Top 60+ Read Aloud Chapter Books for Elementary Children

Read-alouds are one of the most important tools for parents! Through read-alouds, you can:

• Nurture a love of reading in your kids

• Teach your kids crucial character lessons through discussion of stories that depict loving households, struggles and triumphs, and everyday life

• Introduce your children to new ideas, cultures, and places

But what to read? Here's my list of our favorite 60+ Read-Aloud Chapter Books for young kids up to around age 10 years old or so. Older kids may love many of these, too!

10 Tips for Read Aloud Success

Animal Stories

1. Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter

2. Charlotte's Web by EB White

3. Winnie-the-Pooh (series) by A. A. Milne

4. Mr Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

5. The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

6. Among the Meadow People (series) by Clara Dillingham Pierson

7. Misty of Chincoteague (series) by Marguerite Henry

8. Old Mother West Wind by Thornton W Burgess

9. A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond

10. Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess

11. Stuart Little by EB White

12. Pagoo by Holling C Holling

13. Rascal by Sterling North

14. Trumpet of the Swan by EB White

15. Burgess Bird Book for Children

16. Cinnabar, the One O'clock Fox by Marguerite Henry

17. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

History and Family Life Books

18. Alfie Out of Doors Storybook by Shirley Hughes

19. Little House in the Big Woods (series) by Laura Ingalls Wilder

20. Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

21. Little Britches (series) by Ralph Moody

22. Heidi by Johanna Spyri

23. The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

24. Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

25. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

26. Dr. Beaumont and the Man With the Hole in His Stomach by Sam and Beryl Epstein

27. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

28. Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter

29. The Good Master by Kate Seredy

30. The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy

31. Tree in the Trail by Holling C Holling

32. Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs by Betty Birney

33. Black Gold by Marguerite Henry

34. The Great Expedition of Lewis and Clark: by Private Reubin Field, Member of the Corps of Discovery by Judith Edwards

35. Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog's Tale by Laurie Myers

36. I am Sacagawea by Grace Norwich

37. Children of the Longhouse by Joseph Bruchac

38. The Christmas Barn by C.L. Davis

39. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

40. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

41. The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
    

Windows to Other Cultures

42. Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

43. Solomon the Ant and Other Jewish Folktales by Sheldon Oberman

44. The Magic Boat and Other Chinese Folk Stories by Jagendorf and Weng

45. The Honey Jar by Rigoberta Menchu

46. The Adventures of Spider by Joyce Cooper Arkhurst

47. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

48. Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin

49. When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin

50. Gaudenzia, Pride of the Palio by Marguerite Henry

Fantasy and Adventure Books

51. Homer Price by Robert McClosky

52. Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price by Robert McClosky

53. Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling

54. The Great Turkey Walk by Kathleen Karr

55. Dealing with Dragons (and rest of Enchanted Forest Chronicles series) by Patricia Wrede

56. The Three Tales of My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett

57. Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

58. Five Children and It (series) by Edith Nesbit

59. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (series) by C.S. Lewis

60. Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brien

61. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

    
    

Do you have any other favorite read-alouds to share? Please comment below!

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