- The
Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease (Penguin) (R)
- Becoming a Nation of Readers (U.S.
Dept. of Education, 1985) (R)
- The
Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl (Knopf) (P)
- Meaningful
Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young
American Children by Drs. Betty Hart and
Todd Risley,
(Brookes Pub. / Baltimore,
MD) (R)
- No,
No, Jo! by
Kate and Jim McMullan (Harper) (P)
- Lester's
Dog by Karen Hesse (Crown) (P)
- How
to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell (Dell) (N)
- Preventing
Reading Difficulties in Young Children, from National
Research Council (National
Academy Press, Washington, DC) (R)
- How
in the World Do Students Read? by Warwick B. Elley (International
Assoc. for the Evaluation of Ed. Achievement);
copies: International Reading Assoc., Newark, DE
(R)
- NAEP
1992 Trends in Academic Progress (ETS/
U.S. Department of Education) (R)
- The
Power of Reading by Stephen
Krashen (Heinemann/Libraries
Unlimited) (R);
this 100-page paperback is the definitive
book on SSR (or Free Voluntary Reading) and
it's effects on reading achievement. Related
books on the effects of the print environment/climate
on reading: The
Literacy Crisis: False Claims, Real Solutions by
Jeff McQuillan (Heinemann
Books) (R);
The Impact of School
Library Media Centers on Academic Achievement by Keith Curry Lance,
Lynda Welborn, and Christine Hamilton-Pennell (Hi
Willow Research, Castle Rock, CO) (R)
- The
Secret Garden by Frances H. Burnett (N)
- Spot (series)
by Eric Hill (Putnam) (P)
- Where
the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (Doubleday) (N);
also by the author: Summer
of the Monkeys (N). Highly
recommended dog novels: Call
of the Wild by Jack London; A
Dog Called Kitty by Bill Wallace; Foxy by
Helen Griffiths; Kavik the
Wolf Dog by Walt Morey; Lassie-Come-Home by
Eric Knight; Old Yeller and Savage
Sam by
Fred Gipson; and the "Shiloh trilogy": Shiloh;
Saving Shiloh; and Shiloh Season, all by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Nana
Upstairs & Nana Downstairs by Tomie dePaola
(Putnam) (P)
- The
Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
(Scholastic) (P)
- Supercharged
Infield; Skateboard Tough; and The
Twenty-One Mile Swim,
all by Matt Christopher (Little,Brown) (SN);
Other sports novels: Hang
Tough, Paul Mather; and Finding
Buck McHenry, both
by Alfred Slote (Harper) (N)
- Backfield
Package; Soccer Duel; Rebound Caper, by Thomas J. Dygard (Morrow/Puffin)
(N)
- Gifted
Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Dr. Ben Carson (Zondervan) (R); also: Think
Big by Dr. Ben Carson
- My
First Word Book by Angela Wilkes (Dorling-Kindersley) (P);
also recommended: The
Little Dog Laughed and Other Nursery Rhymes from
Mother Goose by Lucy Cousins (Viking/Puffin) (P/PO)
- Where the
Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (Harper);
also by the author: A Light in the Attic; and Falling
Up (all Harper) (all PO); also by the author: Lafcadio
the Lion Who Shot Back (SN)
- Deep
in the Forest by
Brinton Turkle—wordless
(Dutton/Puffin) (P)
- Little
Red Riding Hood by Schart Hyman (Holiday) (P)
- Flossie
and the Fox by Patricia McKissack (Dial) (P)
- Lon Po
Po by Ed Young (Philomel) (P)
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- The
True Story of the Three Little Pigs by
John Scieszka (Viking/Puffin) (P);
other recommended fairy tale picture book parodies: Cinder-Elly by
Frances Minters; Jim & the Beanstalk by
Raymond Briggs; The Three Little Javelinas by
Susan Howell; The Three Little Wolves and
the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Travizas; The
Rough-Face Girl retold by Rafe Martin
- Horton
Hatches the Egg; I Do Not Want to Get Up Today;
The King's Stilts; I Had Trouble in Getting to
Solla Sollew; If I Ran the Circus by Dr. Seuss
(Random House) (P)
- Eli;
Fly Homer Fly; The Whingdingdilly; Pamela Camel;
Buford the Little Bighorn; Bill Peet: An Autobiography,
all by Bill Peet (Houghton)
- My
Father's Dragon;
sequels: Elmer and the Dragon;
and The
Dragons of Blueland by Ruth Stiles Gannett (Knopf) (SN)
- Frindle by Andrew Clements (Simon & Schuster) (SN)
- Stone
Fox by John
Reynolds Gardiner (Harper) (SN).
Other short novels: A Blue-Eyed
Daisy by Cynthia
Rylant (Simon & Schuster) ; Stargone
John by
Ellen Kindt McKenzie (Holt);
and Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith (Dell)
- FULL NOVELS
- James
and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (Knopf/Puffin) (N);
also by the author: The
BFG (N); Danny the Champion
of the World (N); Fantastic
Mr. Fox (SN); The Minpins (P);
and The
Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (N)
- Peter
Pan by J. M. Barrie (Viking
Ariel) (N) (for
experienced listeners) *
- Bambi by Felix
Salten (Simon & Schuster) (N)
- Charlotte's
Web by
E. B. White (HarperCollins) (N);
also by the author: Stuart Little. Highly
recommended animal-fantasy novels: Babe
the Gallant Pig by
Dick King-Smith; Cricket
in Times Square by
George Selden; Pearl's Promise by Frank
Asch; Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
- The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.
S. Lewis (series) (Macmillan)
- The
Indian in the Cupboard; sequels: The
Return of the Indian; The Secret of the Indian;
The Mystery of the Cupboard;
and The Key to the Indian all
by Lynn Reid Banks (Avon) (N)
- Hatchet by
Gary Paulsen (Puffin) (N);
sequels: The River; Brian's
Winter; Brian’s
Return; and Brian’s
Hunt; also GUTS. (See author
profile at this Web site.) Other novels
by Paulsen: Tucket's Travels; The Foxman;
The Car; The Crossing; Dogteam; The Island; Nightjohn and
its sequel, Sarny: A Life Remembered;
Monument; The Rifle; Sentries; A Soldier's Heart;
The Tent; Tracker; The Transall Saga (time-travel
novel); and a survival-at-sea novel, The
Voyage of the Frog. Also recommended: an excellent
study/volume by Prof. Gary M. Salvner, Presenting Gary Paulsen (Twayne
Publishers/Simon
& Schuster Macmillan/NY, NY) (R)
- The
Cay by Theodore
Taylor (Doubleday) (N); sequel—Timothy
of the Cay
- VOICES
OF READERS: How
We Come to Love Books by G. Robert Carlsen, Anne
Sherrill (NCTE, Urbana,
IL) (R)
- Cousins
in the Castle; and Sparrows
in the Scullery, both by Barbara
Brooks Wallace (Atheneum) (N)
- Hey!
Listen to This, anthology,
edited by Jim Trelease, with author profiles
(Penguin)
- Read
All About It!
, anthology, edited by Jim Trelease,
with author profiles (Penguin)
- "The
Power of the Powerless: A Brother's Lesson," essay
by Christopher deVinck, opening paragraphs
read by Jim Trelease in video, from anthology Read
All About It!
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