posted July 24, 2000 11:13 AM               

Hi All

I think it's done (or rather, I think my kids would like me to stop spending 2+ hours on Amazon.com a day). So here it is. I had a few specifics in mind when I did this up. One was that I wanted it to be mainly accessible/inexpensive books - there are a few OOPs that are noted, but mostly it is of novels that exist in paperbook ($4-5 range). I just figured we had enough OOP scrambling going around already. However, if you start using this list 2 years from now, who knows what will still be in print. Secondly, I wanted to have a good list. This means that I couldn't preview every book on it. I checked every book out on Amazon, read all the reviews, but that was the best I could do. Before reading them, especially to younger children, please check them out yourselves, some had themes that would not be appropriate for 4-6yr olds, like some of the war time stories.

Thanks to everybody for contributing and encouraging me. If this list gives you additional ideas, feel free to send them on to me, I will check them out and post an update, Krista says she can add it to the original later. I'll try doing it in three parts so I don't jam the system.

Hallie

posted July 24, 2000 11:19 AM               

SUPPLEMENTAL CHAPTER BOOK LIST FOR VOLUME ONE

The Story About Ping
Young Fu of the Upper Yang Tze (Lewis) {China}
Little Pear (Lattimore) {China}
The Year of the Panda (Schlein) {China}

Lentil
Henry Huggins books (Cleary) {boy's life}
Homer Price/More Homer Price (McCloskey) {boy/inventor}
Wheels of Time* (Gourley) {bio of Henry Ford}

Madeline
The Family Under the Bridge (Carlson) {France}
The Happy Orpheline/other Orpheline books (Carlson) (OOP) {France}

A Pair of Red Clogs
The Cat Who Went to Heaven (Coatsworth) {cats/Japan life}
The Big Wave (Buck) {Japan disaster}
Mieko and the Fifth Treasure (Coerr) {post WWII Japan life)
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower (Godden) OOP {Japanese dolls}

The Rag Coat
The Hundred Dresses (Estes) {poverty/clothes}
Christy (Marshall) {appalachia life}
Where the Lilies Bloom (Cleaver) {appalachia life}

Who Owns the Sun
The Slave Dancer (Fox) {slavery}
Amos Fortune, Free Man (Yates) {journey from slavery to freedom}
Freedom Train (Sterling) {underground railroad}
Nettie's Trip South (Turner)* {contrast north and south}

Mike Mulligan
Samuel Slater's Mill and the Industrial Revolution* (Simonds) {factory modernization}
Thrashin' Time (Weitzman) {farm modernization}
The Great Brain series (Fitzgerald) {problem solving}
Ben and Me (Lawson) {Ben Franklin, inventor}

The Glorious Flight
The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk (Sobol) {first flight}
The Wright Brothers (Childhood of Famous Americans) OOP? or others {first flight}
Thomas Edison (Childhood of Famous Americans) (Guthridge) {inventors}
Eli Whitney (Childhood of Famous Americans) (OOP?) or others {inventors}
book on Amelia Earhart {first flight}
book on Chuck Yeager {first flight}
The Flight of the Lone Eagle (Foster) {Charles Lindbergh}

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne) {travel}

Grandfather's Journey
Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne) {travel}
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (Bette Bao Lord) {Chinese immigration}
Homesick, My Own Story (Fritz) {Chinese immigration}
Gulliver's Travels (Swift) {travel}

Cranberry Thanksgiving
Squanto, Friends of the Pilgrims (Bulla) {first Thanksgiving}
other stories on the Pilgrims {first Thanksgiving}

Another Celebrated Dancing Bear
Gentle Ben (Morey) {bears}
Ballet Shoes (Streatfeild)* {dancing}
The Bears of Blue River (Major) {bears}

Papa Piccolo
book on Marco Polo {Italian explorer}
Mandy (Edwards) {orphans}
Cat Stories (Herriott) {cats}
The Other Kitten (St. John) {cats}

Very Last First Time
Stone Fox (Gardiner) {dogsled racing}
Water Sky (George) {boy visits Alaska}
Mr. Popper's Penguins (Atwater) {antarctic}

Clown of God
Samantha books {orphan's life}
Looking For Home (Richardson) {western migration/orphans}
Whistle Stop--Wait (Richardson) (OOP) {western migration/orphans}
The Apprentice (Llorente) {time period}

Storm in the Night
Stealing Home by Mary Stolz {about Grandfather, Thomas and Ringo the cat!}
The Silent Storm* (Garland) {hurricane's effects on a girl}
Go Fish (Stolz) {same characters}
Storm Chasers (Herman) {tornadoes}
One Day in the Prairie (George) {tornado}
Akavak:An Inuit-Eskimo Legend* (Houston) {journey with grandfather}
Coast to Coast* (Byars) {flight with grandfather}
Racing the Sun* (Pitts) {grandfather/Indians}

Katy and the Big Snow
Anna, Grandpa and the Big Storm (Stevens)* {snowstorm}
The Wheel on the School (De Jong) {community works together}
Snow Treasure (McSwigan) {WWII Norway}

Night of the Moonjellies
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (Latham) {ocean navigation}
The Nickel-Plated Beauty* (Beatty) {family works together}
Henry Reed Inc./Henry Reed's Babysitting Service (Robertson) {teenage entrepreneur}

Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening
Snow Dog* (Kjelgaard) {life of a husky}
Tracks in the Snow* (Bledsoe) {girls adventure}

posted July 24, 2000 11:24 AM               

CHAPTER BOOK LIST FOR VOLUME 2

The Giraffe that Walked to Paris
The King's Giraffe (Collier) picture book--but long {another version of story}
Morgan's Zoo (Howe)* {zoo}
A Zoo in My Luggage (Durrell) {zoo collection}
King of the Wind (Henry) {relationship animal/handler}

Three Names
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Wilder) {time period}
James Herriot's Dog Stories {dogs}
Follow My Leader (Garfield) {dogs}
Sounder (Armstrong)* {dogs}
Old Yeller (Gipson)* {dogs}
The Bears of Blue River (Major) {adventure/woods}
One Day in the Prairie (George) {tornado}

Wee Gillis
Wee Sir Gibbie of the Highlands (MacDonald)* {Scotland}
William Tell (Fisher) {Swiss legend}

Owl Moon
Owls in the Family (Mowat) {owls}
There's an Owl in the Shower (George) {owls}
My Side of the Mountain (George) {adventure/woods}

A New Coat For Anna
Eli Whitney (Childhood of Famous Americans) (OOP?) or others {cotton}

Mrs Katz and Tush
My Always Prayer Shawl (Oberman)* {Jewish immigration}
Journey to America (Levitan)* {Jewish immigration}
Silver Days (Levitan)* {Jewish immigration}
All-Of-A-Kind Family (Taylor) {Jewish life post WW1}

Mirette on the High Wire
The Family Under the Bridge (Carlson) {France}

They Were Strong and Good
Charley Skedaddle* (Beatty) {Civil War}
Tall Boy’s Journey* (Kraus) {adoption}
Visiting Miss Pierce* (Derby) {adoption}

Babar, to Duet or not to Duet
books from Famous Children's Series (Rachlin) {lives of composers}

The Story of Ferdinand
Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus (Fritz) or others {Spanish explorer}

Down, Down the Mountain
Blue Ridge Billy (Lenski) (OOP) {Smokey mtn story}
Linnea's Windowsill Garden (Bjork) {gardening}
Strawberry Girl (Lenski) {depression era}

Make Way for Ducklings
The Trumpet of the Swan (White) {birds/Boston}

The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Secret Garden (Burnett) {garden}
Nothing is Impossible, The Story of Beatrix Potter (Aldis)

Mr Gumpy's Motor Car
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Fleming)* {cars}

All Those Secrets of the World
The Night Crossing (Ackerman) {WWII Europe}
Twenty and Ten (Bishop)* {WWII Europe}
Snow Treasure (McSwigan) {WWII Norway}
A Boy's War (Davis {acct of WWII-Burma}

Miss Rumphius
The Secret Garden (Burnett) {gardening}

The Little Red Lighthouse and The Great Gray Bridge
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie (Roop) {lighthouse}

Follow the Drinking Gourd
Amos Fortune, Free Man (Yates) {from slavery to freedom}
Freedom Train (Sterling) {underground railroad}
Runaway to Freedom (Smucker)* {underground railroad}
Freedom Crossing (Clark) {underground railroad}

Harold and the Purple Crayon
Bailey's Window (Lindbergh)* {drawing to life}
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Dahl) {boy/fantasy}
The Phantom Tollbooth (Juster) {boy/fantasy}
Amelia Bedelia books (Parrish) {for puns}

When I was Young in the Mountains
Where the Lilies Bloom (Cleaver) {appalachia life}
Ida Early Comes Over the Mountains (Burch) {appalachia life}

Gramma's Walk
The Remembering Box (Clifford)* {grandmothers}
Follow My Leader (Garfield) {handicaps/blindness}
From Anna (Little) {handicap/depression era}

posted July 24, 2000 11:29 AM               

CHAPTER BOOK LIST FOR VOLUME 3

The Bee Tree
The Sign of the Beaver (Speare) {wilderness survival}
Treasure Island (Stevenson)

Andy and the Circus
Toby Tyler (Otis) {circus}

The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar
Misty of Chicoteague (Henry) {wild horses}
Island of the Blue Dolphins (O'Dell) {isolated island life}
Stay Away From Simon (Carrick)* {life in Martha's Vineyard}

Paul Revere's Ride
Paul Revere, Boy of Old Boston (Stevenson) (OOP)
Johnny Tremain (Forbes)
A Spy in Williamsburg (Laurence) (OOP)
Mr Revere and I (Lawson)
Young Paul Revere's Boston (Epstein) (OOP)
Paul Revere (Childhood of Young Americans) (Stevenson)

Henry the Castaway
Robinson Crusoe (DeFoe) {explorers}
Treasure Island (Stevenson) {explorers}
Kidnapped (Stevenson) {adventure}
Daniel Boone: Frontier Adventures (Brandt)* or others {explorers}
Arctic Explorer, Story of Matthew Henson (Ferris) {explorers}
books on other explorers
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll) {explorers}
My Father's Dragon/Elmo and the Dragon/The Dragons of Blueland (Gannett) {adventure}

The Finest Horse in Town
Riding Freedom (Ryan) {horses}

Truman's Aunt Farm
Understood Betsy (Fisher) {brought up by aunts}
Pollyanna (Porter) {brought up by aunt}

The Duchess Bakes a Cake
The Door in the Wall (deAngeli) {Middle Ages}
book on King Arthur {Middle Ages/royalty}
Robin Hood {Middle Ages}
Medallion (Watkins) {Middle Ages/royalty}

Andy and the Lion
Born Free (Adamson) {lions}
The Butterfly Lion (Morpurgo) {boy raises lion}

Daniel's Duck
Charlotte's Web (White) {county fair}
The Great Wheel (Lawson) {world's fair)

Warm as Wool
Mountain Born (Yates) {sheep farming}
Pioneer Cat (Hooks)* (western expansion/wagon travel)
Next Spring an Oriole (Whelan)* {westward expansion/wagon travel}
Old Ramon (Schaefer) {sheep herding}

The Salamander Room
The Cricket in Times Square (Seldon) {animal environment}

Climbing Kansas Mountains
Arthur, For the Very First Time (MacLachlan)* {farm life}
One Day in the Prairie (George) {tornadoes}

Amber on the Mountain
Heidi (Spyri) {mountain life}
Just Juice (Hesse) {Appalachia/learning to read}

Little Nino's Pizzeria
A Cricket in Times Square (Seldon) {family business}
The Clay Marble (Ho) {homelessness}