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Auben -> RE: Classic stories (7/27/2008 6:17:42 PM)
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I'll try not to repeat. There were some excellent suggestions above. I starred ones I thought were particularly good.
*Encyclopedia Brown mysteries
*Rascal (true story of a boy growing up during WWI and his pet raccoon)
*The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings
*Ramona, Henry Huggins, and other Beverly Cleary books
*E.B. White books like Stuart Little, Trumpet of the Swans, or Charlotte's Web
*My Side of the Mountain
The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler
Alice in Wonderland
George MacDonald stories
*The Phantom Tollbooth (a fantasy using language as a source of adventure)
The Door in the Wall (boy is made lame by disease and can't become a squire..how he contributes)
Julie of the Wolves (girl alone, taken in by wolves)
The Wind in the Willows (classic frog and toad silliness)
A Wrinkle in Time (children travel through time and space to save their father and the universe)
*The Jungle Book (classic..boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle)..Kipling has other story books as well
Lois Lenski has a few interesting ones like Strawberry Girl, usually about poor/rural girls
The Prince and the Pauper (twain's imagining of royal and unroyal twins)
The Cricket in Time's Square (a country cricket makes friends in New York city)
Mr.s Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (mouse family seeks help from intelligent rats)
*the Soup books (2 boys always getting into trouble in Depression era)
The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy trying to get home or an allegory of the Progressive party?)
Incident at Hawk's Hill (based on a true story of a small boy being taken in by a badger)
Babe (well done, pig)
Mary Poppins (although it's @ 20 years since I read them and I remember feeling a bit odd during book 2 or 3...like my parents may not approve of something small but can't remember why. Doctor Doolittle falls into this also, at some point in the series they talk about evolution in depth. Definitely both very imaginative, fun books which need a parental read first).
*The Great Brain (true story of the adventures of 3 brothers growing up in turn of the century Utah)
The Incredible Journey (3 animals attempt to find their missing owners)
Sounder (another dog book)
Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet series (flight to Mars)
A Child's Garden of Verses (famous children's poems)
Captain's Courageous snobby boy learns work and respect on a fishing boat
All kinds of fairy tales and myths:
The Green/Red/Blue Fairy Book
Hans Christian Andersen
La Fontaine
the Grimm Brothers (selected)
the Norse Sagas
The Iliad/Odyssey
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