her own)
Half Magic, Magic by the Lake, Knight’s Castle, The Time Garden, and Seven Day Magic by Edgar Eager
Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, and Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
American Girls series: Molly (Books 1-6), Kit (Books 1-3), Kirsten (Books 1-6), and Samantha (Books 1-6)
Boxcar Children, Suprise Island, The Yellow House Mystery, Mystery Ranch, and Mike’s Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Ramona’s World, and Ramona Forever by Beverly Cleary
The Magician’s Nephew and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (read each two times)
Any Which Wall by Laurel Snyder (reading now for the second time)
The Five Sisters by Margaret Mahy (read 3 times)
Nim’s Island and Nim at Sea by Wendy Orr
Roxie and the Hooligans by Phyllis Naylor
The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos and Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris by R. L. LaFevers
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Utterly Me, Clarice Bean by Lauren Child
Violet Bing and the Grand House by Jennifer Paros
Dragonsdale and Riding the Storm by Salamandra Drake
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffery
Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe
Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon Hale
The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains by Laurel Snyder
Dolphin Adventure and Dolphin Treasure by Wayne Grover
Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes and Mercy Watson: Princess in Disguise by Kate DiCamillo
Butterfly Battle (Magic School Bus Chapter Book) by Nancy White
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop
Alice’s Shooting Star by Tim Kennemore
Still Just Grace and Just Grace Walks the Dog by Charise Mericle
The Mitchell’s Five for Victory by Hilda Van Stockum
We loved All of a Kind Family. We need to find more time to read the rest of the series.
Blessings
Diane
What a list!! Which were her favorites??
Diane, we still haven’t read the last two but I’ve found used copies of them all. I wish they’d all go back into print.
Rawley, her favorites were Harry Potter, Any Which Wall, the Theodosia books, The Five Sisters, and The Time Garden
M is a lucky kid! So many wonderful books!
Nice list! If you liked Theodosia, besides the new book coming out soon *squee* you should read LaFevers’ Nathaniel Fludd. and you might like Kirsten Miller’s Kiki Strike too.
Simply lovely selection of read-alouds, and you are so wicked to have those fabulous looking cookies as your header picture. I need to go find something to eat. I’m participating in the 2010 comment challenge. I’ll be back!
Thanks, Jen
Jennifer, we’re really excited about the next Theodosia book too. Thanks for the other recommendations, we’ll definitely check them out.
Catherine, those are my very favorite cookies, but I’m munching gingersnaps right now.
Those are great books — I like the ones I know so much that I want to go read all the other ones because the list is so good.
I want to get back into reading more chapter books with my boys; it was hard for a while because the older one likes to sneak the book off and read it, while the younger one enjoys the slower and more personal reveal. But we dabbed our toes back in by reading a Christmas book, “Rapheal and the Noble Task,” (25 chapters, to be read in December) and we all liked it so we’ve kept on. We just read “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.”
Oh, I love this list!
It was a sad day when my son told me he didn’t want me to read with him anymore! I had great expectations of reading with him books like Harry Potter, Narnia, Waterhorse, just to name a few.
I have two children, and my younger son is luckily NOT too old for mommy to read to him!
The first one with both boys was Charlotte’s Web. I love that book.
What a great list of books! I like the way you are mixing older titles with newer titles. So many times parents just want to read what they knew from their childhood. Happy reading!
We have so much fun with our read-alouds. I’m convinced that M resisted learning to read for awhile b/c she feared I’d stop reading so much to her despite many many assurance that I would read to her for as long as she wished, hopefully for many many many years.
We love Charlotte’s Web too. I read it to M when she was 4 and the girls also really like the old (animated) movie which was the first full length movie I ever watched.
What an excellent list! I love Rapunzel’s Revenge. It’s one of my recent favorites. I agree with Kathy – it’s nice to see both classics and newer works on there.
Great list! I saw several of our family’s favorites on your list.
What great titles! My kids also liked the A to Z Mystery Series, Bruce Hale’s Chet Gecko series, and R.L. LaFevers Lowthar’s Blade trilogy.
That’s awesome. I wish we’d done more reading aloud in my family when I was younger.