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The Educated Child's Good Books for the Primary Grades

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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1.
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 The Aesop for Children
by Aesop
  
2.
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 Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anderson
by Hans Christian Andersen
  
3.
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 Anno's Alphabet
by Mitsumasa Anno
  
4.
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 Anno's Counting Book
by Mitsumasa Anno
  
5.
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 Wiley and the Hairy Man
by Molly Bang
  
6.
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 Madeline
by Ludwig Bemelmans
  
7.
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 The Three Billy Goats Gruff
by Susan Blair
  
8.
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 Freddy the Detective
by Walter R. Brooks
  
9. Robert Browning's the Pied Piper of Hamelin
by Robert Browning
  
10.
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 Story of Babar
by Jean De Brunhoff
  
11.
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 Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
by Burton Virginia Lee
  
12.
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 The Little House
by Virginia Lee Burton
  
13.
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 Jack and the Three Sillies
by Chase
  
14. The Ramona Collection, Vol. 1: Ramona the Brave / Ramona and Her Father/Ramona the Pest/Beezus and Ramona
by Beverly Cleary
  
15. The Ramona Collection, Vol. 2: Ramona Quimby, Age 8 / Ramona and Her Mother / Ramona Forever / Ramona's World
by Beverly Cleary
  
16.
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 Henry Huggins
by Beverly Cleary
  
17. The Adventures of Pinocchio
by C. Collodi
  
18. Chanticleer and the Fox
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
19. The Courage of Sarah Noble/Newbery Summer
by Alice Dalgliesh
  
20.
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 Marguerite De Angeli's Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes
by Marguerite De Angeli
  
21.
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 Drummer Hoff
by Barbara Emberley
  
22. The Three Bears (Book & Cassette Favorites)
by Paul Galdone
  
23.
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 Grimms Complete Fairy Tales
by Jacob Grimm
  
24. A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (The Iona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
25.
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 One Fine Day
by Nonny Hogrogrian
  
26. Little Red Riding Hood
by Jacob Grimm
  
27.
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 John Henry: An American Legend
by Ezra Jack Keats
  
28.
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 Snowy Day
by Ezra Jack Keats
  
29. Pecos Bill
by Steven Kellogg
  
30. Just So Stories (Chrysalis Children's Classics)
by Rudyard Kipling
  
31.
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 The Arabian Nights
by Andrew Long
  
32. Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (Picture Puffin S.)
by Andrew Lang
  
33. Piping Down the Valleys Wild
by Nancy Larrick
  
34.
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 The Story of Ferdinand
by Munro Leaf
  
35.
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 How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have?: And Other Tales
by Julius Lester
  
36. The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
  
37.
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 Frog and Toad Together
by Arnold Lobel
  
38.
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 Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Treasury
by Betty MacDonald
  
39. Make Way for Ducklings (Book and Audiocassette Edition)
by Robert McCloskey
  
40.
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 Blueberries for Sal
by Robert McCloskey
  
41. Every Time I Climb a Tree
by David McCord
  
42.
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 Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti
by Gerald McDermott
  
43.
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 The World Of Christopher Robin. The Complete 'When We Were Very Young' and 'Now We Are Six.'
by A.A MILNE
  
44. Amelia Bedelia 40th Anniversary Collection (I Can Read Book 2)
by Peggy Parish
  
45. Cinderella
by C Perrault
  
46. Tales of Peter Rabbit and His Friends
by Beatrix Potter
  
47. Ride a Purple Pelican (Mulberry Books)
by Jack Prelutsky
  
48. Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young
by Jack Prelutsky
  
49.
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 The Complete Adventures of Curious George
by Margret & H. A. Rey
  
50.
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 The Dancing Stars: An Iroquois Legend
by Anne Rockwell
  
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Created by Carolyn on Mar 31, 2007.