Pre-School Booklist

On Saturday I gave a talk at the CHAPLET Homeschooling Conference on The Circuit.  It went really well, and, I was rather shocked at the positive feedback and the large number of questions I received.  Most of those questions were from moms just getting their feet wet with homeschooling, but other questions were from more experienced moms with practical difficulties in their morning routine.  The Q and A turned into a wonderful dialogue, and I left with a lot of great ideas as to how to improve my own morning routine with my little ones.  I think we all wound up learning from each other.   I was able to meet several readers of this blog, which was a huge blessing, and I left feeling very tired but overjoyed that I had made the time to put together the materials.  A special thank you to Mary Alice, as she inspired me to say yes in the first place, and all the builders who gave input, specifically on the booklist.  I’m sharing that booklist here because it is my hope that even those that are not homeschooling can benefit from this compilation of ideas.

Pre-School Booklist

The Tale of Peter Rabbit and others by Beatrix Potter

Aesop’s Fables

ABC’s, Hop on Pop, and others by Dr. Seuss

Bedtime for Frances, Bread and Jam for Frances, or Tea for Frances by Russell Hoban

The Little House, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Katy and the Big Snow, Maybelle the Cable Car all by Virginia Lee Burton

The Three Billy Goats Gruff and other Folk Tales by Paul Galdone

Rapunzel and other Folk Tales by Paul Zelinski

The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper

Blueberries for Sal, and Make Way for the Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

Stone Soup by Marcia Brown

A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

A nice Mother Goose collection

Goodnight Moon, The Big Red Barn and others by Margaret Wise Brown

Corduroy by Dan Freeman

Curious George by H. A. Rey

Harry and the Lady Next Door, Harry the Dirty Dog, and others by Gene Zion

Very Hungary Caterpillar, Brown Bear, and many others by Eric Carle

The Mitten, Noah’s Ark by Jan Brett

Ten Apples Up On Top! by Theo LeSieg

Put Me in the Zoo by Robert Lopshire

The Gingerbread Man by Jim Aylesworth and Barbara McClintock

The Ox Cart Man, by Barbara Cooney

The Story about Ping, by Kurt Wiese

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff

Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and others by Mo Willems

Go Dog Go!, Are you My Mother, and others by P.D. Eastman

Tomie DePaola’s Book of Bible Stories, Strega Nona and others by Tomie DePaola

If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, If You Give a Dog a Donut and others by Laura Numeroff

Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt

Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

If Jesus Came to My House by Joan Gale Thomas

A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Phillip C. Stead

Max and Ruby by Rosemarie Wells