I met some women at Borders Book Store a few weeks back with some of the homeschool moms I know. My friend, Melissa introduced me to the Twaddle-Free Book List and I thought it would be great to pass this along and have it here next time I look for it.
Twaddle means dumbed down literature.
Here is the Charlette Mason Twaddle Free Book List
She includes direct links to Amazon so you can get a better idea of a book before you buy it or look for it at the library. If you've never bought a book from Amazon, I'd like to say that they offer free shipping to any order over $25. If you buy a second hand book through Amazon the free shipping does not apply. I've bought books from both Amazon and their venders and have never had trouble.
Here is part of her list:
Kindergarten / Grade 1
Amelia Bedelia, by Peggy Parish
Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey
Bread and Jam for Frances, by Russell Hoban
Billy and Blaze, by C.W. Anderson
A Chair for My Mother, by Vera B. Williams
Corduroy, by Don Freeman
The Courage of Sarah Noble, by Alice Dalgliesh
Curious George, by H.A. Rey
Frog and Toad All Year, by Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad are Friends, by Arnold Lobel
Harry the Dirty Dog, by Gene Zion
Little Bear, by Else Homelund Minarik
The Little Engine that Could, by Watty Piper
The Little House, by Virginia Lee Burton
Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans
Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton
The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats
Stone Soup, by Marcia Brown
Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf
Story About Ping, by Marjorie Flack
Grade 2
The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner
A Child’s Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson (illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith)
Little House on the Prairie series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit
The Random House Book of Fairy Tales, by Amy Ehrlich
Tikki Tikki Tembo, by Arlene Mosel
The Velveteen Rabbit, by Marjery Williams
Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne
Hi jnette, How nice that you want to come out and play. I give to thee the letter B I'll be watching.
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