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Last updated: December 1, 2024
Below you will find links to reviews of books which are used in Memoria Press‘s curriculum. Please use their website/catalog for complete lists.
If you don’t find what you’re looking for, let me hear from you! This will tell me which books are priorities.
Junior Kindergarten
Andy and the Lion (Daugherty)
Corduroy (Freeman)
Curious George (Rey)
Gingerbread Boy, The (Galdone)
Green Eggs and Ham (Seuss)
Guess How Much I Love You (McBratney)
Home for a Bunny (Brown)
Little Red Hen, The (Galdone)
Mitten, The (Brett)
Quilt Story, The (Johnston, dePaola)
Relatives Came, The (Rylant)
Runaway Bunny, The (Brown)
Snow (Rylant)
Three Billy Goats Gruff (Galdone)
Tikki Tikki Tembo (Mosel)
Kindergarten
Bread and Jam for Frances (Hoban)
Cactus Hotel (Guiberson)
Katy and the Big Snow (Burton)
Little Fir Tree, The (Brown)
Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree (Barry)
Owl Moon (Yolen)
Ox-Cart Man (Hall)
Pancakes, Pancakes (Carle)
Roxaboxen (McLerran)
Stellaluna (Cannon)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (illus. Jeffers)
Story of Ferdinand (Leaf)
Tree is Nice, A (Udry)
Twelve Days of Christmas, The (Brett)
Grade 1
Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books (Winters)
Billy and Blaze (Anderson)
Caboose Who Got Loose, The (Peet)
Caps for Sale (Slobodkina)
Frog and Toad Are Friends (Lobel)
Glorious Flight, The (Provensen)
House is a House for Me, A (Hoberman)
Katy No-Pocket (Pane)
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie (Roop)
Little Bear (Minarik)
Little House, The (Burton)
Make Way for Ducklings (McCloskey)
Millions of Cats (Ga’g)
Miss Rumphius (Cooney)
Rechenka’s Eggs (Polacco)
Stone Soup (Brown)
Story About Ping, The (Flack)
White Snow, Bright Snow (Tresselt)
Grade 2
Amos and Boris (Steig)
Ant and the Elephant, The (Peet)
Big Snow (Hader)
Boy Who Drew Birds, The (Davies)
Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, The (Wojciechowski)
Cinderella (Brown)
Courage of Sarah Noble, The (Dalgliesh)
Easter Egg, The (Brett)
Emily (Bedard)
Farewell to Shady Glade (Peet)
One Morning in Maine (McCloskey)
Paul Revere’s Ride (Longfellow, Rand)
Velveteen Rabbit, The (Williams)
Grade 3
Bear Called Paddington, A (Bond)
Borrowers, The (Norton)
Charlotte’s Web (White)
Christmas Day in the Morning (Buck)
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths (D’Aulaire)
Magician’s Nephew, The (Lewis)
Mary Poppins (Travers)
Moffats, The (Estes)
Mr. Popper’s Penguins (Atwater)
Over the River and Through the Wood (Child, Manson)
Tale of the Three Trees, The (Hunt)
Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library (Rosenstock)
Grade 4
Apple and the Arrow, The (Buff)
Bear Called Paddington, A (Bond)
Cricket in Times Square, The (Selden)
D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths (D’Aulaires)
Dangerous Journey (Hunkin)
Homer Price (McCloskey)
Mr. Popper’s Penguins (Atwater)
My Side of the Mountain (George)
Peter Pan (Barrie)
Grade 5
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
Black Beauty (Sewell)
D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths (D’Aulaires)
Heidi (Spyri)
Incredible Journey, The (Burnford)
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The (Lewis)
Twenty-One Balloons (du Bois)
Grade 6
Adam of the Road (Gray)
D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths (D’Aulaires)
Little Women (Alcott)
Oliver Twist (Dickens)
Twenty-One Balloons (du Bois)
Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls)
Grade 7
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain)
D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths (D’Aulaires)
Hobbit, The (Tolkien)
Twenty-One Balloons (du Bois)
Grade 8
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain)
D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths (D’Aulaires)
Little Women (Alcott)
