One of my favorite times of the day is when I get the kids settled in a night and it’s time to read. Bedtime reading has been a tradition that we’ve done for the last 20+ years. We make sure all electronics are turned off, the kids get ready for bed, and we sit down as a family to read. It’s amazing how many wonderful books we get to share as a family!
In honor of Read Across America, here’s a list of 50 picture and chapter books to go through as a family!
Picture Books
1) I’ll Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
2) Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
3) Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss and Theodore Geisel
4) The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes and Louis Slobodkin
5) The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden and Garth Williams
6) Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester and Lynn Munsinger
7) Miss Suzy by Miriam Young and Arnold Lobel
8) The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer
9) If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff and Felicia Bond
10) The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak
11) The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski and P.J. Lynch
12) The Monster at the end of this Book by Jon Stone and Michael Smollin
13) The Big Picture Story Bible by David R. Helm and Gail Schoonmaker
14) Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
15) Silly Sally by Audrey Wood
16) Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
17) You Are Special by Max Lucado and Sergio Martinez
18) Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton
19) Bombus the Bumblebee by Elsie Larson, David & Helen Haidle
20) The Giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord
21) Tikki Tikki Tembo by Ariene Mosel and Blair Lent
22) Could Be Worse by James Stevenson
23) When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne
24) The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White and Fred Marcellino
25) Was it a Good Trade? by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers and Irene Haas
26) Louise the Big Cheese and the Back-To-School Smarty-Pants by Elise Primevera and Diane Goode
27) Jeremy: The Tale of an Honest Bunny by Jan Karon and Teri Weidner
28) A Porcupine Named Fluffy by Helen Lester and Lynn Munsinger
29) Let Papa Sleep by Emily Reed
Chapter Books
30) Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
31) The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom and Elizabeth Sherrill
32) Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
33) Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes
34) Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
35) The BFG by Roald Dahl
36) Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
37) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
38) Prayers that Changed the World by Tricia Goyer
39) The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
40) The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
41) Savvy by Ingrid Law
42) Heidi by Johanna Spyri
43) Watership Down by Richard Adams
44) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
45) The Giver by Lois Lowry
46) Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright and Joe & Beth Krush
47) Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
48) Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
49) The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
50) The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
What’s your favorite books to read aloud as a family? Share in the comment section below!
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