Last updated: December 1, 2024
This page is continually being updated. See below for reviews written on books suggested in The Book Tree by Elizabeth McCallum and Jane Scott.
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Preschool Literature
Adventures of Little Bear (Minarik)
Adventures of the Brave Cowboy, The (Anglund)
Alligators All Around (Sendak)
All the Places to Love (MacLachlan)
Ameliaranne and the Green Umbrella (Heward)
Angus and the Ducks (Flack)
Ant and Bee and the ABC (Banner)
Apple Pie (Greenaway)
Autumn Story (Barklem)
Baby Farm Animals (Williams)
Big Red Barn (Brown)
Billy and Blaze (Anderson)
Birthday for Frances, A (Hoban)
Blueberries for Sal (McCloskey)
Bread and Jam for Frances (Hoban)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Martin)
Caps for Sale (Slobodkina)
Carrot Seed, The (Krauss)
Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months (Sendak)
Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, The (Wojciechowski)
Corduroy (Freeman)
Cowboy Small (Lenski)
Curious George (Rey)
Emily (Bedard)
Emmett’s Pig (Stolz)
Exodus (Wildsmith)
Floss (Lewis)
Foolish Tortoise, The (Buckley)
Freight Train (Crews)
Friend is Someone Who Likes You, A (Anglund)
Frog and Toad are Friends (Lobel)
Giving Tree, The (Silverstein)
Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Blériot, The (Provensen)
Goodnight Moon (Brown)
Guess How Much I Love You (McBratney)
Happy Lion, The (Fatio)
Happy Little Family (Caudill)
Harold and the Purple Crayon (Johnson)
Harold at the North Pole (Johnson)
Henny Penny (Galdone)
Katy and the Big Snow (Burton)
Katy No-Pocket (Payne)
Little Engine That Could, The (Piper)
Little Fir Tree, The (Brown)
Little House, The (Burton)
Make Way for Ducklings (McCloskey)
Many Moons (Thurber)
May I Bring a Friend? (de Regniers)
Medieval Feast, A (Aliki)
Millions of Cats (Gag)
Miss Rumphius (Cooney)
Miss Suzy (Young)
Mitten, The (Brett)
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present (Zolotow)
New Coat for Anna, A (Ziefert)
One Morning in Maine (McCloskey)
Over the River and Through the Woods (Child, Manson)
Ox-Cart Man (Hall)
Petunia (Duvoisin)
Quilt for Baby, A (Lewis)
Snowy Day, The (Keats)
Story About Ping, The (Flack)
Story of Babar, The (de Brunhoff)
Story of Ferdinand, The (Leaf)
Tale of Peter Rabbit (Potter)
Tale of Three Trees, The (Hunt)
Time of Wonder (McCloskey)
Too Much Noise (McGovern)
Tree is Nice, A (Udry)
Umbrella (Yashima)
Velveteen Rabbit, The (Williams)
Whistle for Willie (Keats)
White Snow, Bright Snow (Tresselt)
Elementary School Fiction
Abel’s Island (Steig)
Adventures of Pinocchio, The (Collodi)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
Babe: the Gallant Pig (King-Smith)
Bear Called Paddington, A (Bond)
Bears on Hemlock Mountain, The (Dalgliesh)
Betsy-Tacy (Lovelace)
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse (Sewell)
Book of Greek Myths (d’Aulaire)
Caddie Woodlawn (Brink)
Canada Geese Quilt, The (Kinsey-Warnock)
Charlotte’s Web (White)
Courage of Sarah Noble, The (Dalgliesh)
Cricket in Times Square, The (Selden)
Emil and the Detectives (Kastner)
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Sidney)
Golden Key, The (MacDonald)
Gone-Away Lake (Enright)
Heidi (Spyri)
Huguenot Garden (Jones)
Hundred Dresses, The (Estes)
Incredible Journey, The (Burnford)
Light Princess, The (MacDonald)
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The (Lewis)
Little Princess, A (Burnett)
Matchlock Gun, The (Edmonds)
Milly-Molly-Mandy (Brisley)
Misty of Chincoteague (Henry)
Mountain Born (Yates)
Mr. Popper’s Penguins (Atwater)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (O’Brien)
My Father’s Dragon (Gannett)
My Side of the Mountain (George)
Old Yeller (Gipson)
101 Dalmatians, The (Smith)
Owls in the Family (Mowat)
Paul Revere’s Ride (Longfellow, Rand)
Peter Pan (Barrie)
Phantom Tollbooth, The (Juster)
Railway Children, The (Nesbit)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Wiggin)
Riding the Pony Express (Bulla)
Sarah, Plain and Tall (MacLachlan)
Scout: The Secret of the Swamp (Prins)
Shiloh (Naylor)
Sign of the Beaver, The (Speare)
Story of Doctor Dolittle, The (Lofting)
Story of Holly and Ivy, The (Godden)
Strawberry Girl (Lenski)
Stuart Little (White)
Three Young Pilgrims (Harness)
Trumpet of the Swan (White)
Understood Betsy (Fisher)
Wheel on the School, The (DeJong)
Middle School Fiction
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain)
Gift of the Magi, The (Henry)
Hobbit, The (Tolkien)
Little Women (Alcott)
Scottish Seas (Jones)
Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls)
High School Fiction
