Great Books

WHAT WE ARE READING

Kindergarten, Semester One

The Shoemaker and the Elves  -Brothers Grimm as told by Wanda Gág
The Frog Went A-Traveling  -Russian folktale as told by Vsevolod Garshin
"Night into Dawn" -Poetry by Robert Hillyer and John Ciardi, and a Mescalero Apache song
The Tale of Two Bad Mice  -Beatrix Potter
Bouki Cuts Wood  -Haitian folktale as told by Harold Courlander
"Fantasy"  -Poetry by Sylvia Plath, Edward Lear, and Lewis Carroll
Lion at School  -Philippa Pearce
Coyote Rides the Sun  -Native American folktale as told by Jane Louise Curry
"Seasons"  -Poetry by Nikki Giovanni, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Langston Hughes

 

First Grade, Semester One

The Black Hen's Egg  -French folktale as told by Natalie Savage Carlson
The Mouse and the Wizard  -Hindu fable as told by Lucia Turnbull
"Imagination"  -Poetry by Leslie Norris, Mark Van Doren, and Robert Louis Stevenson
Rumpelstiltskin  -Brothers Grimm, translated by Ralph Manheim
Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents  -A. A. Milne
"When I Grow Up"  -Poetry by Rabindranath Tagore and X. J. Kennedy, and a Chippewa song
The King of the Frogs  -African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs  -Brothers Grimm, translated by Randall Jarrell
"Mysterious Animals"  -Poetry by T. S. Eliot, Jenifer Kelly, and Robert Graves

 

Second Grade, Semester One

The Happy Lion  -Louise Fatio
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin  -Beatrix Potter
How the Camel Got His Hump  -Rudyard Kipling
Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath (from Winnie-the-Pooh)  -A. A. Milne
Arap Sang and the Cranes  -African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman
Blue Moose  -Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Anancy and Dog and Puss and Friendship  -West Indian folktale as told by James Berry
Jack and the Beanstalk  -English folktale as told by Joseph Jacobs
The Magic Listening Cap  -Japanese folktale as told by Yoshiko Uchida
The Jackal and the Partridge  -Punjabi folktale as told by Flora Annie Steel
Nail Soup  -Swedish folktale as told by Linda Rahm
The Apple of Contentment  -Howard Pyle

 

Third Grade, Semester One

The Banza  -Haitian folktale as told by Diane Wolkstein
The Man Whose Trade Was Tricks  -Georgian folktale as told by George and Helen Papashvily
The Fisherman and His Wife  -Brothers Grimm
Ooka and the Honest Thief  -Japanese folktale as told by I. G. Edmonds
It's All the Fault of Adam  -Nigerian folktale as told by Barbara Walker
The Monster Who Grew Small  -Joan Grant
The Selkie Girl  -Scotttish folktale as told by Susan Cooper
The Mushroom Man  -Ethel Pochocki
The Princess and the Beggar  -Korean folktale as told by Anne Sibley O'Brien
The Fire on the Mountain  -Ethiopian folktale as told by Harold Courlander and Wolf Leslau

  

Fourth Grade, Semester One

The Banza  -Haitian folktale as told by Diane Wolkstein
The Man Whose Trade Was Tricks  -Georgian folktale as told by George and Helen Papashvily
The Fisherman and His Wife  -Brothers Grimm
Ooka and the Honest Thief  -Japanese folktale as told by I. G. Edmonds
It's All the Fault of Adam  -Nigerian folktale as told by Barbara Walker
The Monster Who Grew Small  -Joan Grant
The Selkie Girl  -Scotttish folktale as told by Susan Cooper
The Mushroom Man  -Ethel Pochocki
The Princess and the Beggar  -Korean folktale as told by Anne Sibley O'Brien
The Fire on the Mountain  -Ethiopian folktale as told by Harold Courlander and Wolf Leslau

 

Fifth Grade, Semester One

The No-Guitar Blues  -Gary Soto
Kaddo's Wall  -West African folktale as told by Harold Courlander and George Herzog
Turquoise Horse  -Gerald Hausman
A Game of Catch  -Richard Wilbur
Oliver Hyde's Dischcloth Concert  -Richard Kennedy
The Hundred-Dollar Bill  -Rose Wilder Lane
The Invisible Child  -Tove Jansson
In the Time of the Drums  -Gullah folktale as told by Kim L. Siegelson
Learning the Game  -Francisco Jimenez
The Bat-Poet  -Randall Jarrell

 

Sixth Grade, Semester One
Sixth Grade, Semester One

The No-Guitar Blues  -Gary Soto
Kaddo's Wall  -West African folktale as told by Harold Courlander and George Herzog
Turquoise Horse  -Gerald Hausman
A Game of Catch  -Richard Wilbur
Oliver Hyde's Dischcloth Concert  -Richard Kennedy
The Hundred-Dollar Bill  -Rose Wilder Lane
The Invisible Child  -Tove Jansson
In the Time of the Drums  -Gullah folktale as told by Kim L. Siegelson
Learning the Game  -Francisco Jimenez
The Bat-Poet  -Randall Jarrell