Comments on: Our top 25 read-alouds (ages 5-12) https://simplehomeschool.net/top-25-read-alouds/ Never let your schooling interrupt your education. Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:38:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Carla https://simplehomeschool.net/top-25-read-alouds/#comment-603420 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=15735#comment-603420 Our favorite book is Johnny Tremain, followed closely by Carry On, Mr Bowditch.

]]> By: Hilarie https://simplehomeschool.net/top-25-read-alouds/#comment-530903 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=15735#comment-530903 I love all these books and read a lot of them to my children. Many of these are classics and deservedly so, but wow, this list is really white — except for The Mountain Meets the Moon. For children under 8 why not add The No Dogs Allowed Rule by Kashmira Sheth and John Henry by Julius Lester (picture book). For children over eight don’t miss the powerful Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor, The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Lee Curtis, The Birchbark House and Chickadee by Louise Erdrich and Esperanza Rising by Pam Nunoz Ryan. Maybe I missed them, or maybe they are part of your curriculum, but I’d also add D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths, D’Aulaire’s Book of Norse Myths, and The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton. Rascal by Sterling North is another classic.

]]> By: Jann Weeratunga https://simplehomeschool.net/top-25-read-alouds/#comment-526409 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=15735#comment-526409 In reply to marnie.

Try Polly’s Piralympics, it’s a new book out and part of a series about Pirates who hold their own Paralympic Games.
Going down very well in Schools in South Africa

]]> By: Essie https://simplehomeschool.net/top-25-read-alouds/#comment-508254 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=15735#comment-508254 In reply to Anna.

I thughot finding this would be so arduous but it’s a breeze!

]]> By: Molly https://simplehomeschool.net/top-25-read-alouds/#comment-474169 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=15735#comment-474169 In reply to Allisson Reed.

Yes, absolutely…read good classics that can keep their attention!!

]]> By: Molly https://simplehomeschool.net/top-25-read-alouds/#comment-474164 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=15735#comment-474164 All Roald Dahl books especially The Witches, BFG, Fantastic Mr Fox; Where the Red Fern Grows, Narnia

]]> By: Jennifer Hatch https://simplehomeschool.net/top-25-read-alouds/#comment-451090 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=15735#comment-451090 Oh and we loved: Warren the 13th and the All Seeing Eye! That one was the book that made my 7 year old love reading. Though nothing after has been quite like it for him. He keeps saying he wishes he could find another book like that one.

]]> By: Jennifer Hatch https://simplehomeschool.net/top-25-read-alouds/#comment-451089 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=15735#comment-451089 These are some of our favorites over the years, most of which we have read multiple times: The Wind in the Willows, Farmer Boy, Robin Hood, Otto of the Silver Hand, the first 2 Narnia books, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, Pinocchio, Little House in the Big Woods, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, The Phantom Toolbooth, Breaking Stalin’s Nose. Around October we love to revisit: The Canterville Ghost, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and especially The Marvelous Land of Oz. Around Christmas they always ask for A Christmas Carol.

]]> By: Rita Rash https://simplehomeschool.net/top-25-read-alouds/#comment-363754 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=15735#comment-363754 In reply to Paula.

Our oldest is 16, along with a 12 and 10 year old. We still do read alouds and they all enjoy it. On long trips I will read aloud until I can’t anymore…even hubby likes to be read to. We leave on a trip with my in-laws before long and have the last 3 of the Ralph Moidy books ready to go.

]]> By: JulieF https://simplehomeschool.net/top-25-read-alouds/#comment-358382 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=15735#comment-358382 Read many many Newberys aloud to son and one of my surprise favorites was Rabbit Hill. I will go back and read it again for myself.

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