An Additional List of Children’s Chapter Book Recommendations

By Carolyn Weber on June 12, 2012 in Reading with 9 Comments

Chapter Books read alongPost #3 in the Read-Along Children’s Chapter Book Series

Currently, I am whistling towards my next book deadline (details to be announced as soon as I press send on the manuscript here in a week or so, Lord willing!).  In the meantime, I thought it would be helpful to offer an addendum to my last post.

Wow, I have received so many additional suggestions for children’s chapter books that I thought a second selected additional list necessary! Thank you for the continued outpouring of terrific recommendations, along with the beautiful memories of reading many of you shared. At this rate, we will be well past the summer and into the new year with reading fun.  I have printed and posted these lists for our own reference, and hope you, too, will visit/re-visit/delight in the enduring “friends” below.

Enjoy!

Elizabeth Marie Pope                 The Perilous Gard

Carlo Collodi                                  Pinocchio

Ruth Stiles Gannett                     My Father’s Dragon

E. Nesbit                                          The Treasure Seekers; Five Children and It; Enchanted Castle

Henry Winterfield                       Detectives in Togas; Mystery of the Roman Ransom

Patricia Beatty                              Bonanza Girl

Joan Aiken                                     The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Patricia MacLachlan                  Sarah, Plain and Tall

Ralph Moody                                Little Britches Series

Andrew Clements                       School Story; Landry News; No Talking

M. M. Kaye                                     The Ordinary Princess

Patricia Wrede                              Dealing with Dragons

Mary McSwigan                            Snow Treasure

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry       The Little Prince

Gary Soto                                        Baseball in April and Other Stories

Katherine Paterson                     Bridge to Terabithia

John Fitzgerald                            The Great Brain

Betsy Byars                                    The Summer of the Swans

Eleanor Estes                                The Hundred Dresses

Walter Farley                                The Black Stallion

P.L. Travers                                   Mary Poppins

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9 Responses to “An Additional List of Children’s Chapter Book Recommendations”

  1. Brenda@Coffeeteabooksandme June 12, 2012 at 7:31 pm #

    Great list, I need to copy the three posts so far for gift ideas (although my daughter and her family already turned their formal dining room into a library). What can I say? It is hereditary.

    Praying you are well!

    • carolyn weber June 14, 2012 at 11:54 am #

      What a dear hereditary trait! :) We are hanging in with baby and book season … busy but hoping to see light at end of tunnel soon. Thanks Brenda!

  2. Andrew Butler June 12, 2012 at 11:19 pm #

    Hi Carolyn,
    Can’t resist adding to the list:
    R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island
    Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat
    A.A. Milne Pooh books
    Rudyard Kipling Jungle Book (and others)
    The Legends of King Arthur and his Knights

    • carolyn weber June 14, 2012 at 11:52 am #

      oooh, yes! wonderful! Will get those on there, too. Thanks Andrew!

  3. Andrew Butler June 13, 2012 at 3:20 am #

    Oh, and we can’t forget “Heidi” by Johanna Spyri.
    Also, Patricia St John wrote “The Tanglewood’s Secret” and “Treasure of the Snow” which I loved as a child. (She also wrote some poetry. I like “The Alchemist” best. But that is not for children.)

    • carolyn weber June 14, 2012 at 5:22 pm #

      I didn’t know that. Neat!

  4. Lora June 16, 2012 at 11:59 am #

    Hi Carolyn – Wonderful, wonderful lists! Just two more to suggest:
    “Gone-Away Lake” and “Return to Gone-Away” by Elizabeth Enright.
    My older nephew and I loved both!

    • carolyn weber June 18, 2012 at 9:59 am #

      Thanks so much, Elizabeth. I haven’t read these. Will be sure to add!

  5. Margaret Shepard July 18, 2012 at 10:34 pm #

    Hi Carolyn – Just consumed your book on Oxford today – oh my. What a treasure on every page. Thank you! As to great books for young readers, every young girl I gift receives “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett somewhere between the ages of 8 and 10. I also have to share two books I love for younger readers: For pre-k children, I love to give “Good Night Gorilla”; I dare parents not to smile when reading this gentle spoof on “Goodnight Moon” with a sweet message. For older kids (I confess,I’m 54 and I still fall in love every time I read it) I love to give “A Story for Bear” by Dennis Haseley, and Jim LaMarche.