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Reading List for Children
Children
We have a tendency in education to adhere to the modern premise that unless something is "relevant" to a child they cannot learn it. Thus we forget the Bible injunction, "That which is good, that which is pure, that which is of good report...think on these things." Many of the books below presented the "thoughts" that brought about our country's Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Perhaps if we elevate our thoughts, we could elevate our country. Perhaps "honor" might once again have meaning.
The books listed immediately below are those which constitute the reading list for Marva Collins Westside Preparatory School. She takes those children labeled "disadvantaged," "learning disabled," "ADHD," "not auditory," etc. and actually teaches them. Her theory is that our children are not "learning disabled," we are "teaching disabled." To watch her in action is indeed watching a Master Teacher at work.
Reading List for Marva Collins Westside Preparatory School
Author's last | Author's | Title | Publisher |
Adams | Russell L | Great Negroes, Past & Present | Golden Press |
Adler | Irving | Mathematics | Golden Press |
Aldington | Richard | The Portable Oscar Wilde | Viking Press |
Alexander | Lloyd | The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian | Dutton |
Alighieri | Dante | Divine Comedy | |
Aristophanes | The Plays of Aristophanes | ||
Armstrong | Sperry | Call of Courage | |
Asimov | Isaac | Inside the Atom | Harper and Row |
Aurelius | Marcus | Meditations | |
Austen | Jane | Pride and Prejudice | |
Bach | Richard | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | |
Bamberger | Richard | Physics Through Experiment | Sterling |
Barr | George | Research Ideas for Young Scientists | |
Bendick | Jeanne | The First Book of Time | Franklin Watts |
Blackwood | Paul | Push and Pull: The Story of Energy | McGraw-Hill |
Bleeker | Sonia | The Masai: Herdes of East Africa | William Morrow |
Bond | Michael | A Bear Called Paddington | Houghton Mifflin |
Bontemps | Arna | Frederick Doublass: Slave-Fighter-Freeman | Alfred A. Knopf |
Bowie | Walker | Bible Stories for Boys & Girls | |
Brent | Robert | The Golden Book of chemistry Experiments | Western Publishers |
Bradwood | Robert J. | Archaeologists and What They Do | Franklin Watts |
Bronouski | Jacob and Selsam | Biography of an Atom | Harper and Row |
Bronte | Emily | Wuthering Heights | |
Buehr | Walter | The First Book of Machines | Franklin Watts |
Bullfinch | Thomas | Book of Myths | |
Bunyon | John | Pilgrim's Progress | |
Carson | Rachel | The Sea Around Us | Golden Press |
Chaucer | Geoffrey | The Canterbury Tales | |
Chekhov | Anton | ||
Clarke | Arthur | The Challenge of the Sea | Holt, Rinehart & Winston |
Cleary | Beverly | The Mouse and The Motorcycle | William Morrow |
Cleator | P.E. | Exploring the World of Archaeology | Children's Press |
Clymer | Eleanor | The Second Greatest Invention: The Search for the First Farmers | Holt, Rinehart & Winston |
Colum | Padraic | The Children of Odin | |
Cottrell | Leonard | Land of the Pharaohs | World Publishers |
Cousteau | Jacques & Dumas, Frederic | The Silent World | Harper and Row |
De Fontaine | Jeanne | Fables of LaFontaine | |
Dickens | Charles | Great Expectations | |
David Copperfield | |||
The Old Curiosity Shop | |||
Bleak House | |||
Dickinson | Alice | The First Book of Plants | Franklin Watts |
Dostoyevsky | Fyodor | The Brothers Karamasov | |
Crime and Punishment | |||
Drisko | Clark | Unfinished March | |
Dunbar | Paul L. | Poetry of Paul L. Dunbar | |
Eaton | Jeanette | Marcus-Narciss Thitman | Harcourt Brace Jovonovich |
Edel | Abraham | Aristotle | |
Emerson | Ralph Waldo | The Portable Emerson | |
Epstein | Sam and Beryl | Harriet Tubman, Guide to Freedom | Garrard |
Faulkner | William | Light in August | |
Felton | Harold W | Nat Love, Negro Cowboy | Dodd,Mead |
Fielding | Richard | Hitty, Her First Hundred Years | |
Fleming | Ian | Chitty,Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car | Random House |
Foster | G. Allen | Communication | Celebration Books |
Foster | Genevieve | Augustus Caesar's World 44 B.C. to A.D. 14 | Charles Scribner and Sons |
Franklin | Benjamin | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | |
Freeman | Ira and Mae | The Story of Chemistry | Random House |
Gallant | Roy | Exploring the Universe | Doubleday |
Golding | William | Lord of the Flies | |
Goldsmith, | Ilse | Anatomy for Children | Stirling |
Gregor | Arthur | The Adventures of Man: His Evolution from Pre-history to Civilization | McMillan |
Gunther | John | Death Be Not Proud | |
Harte | Bret | The Luck of the roaring Camp | |
Harrison | George Russel | The First Book of Light | Franklin Watts |
Haviland | Virginia | Favorite Fairy Tales told in Czehoslovakia | Little, Brown |
Henry | O | The Gift of the Magi | |
Hardy | Thomas | The Return of the Native | |
Hogben | Lancelot | The Wonderful Book of Energy | |
Homer | The Odyssey (do background on Homer first, explain term odyssey, which now means long voyage) | ||
Hugo | Victor | Les Miserables | |
Huxley | Aldous | Brave New World | |
Heyerdahl | Thor | Kon-tiki | Books, Inc |
Irving | Washington | Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | |
Jacobs | Joseph | The Fables of Aesop | MacMillan |
Jones | Vernon | The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox | |
Judson | Clarra Ingram | Andrew Carnegie | |
Justier | Norton | The Phantom Tollboth | Random House |
Kosinski | Jerry | The Painted Bird | |
Knight | David C. | The first Book of Air | Franklin Watts |
Knight | Eric | Lassie, Come Home | |
Kohn | Bernice | The Peaceful Atom | Prentice Hall |
Kredel | Fritz (illustrator)Aesop's Fables | Aesop's Fables | Crosset and Dunlap |
Krylov | Ivan | Fifteen Fables of Krylov | MacMillan |
Lamb | Charles | Tales from Shakespeare | |
Lee | Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird | |
Leonard | William E. | Aesop's Fables | |
Lindgren | Astrid | Pippi Longstocking; Pippi Goes on Board | Viking Press |
London | Jack | White Fang and Other Stories | |
Lowie | Robert H | Indians of the Plains | Natural History Press |
Malcolmson | Anne | Selections from the Tales of Chaucer | |
Mandell | Muriel | Physics Experiments for Children | Dover |
Marlowe | Christopher | Dr. Faustus | |
Morgan | Alfred | First Chemistry Book for Boys & Girls | Charles Scribner and Sons |
Mead | Margaret | Andthropologists and What They Do | Franklin Watts |
McCloskey | Robert H | Why They Wrote: The Canterbury Tales | |
Mullin | Virginia L. | Chemistry Experiments for Children | Dover |
McKendry | John J. | Aesop, Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
McLeod | Mary | King Arthur & His Knights | |
Murasaki, | Lady | The Tales of Genji | |
North | Sterling | The Wolfing | |
Orwell | George | Animal Farm, 1984 | |
Olbracht | Ivan | Indian Fables | Paul Hamlyn |
Poetry | |||
Untermeyer | Louis | Story Poems: The Golden Treasury of Poetry | |
Poe | Edgar Allen | Edgar Allan Poe's Selected Stories & Poems | |
Shakespeare | William | Poems of William Shakespeare | |
Hughes | Langston | Selected Poems | |
Dickinson | Emily | Poems of Emily Dickinson | |
Dunbar | Paul | Poems for Young People | |
Epics | |||
Sandars | N.K. (ed.) | The Epic of Gilgamesh | |
Mideaval Epics | |||
Baldwin | James (ed) | The Story of Roland | |
Biography | |||
Carpenter | Francis | Pocahontas and Her World | |
Bontemps | Arna | The Story of George Washington Carver | |
Bontemps | Arna | Frederrick Douglass, Slave-Fighter-Freeman | |
Flenton | Harold W. | Nat Love: Negro Cowboy | |
Fenderson | Lewis H. | Thurgood Marshall, Fighter for Justice | |
Judson | Clara Ingram | City Neighbor: The Story of Jane Addams | |
Seibert | Jerry | Amelia Earhart | |
Keller | Helen | The Story of My Life | |
Eaton | Jeannette | Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword | |
Hahn | Emily | Mary, Queen of Scots | |
Baker | Nina Brown | Peter the Great | |
Lathan | Jean Lee | Drake, the Man They Called a Pirate | |
Buehr | Walter | The World of Marco Polo | |
Aristophanes | The Plays of Aristophanes | ||
Plutarch | Plutarch's Lives |