33.9K
LALauren’s List: First Chapter Book Read-a-louds
Some of family’s very favorite short chapter books for making the transition from reading picture books to your littles, or starting a new family read-a-loud habit with kids who can already read. What would you add? (I couldn’t find our copy of The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, so that’s what I’d add!) The List:
1 - My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
2 - The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me; Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
3 - Grimm’s Fairy Tales translated by E.V. Lucas, Lucy Crane and Marian Edwardes (weird but wonderful! Some are very short; some longer so you can fit them into whatever time window you have)
4 - Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
5 - The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson
6 - Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
Bonus - what I’m reading my boys now:
Chinese Fairy Tales and Legends by Richard Wilhelm & Frederick H. Martens
And what I’m hoping to read them next:
The 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
@laurenmakeslists
