Here is a list of classics for young children/family reading. (from www.TJed.com)
- Aesop’s Fables
- Andersen’s Fairy Tales
- Beauty and the Beast
- The Besty-Tacy Series
- The Bible (click here for suggested passages for young children)
- The Blind Men and the Elephant
- “Casey at the Bat”
- Charlotte’s Web
- Chicken Little
- A Christmas Carol (can be scary–use discretion or paraphrase as needed)
- Cinderella
- Dinotopia Series
- Dr. Seuss books
- The Emperor’s New Clothes
- The Story Of The Other Wise Man
- The Gift of the Magi
- The Giving Tree
- “God Save the Flag”
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- The Goose that Laid Golden Eggs
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales
- “The Highwayman”
- Hansel and Gretel
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- “Lincoln, The Man of the People”
- Little Boy Blue
- The Little Engine That Could
- The Little House Series
- The Little Red Hen
- Little Red Riding Hood
- McGuffey’s Readers
- Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
- “Paul Revere’s Ride
- Perloo The Bold
- Peter Pan
- Peter Rabbit
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin
- Pinocchio
- Pollyanna
- The Princess and the Pea
- Puss in Boots
- Rapunzel
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
- Rip Van Winkle
- Robin Hood
- Rumpelstiltskin
- Rudyard Kiplng’s Just So Stories
- Sleeping Beauty
- The Song of Hiawatha
- Snow White
- Tales from the Arabian Nights
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff
- The Three Little Pigs
- The Ugly Duckling
- Tom Thumb
- ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
- The Wind in the Willows
- Winnie-the-Pooh
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
