Summer reads for kids

Now that school is out for summer throughout San Diego and elsewhere, why not start a summer reading routine for the kids? No book reports to write, no pressure. Just a good read.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has issued its annual Summertime Favorites, a list of books published prior to 1960 that is grouped by grade.

Even if you're not a kid, you might enjoy some of these classics. Feel free to share your favorites or make recommendations of your own by leaving a comment below.

KINDERGARTEN TO GRADE 3

Recommended for K-3, either for reading by children or for reading to them.

Aardema, Verna and Leo & Diane Dillon Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale

Aesop Aesop’s Fables

Allard, Harry and James Marshall Miss Nelson Is Missing!

Atwater, Richard and Florence Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Barrows, Annie and Sophie Blackall Ivy + Bean

Becker, Bonny and

Kady MacDonald Denton A Visitor for Bear

Bemelmans, Ludwig Madeline

Blume, Judy Freckle Juice

Brown, Marcia Stone Soup

Brunhoff, Jean de The Story of Babar, The Little Elephant

Burton, Virginia Lee Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Cameron, Ann and Ann Strugnell The Stories Julian Tells

Cleary, Beverly The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Cronin, Doreen and Harry Bliss Diary of a Worm

DePaola, Tomie Strega Nona

Dorros, Arthur and Elisa Kleven Abuela

Duvoisin, Roger Petunia

Estes, Eleanor and Louis Slobodkin The Hundred Dresses

Freeman, Don Corduroy

Gag, Wanda Millions of Cats

Gannett, Ruth Stiles and

Ruth Chrisman Gannett My Father’s Dragon

Garza, Carmen Lomas and

Harriet Rohmer In My Family / En Mi Familia

Grahame, Kenneth and

Michael Hague The Reluctant Dragon

Grimes, Nikki and Javaka Steptoe A Pocketful of Poems

Guest, Elissa Haden and Christine Davenier Iris and Walter

Hamilton, Virginia and

Leo & Diane Dillon The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

Harper, Charise Mericle Just Grace

Henkes, Kevin Chrysanthemum

Hoban, Russell and Garth Williams Bedtime for Frances

Hodges, Margaret and Trina Schart Hyman Saint George and the Dragon

Hoff, Syd Danny and the Dinosaur

Hoffman, Mary and Caroline Binch Amazing Grace

Howe, James and Marie-Louise Gay Houndsley and Catina

Johnson, Crockett Harold and the Purple Crayon

Keats, Ezra Jack The Snowy Day

Kraus, Robert and Jose Aruego Leo the Late Bloomer

Krauss, Ruth and Crockett Johnson The Carrot Seed

Kvasnosky, Laura McGee Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways

Le Guin, Ursula K. and S.D. Schindler Catwings

Leaf, Munro and Robert Lawson The Story of Ferdinand

Lear, Edward A Book of Nonsense

Lin, Grace The Year of the Dog

Lionni, Leo Frederick

Lobel, Arnold Frog and Toad are Friends

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Paul Revere’s Ride

Lopshire, Robert Put Me in the Zoo

Marshall, James George and Martha

McDermott, Gerald Anansi the Spider

Milne, A.A. and Ernest H. Shepard Winnie-the-Pooh

Minarik, Else Holmelund and

Maurice Sendak Little Bear

Munsch, Robert and

Michael Martchenko The Paper Bag Princess

Myers, Christopher Wings

Noble, Trinka Hakes and

Steven Kellogg The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash

Numeroff, Laura Joffe and

Felicia Bond If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Parish, Peggy and Fritz Siebel Amelia Bedelia

Pennypacker, Sara and

Marla Frazee Clementine

Piper, Watty and Loren Long The Little Engine that Could

Portis, Antoinette Not a Box

Potter, Beatrix The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Prelutsky, Jack and Marc Brown Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young

Rey, H.A. Curious George

Ringgold, Faith Tar Beach

Rylant, Cynthia and

Suçie Stevenson Henry and Mudge

Say, Allen Grandfather’s Journey

Scieszka, Jon and Lane Smith The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

Sendak, Maurice Where the Wild Things Are

Seuss, Dr. Green Eggs and Ham

Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman

and Marc Simont Nate the Great

Silverman, Erica and Betsy Lewin Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa

Silverstein, Shel Where the Sidewalk Ends

Slobodkina, Esphyr Caps for Sale

Smith, Jeff Little Mouse Gets Ready

Steig, William Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

Steptoe, John Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale

Stevenson, Robert Louis A Child’s Garden of Verses

Thurber, James and Louis Slobodkin Many Moons

Udry, Janice May and Marc Simont A Tree is Nice

Ungerer, Tomi Crictor

Van Allsburg, Chris The Garden of Abdul Gasazi

Viorst, Judith and Ray Cruz Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

White, E.B. and Garth Williams Charlotte’s Web

Willems, Mo There is a Bird on Your Head!

Wood, Audrey and Don Wood The Napping House

Yashima, Taro Crow Boy

Yee, Wong Herbert Mouse and Mole: A Winter Wonderland

Zion, Gene and

Margaret Bloy Graham Harry the Dirty Dog

Zolotow, Charlotte and

William Pène Du Bois William’s Doll

GRADES 4-6

Alexander, Lloyd Prydain Chronicles

Andersen, Hans Christian Fairy Tales

Avi and Brian Floca Poppy

Babbitt, Natalie Tuck Everlasting

Baum, L. Frank The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Birdsall, Jeanne The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

Boston, L.M. The Children of Green Knowe

Brooks, Gwendolyn and Faith Ringgold Bronzeville Boys and Girls

Burnett, Frances Hodgson The Secret Garden

Byars, Betsy The Summer of the Swans

Carroll, Lewis Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Clements, Andrew and

Brian Selznick Frindle

Collins, Suzanne Gregor the Overlander

Collodi, Carlo The Adventures of Pinocchio

Cooper, Susan The Dark is Rising

Creech, Sharon Bloomability

Curtis, Christopher Paul Bud, Not Buddy

D’Aulaire, Ingri and

Edgar Parin D’Aulaire D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths

Dahl, Roald and Quentin Blake Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

DiCamillo, Kate Because of Winn-Dixie

Dowd, Siobhan The London Eye Mystery

DuPrau, Jeanne The City of Ember

Eager, Edward Half Magic

Erdrich, Louise The Birchbark House

Estes, Eleanor The Moffats

Farley, Walter The Black Stallion

Fitzhugh, Louise Harriet the Spy

Freedman, Russell Lincoln, A Photobiography

Gaiman, Neil Coraline

Gantos, Jack Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

George, Jean Craighead My Side of the Mountain

Grahame, Kenneth The Wind in the Willows

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Henry, Marguerite Misty of Chincoteague

Hiaasen, Carl Hoot

Hoberman, Mary Ann and

Wendy Anderson Halperin Strawberry Hill

Howe, Deborah & James

and Alan Daniel Bunnicula

Hughes, Langston The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

Ibbotson, Eva and Sue Porter Secret of Platform 13

Irving, Washington Rip Van Winkle

Jansson, Tove Moominland Midwinter

Juster, Norton and Jules Feiffer The Phantom Tollbooth

Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book

Konigsburg, E.L. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Lamb, Charles and Mary Tales from Shakespeare

Lawson, Robert Ben and Me

Lenski, Lois Strawberry Girl

Lewis, C.S. The Chronicles of Narnia

Lin, Grace Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Lindgren, Astrid Pippi Longstocking

Lofting, Hugh Doctor Dolittle

Lovelace, Maud Hart Betsy-Tacy

Lowry, Lois Number the Stars

Macaulay, David Castle

MacLachlan, Patricia Sarah, Plain and Tall

Mathis, Sharon Bell and

Leo & Diane Dillon The Hundred Penny Box

McCloskey, Robert Homer Price

Merrill, Jean The Pushcart War

Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables

Murphy, Jim The Great Fire

Nesbit, E. The Railway Children

North, Sterling Rascal

Norton, Mary The Borrowers

O’Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Park, Linda Sue When My Name was Keoko

Paterson, Katherine Bridge to Terabithia

Pearce, Philippa Tom’s Midnight Garden

Perrault, Charles The Complete Fairy Tales

Reiss, Johanna The Upstairs Room

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Ryan, Pam Munoz Esperanza Rising

Sachar, Louis Holes

Selznick, Brian The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Sewell, Anna Black Beauty

Sharp, Margery The Rescuers

Sperry, Armstrong Call It Courage

Spyri, Johanna Heidi

Stewart, Trenton Lee and

Carson Ellis The Mysterious Benedict Society

Sutcliff, Rosemary The Wanderings of Odysseus

Taylor, Sydney and Helen John All-of-a-Kind Family

Travers, P.L. Mary Poppins

Wilder, Laura Ingalls and

Garth Williams Little House on the Prairie

Woodson, Jacqueline Locomotion

Wyss, Johann Swiss Family Robinson

GRADES 7-8

Alcott, Louisa May Little Women

Almond, David Skellig

Bagnold, Enid National Velvet

Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451

Cleaver, Vera and Bill Cleaver Where the Lilies Bloom

Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans

Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe

Douglass, Frederick The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Dumas, Alexander The Count of Monte Cristo

Eckert, Allan W. Incident at Hawk’s Hill

Engdahl, Sylvia Enchantress from the Stars

Forester, C.S. The Horatio Hornblower Series

Frank, Anne The Diary of a Young Girl

Frost, Robert Poems

George, Jean Craighead Julie of the Wolves

Hamilton, Virginia M.C. Higgins, the Great

Hautzig, Esther The Endless Steppe

Hilton, James Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders

Hoose, Phillip Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Hunt, Irene Across Five Aprils

Hunter, Mollie A Stranger Came Ashore

Irving, Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Johnson, Angela Heaven

Keith, Harold Rifles for Watie

Keller, Helen The Story of My Life

Korman, Gordon No More Dead Dogs

LaFleur, Suzanne Love, Aubrey

Le Guin, Ursula K. A Wizard of Earthsea

L’Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time

Lester, Julius and Tom Feelings To Be a Slave

London, Jack Call of the Wild

Malory, Sir Thomas Le Morte d’Arthur

McCaffrey, Anne Dragonsong

O’Dell, Scott Island of the Blue Dolphins

Oppel, Kenneth Airborn

Paterson, Katherine Jacob I Have Loved

Paulsen, Gary and Drew Willis Hatchet

Peck, Richard A Long Way from Chicago

Peck, Robert Newton A Day No Pigs Would Die

Pratchett, Terry The Wee Free Men

Pyle, Howard The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan The Yearling

Rawls, Wilson Where the Red Fern Grows

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de The Little Prince

Schaefer, Jack Shane

Schmidt, Gary D. The Wednesday Wars

Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe

Shelley, Mary Frankenstein

Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Speare, Elizabeth George The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Steinbeck, John The Red Pony

Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island

Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Tolan, Stephanie S. Surviving the Applewhites

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit

Twain, Mark TheAdventures of Tom Sawyer

Uchida, Yoshiko Journey to Topaz

Verne, Jules 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Webster, Jean Daddy-Long-Legs

Wells, H.G. The War of the Worlds

Wilder, Thornton The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Yep, Laurence Dragonwings

Zindel, Paul The Pigman

Zusak, Markus The Book Thief

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