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.
- Along Came a Dog (and Nobody Plays With a Cabbage) by Meindert de Jong
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Born to Trot by Marguerite Henry (and many others by her!)
- The Good Master (and The Singing Tree) - both by Kate Seredy
- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (perhaps a bit closer to the top!)
- The Long Winter, Farmer Boy, and more by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
- The Little Britches Series by Ralph Moody (Father and I Were Ranchers, etc.)
- Freddy the Pig by Walter R. Brooks (and others in this series)