2024

January

• Giorgio Vasari, Sandro Botticelli in Lives
• Ruth Sawyer & Emmy Molles, Dietrich of Berne and the Dwarf King Laurin
• Susan Wojciechowski, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey*
• Arthur Conan Doyle, The Five Orange Pips
• Arthur Conan Doyle, The Reigate Squires
• Arthur Conan Doyle, The Speckled Band
• Arthur Conan Doyle, The Engineer’s Thumb
• Arthur Conan Doyle, The Illustrious Client
• Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lion’s Mane
• Marjory Bartlett Sanger, Checkerback’s Journey: The Migration of the Ruddy Turnstone
• Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth*
• G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross in Father Brown: The Essential Tales*

Kindergarten

• John McCutcheon, Christmas in the Trenches
• Tomie dePaola, An Early American Christmas
• Norma Farber, How the Hibernators Came to Bethlehem
• Astrid Lindgren, Christmas in Noisy Village
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles
• Barbara Cooney (retold), The Little Juggler*
• Margaret Wise Brown, Nibble Nibble: Poems for Children
• Trina Schart Hyman, Little Red Riding Hood*

Nursery

• Robin Davies (adapted by), Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans*

Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)

• Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn
• Opal Wheeler, Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells
• Sibylle von Olfers, The Story of the Root Children
• Barbara Brenner and Julia Takaya, Chibi: A True Story from Japan
• Elsa Beskow, The Flowers’ Festival
• Barbara Cooney, Hattie and the Wild Waves
• Sibylle von Olfers, The Story of the Snow Children
• Paul Galdone, The Elves and the Shoemaker
• Arlene Mosel (retold), Tikki Tikki Tembo
• Mary Lyn Ray, Basket Moon
• M. Charlotte Craft (retold), Cupid and Psyche*
• Clare Truly Newberry, Smudge
• Tomie dePaola (retold), Strega Nona
• Elsa Beskow, Princess Sylvie
• Marjorie Flack, The Story About Ping
• Elsa Beskow, Rosalind and the Little Deer
• Elsa Beskow, Pelle’s New Suit
• Sibylle von Olfers, The Princess in the Forest

February

• Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice*
• A. Kent and Constance Hieatt (retold), The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer*

Kindergarten

• Megan McDonald, Tundra Mouse
• Rika Lesser (retold), Hansel and Gretel*
• Bernadette Watts (retold), The Rich Man and the Shoemaker*
• Paul O. Zelinksy (retold), Rapunzel*
• Olive Beaupre Miller, My Book House Vol. 3: Up One Pair of Stairs (part)

Nursery

• Dr. Seuss, The Foot Book
• Julia Donaldson, Room on the Broom
• Bernadette Watts (ill.), Fly Away, Fly Away Over the Sea
• Francois Croat, I am a little panda.
• Beatrice Schenck de Regniers, What can you do with a shoe?
• John Langstaff, Over in the Meadow
• Selina Chonz, Florina and the Wild Bird*

Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)

• M. Jean Craig (retold), The Donkey Prince
• Michael Bedard, Emily
• Hans Christian Andersen (Naomi Lewis transl.), The Steadfast Tin Soldier
• Margaret Evans Price (ill.), A Children’s Treasury of Mythology
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles
• Susan S. Adler, Samantha Learns a Lesson
• Valerie Tripp, Changes for Samantha
• Arthur Ransome, Swallows & Amazons*
• Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn’s Family

Independent Reading (Seventh Grade)

• Samuel Eliot Morison, The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943-May 1945*

black snake in garden

March

• Marchette Chute, An Introduction to Shakespeare*
• G.K. Chesterton, Father Brown: The Essential Tales
• Aaron Shepard (retold), The Sea King’s Daughter: A Russian Legend
• Marchette Chute, Richard III in Stories from Shakespeare
• C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (audio)
• C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (audio)

Kindergarten

• Margaret Hodges (retold), Saint George and the Dragon*
• Lee Kingman, Peter’s Long Walk
• Richard Scarry, The Supermarket Mystery
• Paul Heins (transl.), Snow White*
• Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings*
• Margaret Hodges (retold), Moses*
• John Updike, A Child’s Calendar
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle*
• Berneice Freschet, Turtle Pond*
• Elsa Beskow, Pelle’s New Suit*
• Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
• Paul O. Zelinksy (retold), Rumpelstiltskin*
• Marianna Mayer (retold), The Twelve Dancing Princesses*
• Barbara Cooney, Miss Rumphius*
• Elsa Beskow, Rosalind and the Little Deer
• Robert D. San Souci (retold), The White Cat
• Dahlov Ipcar, Lobsterman
• Molly Brett, Two in a Tent
• Dinah Maria Mulock, Some Adventures of a Brownie (in Best in Children’s Books, vol. 14 1958)
• Munro Leaf, Wee Gillis*
• Barbara Cooney, Island Boy*

Nursery

• Charles Shaw, It Looked Like Spilt Milk
• Dr. Seuss, If I Ran the Zoo

Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)

• James Thurber, Many Moons (to younger sibling)
• Brinton Turkle, Obadiah the Bold (to younger sibling)
• Virginia Lee Burton, Life Story
• Margaret Early, William Tell
• Claudia Logan, The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle: Solving a Mystery of Ancient Egypt
• Arthur Ransome, Swallowdale

Independent Reading (Seventh Grade)

• John Meade Falkner, Moonfleet

alligator Dickinson Park

April

• C.S. Forester, Rifleman Dodd
• Sterling North, Hurry, Spring!
• C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (audio)

Kindergarten

• James Herriot, Oscar, Cat About Town in Treasury for Children
• Hans Christian Andersen, The Steadfast Tin Soldier*
• Peter Spier, The Book of Jonah*
• Rumer Godden, The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle*
• Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House
• Lise Lunge-Larsen, The Race of the Birkebeiners
• Barbara Cooney (retold), Snow White and Rose Red*
• Holling C. Holling, Minn of the Mississippi
• Philip C. Stead, A Sick Day for Amos McGee
• Hans Christian Andersen (ill. Michael Hague), The Little Mermaid*
• Anne Rockwell, Who Lives in an Alligator Hole?
• Laurence Pringle, Come to the Ocean’s Edge
• Jim Arnosky, All About Deer
• Jim Arnosky, Armadillo’s Orange

Nursery

• Iona Opie, Mother Goose’s Little Treasures
• Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!
• Lois Lenski, The Little Sailboat

Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)

• Eric A. Kimmel (retold), Iron John
• Demi, The Greatest Treasure
• Elsa Beskow, Christopher’s Garden
• Nancy Carol Willis, Red Knot: A Shorebird’s Incredible Journey
• Edward Ardizzone, Tim and Lucy Go to Sea
• Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings

Independent Reading (Seventh Grade)

• John Toland, The Flying Tigers
• C.S. Forester, The Barbary Pirates
• Robert Penn Warren, Remember the Alamo!

controlled burn

May

• Shakespeare, Richard III*

Kindergarten

• Jim Arnosky, Crinkleroot’s Visit to Crinkle Cove
• Anne Rockwell, Four Seasons Make a Year
• Victoria Sherrow, Chipmunk at Hollow Tree Lane
• David Weitzman, Old Ironsides: Americans Build a Fighting Ship*
• Jim Aylesworth, The Folks in the Valley
• William Steig, Amos & Boris
• Anne Rockwell, Honey in a Hive
• Bernadette Watts (retold), Mother Holly
• Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!*
• Barbara Rogasky (retold), The Water of Life*
• Bridget Anderson, What Fossils Tell Us: The History of Life
• Marie Ponsot (retold), The Frog Princess in Russian Fairy Tales
• Barbara Cooney (retold), Snow White and Rose Red*
• Trina Schart Hyman (retold), The Sleeping Beauty*
• Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings*
• Gail Gibbons, Migration
• Barbara Mitchell, Waterman’s Child
• Gail Gibbons, Caves and Caverns
• Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, Wings for Per

Nursery

• Margaret Wise Brown, The Color Kittens
• Jan Brett, The Hat
• Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad Together
• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• John Langstaff, Over in the Meadow
• Bernadette Watts (retold), The Wind and the Sun

Independent Reading (Kindergarten)

• Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat

Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)

• Arthur Ransome, Peter Duck
• Arthur Ransome, Winter Holiday
• Lari Don (retold), The Secret of the Kelpie
• Judith Berry Griffin, Phoebe and the General
• Dennis Nolan, The Castle Builder
• Alice Schertle, Down the Road
• William Steig, Amos & Boris
• Donald Hall, Ox-Cart Man
• Laura Ingall’s Wilder (adapted from), A Little House Birthday
• Alice McLerran, Roxaboxen
• A.A. Milne, The Magic Hill
• Eve Titus, Anatole and the Cat
• Molly Brett, The Forgotten Bear
• Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!
• Peggy Thomas, Farmer George Plants a Nation

Independent Reading (Seventh Grade)

• Stephen Meader, The Muddy Road to Glory

June

• Tim Severin, The Brendan Voyage*

First Grade

• Charlotte Craft (retold), King Midas and the Golden Touch*
• Dr. Seuss, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose*
• David Weitzman, Jenny: The Airplane That Taught America to Fly
• Rosemary Lanning (retold), Jonah and the Whale
• Margaret Wise Brown, Wait Till the Moon is Full
• Bernadette Watts (ill.), The Bremen Town Musicians
• Caroline Arnold, Giant Sea Reptiles of the Dinosaur Age
• Gail Gibbons, Dinosaurs!
• Aldous Huxley, The Crows of Pearblossom*
• Sandra Markle, The Long, Long Journey: The Godwit’s Amazing Migration
• Jim Arnosky, All About Rattlesnakes
• Margaret Hodges (retold), Comus
• Dennis Nolan, Dinosaur Dream
• Glenn O. Bough, After the Sun Goes Down: The Story of Animals at Night

Nursery

• Keith Baker, LMNOpeas
• Dr. Seuss, There’s a Wocket in my Pocket!

Independent Reading (First Grade)

• Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham
• Theo LeSieg, Wacky Wednesday
• Richard Scarry, Super Silly Seek and Find!

Independent Reading (Fifth Grade)

• Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post
• Trina Schart Hyman (retold), The Sleeping Beauty

Independent Reading (Eighth Grade)

• Mackinlay Cantor, Gettysburg

a cardinal eating sea oats

July

squall from the west

Reading

* indicates a great book.