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Classic stories - 7/27/2008 9:43:20 AM
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joannepir
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What are some "classic" stories you have read outloud to your children? I'm in the process of reading "Where the Red Fern Grows" to my kids and they absolutely love it. I'd like to continue reading some classics at night-time. What are some books your children have enjoyed?
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RE: Classic stories - 7/27/2008 10:34:42 AM
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Jenny-Fair
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Caddie Woodlawn was a big hit, along with another book by the same author, Andy Buckram's Tin Men. Also the Little House series.
My kids really love mysteries and never wanted to quit for the night! LOL
Anyway, in the children's section at the library they have books of lists. They can list books for you by date of events, type of book, etc, and I know they have classics lists.
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RE: Classic stories - 7/27/2008 2:06:41 PM
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Johnny Tremain is an excellent read aloud for older elementary. My kids loved it.
When they were younger they loved the Freddy the Pig series by Walter R. Brooks and and the Redwall series by Brian Jacques.
Both series have animals acting in every way like people- talking, writing poetry, cooking, solving riddles and in the Redwall series, fighting with Middle Ages technology against the forces of evil.
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RE: Classic stories - 7/27/2008 2:35:44 PM
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JoyfulWife
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Well, my little one is still a toddler, so we aren't into reading the chapter book classics yet. But I have always loved reading, and had parents who read to us nightly. Most of the books were classics. Some of my favorites, and ones I plan on sharing with my children when they're older are:
Little House Series
Anne of Green Gables Series
Swiss Family Robinson
Heidi
Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Little Britches Series
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Little Women
Peter Pan
The Boxcar Children Series
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Charlotte's Web
Narnia Series
Old Fashioned Girl
Pilgrim's Progress
Cheaper by the Dozen
Belles on Their Toes
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Pollyanna
Robinson Crusoe
Treasure Island
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RE: Classic stories - 7/27/2008 2:54:14 PM
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Calico Captive By Elizabeth George Speare
Where the Red Fern Grows by Fred Gipson
Old Yeller By Fred Gipson
The Witch of Blackbird Pond By Elizabeth George Speare
Peter Pan (the book)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
The Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden by Francins Hodgson Burnett
The Five Little Peppers and How they Grew by Margeret Sidney
These are just some of them...I've been reading to my kids for 17 years now....and I can't remember all of them. My 17 year old now reads outloud classic books to the smaller ones...so it is hard to keep track!
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RE: Classic stories - 7/27/2008 6:17:42 PM
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Auben
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I'll try not to repeat. There were some excellent suggestions above. I starred ones I thought were particularly good.
*Encyclopedia Brown mysteries
*Rascal (true story of a boy growing up during WWI and his pet raccoon)
*The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings
*Ramona, Henry Huggins, and other Beverly Cleary books
*E.B. White books like Stuart Little, Trumpet of the Swans, or Charlotte's Web
*My Side of the Mountain
The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler
Alice in Wonderland
George MacDonald stories
*The Phantom Tollbooth (a fantasy using language as a source of adventure)
The Door in the Wall (boy is made lame by disease and can't become a squire..how he contributes)
Julie of the Wolves (girl alone, taken in by wolves)
The Wind in the Willows (classic frog and toad silliness)
A Wrinkle in Time (children travel through time and space to save their father and the universe)
*The Jungle Book (classic..boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle)..Kipling has other story books as well
Lois Lenski has a few interesting ones like Strawberry Girl, usually about poor/rural girls
The Prince and the Pauper (twain's imagining of royal and unroyal twins)
The Cricket in Time's Square (a country cricket makes friends in New York city)
Mr.s Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (mouse family seeks help from intelligent rats)
*the Soup books (2 boys always getting into trouble in Depression era)
The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy trying to get home or an allegory of the Progressive party?)
Incident at Hawk's Hill (based on a true story of a small boy being taken in by a badger)
Babe (well done, pig)
Mary Poppins (although it's @ 20 years since I read them and I remember feeling a bit odd during book 2 or 3...like my parents may not approve of something small but can't remember why. Doctor Doolittle falls into this also, at some point in the series they talk about evolution in depth. Definitely both very imaginative, fun books which need a parental read first).
*The Great Brain (true story of the adventures of 3 brothers growing up in turn of the century Utah)
The Incredible Journey (3 animals attempt to find their missing owners)
Sounder (another dog book)
Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet series (flight to Mars)
A Child's Garden of Verses (famous children's poems)
Captain's Courageous snobby boy learns work and respect on a fishing boat
All kinds of fairy tales and myths:
The Green/Red/Blue Fairy Book
Hans Christian Andersen
La Fontaine
the Grimm Brothers (selected)
the Norse Sagas
The Iliad/Odyssey
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RE: Classic stories - 7/27/2008 8:07:09 PM
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Jenny-Fair
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The boys also enjoyed the original version of Winnie the Pooh, which I inherited from my grandma
Don't tell him I told you this, but Nate STILL reads that series.
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RE: Classic stories - 7/29/2008 3:37:24 AM
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I'm with Nate, Jenny-fair. I still love my Winnie-the-Pooh book and stuff. I'm just waiting for the shelf we bought to be sanded, finished, and hung. Then the book and the original style(as opposed to Disney style) stuffed animals go up in my bedroom.
Board book And Where is the Green Parrot?
lots of Chris van Allsburg books such as Jumanji, Two Bad Ants, The Polar Express
Sing a Song of Popcorn, a poetry book for preschool children and up
loads of library books
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