Snuggle Up with a Good Book!
Hoagies suggested reading list for early and young readers: http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/early_readers.htm
Chapter Books Appropriate for Young Readers
Atwater, Richard: Mr. Popper's Penguins
Averill, Esther: Jenny and the Cat Club
Baum, L. Frank: Oz books - over 30 of them
Birdsall, Jeanne: The Penderwicks series
Blyton, Enid: The Faraway Tree Stories, The Wishing Chair
Bond, Michael: Paddington
Brink, Carol Ryrie: Caddie Woodlawn
Brock, Betty: No Flying in the House
Brooks, Walter R.: Freddy Goes to Florida and other books
Burgess, Thornton: The Bird Book for Children, Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel
Burnett, Frances Hodgson: Racketty Packetty House and Other Stories, The Secret Garden, The Little Princess
Cameron, Eleanor: Mushroom Planet books
Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Cleary, Beverly: Mouse and the Motorcycle and other non-Ramona books
DiCamillo, Kate: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Eager, Edward: Half Magic and other Magic books
Edwards, Julie Andrews: Mandy and The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Eliot, Ethel Cook: The House Above the Trees, The Wind Boy
Estes, Eleanor: The Moffats series and Pinky Pye series
Fitzgerald, John D.: The Great Brain series
Fitzhugh, Louise: Harriet the Spy series
Gannet, Ruth Stiles: My Father's Dragon series
Gurney, James: Dinotopia series
Gruelle, Johnny: Raggedy Ann Stories
Hale, Lucretia P.: The Peterkin Papers
Haywood, Carolyn: B is for Betsy
Henry, Marguerite: Misty of Chincoteague and sequels
Jones, Elizabeth Orton: Big Susan
Juster, Norton: The Phantom Tollbooth
King-Smith, Dick: all books
Kipling, Rudyard: Just So Stories
Konigsburg, E.L.: From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Lagerlof, Selma: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Lasky, Kathryn: Guardians of Ga'hoole series
Lawson, Robert: Rabbit Hill
Lindgren, Astrid: Pippi Longstocking series
Lovelace, Maude Hart: Betsy-Tacy series
Lopez, Barry: Crow and Weasel
Lowell, Susan: I am Lavina Cumming
MacDonald, Betty: Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series
McCloskey, Robert: Homer Price
McGraw, Eloise: The Moorchild
Merrill, Jean: The Pushcart War
Milne, AA: Winnie the Pooh, House at Pooh Corner
Montgomery, Rutherford: Kildee House
Norton , Mary: Bedknob and Broomstick, The Borrowers
O'Brien, Richard: Mrs. Frisby & Rats of NIMH
Ransome, Arthur: Swallows and Amazons and Swallowdale
Rodda, Emily: Rowan of Rin series
Rylant, Cynthia: The Lighthouse Family series
Selden, George: The Cricket in Times Square
Selznick, Brian: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sidney, Margaret: The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Speare, Elizabeth George: Sign of the Beaver
Steig, William: Abel’s Island
Streatfeild, Noel: Ballet Shoes
Taylor, Sydney: All-of-a-kind Family series
Travers , Dr. P. L. and Mary Shepard: Mary Poppins
White, EB: The Trumpet of the Swan, Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little [E.B.White boxed set]
Wilder, Laura Ingalls: Little House series
Williams, Jay: Danny Dunn series
Winthrop, Elizabeth. The Castle in the Attic
Woodruff, Elvira: Small Beauties: The Journey of Darcy Heart O'Hara
