We have just finished up our Kindergarten year of Charlotte Mason Classical Christian Homeschooling. Both my Kindergartener and my Preschooler enjoyed most of these poem and living books; they had me reread some of them so many times that they could quote parts of them with me as I read. After we read each book, the girls get to flip through the pages and retell the story to me in their own words.
There are many, many, MANY great classical living books that can be read to Preschool and Kindergarten age children, here is the list that we read this year…
- A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
- A Piglet Named Mercy by by Kate DiCamillo
- A Tale for Easter by Tasha Tudor
- A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry
- Abe’s Fish by Jen Bryant
- All Things Bright and Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander
- An Extraordinary Egg by Leo Lionni
- Barn Dance by Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault
- Big Book of Animal Stories by Thornton W. Burgess
- Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
- Cactus Hotel by Brenda Z. Guiberson
- Charlie Needs a Cloak by Tomie dePaola
- Chester’s Way by Kevin Henkes
- Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown
- Come On, Rain! by Karen Hesse
- Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus by Peter Sis
- Frederick by Leo Lionni
- Goldilocks And The Three Bears by Jim Aylesworth
- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
- Gregory’s Shadow by Don Freeman
- Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
- Hide and Seek Fog by Alvin Tresselt
- Home for a Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
- How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman
- Hubert’s Hair-Raising Adventure by Bill Peet
- In November by Cynthia Rylant
- Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton
- Mother Goose Stories
- Mr. Pine’s Purple House by Leonard Kessler
- Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree by Robert Barry
- My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Never Tease a Weasel by Jean Conder Soule
- Noah’s Ark by Barbara Shook Hazen & Diane Muldrow
- Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
- One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian
- Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us by by Lauren Castillo
- Pancakes, Pancakes! by Eric Carle
- Poems and Prayers for the Very Young by Martha Alexander
- Pumpkin Moonshine by Tasha Tudor
- Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran
- Rumplestiltskin by Readers Digest Young Families
- Snow by Cynthia Rylant
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening illustrated by Susan Jeffers
- Ten Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle
- The Empty Pot by Demi
- The Friendly Beasts by Tomie dePaola
- The Frogs and Toads All Sang by Arnold Lobel
- The Golden Books Family Treasury of Poetry selected by Louis Untermeyer
- The Golden Egg Book by Margaret Wise Brown
- The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown
- The Little Drummer Boy by Ezra Jack Keats
- The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
- The Little Fir Tree by Margaret Wise Brown
- The Mercy Watson series by Kate DiCamillo
- The Mitten by Jan Brett
- The Oxford Book of Children’s Verse edited by Peter Opie
- The Prince of Ireland and the Three Magic Stallions by Bryce Milligan
- The Quilt Story by Tony Johnston & Tomie dePaola
- The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
- The Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman
- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
- The Story about Ping by Flack, Marjorie
- The Story of Little Babaji by Helen Bannerman
- The Twelve Days of Christmas illustrated by Jan Brett
- This First Thanksgiving Day by Laura Krauss Melmed
- Tikki Tikki Tembo retold by Arlene Mosel
- Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris
- Walter the Baker by Eric Carle
- What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
- Who’s That Knocking on Christmas Eve? by Jan Brett
- Wonders of Nature by Eloise Wilkins
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