Alcott, Louisa May

Little Women,

Little Men,

Jo's Boys

Austen, Jane

Emma

Pride and Prejudice

Sense and Sensibility

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Secret Garden,

The Little Princess,

The Lost Prince

Cather, Willa

Ramona

Chaucer

poetry

Chanticleer and the Fox  (E.g. adaptation by Barbara Cooney)

Chesterton, G. K.

Father Brown mysteries

Everlasting Man

The Man who was Thursday

Colum, Padraic

Greek myths

Iliad and Odyssey

DeWohl, Louis

The Last Crusader (Don John of Austria at Lepanto

Citadel of God

many historical novels returning to print

Doman, Regina

Snow White and Rose Red [teens version of courage and

faithfulness -- spin off the fairy tale]

Dooley, Tom  (What was going on in Viet Nam in the fifties?)

Edge of Tomorrow

The Night They Burned the Mountain

Deliver Us from Evil

Farjeon, Eleanor

The Glass Slipper

The Silver Curlew

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard  (Complete text online!)

Lamb, Charles and Mary

Iliad

Odyssey

Shakespeare for children

Lattimore, Eleanor Frances

Little Pear

Little Pear and his Friends

Lewis, C.S.

Narnia Chronicles

Screwtape Letters

Till We Have Faces

...everything by this great writer

London, Jack

Short Stories

Godden, Rumer

Miss Happines and Miss Flower

all her doll stories

The Kitchen Madonna

In This House of Brede (for an older crowd)

L'Amour, Louis

Walking Drum,

Haunted Mesa

many wonderful things

MacDonald, George

         At the Back of the North Wind

         The Princess and the Goblin

         The Princess and Curdie

Milne, A. A.

         Winnie the Pooh

         House at Pooh Corner

         When We Were Very Young

         Now We Are Six

Montgomery, Lucy Maud

         Anne of Green Gables

         All the Anne books, others

Parin D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar

         George Washington

         Abraham Lincoln

         Leif the Lucky

         Pocahontas

         Benjamin Franklin

         everything

Pyle, Howard

         Robin Hood

         King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

Ransome, Arthur

         Swallows and Amazons

         Winter Holiday, etc

         everything

Schulevitz, Uri

         Dawn

         Rain

Selden, George

         Cricket in Times Square

         Harry Cat's Pet Puppy

         Etc

Shakespeare

         Everything!

Seredy, Kate

         The Good Master

         Singing Tree

Stratton-Porter, Gene

         Girl of the Limberlost (3rd generation)

         Freckles

         everything

Tolkein

         Hobbit

         Lord of the Rings

         Tolkein Reader

Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)

         Joan of Arc  (yes: his favorite of his books)

         Tom Sawyer

         Huckleberry Finn (maybe)

Van Stockum, Hilda

         The Winged Watchman

         The Mitchells

         A Day on Skates

         everything

Verne, Jules

         20.000 Leagues under the Sea

         Journey to the Center of the Earth

         Around the World in 80 Days

Wilder, Laura Ingalls

         Little House on the Prairie

         Little house in the Big Woods

         everything

Windham, Joan

         Sixty Saints for Girls

         Sixty Saints for Boys

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