Family Read-Alouds

This is a list of all the chapter books that we have read aloud. Maybe you will find something you are interested in trying out on our list!

Homer Price
Winnie-the-Pooh
Little House in the Big Woods
Little House on the Prairie
Betsy-Tacy ::: Review
Betsy-Tacy and Tib
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Tumtum and Nutmeg ::: Review
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Betsy-Tacy and Tib Go Over the Big Hill
Peter Pan

2010 Read Alouds:
My Father's Dragon ::: Review
The Bobbsey Twins
Fantastic Mr. Fox ::: Review
Prince Caspian
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair ::: Review
The Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda (Nanny McPhee) (Blogged)
Farmer Boy (Blogged)
Mercy Watson to the Rescue
Tumtum and Nutmeg: The Rose Cottage Tales

2011 Read-Alouds:
Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards (Blogged here and here)
Basil of Baker Street (Blogged)
The Saturdays
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Blogged)
Shanghied to China: Story of Hudson Taylor by Dave & Neta Jackson
Caddie Woodlawn
Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims by Clyde Bulla)

2012 Read-Alouds:
Little Men (blogged)
The Long Winter (blogged)
Ben and Me (blogged)
The Matchlock Gun (blogged)
The Trumpet of the Swan (blogged)
The Cricket in Times Square (blogged)
A Nest for Celeste (blogged)
The Magician's Nephew (blogged)
Little Town on the Prairie
Rabbit Hill (blogged)
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
The Prairie Thief

2013 Read-Alouds:
Jane of Lantern Hill, Montgomery 1/29/2013 (r/a)
The Railway Children, E. Nesbit (r/a)
Winona's Pony Cart, Lovelace (r/a) Reading to Know bookclub
Betsy & Tacy Go Downtown, Lovelace (r/a)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Ian Fleming 4/17/2013 (r/a)
Wizard of Oz, Baum (r/a)
Sign of the Beaver (r/a)
Little Sir Galahad, Lamplight books (r/a - t)
Little Threads, Elizabeth Prentiss (Lamplighter books) (r/a) blogged
Robin Hood (r/a), 8/15/2013
Castle in the Attic (r/a), Elizabeth Winthrop, 8/26/2013
The Reluctant Dragon (r/a), Kenneth Grahame, 8/29/2013
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle 9/18/2013
The Door in the Wall, Marguerite de Angeli (r/a) 9/26/2013
Leonardo da Vinci, Giants of Science, Kathleen Krull 10/16/2013
Basil, Of Industry and honesty, Lamplighters Books 10/17/2013
The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman 10/23/2013
Titus (Lamplighter CD) 10/22/2013
A Midsummer Night's Dream 10/28/2013
Most of our 2013 fall read-alouds were blogged here in one giant wrap-up post!

2014 Read-Alouds:
Little Women, Part 1, Louisa May Alcott (r/a)
Julie of the Wolves, r/a 1/29/2014 blogged
Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers (r/a) 2/10/2014
These Happy Golden Years, r/a 2/28/2014 blogged
The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander 3/19/2014
Henry Reed, Inc, Keith Robertson 4/14/2014
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, jean Aiken, 4/28/2014
Story of the World, Volume 2, Susan Wise Bauer, 4/29/2014
The Little Princess, Francis Hodges Burnett, 5/23/2014
The Horse and His Boy, C.S. Lewis 6/18/2014
The Black Cauldron, Lloyd Alexander 8/1/2014
Henry Reed's Babysitting Service, Keith Roberson
The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis 8/21/2014
Pedro's Journal, Pam Conrad 9/8/2014 r/a
The Princess and the Goblin, George MacDonald (r/a) 10/8/2014
Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne (r/a with Ethan at bedtime 10//16/2014
The 13 Clocks, James Thurber (r/a) 10/17/2014
James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl 11/6/2014
The Wise Woman, George Macdonald 12/7/2014 (Evening w/ T)
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 12/9/2014
The 24 Days of Christmas by Madeline L'Engle (r/a) 12/15/2014


2015
The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery 2/4/2015
The Golden Road by L.M. Montgomery 3/5/2015
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (R/a) 3/23/2015
The Green Ember by S.D. Smith 4/24/2015
All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor 5/4/2015
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 5/27/2015
All of a Kind Family Downtown, Sidney Taylor r/a 7/22/2015
The Castle of Llyr, Prydian Chronicles, Book 3 by Lloyd Alexander 8/7/2015
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White 8/17/2015
Tirzah by Lucille Harris 9/3/2015
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss 10/1/2015 r/a
The Black Star of Kingston by S.D. Smith 10/9/2015
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis Wilkins ... 11/4/2015 r/a
The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder r/a
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene 12/2/2015
The Family Under the Bridge

2016

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 1/25/2016
Beautiful Stories of Shakespeare by E. Nesbit 2/8/2016
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 2/10/2016
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois 2/19/2016
All of a Kind Family Uptown by Sydney Taylor 3/4/2016
Ella of All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor 3/14/2016
Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl r/a 4/4/2016
Story of the World, Volume 1 by Susan Wise Bauer 4/14/2016 r/a
Pages of History by Veritas Press 4/25/2016 
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit 5/5/2016
Taran Wanderer, book 4, Chronicles of Prydian by Lloyd Alexander 5/31/2016
The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Chronicles of Prydian #5) 7/13/2016
The BFG by Roald Dahl 8/9/2016 
Tumtum and Nutmeg: Adventures Beyond Nutmouse Hall by Emily Bearn 9/2/2016
The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess 9/15/2016
A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond r/a with Ethan 10/7/2016
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green 10/12/2016
Ember Falls by SD Smith 11/17/2016
Half Magic by Edward Eager 12/14/2016


2017
Animal Planet Chapter Book: Sharks (w/ Ethan) 1/19/2016
The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic by Jennifer Trafton 1/23/2016
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone (w/ Betsy, and whoever else listened in) 1/25/2017
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh 1/27/2017
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl (r/a with Ethan) 2/14/2017
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 2/23/2017
Land Animals of the 6th Day by Apologia (Science) 2/23/2017
Akimbo and the Lions by Alexander McCall Smith 3/9/2017 r/a with Ethan
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley 3/13/2017 r/a
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 3/16/2017 r/a with Ethan
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong r/a 4/7/2017
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling r/a with Ethan 4/17/2017
Henry and the Chalk Dragon by Jennifer Trafton r/a 4/19/2017
Stuart Little by E.B. White r/a 4/24/2017
Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary r/a with Ethan 5/2/2017
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis r/a 6/3/2017
Henry and Beezus by Beverly Cleary 7/3/2017 r/a with Ethan
Henry and the Paper Route by Beverly Cleary r/a with Ethan
Henry and the Clubhouse by Beverly Cleary 8/9/2017 r/a with Ethan
Ribsy by Beverly Cleary 8/23/2017 r/a with Ethan
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder 9/21/2017 r/a
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes 9/25/2017 r/a
Ben and Me by Robert Lawson r/a 10/19/2017
Bark of the Bog Owl by Jonathan Rogers 10/2017
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder r/a 11/8/2017
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis r/a with Ethan 11/18/2017
By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman 12/2017

2018
The Prairie Thief by Melissa Wiley (reread/readaloud) 1/11
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein (readaloud w/ Ethan) 1/19
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread/readaloud) 1/29
Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis (reread / r/a with Ethan) 2/27
Paddington Helps Out (Paddington Bear #3) by Michael Bond (r/a with Ethan) 3/18
The Indian in the Cupboard (The Indian in the Cupboard #1) by Lynne Reid Banks (read aloud) 3/22
The Way of the Wilderking by Johnathan Rodgers 8/29
Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White 8/31
Percy Jackson: The Lightening Thief #1 by Rick Riordan r/a 10/5
The Enormous Egg (r/a with Ethan) 10/18
5 Children and It by E. Nesbit 10/2 (reread / r/a)
The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit 11/30

2019
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 1/24 (reread / read-aloud)
Prince Caspian 2/2 (reread / read-aloud)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (reread / read-aloud) 2/20
The Silver Chair by CS Lewis 3/6 (reread / read-aloud)
Mercy Watson to the Rescue (Ethan reads)
Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride (Ethan reads)
The Horse and His Boy 4/15 (reread / read-aloud)
Hank the Cowdog by John Erikson 4/29 (read-aloud) 
More Adventures of Hank the Cowdog #2 by John Erikson 5/6 (read-aloud)
Nathaniel Fludd Beastologist, Book 1 5/20 
The Magician’s Nephew by CS Lewis 8/19 
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis (Narnia #7) 9/5 
The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Graham 9/9
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander 1/3 reread 
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey 10/31 reread read aloud 

2020
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green 1/6
The Prairie Thief by Melissa Wiley 1/19 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Story of the World, Vol 2 1/22 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl 1/27 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The BFG by Roald Dahl 1/27 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Gospel Story Bible 1/29 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Voyage of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting 2/18 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Paddington Abroad by Michael Bond (Paddington #4) r/a 3/8 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien 3/20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson (Wingfeather #1) 5/14 r/a reread ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Theodore Roosevelt by Jeff & Janet Benge 9/4 r/a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 9/4 r/a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson r/a 10/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
George Washington bio by Jeff & Janet Benge 11/9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown read-aloud 12/9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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