Chapter Books We Read Aloud
Our family loves to read. We own and have read a lot of books as parents. We have rarely used textbooks for our homeschool. This trend goes way back to our earliest years when we started to homeschool in the 1990’s. We were at a curriculum fair and noticed a high school level textbook from a Christian publisher only included part of a novel. We asked the salesman while the students would not read the entire book, and he said that some other parts of that specific book included objectionable moral content. The novel with The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin.
We decided on the spot that we would read whole books with our kids and discuss any content that warranted.
Thirty years later we are still reading a lot of whole books with children. My school program includes reading a picture book of the week each day for five days. We read about the county we are learning about. We read nonfiction of science. I usually even drag in a book each week about our math topic!
I decided this year to not pull Rich and Nathaniel’s bedtime reading in to match our our learning themes. I simply selected books that I thought would be of interest to them. Sometimes these were seasonal, like they read a few Halloween themed books in October, but there’s been limited effort to curate this list to be anything other than a stack of books.
Here’s what they have read since last September with a brief review by each of them following.
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Clearly
Toto, The Wizard Of Oz As Told By The Dog by Michael Morpurgo
Museum Kittens; The Mummy’s Curse by Holly Webb
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey
The Tiger Rising by Katie DiCamillo
Jasmine Green Rescues: A Duckling Called Button by Helen Peters
Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us by Lauren Castillo
Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
Kitty and the Moonlight Rescue by Paula Harrison
A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold
Many of these titles are the first in a series, so if your child enjoys them, check out the whole series!
