Reading List

Sailing Ship Series Grades K-1

Volume 1

The Shoemaker and the Elves Brothers Grimm as told by Wanda Gág

The Frog Went A-Traveling Russian folktale as told by Vsevolod Garshin

"Night into Dawn" Poetry by Robert Hillyer and John Ciardi, and a Mescalero Apache song

Volume 2

The Tale of Two Bad Mice Beatrix Potter

Bouki Cuts Wood Haitian folktale as told by Harold Courlander

"Fantasy" Poetry by Sylvia Plath, Edward Lear, and Lewis Carroll

Volume 3

Lion at School Philippa Pearce

Coyote Rides the Sun Native American folktale as told by Jane Louise Curry

"Seasons" Poetry by Nikki Giovanni, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Langston Hughes

Dragon Series Grades K-1

Volume 1

The Frog Prince Brothers Grimm as told by Wanda Gag

Guinea Fowl and Rabbit Get Justice African folktale as told by Harold Courlander and George Herzog

"Nature Speaks" Poetry by Carl Sandburg, James Reeves, and Federico García Lorca

Volume 2

Feraj and the Magic Lute Arabian folktale as told by Jean Russell Larson

The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse Beatrix Potter

"Companions" Poetry by A. A. Milne, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Robert Louis Stevenson

Volume 3

Buya Marries the Tortoise African folktale as told by W. F. P. Burton
The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Pop Corn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back Carl Sandburg
"Magical Places" Poetry by Byrd Baylor, William Shakespeare, and Martin Brennan

Sun Series Grade 1

Volume 1

The Black Hen's Egg French folktale as told by Natalie Savage Carlson

The Mouse and the Wizard Hindu fable as told by Lucia Turnbull

"Imagination" Poetry by Leslie Norris, Mark Van Doren, and Robert Louis Stevenson

Volume 2

Rumpelstiltskin Brothers Grimm, translated by Ralph Manheim

Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents A. A. Milne

"When I Grow Up" Poetry by Rabindranath Tagore and X. J. Kennedy, and a Chippewa song

Volume 3

The King of the Frogs African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman

Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs Brothers Grimm, translated by Randall Jarrell

"Mysterious Animals" Poetry by T. S. Eliot, Jenifer Kelly, and Robert Graves

Pegasus Series Grade 1

Volume 1

Chestnut Pudding Iroquois folktale as told by John Bierhorst

The Pied Piper English folktale as told by Joseph Jacobs

"Fanciful Animals" Poetry by Edward Lear and A. A. Milne

Volume 2

The Mermaid Who Lost Her Comb Scottish folktale as told by Winifred Finlay

Hansel and Gretel Brothers Grimm, translated by Randall Jarrell

"Special Places" Poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Frost, and a Navajo poem

Volume 3

Mother of the Waters Haitian folktale as told by Diane Wolkstein

Zlateh the Goat Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Secret Messages" Poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson, Barbara Juster Esbensen, and Emily Dickinson

Series 2, Book One Grade 2

The Happy Lion Louise Fatio

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin Beatrix Potter

How the Camel Got His Hump Rudyard Kipling

Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath (from Winnie-the-Pooh) A. A. Milne

Arap Sang and the Cranes African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman

Blue Moose Daniel Manus Pinkwater

Anancy and Dog and Puss and Friendship West Indian folktale as told by James Berry

Jack and the Beanstalk English folktale as told by Joseph Jacobs

The Magic Listening Cap Japanese folktale as told by Yoshiko Uchida

The Jackal and the Partridge Punjabi folktale as told by Flora Annie Steel

Nail Soup Swedish folktale as told by Linda Rahm

The Apple of Contentment Howard Pyle

Series 2, Book Two Grade 2

The Red Balloon Albert Lamorisse

The Other Side of the Hill Elizabeth Coatsworth

The Emperor's New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen

How the Elephant Became Ted Hughes

Anansi's Fishing Expedition African folktale as told by Harold Courlander and George Herzog

The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams

The Terrible Leak Japanese folktale as told by Yoshiko Uchida

The Singing Tortoise West African folktale as told by Harold Courlander and George Herzog

Three Boys with Jugs of Molasses and Secret Ambitions Carl Sandburg

Cinderella Charles Perrault

The Mouse's Bride Indian folktale as told by Lucia Turnbull

How Coyote Stole the Sun Native American folktale as told by Jane Louise Cu