2024
January
- Giorgio Vasari, Sandro Botticelli in Lives
- Ruth Sawyer & Emmy Molles, Dietrich of Berne and the Dwarf King Laurin
- Susan Wojciechowski, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey*
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Five Orange Pips
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Reigate Squires
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Speckled Band
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Engineer’s Thumb
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Illustrious Client
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lion’s Mane
- Marjory Bartlett Sanger, Checkerback’s Journey: The Migration of the Ruddy Turnstone
- Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth*
- G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross in Father Brown: The Essential Tales*
Kindergarten
- John McCutcheon, Christmas in the Trenches
- Tomie dePaola, An Early American Christmas
- Norma Farber, How the Hibernators Came to Bethlehem
- Astrid Lindgren, Christmas in Noisy Village
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles
- Barbara Cooney (retold), The Little Juggler*
- Margaret Wise Brown, Nibble Nibble: Poems for Children
- Trina Schart Hyman, Little Red Riding Hood*
Nursery
- Robin Davies (adapted by), Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans*
Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)
- Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn
- Opal Wheeler, Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells
- Sibylle von Olfers, The Story of the Root Children
- Barbara Brenner and Julia Takaya, Chibi: A True Story from Japan
- Elsa Beskow, The Flowers’ Festival
- Barbara Cooney, Hattie and the Wild Waves
- Sibylle von Olfers, The Story of the Snow Children
- Paul Galdone, The Elves and the Shoemaker
- Arlene Mosel (retold), Tikki Tikki Tembo
- Mary Lyn Ray, Basket Moon
- M. Charlotte Craft (retold), Cupid and Psyche*
- Clare Truly Newberry, Smudge
- Tomie dePaola (retold), Strega Nona
- Elsa Beskow, Princess Sylvie
- Marjorie Flack, The Story About Ping
- Elsa Beskow, Rosalind and the Little Deer
- Elsa Beskow, Pelle’s New Suit
- Sibylle von Olfers, The Princess in the Forest
February
- Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice*
- A. Kent and Constance Hieatt (retold), The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer*
Kindergarten
- Megan McDonald, Tundra Mouse
- Rika Lesser (retold), Hansel and Gretel*
- Bernadette Watts (retold), The Rich Man and the Shoemaker*
- Paul O. Zelinksy (retold), Rapunzel*
- Olive Beaupre Miller, My Book House Vol. 3: Up One Pair of Stairs (part)
Nursery
- Dr. Seuss, The Foot Book
- Julia Donaldson, Room on the Broom
- Bernadette Watts (ill.), Fly Away, Fly Away Over the Sea
- Francois Croat, I am a little panda.
- Beatrice Schenck de Regniers, What can you do with a shoe?
- John Langstaff, Over in the Meadow
- Selina Chonz, Florina and the Wild Bird*
Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)
- M. Jean Craig (retold), The Donkey Prince
- Michael Bedard, Emily
- Hans Christian Andersen (Naomi Lewis transl.), The Steadfast Tin Soldier
- Margaret Evans Price (ill.), A Children’s Treasury of Mythology
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles
- Susan S. Adler, Samantha Learns a Lesson
- Valerie Tripp, Changes for Samantha
- Arthur Ransome, Swallows & Amazons*
- Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn’s Family
Independent Reading (Seventh Grade)
- Samuel Eliot Morison, The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943-May 1945*
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March
- Marchette Chute, An Introduction to Shakespeare*
- G.K. Chesterton, Father Brown: The Essential Tales
- Aaron Shepard (retold), The Sea King’s Daughter: A Russian Legend
- Marchette Chute, Richard III in Stories from Shakespeare
- C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (audio)
- C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (audio)
Kindergarten
- Margaret Hodges (retold), Saint George and the Dragon*
- Lee Kingman, Peter’s Long Walk
- Richard Scarry, The Supermarket Mystery
- Paul Heins (transl.), Snow White*
- Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings*
- Margaret Hodges (retold), Moses*
- John Updike, A Child’s Calendar
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle*
- Berneice Freschet, Turtle Pond*
- Elsa Beskow, Pelle’s New Suit*
- Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
- Paul O. Zelinksy (retold), Rumpelstiltskin*
- Marianna Mayer (retold), The Twelve Dancing Princesses*
- Barbara Cooney, Miss Rumphius*
- Elsa Beskow, Rosalind and the Little Deer
- Robert D. San Souci (retold), The White Cat
- Dahlov Ipcar, Lobsterman
- Molly Brett, Two in a Tent
- Dinah Maria Mulock, Some Adventures of a Brownie (in Best in Children’s Books, vol. 14 1958)
- Munro Leaf, Wee Gillis*
- Barbara Cooney, Island Boy*
Nursery
- Charles Shaw, It Looked Like Spilt Milk
- Dr. Seuss, If I Ran the Zoo
Independent Reading (Fourth Grade)
- James Thurber, Many Moons (to younger sibling)
- Brinton Turkle, Obadiah the Bold (to younger sibling)
- Virginia Lee Burton, Life Story
- Margaret Early, William Tell
- Claudia Logan, The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle: Solving a Mystery of Ancient Egypt
- Arthur Ransome, Swallowdale
Independent Reading (Seventh Grade)
- John Meade Falkner, Moonfleet
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April
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* indicates a great book.