The Best Books to Read to your Kids (ages 4-12)
“Since it is so likely that [your kids] will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage…Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let villains be soundly killed at the end of the book. Nothing will persuade me that this causes an ordinary child any kind or degree of fear beyond what it wants, and needs, to feel. For, of course, it wants to be a little frightened.”
-CS Lewis
NIrV, Adventure Bible for Early Readers
The Action Bible: God's Redemptive Story
Big Truths for Young Hearts by Bruce Ware
Case for Christ for Kids by Lee Strobel
Case for Faith for Kids by Lee Strobel
Case for the Creator for Kids by Lee Strobel
Case for Grace for Kids by Lee Strobel
The Chronicles of Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Joni by Joni Eareckson Tada
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory & The Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
Little Pilgrim’s Progress by Helen Taylor
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Hardy Boys series (only the early books)
The Nancy Drew series (only the early books)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgkin Burnett
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Roger Lancelyn Green
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Winnie the Pooh series by A.A. Milne
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
The Golden Key by George MacDonald
The Giver series by Lois Lowry
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Outsiders by S.E. Hutton
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
White Fang by Jack London
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The River by Gary Paulsen
Meditations on Life by Mother Theresa
Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia (Landmark)
Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille by Russell Freedman
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Beowulf (Perennial Classics) translated by Frederick Rebsamen
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Gulliver’s Stories by Jonathan Swift
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
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