Below you will find links to reviews of books which are used in Ambleside Online‘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.
The following are in alphabetical order:
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery)
The Ark (Benary-Isbert)
Bears on Hemlock Mountain, The (Dalgliesh)
Betsy-Tacy (Lovelace)
Big Red Barn (Brown)
Black Beauty (Sewell)
Black Ships Before Troy (Sutcliff)
Blueberries for Sal (McCloskey)
Borrowers, The (Norton)
Caddie Woodlawn (Brink)
Charlotte’s Web (White)
Child’s Garden of Verses, A (Stevenson)
Courage of Sarah Noble, The (Dalgliesh)
Cricket in Times Square, The (Selden)
Dr. Dolittle 01: The Story of Dr. Dolittle (Lofting)
Dr. Dolittle 02: The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle (Lofting)
Five Children and It (Nesbit)
Five Little Peppers and How They Grow (Sidney)
Frog and Toad Are Friends (Lobel)
Gone-Away Lake (Enright)
Grasshopper on the Road (Lobel)
Heidi (Spyri)
Hobbit, The (Tolkien)
Homer Price (McCloskey)
Incredible Journey, The (Burnford)
Little House, The (Burton)
Little Princess, A (Burnett)
Little Women (Alcott)
Make Way for Ducklings (McCloskey)
Mary Poppins (Travers)
Matchlock Gun, The (Edmonds)
Miss Rumphius (Cooney)
Moffats, The (Estes)
Mr. Popper’s Penguins (Atwater)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (O’Brien)
My Side of the Mountain (George)
Narnia, various (Lewis)
Oliver Twist (Dickens)
One Morning in Maine (McCloskey)
Ox-Cart Man (Hall)
Paul Revere’s Ride (Longfellow)
Peter Pan (Barrie)
Pinocchio, Adventures of (Collodi)
Pollyanna (Porter)
Railway Children, The (Nesbit)
Sarah, Plain and Tall (MacLachlan)
Sign of the Beaver, The (Speare)
Small Pig (Lobel)
Story of Holly & Ivy, The (Godden)
Tale of Peter Rabbit, The (Potter)
Tale of Three Trees, The (Hunt)
Thimble Summer (Enright)
Twenty and Ten (Bishop)
Uncle Elephant (Lobel)
Understood Betsy (Fisher)
Velveteen Rabbit, The (Williams)
Wheel on the School, The (DeJong)
Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls)