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
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
Posted by: Meg | Aug 06, 2008 at 10:14 AM