Just One More Chapter...Please!?!?

When I started this list, the warm fuzzy feeling started to well up inside me...a warmth that emanates from the pages of these well-loved, timeless books. Generations have loved these stories and my hope is that the next generations will continue, as I read them to my children, and one day, perhaps, my grandchildren. Many of these make for grand read-alouds, even if your children are teenagers! Consider taking turns, as a family, reading chapter by chapter - perhaps introducing your children to new friends along the way, or rekindling an old friendship.

And, don't forget, the more expression you give to your voice and the more life you breathe into the characters, the more likely 'twill be that your children will beg for, "just one more chapter...please!?!"

The Fine Print - we haven't read every book on this list, so I cannot completely guarantee the content to be appropriate for everyone. Also, the books in this list are ones I've found to be available at my hometown library or can be accessed through Interlibrary Loan.

OLD FRIENDS (AKA Golden Classics)

(CD) = the book is also available on CD at our library

(DVD) = the book is also available on DVD at our library

(ILL) = Interlibrary Loan

Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women

Alcott, Louisa May - Little Men

Alcott, Louisa May - Jo's Boys

Barrie, J.M. - Peter Pan (CD)

Baum, Frank - The Wizard of Oz

Burnett, Frances Hodgson - Little Princess

Burnett, Frances Hodgson - Little Lord Fauntleroy

Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden (CD)

Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (CD)

Chesterton, GK - The Father Brown Omnibus

Cohen, Barbara - Seven Daughters and Seven Sons (ILL)

Dodge, Mary Mapes - Hans Brinker, or, The Silver Skates

Fletcher, Susan - Shadow Spinner (ILL)

Gilbreth, Frank B. - Cheaper by the Dozen

Gilbreth, Frank B. - Belles on Their Toes

Grahame, Kenneth - The Wind in the Willows (CD & DVD)

Kingsley, Charles - The Water-Babies

Kipling, Rudyard - The Jungle Books (found in adult section)

Kipling, Rudyard - The Complete Just-So Stories

Kipling, Rudyard - Kim

Konigsburg, E.L. - The Second Mrs. Giaconda

Leroux, Gaston - Phantom of the Opera (CD)

MacDonald, George - At the Back of the North Wind

MacDonald, George - The Princess and the Goblin

MacDonald, George - The Princess and the Curdie (ILL)

Martin, Ann - A Dog's Life: Autobiography of a Stray

Milne, A.A. - The House at Pooh Corner

Milne, A.A. - Winnie The Pooh (CD)

Montgomery, Lucy Maud - Anne of Green Gables (CD)

Montgomery, Lucy Maud - Anne of Avonlea (CD)

Montgomery, Lucy Maud - Anne of the Island (CD)

Montgomery, Lucy Maud - Anne of Windy Poplars

Montgomery, Lucy Maud - Anne's House of Dreams (CD)

Montgomery, Lucy Maud - Anne of Ingleside

Montgomery, Lucy Maud - Rainbow Valley

Montgomery, Lucy Maud - Rilla of Ingleside

Montgomery, Lucy Maud - The Story Girl

Montgomery, Lucy Maud - The Golden Road

Myers, Walter - At Her Majesty's Request

Nesbitt, Edith - The Railway Children (CD)

Porter, Eleanor - Pollyanna

Porter, Gene Stratton - Freckles (ILL)

Porter, Gene Stratton - Girl of the Limberlost

Pyle, Howard - Men of Iron

Pyle, Howard - The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

Pyle, Howard - The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (CD)

Schlitz, Laura Amy - Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village (CD)

Schmidt, Gary - Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (CD)

Sewell, Anna - Black Beauty

Spyri, Johanna H. - Heidi

Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island (CD)

Stevenson, Robert Louis - Kidnapped (CD)

Stevenson, Robert Louis - David Balfour (sequel to Kidnapped)

Stoltz, Joelle - The Shadows of Ghadames

Stranger, Margaret - That Quail Robert

Van Stockum, Hilda - Winged Watchman (ILL)

Verne, Jules - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Verne, Jules - Around the World in Eighty Days

Verne, Jules - Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Wiggin, Kate Douglas - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (CD)

White, T. - The Once And Future King

Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief (CD)