Alternate Titles: Why I Love Book ListsHow I Keep Levi Out of Trouble (or His Mouth Quiet and His Body Still)Pre-reading Books: It’s an Impossibility
I Need Twenty More Book Shelves
The truth is, if I get an hour or two on my own (which hubby kindly grants me when he is able), my favorite places to head are the bookshelves at Goodwill (where youth fiction paperbacks are generally $.99 each) and then to the library. This is my book stack from this week’s trip to Goodwill:
Why so many books, you might ask. (Well, many of you don’t need to ask, as you have the same, ahem, issue.) I’ll tell you whether you wanted to know, or not.Levi read many books last year, but he often had 20 going at the same time, and I was never sure what he read or finished. He isn’t much of a list guy (like Luke), so writing down the books he completed wasn’t much of an incentive in his world. This year (technically, the day after Christmas last year), I made up my mind to keep his free-reading list for him. (Most of the books he reads for history, literature, and science are on a separate list.)
I’m sure I’ve missed a book here or there, but who’s counting? Grin.
One thing this list has done for me is that I’ve stopped worrying that Levi might not get around to all the excellent books I desire for him to read….. Levi’s Free-Reading Book List: January – June, 2009
*Atwater, Richard and Florence. Mr. Popper’s Penguins*Avi. The Barn
*Babbitt, Natalie. Kneeknock Rise
*Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan*Barry, Dave & Pearson, Ridley. Peter and the Starcatchers
Peter and the Shadow ThievesPeter and the Secret of RundoonEscape from the CarnivaleCave of the Dark Wind*Birdsall, Jeanne. The Penderwicks
*Bishop, Claire Huchet and Pene du Bois, William. Twenty and Ten
*Blyton, Enid. The Famous Five On a Treasure IslandFive on Kirrin Island AgainFive Are Together Again
Five Go to Demon’s Rocks
Five Get Into a FixFive Have a Wonderful TimeFive Go to Billycock HillFive Go to Smuggler’s Top
*Bond, Michael. A Bear Called PaddingtonPaddington Helps Out
*Bruchac. The Girl Who Helped Thunder & Other Native American Folktales*Bulla, Robert Clyde. Squanto Friend of the Pilgrims
*Carlson, Natalie Savage. The Family Under the Bridge*Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandThrough the Looking-Glass
*Cleary, Beverly. Mitch and AmyThe Mouse & the MotorcycleRalph S. Mouse
Runaway Ralph
*Clements, Andrew. Frindle
*Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Chapter Book: Electric StormAmazing MagnetismThe Wild Whale WatchThe Giant Germ
*Cowles, Julia Darrow. The Robinson Crusoe Reader
*Dahl, Roald. George’s Marvelous MedicineThe Witches*Davies, Jaqueline. The Lemonade War
*Dillon, Eilis. The Island of Horses
*Eager, Edward. Half MagicThe Time GardenSeven-Day MagicMagic by the LakeKnight’s CastleMagic or Not?
*Enright, Elizabeth. The Four-Story MistakeThen There Were FiveSpiderweb for TwoThimble SummerGone-Away Lake
*Erickson, John R. The Further Adventures of Hank the Cowdog
*Estes, Eleanor. Ginger PyeThe Moffat MuseumRufus M.
*Funke, Cornelia. The Thief Lord (has read twice)
*Gannett, Ruth Stiles. Elmer and the DragonThe Dragons of Blueland
*Harris, Joel Chandler. The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
*Haywood, Carolyn. Betsy and the BoysBetsy and the Circus*Hope, Laura Lee. The Bobbsey Twins
The Bobbsey Twins Adventure in the Country
*Lawrence, Caroline. The Pirates of Pompeii
*Morris, Gerald. Sir Givret the Short
*King-Smith, Dick. The School Mouse
*Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories
*Konigsburg, E. L. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
*Lawson, Robert. Ben and Me
*Lewis, C. S. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
*Lindgren, Astrid. Pippi LongstockingPippi Goes on BoardPippi on the Run*MacDonald, Betty. The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Treasury
*McAllister, Angela. Digory the Dragon SlayerDigory and the Lost King
*McCaughrean, Geraldine. One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
*McMullan, Kate. Dragon Slayers’ Academy: 97 Ways to Train a DragonKnight for a Day
*Morey, Walt. Runaway Stallion*Mowat, Farley. Owls in the Family
*Nesbit, Edith. The Book of DragonsFive Children and ItThe Magic City
*Osborne, Mary Pope. Magic Tree House (countless)
*Paterson, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia
*Pene du Bois, William. The Twenty-One Balloons
*Ransome, Arthur. Swallowdale
*Robinson, Barbara. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever*Rupp, Rebecca. The Dragon of Lonely Island
The Return of the Dragon (twice)
The Waterstone
*Scieszka, Jon. The Time-Warp Trio: Gladiator
Tut TutKnights of the Kitchen Table
*Sobol, Donald. Secret Agents FourEncyclopedia BrownEncyclopedia Brown Finds the Clues*Sorensen, Virginia. Miracles on Maple Hill
*Smith, Alexander McCall. Akimbo and the Crocodile ManAkimbo and the LionsAkimbo and the Elephants
*Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The Boxcar Children(#1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, & Winter Special #1)
*Watson, Jean. The Family Pilgrim’s Progress
I’ve added an ‘On Levi’s Book Shelf’ list over on my side bar, so that I can start listing books he is reading. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep up with it….