There is treasure in the shared experience of family reading. Nothing can compare with the time we spend together–hands busy and mouths still–listening to a beloved story.

Here are some ideas for titles that can be read together as a family, or for very young readers. Some are more appropriate for Core Phase, some for Love of Learning, etc. You be the expert on your family!

• 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