I refill our read-aloud book basket at the beginning of each month, and I thought this school year I'd try to pull together some collections of stories with a common thread. For September, which for us is a month of settling in to our school and activity routine, I chose books about home and family and sibling relationships--books that evoke some warm fuzzies and have lots of beautiful illustrations. These all make great bedtime stories. Daddy usually does the bedtime reading around here. He will read one of these picture books, and then a chapter from a longer read-aloud (currently The Jungle Book). I read a picture book during our school Wonder Hour, and then read from a chapter book before quiet time. Thomas brings us books to read all day long, and our kids know that if at all possible, if they bring their Daddy or me a book and ask us to read it, we will. :)
All the Beatrix Potter stories
Maple, Lori Nichols
Maple and Willow, Lori Nichols
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst
The Golden Plate, Bernadette Watts
The Family Under the Moon, Nancy Jewell
Ox-Cart Man, Donald Hall
Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney
My Great-Aunt Arizona, Gloria Houston
The Little House, Virginia Lee Burton
I Like to Be Little, Charlotte Zolotow
On Mother's Lap, Ann Herbert Scott
Treasury for Children, James Herriot
Roxaboxen, Alice McLerran
Bedtime for Frances, Russell Hoban (and all the Frances books)
Julius, the Baby of the World, Kevin Henkes
A House is a House for Me, Mary Ann Hoberman
Coat of Many Colors, Dolly Parton
Do You Know What I'll Do, Charlotte Zolotow
The Complete Brambly Hedge, Jill Barklem
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