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Vote: Your family's favorite literature read-aloud
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Oh that is way too hard of a question! 😀 I don’t think I can pick a favorite. It all depends on age span one is reading to.
A few of our favorites have been:
Swiss Family Robinson
Calico Captive
The Little House Series-these may be our favorites.
Anne of Green Gables
Heidi
The Secret Garden
Huckleberry Finn
That is a difficult questions! I’m going to cheat and just direct you to my blog post about books we’ve read aloud for homeschool book club from now back to 2010.
http://www.homeschoolinglargefamilystyle.blogspot.com/2016/08/book-club-titles-through-years.html
Okay, a few favorites from my lists now that I have a couple minutes free:
· Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
· Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
· Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth (editing on the fly a bit)
· The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
· The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
· Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
· Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming
· The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
· The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
· Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
· A Nest for Celeste by Henry Cole
•The Story Girl by L. M. Montgomery
· Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
· The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
· Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
· The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
· Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
Following this thread!
What ages would you recommend reading Anne to? She’s my absolute favorite…well, most of LM Montogmery is! 🙂
A few of our favorites:
James Herrriot
Understood Betsy
Robin Hood
The Wind and Willows
Children of the New Forest
Charlottes Web
We read Anne last year to kids from babies and toddlers to high school. My kids who really listened and loved it were 14, 10, 9, 7, 6, 4, 3. My boys loved it as well as my girls, which was neat. They loved that Anne was always getting into scrapes.
We did read it in short readings more often instead of an hour at a time.
We’ve really loved Dickens — Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations.
When my kids were younger we did Don Quixote and they really loved that too. I’d have to look back but I think it was the whole book, not an abridged version.
On a lighter note — we love the Incorrigibles series by Mary Rose Wood.
Thanks Tristan! I was just talking to a friend the other day about how I’m feeling an Anne re-read coming on. With fall right around the corner, it always makes me want to cozy up with Anne.
My oldest two are 9 & 7. I think my daughter will enjoy Anne, but I’m not so sure about my son. However, I will definitely give it a try with him and see how he does. If it doesn’t captivate him, then maybe I’ll save it for a special read a loud for my daughters and I. My younger daughter is 4, and may sit and listen, but I wouldn’t expect her too.
Would you recommend the whole Anne series be read aloud at these ages?
@Carolyn – is there a preferred edition of Robin Hood and Children of the New Forest that I should look for? I’ve been wanting to read Robin Hood with my 7 year old son. 🙂
Our favorites have been:
The Railway Children
Henry Huggins (when they were all under 11)
Rascal
Little House series
Misty books by Marguerite Henry
I second Understood Betsy! One of my favorites!
I saved Anne of Green Gables until my daughter was 5th gradish so she could better appreciate Anne. I wanted her to fall in love with Anne as I had and she did! I saved the second Anne book until she was 7th grade and she will read the remainder sometime during high school.
We both love the Anne books and movies and the spinoff show from years ago-Road to Avonlea. I slowly bought a season here and there until we owned them all.
We did just the first Anne book aloud. They can go further on their own or I may introduce one here and there. We also have the Anne movies and like 1 and 2, but not 3 so much. Another great one written by Montgomery is The Story Girl! And there is an entire dvd series related to that one called Road to Avonlea.
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