The Educated Child's Good Books for the Primary Grades

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This list comes from The Educated Child by William J. Bennett. He states that children in kindergarten through the third grade should be able to read some of these themselves; others are good to read to them. He also suggests supplementing this list with books unique to your family’s religious and cultural heritage.

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    The Aesop for Children
    by Aesop

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    Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anderson
    by Hans Christian Andersen

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    Anno's Alphabet
    by Mitsumasa Anno

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    Anno's Counting Book
    by Mitsumasa Anno

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    Wiley and the Hairy Man
    by Molly Bang

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    Madeline
    by Ludwig Bemelmans

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    The Three Billy Goats Gruff
    by Susan Blair

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    Freddy the Detective
    by Walter R. Brooks

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    Robert Browning's the Pied Piper of Hamelin
    by Robert Browning

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    Story of Babar
    by Jean De Brunhoff

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    Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
    by Burton Virginia Lee

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    The Little House
    by Virginia Lee Burton

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    Jack and the Three Sillies
    by Chase

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    Henry Huggins
    by Beverly Cleary

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    The Adventures of Pinocchio
    by C. Collodi

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    Chanticleer and the Fox
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    The Courage of Sarah Noble/Newbery Summer
    by Alice Dalgliesh

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    Marguerite De Angeli's Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes
    by Marguerite De Angeli

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    Drummer Hoff
    by Barbara Emberley

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    The Three Bears (Book & Cassette Favorites)
    by Paul Galdone

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    Grimms Complete Fairy Tales
    by Jacob Grimm

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    One Fine Day
    by Nonny Hogrogrian

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    Little Red Riding Hood
    by Jacob Grimm

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    John Henry: An American Legend
    by Ezra Jack Keats

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    Snowy Day
    by Ezra Jack Keats

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    Pecos Bill
    by Steven Kellogg

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    Just So Stories (Chrysalis Children's Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

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    The Arabian Nights
    by Andrew Long

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    Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (Picture Puffin S.)
    by Andrew Lang

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    Piping Down the Valleys Wild
    by Nancy Larrick

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    The Story of Ferdinand
    by Munro Leaf

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    How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have?: And Other Tales
    by Julius Lester

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    The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
    by Astrid Lindgren

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    Frog and Toad Together
    by Arnold Lobel

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    Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Treasury
    by Betty MacDonald

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    Make Way for Ducklings (Book and Audiocassette Edition)
    by Robert McCloskey

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    Blueberries for Sal
    by Robert McCloskey

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    Every Time I Climb a Tree
    by David McCord

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    Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti
    by Gerald McDermott

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    Cinderella
    by C Perrault

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    Tales of Peter Rabbit and His Friends
    by Beatrix Potter

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    Ride a Purple Pelican (Mulberry Books)
    by Jack Prelutsky

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    Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young
    by Jack Prelutsky

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    The Complete Adventures of Curious George
    by Margret & H. A. Rey

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    The Dancing Stars: An Iroquois Legend
    by Anne Rockwell

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