2018-19 Read Alouds and Audiobooks

Just clearing the side bar for a new year ahead.  Our state starts a new school year every July 1, and though I'm not required to follow that academic year, I've found it helpful for when to start and end my reading list each year.

Mostly we love the books we share together.  I've made a few notes about some real fails that we will not come back to again, though.

Teen Read Alouds (Includes books from our Classics Book Club and our English program this year)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Just David by Eleanor H. Porter
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
The Story of John Greenleaf Whittier by Francis E. Cook
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Patterns on the Wall by Elizabeth Yates
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Elementary Read Alouds (Nature Angel, Little Princess, and Mister Man)
The Hundred and One Dalmations by Dodie Smith
Turkey Red by Esther Loewen Vogt
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Tucker's Countryside by George Selden  (Definitely not as good as The Cricket in Times Square)
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
Wanted: Mud Blossom by Betsy Byars
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene DuBois
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
More All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
The Lampfish of Twill by Janet Taylor Lisle  (Don't bother reading this one!)
Henry and Ribsy by Beverly Cleary
Mary on Horseback by Rosemary Wells
The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
The Story of Davy Crockett by Enid Lamonte Meadowcroft
The Baseball Trick by Scott Corbett
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
The Toothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill
Abel's Island by William Steig  (Weird--we won't read this one again.)
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Pat of Silver Bush by L.M. Montgomery
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
Moustaches for Maddie by Chad Morris and Shelly Brown
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Lola's and Baymax's Books
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Classic Starts) by Howard Pyle, edited by John Burrows
The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
Elmer and the Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
(added Brother and Beowulf)
The Adventures of Peter Cottontail by Thornton Burgess
The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel by Thornton Burgess
The Adventures of Danny Meadowmouse by Thornton Burgess
Jenny and the Cat Club by Esther Averill
The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk by Thornton Burgess
The Adventures of Reddy Fox by Thornton Burgess

Audiobooks
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
The Incorrible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling by Mary Rose Wood
The Incorrible Children of Ashton Place: The Hidden Gallery by Mary Rose Wood
The Incorrible Children of Ashton Place: The Unseen Guest by Mary Rose Wood
Warriors of Cumorah by Chris Heimerdinger
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Interrupted Tale by Mary Rose Wood
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Long Lost Home by Mary Rose Wood
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
The Phoenix and the Carpet by Edith Nesbit
 
Ladybug was not in a read aloud group this school year.  She simply won't cooperate enough at the end of the day to be included, even though we've tried more than once.  She does listen to the Audiobooks in the car, and she listens to the books I read aloud in Academy and at random story times that occur here and there. 

So she does get read to!

We hope for future success in including her in one of the read aloud groups.

Comments

  1. JenniferJuly 2, 2019 at 1:58 PM

    So many awesome books! It is really amazing when you list them all out.

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