The Trumpet of the Swan, Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, Little House on the Prairie series, Tumtum & Nutmeg, The Wheel on the School, The Family Under the Bridge, Ginger Pye, Mrs. Friday & the Rats of NIMH, The Railway Children and Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit, The Penderwicks series, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, The Vanderbeekers of 121st Street, any of the bios authored by Janet and Geoff Benge....just a few of the read alouds you haven’t mentioned that my ladies have loved as read alouds over the years. Reading aloud is one of my favorite parts about hs’ing.
We have read some of these, but I will add several of these to my running list! The only reason the Little House series isn’t on my list for this year is because I’m considering using a curriculum that has it as a spine next school year. I’m excited to read it with my girls in the future!
@@TheHomeschoolConvert yay! I bought some books from book outlet today that was on your list. You’re one of my new favorite homeschooling YT’ers. Thank you for your wonderful, helpful and inspiring content. I love your school room. :)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is amazing. Sign of the Beaver, Indian in the Cupboard, The Mouse and the Motorcycle series, The Ramona books by Beverly Cleary. Those were some my kids adored!
We listened to The Secret Garden on iBooks for free and it was a really good version. Very heavy accent in the narrator which I loved! It’s a great one for audio. My kiddos 9, 7, 5 and 3 all loved listening. My 9 and 7 year old especially!
I read The Tale of Desperaux when I was a kid and it instantly became one of my favorites! Also my dad recommended The Call of the Wild to me, he remembered his third grade teacher reading it to his class back in 1970! Great picks!
We read Peter Pan last year, it's good the original is not very long. Loved Treasure Island and Anne of Green Gables and Little Women and Paddington. A lot of these were not only family read alouds but also one on one read alouds. I read aloud to each if my 3 girls 2x a week. Just a story only the 2 of us share, it's super special
What a wonderful list! Since you have girls I would also recommend the Betsy -Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace. There are 10 books in the series and 3 others that are about friends that are mentioned in the 10. The books begin when the Betsy is celebrating her 5th birthday and continue until she marries. They are wonderful and full of info about life in the American Midwest in the early years of the 1900s. I read them all to my daughter, finishing with Betsy's Wedding when she was in 8th grade. I would also recommend two other sets, though not classics they are wonderful books for moms and daughters to share. The Callahan Cousins by Elizabeth Doyle Carey, a set of 4 books about four first cousins that visit with their grandmother on Nantucket is great for ages 8-12. My middle school girl loved me to read to her before bed. We loved The Mother Daughter Book Club books by Heather Vogel Frederick. The mothers of 4 twelve year old girls start a book club reading a classic book and alternating chapters are narrated by the very different girls. The girls face lots of life changes but the constant of their mothers' love and the book club and making friends with people they may never have connected with otherwise carries through the series. The series ends at a summer camp where they are working the summer before leaving for college. The classic books that the girls read in the series are Anne of Green Gables, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, The Betsy-Tacy series, Daddy Long-Legs. That's right, another great classic is Daddy Long-legs by Jean Webster. Best wishes with your homeschooling this year! Your girls are very blessed. Each of my children (now 21 and 24) have the bookcase they had in their bedrooms growing up. Painted on the back of the bookcases is "Richer than I, you can never be, for I had a Mother who read to me."
Loved your book list. :) I can recommend "Heidi" and "A Little Princess". These were my favorites from school. Your children might also enjoy The "Christian Heroes: Then and Now" series of books.
Thank you! I can’t remember if they were on our list when I filmed this, but they got added somewhere along the way! We read the George Washington Carver book from that series at the end of last year and enjoyed it.
Love your energy! I have a few of these. I've haven't read many classics but whenever I see one for a good price I purchase it! I look forward to reading some of these!
What a great list! This was very helpful in getting more ideas. I just ordered The Moffats by Estes and All-of-a-Kind Family by Taylor. VERY excited for both of these!
We love the Paddington books and the Boxcar Children. So many good books here. We have Treasure island on our list this year as well. Excited to read that one.
Love your choices! Do you have a poetry time with your kids? Sing a Song of Seasons anthology and anything from Jack Prelutsky are great. My kids love Shel Silverstein, too. 🙂
I grew up with Thornton Burgess!! 😍 They're all amazing, I should read them to my kiddos next year. As a teacher assistant in a small religious school, I absolutely adore your videos!
Yes! I'm the same as you! There are so many I didn't read (or even know about) as a child and I'm so excited to read these with my own children! Also if you have an Ollie's store near you they have some great deals on books too!
We have that same Peter Pan book! I started reading it to my Kindergartner but the way it was written seemed a little difficult for her to understand yet. I think we are going to save it for later! I have a lot of those on my list too!
Good thing to be aware of! Thanks! I haven’t pre-read that version yet. It was one of the books from a free stack that was passed onto me, but we can switch gears and get something different from the library if necessary.
Love the idea of just having a running booklist. We go through seasons where we breeze through a title, then we'll slow down for another. We read this year The Children of Noisy Village, also by Astrid Lindgren. This is based in the real world. So good! I'm wracking my brain thinking of animal stories. Here are some, and then others mixed in that are not...Mrs. Frisby? Redwall? The Wild Robot and its sequel (audiobook phenomenol), Julie of the Wolves, Maroo of the Winter Caves (prehistory), Poppy by Avi, The Hundred Dresses, Misty of Chincoteague, Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler, The Penderwicks, Princess Academy,
So many great choices! Little Women is one of my very favorite stories! My husband and I actually met playing Meg and John Brooke in the musical version, so it holds a special place in my heart ❤️ We are also reading The Boxcar Children this year! That’s childhood favorite of mine, too!
We finished all of Roal Dahl book this year (including boy and going solo which is his autobiographies)are absolutely wonderful and great to compare to movies. I definitely would not neglect reading his autobiographies my kids actually absolutely loved them he is very engaging in his storytelling about his own life as well.
If you live close to Weatherford, TX (for some reason I think you're in Texas) go to the Doss Heritage Center and see the whole room of Mary Martin/Peter Pan stuff. There's a Peter Pan statue at our library and Mary Martin's former house is in Weatherford also.
Great books! Most of them I'd save for 4th grade up or Middle School so the kids can get more out of it.. The Thorton Burgess books are great though for young listeners. Anne of Green Gables and Little Women are great for middle school since they are teenagers and more of a coming of age story. I'd recommend Tumtum and Nutmeg, Stuart Little and The Borrowers series! They are all excellent!
Thanks for the recommendations! We read Stuart Little and the other E.B. White books last school year. Definitely classics! My plan is to read some of these classics aloud together now and then have them re-read independently when they’re older, kind of like meeting back up with an old familiar friend. If anything ever seems too far over their heads, we’ll stop and move on.
For reference on paddington while the movie is more recent it really doesn’t follow the book almost at all - but there is an old TV show of it that my kids love! I think it’s on Amazon and very much follows individual chapters of several paddington books 💙
Hello I love your channels so much it is super helpful! I am thinking about switching into home school For my 7 yr old son. Could you make a video that kind of shows the day to day grind and time frame? Just to show what a daily schedule looks like for homeschooling and how many days a week...
I love the graphic for your channel! It makes me want to curl up with a good book. Also, “Little Women” is my favorite book and I wasn’t aware that they had these other books like the ones that are in your boxed set. I will be getting some of those.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins is fun, my kids love it. I think the BFG was their favorite last year. My daughter read Matilda on her own and said it might be her new favorite book😊
I read Winnie The Pooh to our kids recently and enjoyed it so much. I cried my eyes out while reading the last chapter of the house at Pooh Corner, thinking about my kids growing up always hits me hard. We also read The Secret Garden this year and my seven year old enjoyed that one. My three year old son fell asleep once or twice while listening, so he clearly wasn't gripped by the story. I would recommend listening to that one on audio book as there is a good deal of old Yorkshire speech. We got through it, but it took some work on my part.
I love Little Women!! I read it to my daughter last December and can't wait to read it to her again. I think we're going to try to do the Little House on the Prairie series this year.
There’s an elementary American history curriculum by The Peaceful Press called The Playful Pioneers that uses the Little House series as part of its spine, and the only reason the series didn’t make my list is because I’m considering doing that curriculum at some point. I’m looking forward to reading it with my kids, as well!
Love your choices! Great haul. We have been getting just book #1 in series just in case we don't like it. We got boxcar children, courage of Sarah nobel , little women and Anne of Green Gables on our list for our upcoming year.
I love that so many people will be reading the same things! I hope we can continue to talk about them in the comments and share our thoughts and experiences.
We LOVED the audio version of Winnie the Pooh. Get the one with Steven Fry as the Pooh, it's a full cast and my husband and I enjoy it just as much as the kids. :)
The secret garden was my favorite as a little girl! I just bought the graphic novel of it, I’m obsessed with gn’s! We are reading Hatchet over the summer 🪓
We recently finished the one by Frances Hodgson Burnett and beautifully illustrated by Inga Moore - which inspired my son to start a secret Garden garden.
I have all girls too! My girls are going into 1st and PreK. I also have a 2 year old. I have the Burgess animal chapter books on our list too! Plus complete Winnie the Pooh, Charlotte’s Web, Wizard of Oz and some abridged illustrated classics (Secret Garden, Heidi, & Black Beauty). Oh, and I totally just went to Costco today after I saw your video and bought that Little Women set! lol.
So apparently Matilda is a great audiobook. Kate Winslet narrates and everyone I've watched or spoken to has said she's fantastic. Plus if you have Libby app it's on there for free 😊
Paddington is on our list this year too! I bought a picture book version for my second grader to read on her own and we can enjoy a family movie night after! I have to say, I am curious what the books are under your lamp?! I wonder every time I watch a video of yours!
I just want to give you a heads up on the Jack London books Call of the Wild and White Fang. If your daughters are animal lovers they might find those books terrifying. There is a lot of descriptive animal abuse in those books. My 12 year old son enjoyed the books but I, as an adult, had a really hard time with it. You might want to pre-read a chapter or two to get a sense about them.
Thanks for the feedback! We’ve already finished The Call of the Wild, and my girls did okay with it. I will definitely be mindful with White Fang though.
We struggle sometimes with recommendations from homeschool moms/channels/curriculums because I find that sometimes they are white-washed and often contain gross stereotypes of people of color. (For example, Laura Ingalls Wilder's books). We just read a highly recommended book, The Year of Miss Agnes, and it was not as darling as everyone made it out to be and definitely had a 'white savior' taste to it. These are things I am thinking through now that I may not have years ago.
This is a very important observation. I hope it’s something we can discuss openly as a family as we go through books that may have those elements (or undertones of them). We’re doing culture studies as well where well incorporate other read alouds, and I definitely want to expose my children to a diversity of people and ideas.
@@TheHomeschoolConvert I highly doubt a child is noticing any kind of racial undertones(unless thats what a parent is pointing out, which I personally would not) while reading this book or any other where the situation may have a white person helping children of ANY color. It is teaching them good moral character to help anyone and everyone regardless of color, social status, or anything else for that matter out of the goodness of your heart. Searching for negative undertones isn't really the point of reading books to little ones. Its just getting across the big picture or lesson the story is teaching.. Ps - this was not directed towards you at all I was just agreeing with your reply and adding my 2 cents :) lol
@@TheHomeschoolConvert I'd recommend Tumtum and Nutmeg as a readaloud, my sons loved those (we must have read them several times) and have gone on to reread them independently as they've grown in confidence. Also the brambly hedge series are beautifully illustrated and such sweet stories. X
Hi! Thanks for these recommendations. I keep adding to my list :) Just wanted to comment and say that we looooveeeeee The Boxcar Children! We have been reading the series aloud off and on since my oldest started kindergarten (he's going into third grade next year). I think we just completed book #23 and they have all been so good, with a great mix of adventure, learning and beautiful sibling relationships. I believe they will always have a special place on our shelf. I agree with you about Winnie the Pooh! I just recently found out that the character WInnie the Pooh is based on a real life bear with a neat story!! I had no idea! I have those books on my wish list because I so badly want to read through them. They are "Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear" and also "Winnie's Great War". Thanks again :)
Thank you for all the tips and recommendations! They are super helpful! I think I may have seen Polyanna as a little girl but don’t have any memories of it, really. We listened to the audio of some the Thornton Burgess bird book stories, and I think I’d like to revisit it at some point when we’re focusing on birds for nature study.
Bookoutlet, Abebooks and ThriftBooks have gotten so much of my money this year, I’m a bit of a book hoarder. I think your selections look great, I have most of them and am reading quite a few to my girls this year (8, 7, 4). Just to let you know, Little Women isn’t really a series. Those other books are somewhat related (at least a couple are) but other than Jo’s Boys, they’re not really a continuation of the originally story so you’d be fine just reading one and moving to something else. Also, if you have sensitive girls, be warned that Wizard of Oz is darker than the movie (there are also a ton of sequels that I really enjoyed as a kid) and the audio of Peter Pan starts out during the Blitz in London. It was a bit much for my girls and we are waiting a year or two before we start again. Thornton Burgess has a great book of bird stories that works really well with The Good and the Beautiful’s bird study (or any other study of birds). The Pippi Longstocking movie isn’t very close to the book (I think it actually combines a couple of the other books in the series) but it’s still a fun watch. Have you seen the old Disney Pollyanna movie with Hailey Mills? That would be good to pair with the book. If your girls like Around the World in 80 Days (my girls loved it this spring), you might look for the picture book Race Around the World. It’s a true story about two female journalists (Nelly Bly and Elizabeth Bisland)in the 1870s who set out in opposite directions from New York to try and get around the world in the fastest time possible.
The entire Anne of Green Gables series is amazing and I read it so often as a girl that my books literally fell apart. It might be a little old if your girls are in early elementary so I’d maybe wait a couple years to introduce it so they can really appreciate the world of Anne, just my two cents.
Also, if your husband is reading the Chronicles of Narnia to your daughters, I feel the Boxcar children will be a bit, I don't know, a step down in level. My son loves the Boxcar children, but I personally cannot stand them. Have you considered Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit?
Kate Winslet narrates the audio version of Matilda and it is AmAzInG!!!!!!!! Total must read. The wizard of oz on audio narrated by Anne Hathaway, also AmAzIng!!! She does the best voices :) lol
Love your list we’ve been buying for future use too so I’ll have to keep an eye out for some you mentioned that we don’t have just yet. We have so many on our read list this year too. We decided to make a sheet to put stars to rate how much we like them. On our list this year at the moment is Charlottes web Because of Winn Dixie The Indian in the cupboard The one and only Ivan The cricket in Times Square James and the giant peach The tale of despereaux Alice’s adventures in wonderland ( we already did Alice through the looking glass via audio book) The adventures of Tom Sawyer The adventures of huckleberry Finn Little pilgrims progress Runaway Ralph American chillers Florida fog Phantoms The wingfeather saga book 1&2 The time machine Full overs travels The Swiss family Robinson ( the movie is on Disney +) Little house in the big woods Farmer boy The wild robot Mouse and the motorcycle Ralph s mouse I do have so many more on my overall want to read to my kids wish list but I’d be happy with this short list of want to read aloud for this year. My son got to pick a lot of them and naturally he picked a lot by the covers. Lol only ones I pushed to add to our list were the Little house series since it’s been a dream to read those myself and I really think he’ll like them too.
Sounds like a great list! The Wild Robot is one I think my girls would enjoy, as well. From what I hear, it has the makings to be a classic. So many people seem to love it!
How old of children would you gear these towards? For read alouds? Mine are 4.5 and 6.5 and they aren't too excited about read alouds without pictures yet, boo....
My girls will be turning 5 and 8 soon. At the beginning of last year, Rowan, my youngest, wasn’t always interested in read alouds, but I just kept at it, and she really enjoys them now! Both girls usually do something with their hands while listening, and that helps. Start small and work from there. Maybe start with longer picture books, and then transition to shorter, engaging chapter books and read just a few pages at a time.
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The courage of Sarah noble is AMAZING!!! We all loved that one. ❤❤❤
I LOVED the Tale of Despereaux!!!!! My daughter loves Matilda and listens to it on audible every single night.
I totally get it! I had no idea either 😂
Some much of my education is being redeemed while homeschooling my babies. I’m so grateful!
Totally agree! I was literally my high school valedictorian and have learned so much teaching first grade and pre-k this past year. 😂
The Trumpet of the Swan, Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, Little House on the Prairie series, Tumtum & Nutmeg, The Wheel on the School, The Family Under the Bridge, Ginger Pye, Mrs. Friday & the Rats of NIMH, The Railway Children and Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit, The Penderwicks series, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, The Vanderbeekers of 121st Street, any of the bios authored by Janet and Geoff Benge....just a few of the read alouds you haven’t mentioned that my ladies have loved as read alouds over the years. Reading aloud is one of my favorite parts about hs’ing.
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We have read some of these, but I will add several of these to my running list! The only reason the Little House series isn’t on my list for this year is because I’m considering using a curriculum that has it as a spine next school year. I’m excited to read it with my girls in the future!
Can you make a video of how you do your read alouds? Like the schedules and etc?
I can definitely talk about that as we get established in our routine for the new school year!
@@TheHomeschoolConvert yay! I bought some books from book outlet today that was on your list. You’re one of my new favorite homeschooling YT’ers. Thank you for your wonderful, helpful and inspiring content. I love your school room. :)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is amazing. Sign of the Beaver, Indian in the Cupboard, The Mouse and the Motorcycle series, The Ramona books by Beverly Cleary. Those were some my kids adored!
The Sign of the Beaver made my daughter Kennedy’s favorites list from our read alouds this past year!
We listened to The Secret Garden on iBooks for free and it was a really good version. Very heavy accent in the narrator which I loved! It’s a great one for audio. My kiddos 9, 7, 5 and 3 all loved listening. My 9 and 7 year old especially!
I read The Tale of Desperaux when I was a kid and it instantly became one of my favorites! Also my dad recommended The Call of the Wild to me, he remembered his third grade teacher reading it to his class back in 1970! Great picks!
Oh my! Little Women is one of my all-time favorite books! I read it on my own just after 5th grade, I believe.
I’m looking forward to reading it with my girls!
We read Peter Pan last year, it's good the original is not very long. Loved Treasure Island and Anne of Green Gables and Little Women and Paddington. A lot of these were not only family read alouds but also one on one read alouds. I read aloud to each if my 3 girls 2x a week. Just a story only the 2 of us share, it's super special
Love that idea!
What a wonderful list! Since you have girls I would also recommend the Betsy -Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace. There are 10 books in the series and 3 others that are about friends that are mentioned in the 10. The books begin when the Betsy is celebrating her 5th birthday and continue until she marries. They are wonderful and full of info about life in the American Midwest in the early years of the 1900s. I read them all to my daughter, finishing with Betsy's Wedding when she was in 8th grade.
I would also recommend two other sets, though not classics they are wonderful books for moms and daughters to share. The Callahan Cousins by Elizabeth Doyle Carey, a set of 4 books about four first cousins that visit with their grandmother on Nantucket is great for ages 8-12. My middle school girl loved me to read to her before bed. We loved The Mother Daughter Book Club books by Heather Vogel Frederick. The mothers of 4 twelve year old girls start a book club reading a classic book and alternating chapters are narrated by the very different girls. The girls face lots of life changes but the constant of their mothers' love and the book club and making friends with people they may never have connected with otherwise carries through the series. The series ends at a summer camp where they are working the summer before leaving for college. The classic books that the girls read in the series are Anne of Green Gables, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, The Betsy-Tacy series, Daddy Long-Legs. That's right, another great classic is Daddy Long-legs by Jean Webster.
Best wishes with your homeschooling this year! Your girls are very blessed. Each of my children (now 21 and 24) have the bookcase they had in their bedrooms growing up. Painted on the back of the bookcases is "Richer than I, you can never be, for I had a Mother who read to me."
I love Fahrenheit 451, Of Mice and Men, and To Kill A Mockingbird. I also like the Mouse and the Motorcycle, Charlotte's Web, and Stuart Little
We are reading The Children of Noisy Village right now, and my son loves it!
I don’t think I’ve heat of that one! I’ll have to look into it!
Loved your book list. :) I can recommend "Heidi" and "A Little Princess". These were my favorites from school. Your children might also enjoy The "Christian Heroes: Then and Now" series of books.
Thank you! I can’t remember if they were on our list when I filmed this, but they got added somewhere along the way! We read the George Washington Carver book from that series at the end of last year and enjoyed it.
Love your energy! I have a few of these. I've haven't read many classics but whenever I see one for a good price I purchase it! I look forward to reading some of these!
Book videos are my all time favorite!! So glad I came across your channel.
So glad to have you here! A new book video just went up this morning! 📚 😁
I read Anne of Green Gables recently on my own. So so beautiful ❤️
What a great list! This was very helpful in getting more ideas. I just ordered The Moffats by Estes and All-of-a-Kind Family by Taylor. VERY excited for both of these!
Ooh, I’ll have to add those to my running list!
We love the Paddington books and the Boxcar Children. So many good books here. We have Treasure island on our list this year as well. Excited to read that one.
Pollyanna is VERY hard to find unabridged. My daughter has been looking for years.
Thanks for the heads up!
Love your choices! Do you have a poetry time with your kids? Sing a Song of Seasons anthology and anything from Jack Prelutsky are great. My kids love Shel Silverstein, too. 🙂
I grew up with Thornton Burgess!! 😍 They're all amazing, I should read them to my kiddos next year. As a teacher assistant in a small religious school, I absolutely adore your videos!
Thank you so much! 🥰
You should totally get the audio books for anything you read Rohld Dohl. My kids LOVED them!! Especially Matilda and The BFG.
Good to know! Thanks!
Yes! I'm the same as you! There are so many I didn't read (or even know about) as a child and I'm so excited to read these with my own children! Also if you have an Ollie's store near you they have some great deals on books too!
Thank you for the recommendation! I don’t believe we have an Ollie’s, but I’ll have to double check.
This was great! Love these kinds of videos! We always need more book recommendations❤ Where is your glove from?
Lol I’m sorry, globe🌎
The globe? I found it secondhand on FB Marketplace. 😄
Welcome to homeschooling! Love hearing what others are reading.
Thank you! Our first heat was wonderful, and I’m excited for the next!
That's a good list! 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island, and Robin hood are ones I'd recommend.
Great recommendations! Thanks!
We have that same Peter Pan book! I started reading it to my Kindergartner but the way it was written seemed a little difficult for her to understand yet. I think we are going to save it for later! I have a lot of those on my list too!
Good thing to be aware of! Thanks! I haven’t pre-read that version yet. It was one of the books from a free stack that was passed onto me, but we can switch gears and get something different from the library if necessary.
Love the idea of just having a running booklist. We go through seasons where we breeze through a title, then we'll slow down for another. We read this year The Children of Noisy Village, also by Astrid Lindgren. This is based in the real world. So good! I'm wracking my brain thinking of animal stories. Here are some, and then others mixed in that are not...Mrs. Frisby? Redwall? The Wild Robot and its sequel (audiobook phenomenol), Julie of the Wolves, Maroo of the Winter Caves (prehistory), Poppy by Avi, The Hundred Dresses, Misty of Chincoteague, Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler, The Penderwicks, Princess Academy,
So many great choices! Little Women is one of my very favorite stories! My husband and I actually met playing Meg and John Brooke in the musical version, so it holds a special place in my heart ❤️
We are also reading The Boxcar Children this year! That’s childhood favorite of mine, too!
That’s so sweet! I love that!
We finished all of Roal Dahl book this year (including boy and going solo which is his autobiographies)are absolutely wonderful and great to compare to movies. I definitely would not neglect reading his autobiographies my kids actually absolutely loved them he is very engaging in his storytelling about his own life as well.
Good to know! Thank you!
If you live close to Weatherford, TX (for some reason I think you're in Texas) go to the Doss Heritage Center and see the whole room of Mary Martin/Peter Pan stuff. There's a Peter Pan statue at our library and Mary Martin's former house is in Weatherford also.
I’ll definitely look into that!!
Great books! Most of them I'd save for 4th grade up or Middle School so the kids can get more out of it.. The Thorton Burgess books are great though for young listeners. Anne of Green Gables and Little Women are great for middle school since they are teenagers and more of a coming of age story. I'd recommend Tumtum and Nutmeg, Stuart Little and The Borrowers series! They are all excellent!
Thanks for the recommendations! We read Stuart Little and the other E.B. White books last school year. Definitely classics! My plan is to read some of these classics aloud together now and then have them re-read independently when they’re older, kind of like meeting back up with an old familiar friend. If anything ever seems too far over their heads, we’ll stop and move on.
For reference on paddington while the movie is more recent it really doesn’t follow the book almost at all - but there is an old TV show of it that my kids love! I think it’s on Amazon and very much follows individual chapters of several paddington books 💙
Thanks so much for letting me know about this!
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is an AMAZING read aloud that would be a great addition to your list.
I’ll look into it! Thanks!
Hello I love your channels so much it is super helpful! I am thinking about switching into home school For my 7 yr old son. Could you make a video that kind of shows the day to day grind and time frame? Just to show what a daily schedule looks like for homeschooling and how many days a week...
I’m sure I can do something like that when we get into the routine of our new school year!
I love the graphic for your channel! It makes me want to curl up with a good book. Also, “Little Women” is my favorite book and I wasn’t aware that they had these other books like the ones that are in your boxed set. I will be getting some of those.
Thank you! That cozy feeling is what I want to reflect in my homeschool. 😌
Mr. Popper’s Penguins is fun, my kids love it. I think the BFG was their favorite last year. My daughter read Matilda on her own and said it might be her new favorite book😊
Oh, BFG is a good one to add!
Book outlet is my newest obsession!! I also took advantage of the 25% sale and got some great books!
Woohoo!!
I read Winnie The Pooh to our kids recently and enjoyed it so much. I cried my eyes out while reading the last chapter of the house at Pooh Corner, thinking about my kids growing up always hits me hard. We also read The Secret Garden this year and my seven year old enjoyed that one. My three year old son fell asleep once or twice while listening, so he clearly wasn't gripped by the story. I would recommend listening to that one on audio book as there is a good deal of old Yorkshire speech. We got through it, but it took some work on my part.
That’s a helpful tip! Thank you!
I love Little Women!! I read it to my daughter last December and can't wait to read it to her again. I think we're going to try to do the Little House on the Prairie series this year.
There’s an elementary American history curriculum by The Peaceful Press called The Playful Pioneers that uses the Little House series as part of its spine, and the only reason the series didn’t make my list is because I’m considering doing that curriculum at some point. I’m looking forward to reading it with my kids, as well!
Love your choices! Great haul.
We have been getting just book #1 in series just in case we don't like it.
We got boxcar children, courage of Sarah nobel , little women and Anne of Green Gables on our list for our upcoming year.
I love that so many people will be reading the same things! I hope we can continue to talk about them in the comments and share our thoughts and experiences.
We LOVED the audio version of Winnie the Pooh. Get the one with Steven Fry as the Pooh, it's a full cast and my husband and I enjoy it just as much as the kids. :)
Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll look into that!
I just ordered a lot of books from sonlight! I am so excited to read a lot of their recommendations!!
Simply Charlotte Mason has helpful reading lists as well, if you’re interested. 😁
The secret garden was my favorite as a little girl! I just bought the graphic novel of it, I’m obsessed with gn’s! We are reading Hatchet over the summer 🪓
I think my girls are going to LOVE The Secret Garden!
We recently finished the one by Frances Hodgson Burnett and beautifully illustrated by Inga Moore - which inspired my son to start a secret Garden garden.
Just added Island of the Blue Dolphins to our list
I have all girls too! My girls are going into 1st and PreK. I also have a 2 year old. I have the Burgess animal chapter books on our list too! Plus complete Winnie the Pooh, Charlotte’s Web, Wizard of Oz and some abridged illustrated classics (Secret Garden, Heidi, & Black Beauty).
Oh, and I totally just went to Costco today after I saw your video and bought that Little Women set! lol.
Haha, that’s awesome! Hope y’all love it!
The Matilda audio book is narrated by Kate Winslet & it’s fantastic 😍 My girls really enjoyed it.
That makes me even more excited to listen to it!
So apparently Matilda is a great audiobook. Kate Winslet narrates and everyone I've watched or spoken to has said she's fantastic. Plus if you have Libby app it's on there for free 😊
I love Kate Winslet! We’ll definitely have to give it a listen!
Paddington is on our list this year too! I bought a picture book version for my second grader to read on her own and we can enjoy a family movie night after! I have to say, I am curious what the books are under your lamp?! I wonder every time I watch a video of yours!
Haha! There’s a cartography book, poetry anthology, and a large picture book about the wonders of the world.
I just want to give you a heads up on the Jack London books Call of the Wild and White Fang. If your daughters are animal lovers they might find those books terrifying. There is a lot of descriptive animal abuse in those books. My 12 year old son enjoyed the books but I, as an adult, had a really hard time with it. You might want to pre-read a chapter or two to get a sense about them.
Thanks for the feedback! We’ve already finished The Call of the Wild, and my girls did okay with it. I will definitely be mindful with White Fang though.
Great video, love the classic read alouds. Alice in wonderland and Peter Pan have been favourites for us!
Thank you! We are so looking forward to reading these classics!
🍩 made it to the end ❤thank you
You'll love Anne and Pooh! They are funnier for adults than kids, haha.
Haha! Looking forward to it!
Literally I didn’t read any of the childhood classics! I’m excited to redeem that with my kids! Yay homeschooling!
Homeschooling for the win! 🙌🏻
We struggle sometimes with recommendations from homeschool moms/channels/curriculums because I find that sometimes they are white-washed and often contain gross stereotypes of people of color. (For example, Laura Ingalls Wilder's books). We just read a highly recommended book, The Year of Miss Agnes, and it was not as darling as everyone made it out to be and definitely had a 'white savior' taste to it. These are things I am thinking through now that I may not have years ago.
This is a very important observation. I hope it’s something we can discuss openly as a family as we go through books that may have those elements (or undertones of them). We’re doing culture studies as well where well incorporate other read alouds, and I definitely want to expose my children to a diversity of people and ideas.
@@TheHomeschoolConvert I highly doubt a child is noticing any kind of racial undertones(unless thats what a parent is pointing out, which I personally would not) while reading this book or any other where the situation may have a white person helping children of ANY color. It is teaching them good moral character to help anyone and everyone regardless of color, social status, or anything else for that matter out of the goodness of your heart. Searching for negative undertones isn't really the point of reading books to little ones. Its just getting across the big picture or lesson the story is teaching..
Ps - this was not directed towards you at all I was just agreeing with your reply and adding my 2 cents :) lol
@@kmomma72 I appreciate all feedback! 😁
The book content on your channel is brilliant. Love it! Our lists are too long to write in a comment 😂, but great to see your choices
Thank you so much! ♥️
@@TheHomeschoolConvert I'd recommend Tumtum and Nutmeg as a readaloud, my sons loved those (we must have read them several times) and have gone on to reread them independently as they've grown in confidence. Also the brambly hedge series are beautifully illustrated and such sweet stories. X
Hi! Thanks for these recommendations. I keep adding to my list :) Just wanted to comment and say that we looooveeeeee The Boxcar Children! We have been reading the series aloud off and on since my oldest started kindergarten (he's going into third grade next year). I think we just completed book #23 and they have all been so good, with a great mix of adventure, learning and beautiful sibling relationships. I believe they will always have a special place on our shelf. I agree with you about Winnie the Pooh! I just recently found out that the character WInnie the Pooh is based on a real life bear with a neat story!! I had no idea! I have those books on my wish list because I so badly want to read through them. They are "Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear" and also "Winnie's Great War". Thanks again :)
This makes me even more excited to read The Boxcar Children as a family! We read Find Winnie this year. Such an interesting story!
Thank you for all the tips and recommendations! They are super helpful! I think I may have seen Polyanna as a little girl but don’t have any memories of it, really. We listened to the audio of some the Thornton Burgess bird book stories, and I think I’d like to revisit it at some point when we’re focusing on birds for nature study.
You might consider The Little Princess and All of a Kind Family.
Thanks for the recommendations!
Winnie the Pooh is from a real bear! There's a cute kids book, Finding Winnie, that tells about it! Thanks for sharing all your picks!
We read it this past year when we were learning about World War I. Super cute story!
Jess: I've never read Anne of Green Gables.
Me (whose daughter is an "Anne with an E": 😱😱🤯🤯🤯🤯 lol
Definitely an awesome list!
Bookoutlet, Abebooks and ThriftBooks have gotten so much of my money this year, I’m a bit of a book hoarder. I think your selections look great, I have most of them and am reading quite a few to my girls this year (8, 7, 4). Just to let you know, Little Women isn’t really a series. Those other books are somewhat related (at least a couple are) but other than Jo’s Boys, they’re not really a continuation of the originally story so you’d be fine just reading one and moving to something else. Also, if you have sensitive girls, be warned that Wizard of Oz is darker than the movie (there are also a ton of sequels that I really enjoyed as a kid) and the audio of Peter Pan starts out during the Blitz in London. It was a bit much for my girls and we are waiting a year or two before we start again. Thornton Burgess has a great book of bird stories that works really well with The Good and the Beautiful’s bird study (or any other study of birds). The Pippi Longstocking movie isn’t very close to the book (I think it actually combines a couple of the other books in the series) but it’s still a fun watch. Have you seen the old Disney Pollyanna movie with Hailey Mills? That would be good to pair with the book. If your girls like Around the World in 80 Days (my girls loved it this spring), you might look for the picture book Race Around the World. It’s a true story about two female journalists (Nelly Bly and Elizabeth Bisland)in the 1870s who set out in opposite directions from New York to try and get around the world in the fastest time possible.
The entire Anne of Green Gables series is amazing and I read it so often as a girl that my books literally fell apart. It might be a little old if your girls are in early elementary so I’d maybe wait a couple years to introduce it so they can really appreciate the world of Anne, just my two cents.
Also, if your husband is reading the Chronicles of Narnia to your daughters, I feel the Boxcar children will be a bit, I don't know, a step down in level. My son loves the Boxcar children, but I personally cannot stand them. Have you considered Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit?
Just fyi, "Treasure Island" is really intense for kids. Lots of violence and a fair bit of murder.
Thanks for your concern! We have a long list, so maybe we’ll push it back a bit.
Kate Winslet narrates the audio version of Matilda and it is AmAzInG!!!!!!!! Total must read. The wizard of oz on audio narrated by Anne Hathaway, also AmAzIng!!! She does the best voices :) lol
Adding those both to listen as audiobooks!
lassie is a good book for kids its a classic you should check it out im reading it to my friends in my care home for disabilitys i like your video
Thank you!
Love your list we’ve been buying for future use too so I’ll have to keep an eye out for some you mentioned that we don’t have just yet. We have so many on our read list this year too. We decided to make a sheet to put stars to rate how much we like them.
On our list this year at the moment is
Charlottes web
Because of Winn Dixie
The Indian in the cupboard
The one and only Ivan
The cricket in Times Square
James and the giant peach
The tale of despereaux
Alice’s adventures in wonderland ( we already did Alice through the looking glass via audio book)
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
The adventures of huckleberry Finn
Little pilgrims progress
Runaway Ralph
American chillers Florida fog Phantoms
The wingfeather saga book 1&2
The time machine
Full overs travels
The Swiss family Robinson ( the movie is on Disney +)
Little house in the big woods
Farmer boy
The wild robot
Mouse and the motorcycle
Ralph s mouse
I do have so many more on my overall want to read to my kids wish list but I’d be happy with this short list of want to read aloud for this year.
My son got to pick a lot of them and naturally he picked a lot by the covers. Lol only ones I pushed to add to our list were the Little house series since it’s been a dream to read those myself and I really think he’ll like them too.
Sounds like a great list! The Wild Robot is one I think my girls would enjoy, as well. From what I hear, it has the makings to be a classic. So many people seem to love it!
Also “The Great Brain”
I would love to get my daughter into audio books. How do you listen to them? Do you pay for the audiobooks?
We actually just utilize our library database! The Libby app and my library card gives us access to thousands of titles.
Is
Little Women abridged?
I don’t believe so. I decided to hold off for a little bit.
How old of children would you gear these towards? For read alouds? Mine are 4.5 and 6.5 and they aren't too excited about read alouds without pictures yet, boo....
My girls will be turning 5 and 8 soon. At the beginning of last year, Rowan, my youngest, wasn’t always interested in read alouds, but I just kept at it, and she really enjoys them now! Both girls usually do something with their hands while listening, and that helps. Start small and work from there. Maybe start with longer picture books, and then transition to shorter, engaging chapter books and read just a few pages at a time.
Your Usborne link is dead. Are you still a consultant?
Apparently I needed to renew. 😅 It’s fixed now and should work!
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