[LM_NET] HIT: Chapter books to read to a five year old

[Leah Moskovits <lmoskovits@GMAIL.COM>]

My original post:
I am looking for some suggestions for chapter books to read to a 5 year old
girl.  She already knows and loves* Charlotte's Web* and *The* *Wizard of
Oz.*

The suggestions which I received were:
Little House by Wilder
Betsy by Haywood
Anything by Beverly Cleary
Bond - Paddington Bear series
Milne - Winnie the Pooh
Osbourne - Magic Treehouse series
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Mogo, the Third Warthog, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Wayside School series by Louis Sachar
The Boxcar Children series
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Stuart Little and Trumpet of the Swans by E.B. White
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
*The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup,
and a Spool of Thread* by Kate DiCamillo
*Because of Winn-Dixie* by Kate DiCamillo
*Ella Enchanted* by Gail Carson Levine
*Afternoon of the Elves* by Janet Taylor Lisle
*Sarah, Plain and Tall* by Patricia MacLachlan*
Summer of the Swans* by Betsy Byars
*A Wrinkle in Time* by Madeleine L'Engle
*Island of the Blue Dolphins* by Scott O'Dell
*The Cricket In Times Square* by George Selden
*Gone-Away Lake* by Elizabeth Enright
*My Father's Dragon* by Ruth S. Gannett
*Misty of Chincoteague* by Marguerite Henry
The Doll People & sequels
Gooseberry Park
Toy Dance Party and Toys Go Out by Jenkins and Zelinsky
First books of the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace.

Look at the list of 100 best children's books that was recently put together
by Elizabeth Bird at SLJ.com.  Here is a link to the list:
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1790000379/post/1820053782.html?q=top+100+children%27s+books+list


Clementine series by Sara Pennypacker
The Alvin Ho books by Lenore Look. All are clever, funny, and fun, and
age-appropriate.
"All-of-a-Kind Family" series by Sydney Taylor;  Wonderful stories of a warm
loving family of girls, set in the early 1900's New York.
Hank the Cowdog series
Classics like Black Beauty, Little Women, The Swiss Family Robinson, Amelia
Bedelia has chapter books, Pony Pals, Fudge by Judy Blume.
The Magic Faraway Tree series and Wishing Chair series by Enid Blyton.
 Experience has shown them to be timeless.
Disney - 101 Dalmatians, Bambi , Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Mary Poppins, --
 the chapter book which Disney adapted.
King-Smith, Dick.  A Mouse Called Wolf

Thank you!

Leah Moskovits, Librarian
Torah Academy of Bergen County
Teaneck, NJ
LMoskovits@gmail.com






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