Reading Aloud
- Raising Your Children in a Read Aloud Community
- A Kindergarten Read Aloud Banquet
- A First Grade Read Aloud Banquet
- Not Just at Bedtime
- Starting from Scratch: How To Establish a Read Aloud Family
- Growing Up in a Read Aloud Family
Selection Criteria
- Why Read “Out of Date” Science Books?
- Why Read Robin Hood?
- What Makes a Children’s Book Worth Bringing Home?
- Beginning To Spread a Broad Feast
- Why on Earth is Apperceptive Appeal So Important?
- Stories That Appeal to the Senses
- Selecting Nursery Tales
- How To Know When To Stop Reading a Book
- When the Curtain Rises
- Every Word Counts
- Finding Literature for Young Adults
- Readers To Get Excited About
- A Bundle of Dog Books
Writing
- Writing as a Complement to Reading: Why Write?
- The Importance of Freeform Writing
- How To Be a Better Writer? Read
- Writing Beyond the Essay
- Writing a Retrospective Outline
Seasonal
- Summer: a Time for Books That Spark Curiosity
- Reviving Your Nature Studies This Spring with Dallas Lore Sharp
- Puffed Sleeves: A Gift to Warm the Heart
- This Way to Christmas with Ruth Sawyer
History
- “A History for Peter” Shows Us What It Means To Be American
- First Steps in History
- For President’s Day: Washington’s Farewell Address
- For President’s Day: Lincoln’s Lyceum Address
Habits
- Books for Breakfast
- How To Introduce Your Children to Shakespeare (Part I)
- Introducing Your Children to Shakespeare (Part II)
- Reading Shakespeare in Meter
- Finding Opportunities for Giving Books throughout the Year
- What Seeds Are You Planting?
- Finding More Time to Read as an Adult
- The Duty of Owning Books
- What Was the First Book You Remember Falling in Love with?
- What We’re Reading This Spring
- Books Must Be Available AND Accessible
Kindergarten
- A Kindergarten Read Aloud Banquet
- Stories that Open Doors
- Introducing Chapter Books: Burgess Bedtime Story-Books
- Introducing Chapter Books: the Twins Series
- Introducing Chapter Books: Among the Forest People and More
- Introducing Chapter Books: Farm Stories
- Reading Beyond “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”
- Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible
Fairy Tales
Series
- The All-of-a-Kind Family Series
- The Betsy-Tacy Series
- Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers
- Ralph Moody Becomes “Man of the Family”
- Returning to Children’s Books as an Adult (on the Betsy-Tacy and All-of-a-Kind Family series)
- “The Birchbark House” Series by Louise Erdrich
- Carol Ryrie Brink’s “Caddie Woodlawn”
- The Logan Family Saga
- “The Land” by Mildred D. Taylor
- Marguerite de Angeli’s Regional Books
- Elizabeth Enright’s “The Melendy Family Quartet”