List: favorite read-aloud books.

a family of readers + a lot of summer road trips = a list of favorite read-aloud books:

The Bed Book by Sylvia Plath (picture book)

Would You Rather by John Burningham (picture book)

Ramona books by Beverly Cleary

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander

Half Magic series by Edward Eager

The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales (picture book - & my kids' choice, not mine!)

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate deCamillo (J. says also The Tale of Desperaux)

Mrs.Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

poems by Calef Brown

The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

Comments

[Meg]

Your children are a bit younger than mine, but I would like to add:

the Olivia books by Ian Falconer
the Frances books by Russel Hoban
the Pigeon books by Mo Willems
the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Shel Silverstein's poems

--Meg