Literature

Features

  • Robust reading lists for families or classrooms
  • Reading lists pair with History/Geography Lessons if desired
  • Literature discussion suggestions
  • Suggested hard-copy editions
 
 

Reading Lists

Pairs with Kindergarten Curriculum (or any)

  • Aesop’s Fables
  • Grimm’s Fairy Tales
  • Andersen’s Fairy Tales

Pairs with United States History/Geography (or any)

  • The Little House Series
  • A Child’s Garden of Verses
  • Charlotte’s Web
  • Folk/Tall Tales (Example: The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan)

Pairs with North American History/Geography (or any)

  • The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  • Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  • Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  • Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow
  • The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnett

Pairs with South American History/Geography (or any)

  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
  • A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  • The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
  • A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Pairs with European History/Geography (or any)

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  • Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge
  • Heidi by Johanna Spyri
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas

Pairs with African History/Geography (or any)

  • Arabian Nights
  • Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
  • Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

Pairs with Asian History/Geography (or any)

  • The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
    Kubla Khan
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  • Best Russian Short Stories
  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Lottery by Shirley Jackson