(I just pulled this up from my archives. We began working through this list early August, 2006. Here is how far along we are.)
I am slowly implementing different elements of the Charlotte Mason structure into our homeschool environment. The first element is to read from the booklist from Ambleside Online. Here is the list. The ones that are bolded are the ones that we have read. The ones that are red are the books the boys really enjoyed.
Winnie the Pooh series by AA Milne and Ernest H. Shepard
The Little House by Virginia Burton
The Story About
The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
One Morning in
Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Ox-Cart Man by Barbara Cooney
Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
The Story of Little Babaji by Helen Bannerman
Brer Rabbit books by Joel Chandler Harris
A Child’s
The Little Red Hen
The Gingerbread Man
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Aesop’s Fables
The Real Mother Goose
The Oxford Book of Children’s Verse edited by Peter Opie
The World Treasury of Children’s Literature selected by Clifton Fadiman.
The Church Mice by Graham Oakley
Hiawatha by Longfellow, illustrated by Susan Jeffers
Paul Revere’s Ride by Longfellow, illustrated by Ted Rand
My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Ted Rand
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Roxaboxen by Barbara Cooney
The Tale of Three Trees illustrated by Angela Elwell Hunt
Wynken, Blynken and Nod illustrated by either Susan Jeffers or Barbara Cooney
Books illustrated by Beatrix Potter (Meet Peter Rabbit and others)
My Little Book About God illustrated by Eloise Wilkin
Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones
The Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
Poems to Read to the Very Young pictures by Eloise Wilkin
Frog and Toad readers by Arnold Lobel (Audio CD in the car)
Little Bear readers by Else Holmelund Minarek
George and Martha series by James Marshall
Frances books by Russell Hoban
Henry and Mudge series by Cynthia Rylan
Catch Me and Kiss Me and Say It Again by Clyde and Wendy Watson (nursery rhymes)
Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Picture books by Maud and Miska Petersham (The American ABC and The Box with Red Wheels)
Each Peach Pear Plum Janet and Allan Ahlberg
On
Picture books by Lucy Micklethwait
Brown Angels by Walter Dean Myers–poetry, we skip two poems, I believe.
Flossie and the Fox by Patricia McKissack
Miss Suzy by Miriam Young
Books by Tomie dePaola
In the Night Kitchen (slight nudity) by Maurice Sendak
Jump series by Van Dyke Parks, Malcolm Jones (adaptations of Brer Rabbit)
Year at Maple Hill Farm and others by Alice and Martin Provensen
When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Babar books (the originals by Laurent De Brunhoff, not the TV spin-offs)
What Do You Do, Dear, and What Do You Say, Dear by Sesyle Joslin–comical books about manners.
Rose in My Garden by
The Man Who Loved Books by Jean Fritz
The Princess and the Admiral by Charlotte Pomerantz
The Story of Holly and Ivy and others by Rumer Godden
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
The Plain Princess by Phyllis McGinley
Alfie series by Shirley Hughes (very sweet and family friendly)
A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman
Fool of the World and the Flying Ship by Ransome/Shulevitz
OR The King with Six Friends by Williams (they’re similar)
Crictor by Tomi Ungerer
Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain by Edward Ardizzone
The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses by Edward Lear (esp one illustrated by Brooke)
Doctor Desoto by William Steig (the best dentist story ever)
Lonely Doll series by Dare Wright
The Sugar Mouse Cake by Gene Zion
Umbrella (about a little Japanese girl in
The Crane Maiden by Miyoko, Matsutani
Two by Two by Barbara Reid (plasticine illustrated Noah’s
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
Yellow and Pink by William Steig (a good argument for creationism)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Read Aloud Bible Stories by Ella K. Lindvall Volumes 1-4
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
Least of All by Carol Purdy
The Real Pretend by Joan Donaldson, illustrated by Tasha Tudor
Miss Spider’s Tea Party by
A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman
You Are Special by Max Lucado
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Down, Down the Mountain by Ellis Credle
All the Places To Love by Patricia MacLachlan
Sophie & Rose by Kathryn Lasky
Jan Brett books, particularly The Mitten, The Hat, and The Gingerbread Boy
On Mother’s Lap by Ann Herbert Scott
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant
Laurie and the Yellow Curtains (an early reader)
Billy and Blaze by C. W. Anderson
I Love You the Purplest by Barbara M. Joosse
Fireflies for Nathan by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim
The Rainbabies by Laura Krauss Melmed
Miss Fannie’s Hat by Jan Karon
With You All the Way by Max Lucado
No More Singing by Norman Bonner
The Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown
The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown
Mommy Hugs (also Daddy Kisses) by Anne Gutman and Georg Hallensleben
Angus series by Marjorie Flack
The Three Little Kittens illustrated by Paul Galdone
The Poky Little Puppy by Gustaf Tenggren
Jesse Bear What Will You Wear? by Nancy White Carlstrom
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Burton
Caps for
The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
Billy and Blaze books by C.W. Anderson
Scuffy the Tugboat by Golden Books
Seven Little Rabbits by John Becker (a repetitive counting/rhyming book)
Thanks for stopping by my blog! I am glad I took a break, but I think I am ready to get back to blogging…it was encouraging to see that someone stopped by to visit.
~christa~
Thanks for the list. We have been trying to read as many of the Ambleside Year 0 books as well. What a great idea for the list this way. I'm going to have to go back through the list and blog about it.
You've been doing a lot of reading! Mike Mulligan and Caps for Sale are 2 of my boys favorites as well!