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All Ages
Historical Non-Fiction Resources (Ancients):
- Encyclopedia of the Ancient World (Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia) by Jane Bingham, Fiona Chandler and Jane Chisholm
- My Father’s World version DK History of the World by Plantagenet Somerset Fry
- The Wonder of It All by Steve Terrill
- The Bible (Cultural Atlas for Young People) by J. W. Rogerson
- Imagining Egypt by Mark Millmore
- Pyramid by David MacAulay
- Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Diana Bentley
- The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Peter A. Clayton
- Kregel Pictorial Guide to the Temple by Robert Backhouse
- Greece and Rome At War by Peter Connolly
- Israel’s Feasts and Their Fullness by Batya Ruth Wootten
- City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction by David MacAulay
Kaybear:
Classic Literature:
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
- White Fang by Jack London
- Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
- The Yearling by Majorie Kinnan Rawlings
Poetry:
- Favorite Poems Old and New: Selected For Boys and Girls by Helen Ferris Tibbets
Shakespeare:
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Dover Thrift Editions)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Bruce Coville
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream with James Cagney (DVD)
Historical Non-Fiction Resources (Ancients):
- The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt by Elizabeth Ann Payne
- The Story of the Greeks by H.A. Guerber
- The Story of the Romans by H.A. Guerber
- Unwrapping the Pharaohs: How Egyptian Archaeology Confirms the Biblical Timeline by John F. Ashton
- The World in Ancient Times series by William L. Fash, Mary E. Lyons, Eric H. Cline and Jill Rubalcaba
- various DK Eyewitness books and other appropriate topic-specific books including but not limited to:
- – Genesis: Finding Our Roots by Ruth Beechick
- – Discoveries: Golden Treasures of Troy by Hervé Duchêne
- – Life Of Christ by Giuseppe Ricciotti
Historical Fiction (Ancients):
- Adam and His Kin: The Lost History of Their Lives and Times by Ruth Beechick
- Gilgamesh the Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean
- Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green
- Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise J. McGraw
- The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
- Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of ‘The Iliad’ by Rosemary Sutcliff
- Why Snails Have Shells: Minority and Han Folktales from China by Carolyn Han
- Hittite Warrior by Joanne S. Williamson
- Adara by Beatrice Gormley
- In Search of a Homeland by Penelope Lively
- God King: A Story in the Days of King Hezekiah by Joanne Williamson
- Theras and His Town by Caroline Dale Snedeker
- Aesop for Children by Aesop and Milo Winter
- Twenty Jataka Tales by Noor Inayat Khan
- The Ch’i-lin Purse: A Collection of Ancient Chinese Stories by Linda Fang
- D’aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d’Aulaire and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
- Hadassah: The Girl Who Became Queen Esther by Tommy Tenney
- The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett (selections from)
- Victory on the Walls: A Story of Nehemiah by Frieda Clark Hyman
- I Am The Great Horse by Katherine Roberts
- Julius Caesar: The Oxford Shakespeare Julius Caesar (Oxford World’s Classics) by William Shakespeare
- The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
History (Ancients) Audio Books:
- She and He: Adventures in Mythology by Jim Weiss
- Egyptian Treasures: Mummies and Myths by by Jim Weiss
- Jewish Holiday Stories by Jim Weiss
- Greek Myths by Jim Weiss
- Heroes in Mythology by Jim Weiss
- Tales From the Old Testament by Jim Weiss
- What in the World? Volume One: Ancient Civilizations and the Bible by Diana Waring
- True Tales: Ancient Civilizations and the Bible by Diana Waring
- Digging Deeper: Ancient Civilizations and the Bible by Diana Waring
Strawberry:
Classic Read-Alouds
- A New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert
- Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
- Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
- Jeremy: The Tale of an Honest Bunny by Jan Karon
- Chester the Worldly Pig by Bill Peet
- Bearymore (Picture Puffin books) by Don Freeman
- Noah’s Ark by Peter Spier
- The Ugly Duckling by Pirkko Vainio
- Lost In The Woods: A Photographic Fantasy by Jean Stoick and Carl R. Sams
- Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle
- Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
- The Runaway Bunny Margaret Wise Brown
- The Story about Ping by Kurt Wiese
- The Taxi That Hurried by Lucy Sprague Mitchell
- Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
- Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
- The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey
- Swimmy by Leo Lionni
- The Saggy Baggy Elephant by Kathryn Jackson
- The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
- One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
- McDuff (series) by Rosemary Wells
- Pretzel by Margret Rey
- Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
- The Story of Little Babaji by Helen Bannerman
- The Shy Little Kitten by Cathleen Schurr
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
- The World of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Chapter Books:
- Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
- The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
Poetry:
- Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne
- When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne
- Favorite Poems Old and New: Selected For Boys and Girls by Helen Ferris Tibbets
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
- Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
Shakespeare:
- Poetry for Young People: William Shakespeare by David Scott Kasten and Marina Kastan
Readers:
- Christian Liberty Press Nature Readers
- “Adventures of” series books by Thornton Burgess
- Pathway Readers
- Fifty Famous Stories Retold (Yesterday’s Classics) by James Baldwin
- Owl at Home, Mouse Soup, Mouse Tales, and The Frog and Toad Collection Box Set by Arnold Lobel
- Little Bear by Elsa Holmelund Minarik
- BOB Books series by Bobby Lynn Maslen and John R. Maslen
- The Treadwell readers republished by Yesterday’s Classics (1-3 here and Primer, 1-3, and Teacher’s Book here, 4th Reader here, 5th Reader here, and 6th Reader here )
- The Elson Readers by William H. Elson
- 1879 McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers by William Holmes McGuffey
History Fiction and Non-Fiction (Ancients):
- The Creation Story by Norman Messenger
- When the World Was New by Linda J. Sattgast
- Yellow & Pink by William Steig
- A Is for Adam: The Gospel from Genesis by Ken Ham
- The Big Dinosaur Dig (DK Readers) by Esther Ripley
- Noah’s Ark by Jane Ray (oop)
- Noah’s Ark by Peter Spier
- Noah’s Ark (Step-Into-Reading, Step 2) by Linda Hayward (oop)
- Tower of Babel by Alison Greengard
- From Arapesh to Zuni: A Book of Bibleless Peoples by Karen Lewis (oop)
- Temple Cat by Andrew Clements
- Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile by Tomie dePaola
- Egyptians by Stephanie Turnbull
- Adventures in Ancient Egypt (Good Times Travel Agency) by Linda Bailey
- Who Built the Pyramids Internet Linked (Starting Point History) by Jane Chisholm (oop)
- Pyramids (A First Discovery Book) by Claude Delafosse
- Finding Out About Deserts by Usborne (oop)
- The Nile River by Allan Fowler
- Senefer: A Young Genius in Old Egypt (Young Readers) by Beatrice Lumpkin (oop)
- Joseph by Brian Wildsmith
- The Story About Pingby Marjorie Flack
- The Emperor and the Kite by Jane Yolen
- Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
- The Greatest Power by Demi
- The Empty Pot by Demi
- A Grain of Rice by Helena Clare Pittman
- The Hardest Word: A Yom Kippur Story by Jacqueline Jules
- Baby Moses (Step into Reading, Step 1, paper) by Linda Hayward (oop)
- Moses in the Bulrushes by Warwick Hutton (oop)
- Exodus by Brian Wildsmith
- A Place in the Sun by Jill Rubalcaba (oop)
- Gift Of The Nile by Jan M. Mike (oop)
- The Scarab’s Secret by Nick Would
- The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo
- The Winged Cat by Deborah Nourse Lattimore (oop)
- Croco’nile by Roy Gerrard (oop)
- The Shipwrecked Sailor: An Egyptian Tale with Hieroglyphs by Tamara Bower (oop)
- Who Was King Tut? by Roberta Edwards
- Tutankhamen’s Gift by Robert Sabuda
- Hieroglyphs by Joyce Milton
- Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki
- Tut’s Mummy: Lost…And Found by Judy Donnelly
- Mummies by Joyce Milton (oop)
- Egyptian Tomb: Hidden World by Claude Delafosse (oop)
- Hieroglyphs from A to Z: A Rhyming Book With Ancient Egyptian Stencils for Kids by Peter Manuelian (oop)
- D’aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d’Aulaire and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
- The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the Wa by Emily Little
- A City Through Time by DK Publishing and Steve Noon (oop)
- Classic Myths to Read Aloud by William F. Russell
- The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Huchet Bishop
- The Flower of Sheba by Doris Orgel (oop)
- David and the Giant by Emily Little
- Ancient Greece and the Olympics: A Nonfiction Companion to Hour of the Olympics (Magic Tree House Research Guide #10) by Mary Pope Osborne
- Finders Keepers? (India Unveiled Childrens Series, 1) by Robert A. Arnett
- Fantastic Inventions and Inventors: True Stories from Ancient China by Kang Zhu
- King Midas and the Golden Touch by Charlotte Craft
- Jerusalem, Shining Still by Karla Kuskin (oop)
- Aesop for Children by Milo Winter
- Story of Daniel in the Lions’ Den by Michael McCarthy (oop)
- Song of Creation by Paul Goble
- The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
- Savitri: A Tale of Ancient India by Aaron Shepard (oop)
- One Grain Of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi
- The Legend of the Persian Carpet by Tomie dePaola (oop)
- The Persian Cinderella by Shirley Climo
- Ancient Greeks (Usborne Beginners) by Stephanie Turnbull (oop)
- Esther’s Story by Diane Wolkstein (oop)
- Life in Ancient Athens by Jane Shuter
- Atlantis: The Legend of a Lost City by Christina Balit (oop)
- Archimedes Takes a Bath, by Joan M. Lexau (oop)
- The Great Alexander the Great by Joe Lasker (oop)
- Alexander the Great: True Lives by Andrew Langley
- You Wouldn’t Want to Be in Alexander the Great’s Army!: Miles You’d Rather Not March by Jacqueline Morley
- Terra-Cotta Soldiers: Army of Stone by Arlan Dean
- The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky
- Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China by Ai-Ling Louie
- Hanukkah at Valley Forge by Stephen Krensky
- You Are in Ancient China by Ivan Minnis
- Romans (Usborne Beginners) by Katie Daynes (oop)
- Who Were the Romans? by Phil Roxbee Cox
- Growing Up In Ancient Rome (Growing Up In series) by Mike Corbishley (oop)
- Growing Up In Ancient Greece (Growing Up In series) by Chelepi (oop)
- Growing Up In Ancient Egypt by Rosalie David (oop)
- Growing Up In Ancient China (Growing Up In series) by Teague (oop)
- Cleopatra and the King’s Enemies: Based on a True Story of Cleopatra in Egypt by Joan Holub
- Cleopatra by Diane Stanley
- You Wouldn’t Want to Be Cleopatra!: An Egyptian Ruler You’d Rather Not Be by Jim Pipe, David Salariya and David Antram
- Augustus Caesar’s World by Genevieve Foster
- Little Miriam of Galilee by Edith Martin
- Close Your Eyes So You Can See: Stories of Children in the Life of Jesus by Michael Card (oop)
- Jesus of Nazareth: A Life of Christ Through Pictures by National Gallery of Art (oop)
- Hannibal and the King by Emily Quintero-Spongberg (oop)
- The Tale of Three Trees: A Traditional Folktale by Angela Elwell Hunt
- The Easter Story by Brian Wildsmith
The Boys:
Classic Read-Alouds:
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- Original Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright
- The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
- A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (illustrator Tasha Tuder)
- The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
- Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
- Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
- Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
- Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Polite Elephant by Richard Scarry
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Jr Bill Martin and John Archambault
- Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 by Jr Bill Martin and Michael Sampson
- Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
- Pooh Library by A. A. Milne
Books to read with Explode the Code series:
- My “______” Book (letter series) by Jane Belk Moncur
- Fish Is Fish by Leo Lionni
- Frederick by Leo Lionni
- Buster by Denise Fleming
- The Baby Beebee Bird by Diane Redfield Massie
- Missing Molly by Lisa Jahn-Clough
- The Mitten by Jan Brett
- If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Numeroff
- What Do You Do With A Kangaroo?By Mercer Mayer
- Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
- My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohman
- Lily’s Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
- If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff
- The Popcorn Book by Tomie DePaola
- The Reasons for Seasons by Gail Gibbons
- Sammy the Seal by Syd Hoff
- Night Noises by Mem Fox
- The Name Jarby Yangsook Choi
- Hats, Hats, Hats (Around the World Series) by Ann Morris
- The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! By Mo Willems
- The Stray Dog by Marc Simont
- Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff
- The Caterpillar and the Polliwog by Jack Kent
- Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
- Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus
- Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile by Bernard Waber
- Whose Garden Is It? by Mary Ann Hoberman
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Mary Finch, Roberta Arenson
- Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
- The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins
- Feel the Wind by Arthur Dorros
- Wiggling Worms at Work by Wendy Pfeffer
- Yo! Yes? (Scholastic Bookshelf) by Chris Raschka
- The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin
- What If the Zebras Lost Their Stripes?by John Reitano
- The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
- Hattie And The Fox by Mem Fox