book suggestions for 8 year old girl

Sarah Plain and Tall and others by her

Cobble Street Cousins

Chester Cricket and Harry Cat books, includes the Cricket in Times Square but there are many others too

Caddie Woodlawn and its sequel

The All-of-a-Kind Family

anything by Elizabeth Enright

Ginger Pye and others by Estes

Understood Betsy by Fisher

Perhaps slightly harder . . .Anne of Green Gables and anything by E. Nesbit

And it’s Wiggin, not Wiggins. Kate Douglas Wiggin who also wrote Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Although my 8yo is totally capable of and enjoys reading chapter books, he still enjoys good picture books during his free time too. 

Frederick by Leo LionniStrega Nona and others by Tomie dePaolaThunder Cake and others by Patricia PolaccoThe Tale of Three Trees retold by Angela Elwell HuntWhere the Wild Things Are and others by Maurice SendakJumanji, Zathura, and others by Chris Van Allsburg

For chapter and longer books, he likes:

any of the series of Who Was … books (Who was Franklin Roosevelt? Who was Anne Frank?)The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner (only the first 19 books were written by Warner, so those are all he read)Number the Stars by Lois LowryThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (if her reading level is good)

And, just so you don’t think these are “boy-ish” books, my 7 yo dd loves all of these too. You might also get yourself a copy of Honey for a Child’s Heart by Gladys Hunt. It is full of excellent book lists, categorized by age.

Happy Reading!

Lindsey