The Peterkin Papers

Author	Inez Haynes Irwin
ISBN	1421970694

Maida's Little Shop is a gentle story with a delightful little girl heroine and lovable characters. Inez Haynes Irwin used the pseudonym Inez Haynes Gilmore. She was a feminist writer and was a member of the National Women's Party. Maida is a sweet little girl whose father is one of the richest men in America....

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Munro Leaf

A Caldecott Honor Book by the creators of the beloved Story of Ferdinand.

Wee Gillis lives in Scotland. He is an orphan, and he spends half of each year with his mother's people in the Lowlands, while the other half finds him in the Highlands with his father's kin. Both sides of Gillis's family...

Author	Ingri d'Aulaire
ISBN	1590172175

In this spectacular follow-up to their beloved Book of Norse Myths, the husband-and-wife team of Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire explore the uncanny reaches of Norse mythology, an enchanted night-world populated by trolls of all kinds--mountain trolls, forest trolls, trolls who live underwater...

Author	E. Nesbit
ISBN	1590172027

The famous Arden family treasure has been missing for generations, and the last members of the Arden line, Edred, Elfrida, and their Aunt Edith, have nothing to their names but the crumbling castle they live in. Just before his tenth birthday, Edred inherits the title of Lord Arden; he also learns that...

Author	James Thurber
ISBN	0440405793

This book was one of my favorites when I was about eight, and I read it innumerable times. I can still remember many passages verbatim. In case you don't know it, here is a brief summary of the plot. Two disreputable pirates, Black and Littlejack, arrive at the island of Ooroo. They have reason to believe...

Author	John Masefield
ISBN	0006724167

‘Don’t you have any fear, Kay. We’re the guards, we are. We hear that the house has gone all to sixes and sevens since we left it, but that’s going to be remedied now’

Young Kay Harker lives in an old house in the country, filled with portraits of his ancestors. His only companions are...

Author	Rumer Godden
ISBN	0333344847

Day in and day out the dutiful mousewife works alongside her mousehusband. The house of Miss Barbara Wilkinson, where the Mouses make their home, is a nice house and the mousewife is for the most part happy with her lot—and yet she yearns for something more. But what? Her husband, for one, can’t imagine....

Author	J.P. Martin
ISBN	1590172396

If you think Babar is the only storybook elephant with a cult following, then you haven’t met Uncle, the presiding pachyderm of a wild fictional universe that has been collecting accolades from children and adults for going on fifty years. Unimaginably rich, invariably swathed in a magnificent...

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Esther Averill

Jenny Linsky, the famous little black cat of Greenwich Village, has never been to school before. When her master, Captain Tinker, sends her to a boarding school in the country to learn the special knowledge of cats—manners and cooperation—she is a little afraid, among strangers, and so far from...

Author	Frank Tashlin
ISBN	0486287874

"A fable for grownups that will be fun for children. Sit down with the book and get your own bearings." — New York Herald Tribune
With the first signs of approaching winter, the Bear's thoughts naturally turn to a cozy cave and a long snooze till spring. But when he awakes a few months later, he is surprised...

Author	Alastair Reid
ISBN	1590173201

What can words be, or rather, what can’t they be? Poet Alastair Reid introduces children and adults to the wondrous waywardness of words in Ounce Dice Trice, a delicious confection and a wildly unexpected exploration of sound and sense and nonsense that is like nothing else. Reid offers light words...

Author	Barbara Sleigh
ISBN	0140311874

The third and final book in the Carbonel trilogy

“There are many kinds of magic...and once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic,” says the royal cat Carbonel at the start of Carbonel and Calidor. Sure enough, Carbonel’s human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in...

Author	Edward Eager
ISBN	0439325471

Have been reading this set to little kids all year (2013/2014). They have loved them. Quite long chapters, we read approx. one chp. per day, and even the smallest one makes sure he stays within earshot.

Stars reflect how much my kids love love love them, not necessarily how wonderful I think they...

Author	Eve Titus
ISBN	0070649006

The famous sleuth of Mousedom!

Basil of Baker Street continues his brilliant detective career as he solves three difficult cases, one right after the other:

"The Case of the Counterfeit Cheese"--in which mousedom is terrified as mice crack their teeth on phony cheese bits made of...

Author	Charlotte Mary Yonge
ISBN	1406955302

On a bright autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. The hall was large and low, the roof arched, and supported on thick short columns, almost like the crypt of a Cathedral; the walls were thick, and the windows, which had no glass, were very small,...

Author	Holling Clancy Holling
ISBN	0395539641

I want to be a Hermit Crab.



No mortgages, just move when you want a new dwelling and take it over. I like that. Pagoo (short for 'Pagurus') is a Hermit Crab. When he is born, he is no bigger than a tiny pencil dot.



When you start life like that, the odds are not good. But...

Author	James Cloyd Bowman
ISBN	1590172248

“Pecos Bill had the strangest and most exciting experience any boy ever had. He became a member of a pack of wild Coyotes, and until he was a grown man, believed that his name was Cropear, and that he was a full-blooded Coyote. Later he discovered that he was a human being and very shortly thereafter became...

Author	Albert Payson Terhune
ISBN	1406953113

This is one of Albert Payson Terhune’s best stories about his famous dogs. Bruce was a collie, a superb specimen of his wonderful race.

How he got to “The Place,” and how he developed from an “ugly duckling” into the joy and pride of his master and mistress, and how he went overseas and...

Author	Caroline Dale Snedeker
ISBN	0966706722

Young Theras, born an Athenian, is taken to Sparta by a relative when his father is lost at war. He is forced to live like a Spartan, a brutal life with no pity for those who are not physically perfect and totally obedient to Spartan control. After enduring rigorous training and repeated cruel incidents,...

Author	Geraldine McCaughrean
ISBN	0689505833

This is a beautiful collection of the classic Greek Myths, which have been simplified very well; making them perfect for use within the primary classroom.

I have recently used this book as impetus for the Year 5 topic on Ancient Greece and we particularly focused on the myths 'In The Beginning...

Author	Noel Streatfeild
ISBN	0440424798

This has one of the most Streatfeild openings ever written:
The Thames is a very twisting sort of river. It is as if it had to force its way into London, and had become bent in the process. First there is a big bend to the right, then a little one to the left, then a great bulge to the right, followed immediately...