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My Top Ten Favorite Read-Alouds

By Heather Idoni

Updated Thursday, April 24, 2008

 This list will become a "top 25" eventually!  Check back in the months to come.

 1.  Along Came a Dog (and Nobody Plays With a Cabbage) by Meindert de Jong

 2.  My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

 3.  Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

 4.  Born to Trot by Marguerite Henry (and many others by her!)

 5.  The Good Master (and The Singing Tree) - both by Kate Seredy

 6.  Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (perhaps a bit closer to the top!)

 7.  The Long Winter, Farmer Boy, and more by Laura Ingalls Wilder

 8.  Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan

 9.  The Little Britches Series by Ralph Moody (Father and I Were Ranchers, etc.)

10.  Freddy the Pig by Walter R. Brooks (and others in this series)




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