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Chelsea Vail

Seasonal Book List

AUTUMN


I started reading to my boys when they were only a few months old. We read all sorts of books with rich, descriptive language, complex plots and beautiful imagery. By the age of five, both of them were reading fluently with zero formal teaching and both are avid readers!






Under 5y:


Read these books over and over again seasonally, but put them away at the end of each season and do NOT bring them back out until the next season. Children connect to stories and imagery differently when the time the work is presented is chosen carefully.


  • Woody, Hazel and Little Pip

  • Stone Soup

  • Johnny Appleseed

  • Sun Egg by Elsa Beskow

  • Children of the Forest by Subil Von Olfers

  • Tales of the Mushroom Folk

  • Hedgie's Surprise by Jan brett

  • Autumn by Gurda Muller

  • Christopher's Garden, by Elsa Beskow

  • Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone

  • Henny Penny by Paul Galdone


For older children, please try to avoid immediately going to the "fluff" by Scholastic or other mainstream publications. Exposing your children to great work early is crucial to having lifelong readers. Think of it as letting a child eat junk food for their early years and then offering steak and salad. They probably wont have a taste for substance, right? Reading is the same! No graphic novels, comic books, or books inspired by TV or movies. Books that inspire movies are a whole other thing entirely.


SCHOOL AGED KIDS


  • Harry Potter series

  • Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

  • The Borrowers by Mary Norton

  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare

  • Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • Dracula by Bram Stoker

  • Where the Red Fern Grows by Rawls

  • Sign of the Beaver

  • Witches by Roald Dahl

  • Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft by Madame Pamita

  • The House Witch by Delemhach

  • Bridge to Tarabithia

  • The House at the Edge of Magic by Amy Sparkes

  • Ogress and the Orphan, by Kelly Barnhill

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