Ambleside Book List Years 1 to 6

This booklist is arranged by Ambleside Year. There are 2 lists per year; Recommended Books and Suggested Extra books (italicized font). Books that are available online are underlined. There is an asterick (*) by the books the Advisory suggests as "Recommended Purchases" for those who are on a strict budget. Some of the "Recommended Purchase" books can be borrowed from your library, but are nice to have. These are a few recommended purchases in addition to the books needed for each year: A math program and a phonics program (if necessary), a Latin/foreign language program (4,5,6), Richard Hannula's Trial and Triumph is available at http://www.canonpress.org/pages/church.asp

Year 0 (Preschool)
For this age group, very few book purchases are necessary. These are nice to have. Author Title Anderson, Hans Christian Tales from Hans Christian Anderson Burton, Virginia Lee The Little House Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel Classically illustrated Mother Goose (Tasha Tudor, etc.) Classically illustrated Poetry (includes "The Pied Piper of Hamlin") Flack, Marjorie Ping Leaf, Munro Ferdinand McCloskey, Robert Blueberries for Sal Milne, A.A. House on Pooh Corner Now We are Six When We Were Very Young Winnie the Pooh Piper, Watty The Little Engine that Could (with original illustrations) Potter, Beatrix Any of her books (children really like the tiny books) Stevenson, Robert Louis A Child's Garden of Verses (with illustrations by Cooper Edens, Eulalie & Jessie Wilcox Smith, or Tasha Tudor) Ward, Lynn The Biggest Bear

Year 1
Author (*) Aesop Anderson, Hans Christian Baldwin, James Burgess, Thornton (*) Comstock, Anna Botsford (*) D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar (*) D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar (*) D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Gatty, Margaret Hall, Jennie (*) Hannula, Richard (*) Herriot, James (*) Holling, Holling C. (*) Holling, Holling C. Title Aesop's Fables (Milo Winter) Fairy Tales Fifty Famous Stories Retold by Thorton Burgess Bird Book Handbook of Nature Study (1,2,3,4,5,6) Benjamin Franklin Buffalo Bill George Washington Parables from Nature (1,2,3) Viking Tales Trial and Triumph (1,2,3,4,5,6) James Herriot's Treasury for Children Paddle to the Sea Seabird

(*) Holling, Holling C. Kipling, Rudyard Lamb, Charles & Mary Lang, Andrew Marshall, H.E. (*) Milne, A. A. (*) Milne, A. A. Nesbit, E. (Edith) Opie, Iona and Petere (*) Stevenson, Robert Louis

The Tree in the Trail Just So Stories Tales from Shakespeare (1,2,3) The Blue Fairy Book Our Island Story (An Island Story) (1,2,3,4,5) Now We Are Six When We Were Very Young Beautiful Stories form Shakespeare (1,2) The Oxford Book of Children's Verse A Child's Garden of Verses (illus. by Cooper Edens, Eulalie & Jessie Wilcox Smith, or Tasha Tudor) **purchase preferred

Year 1: Suggested Extra

Atwater, Richard Barrie, James, M. Collodi, Carlo D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Hodges, Margaret Lang, Andrew Ruskin, John White, E.B. (*) Wilder, Laura Ingalls Williams, Margery Mr. Popper's Penguins Peter Pan Pinocchio Pocahontas St. George and the Dragon The Red Fairy Book King of the Golden River Charlotte's Web Little House in the Big Woods The Velveteen Rabbit

Year 2
Author Anderson, Hans Christian Bagley Jr., William C. Bunyan, John Burgess, Thornton (*) Comstock, Anna Botsford D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Fisher, Dorothy Canfield Gatty, Margaret Grahame, Kenneth Green, Carol (*) Hannula, Richard (*) Hillyer, V. M. (*) Holling, Holling C. Komroff, Manuel Lamb, Charles & Mary Marshall, H.E. Marshall, H.E. Nesbit, E. (Edith) Preston, Edna Mitchell Pyle, Howard (*) Stanley, Diane Title Fairy Tales To Far Cathay (one Marco Polo option) Pilgrim's Progress (2,3) Thorton Burgess Animal Book Handbook of Nature Study (1,2,3,4,5,6) Columbus (alternate) Leif the Lucky (alternate) Understood Betsy Parables from Nature (1,2,3) Wind in the Willows Marco Polo: Voyager to the Orient (one option) Trial and Triumph (1,2,3,4,5,6) A Child's History of the World (2,3) Pagoo Marco Polo (one option) Illustrated by E. Cirlin Tales from Shakespeare (1,2,3) Our Island Story (An Island Story) (1,2,3,4,5) This Country of Ours (2,3,4,5) Beautiful Stories form Shakespeare (1,2) Marco Polo: A Story of the Middle Ages (one option) The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Joan of Arc

Walsh, R.J. Yonge, Charlotte

Marco Polo (Landmark Books) (one option) The Little Duke

Year 2: Suggested Extra

Browning, Robert Cooney, Barbara D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar De Angli, Marguerite DeJong, Meindert Hawthorne, Nathaniel Henry, Marguerite Lofting, Hugh Nesbit, E. (Edith) Pyle, Howard Sidney, Margaret Spyri, Joanna Travers, P.L. (*) Wilder, Laura Ingalls (*) Wilder, Laura Ingalls Pied Piper of Hamelin Chanticleer and the Fox Abraham Lincoln The Door in the Wall Along Came A Dog A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls Brighty of the Grand Canyon The Story of Doctor Dolittle Five Children and It Otto of the Silver Hand Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Heidi Mary Poppins Farmer Boy Little House on the Prairie

Year 3
Author Bunyan, John (*) Comstock, Anna Botsford (*) Daugherty, James (*) Friedhoffer, Robert Gatty, Margaret (*) Hahn, Emily (*) Hannula, Richard (*) Hillyer, V. M. (*) Holling, Holling C. Kingsley, Charles Kipling, Rudyard Lamb, Charles & Mary Long, William J. MacDonald, George Marryat, Fredierick Marshall, H.E. Title Pilgrim's Progress (2,3) Handbook of Nature Study (1,2,3,4,5,6) Landing of the Pilgrims Landmark Book (alternate) Science Lab in a Supermarket Parables from Nature (1,2,3) Da Vinci (Landmark Book) Trial and Triumph (1,2,3,4,5,6) A Child's History of the World (2,3) Minn of the Mississippi The Heroes The Jungle Book Tales from Shakespeare (1,2,3) Secrets of the Woods The Princess and the Goblin Children of the New Forest Our Island Story (An Island Story) (1,2,3,4,5)

Marshall, H.E. This Country of Ours (2,3,4,5) (*) McHugh, Michael J. The Story of Inventions (Christian Liberty Press) (*) Stanley, Diane Good Queen Bess (alternate) (*) Stanley, Diane Michelangelo (alternate) (*) Stoutenberg, Adrien American Tall Tales (*) Vennema, P. & Stanley, Diane Shakespeare Bard of England (*) Ziner, Feenie Squanto (1965 edition is called "Dark Pilgrim")

Year 3: Suggested Extra

Brink, Carol Ryrie Burnett, Frances Hodgson Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Lewis DeJong, Meindert (*) Enright, Elizabeth (*) Enright, Elizabeth (*) Enright, Elizabeth Goudge, Elizabeth Henry, Marguerite Jacobs, Joseph Kingsley, Charles MacDonald, George Major, Charles Pyle, Howard Ransome, Arthur (*) Wilder, Laura Ingalls Yonge, Charlotte

Caddie Woodlawn A Little Princess Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass The Wheel on the School The Four Story Mistake The Saturdays Then There Were Five The Little White Horse King of the Wind English Fairy Tales Water Babies At the Back of the North Wind The Bears of the Blue River Men of Iron Swallows and Amazons On the Banks of Plum Creek Unknown History: Captivity of Mary Scotland

Year 4
(*) A Latin/foreign language program Author (*) Bober, Natalie Bulfinch, Thomas (*) Burnford, Sheila (*) Comstock, Anna Botsford (*) Daugherty, James Defoe, Daniel (*) Foster, Genevieve (*) Friedhoffer, Robert (*) Hannula, Richard (*) Heyerdahl, Thor Irving,Washington Irving,Washington Kingsley, Charles Longfellow, Henry W. Marshall, H.E. Marshall, H.E. Plutarch (*) Richards, Lawrence Stevenson, Robert Louis Van Loon, Hendrick Various Translators Title Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution Age of Fables (4,5,6) Incredible Journey Handbook of Nature Study (1,2,3,4,5,6) Poor Richard Robinson Crusoe George Washington's World Physics Lab in the Home Trial and Triumph (1,2,3,4,5,6) Kon Tiki (look for the child's version) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle Madam How and Lady Why Paul Revere's Ride Our Island Story (An Island Story) (1,2,3,4,5) This Country of Ours (2,3,4,5) Plutarch's Lives (4,5,6) It Couldn't Just Happen Kidnapped Story of Mankind (old version) Beowulf (some versions online)

Year 4: Suggested Extra

Burnett, Frances Hodgson Caudill, Rebecca The Secret Garden Tree of Freedom

(*) Enright, Elizabeth (*) Enright, Elizabeth (*) Enright, Elizabeth Forbes, Esther Hale, Lucretia Henry, Marguerite Knight, Eric (*) Lewis, C.S. Moody, Ralph Morey, Walt Nesbit, E. (Edith) Porter, Eleanor Salten, Felix Savery, Constance Sewell, Anna Speare, Elizabeth George Speare, Elizabeth George Wilder, Laura Ingalls Yates, Elizabeth Yonge, Charlotte

Gone Away Lake Return to Gone Away Thimble Summer Johnny Tremain The Complete Peterkin Papers Justin Morgan had a Horse Lassie Comes Home The Chronicles of Narnia Little Britches Series Gentle Ben The Railway Children Pollyanna Bambi Reb and the Redcoats Black Beauty Calico Captive (girl interest) The Sign of the Beaver (boy interest) By the Shores of Silver Lake Amos Fortune, Free Man A Book of Golden Deeds

Year 5
(*) A Latin/foreign language program; biographies of Alexander Graham Bell and George Washington Carver; Laura Ingalls Wilder books (check library). Author (*) Axelrod, A & Phillips, C. Buckley, Arabella Bulfinch, Thomas (*) Comstock, Anna Botsford (*) Daugherty, James Dickens, Charles Dodge, Mary Mapes (*) Foster, Genevieve Friedhoffer, Robert (*) Grant, George Halliburton, Richard (*) Hannula, Richard Kipling, Rudyard Marshall, H.E. Marshall, H.E. Matthews, Tom L. (*) McHugh, Michael J. Plutarch Pyle, Howard (*) Rockness, Miriam Huffman Seton, Ernest Thompson Stevenson, O.J. Van Loon, Hendrick Title What Everyone whould Know About the 20th Century (5,6) Fairy-Land of Science Age of Fables (4,5,6) Handbook of Nature Study (1,2,3,4,5,6) Of Courage Undaunted: Across the continent with Lewis and Clark Oliver Twist Hans Brinker Abraham Lincoln's World Physics Lab in a Housewares Store Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Herosim of Teddy Roosevelt New Worlds to Conquer Trial and Triumph (1,2,3,4,5,6) Kim Our Island Story (An Island Story) (1,2,3,4,5) This Country of Ours (2,3,4,5) Always Inventing (one option) Christian Liberty Nature Reader #5 Plutarch's Lives (4,5,6) The Story of King Arthur and His Knights Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias Trotter Wild Animals I Have Known Talking Wire (one option) Story of Mankind (old version)

Year 5: Suggested Extra

Alcott, Louisa May Dickens, Charles Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hilton, James Hunt, Irene Keith, Harold Keller, Helen Kipling, Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Latham, Jean Lee Ludwig, Charles Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Lucy Maud Nesbit, E. (Edith) Nesbit, E. (Edith) Nordhoff, Charles & Hall, J. Stevenson, Robert Louis Terhune, Albert Twain, Mark Twain, Mark Wiggin, Kate Douglas (*) Wilder, Laura Ingalls (*) Wilder, Laura Ingalls (*) Wilder, Laura Ingalls (*) Wilder, Laura Ingalls Little Women A Christmas Carol Tanglewood Tales Goodbye Mr. Chips Across Five Aprils Rifles for Watie The Story of My Life Captains Courageous Puck of Pook's Hill Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Michael Farady, Father of Electronics Anne of Green Gables Rilla of Ingleside The Treasure Seekers The Woodbegoods Falcons of France Treasure Island Lad: A Dog Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Prince and the Pauper Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm The First Four Years Little Town on the Prairie The Long Winter These Happy Golden Years

Year 6
(*) A Latin/foreign language program; biographies about Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, etc. Author (*) Axelrod, A & Phillips, C. (*) Beechick, Ruth (*) Bendick, Jeanne Bulfinch, Thomas (*) Carson, Rachel (*) Comstock, Anna Botsford Cwiklik, Robert (*) Fleisher, Paul (*) (*) (*) (*) Foster, Genevieve Guerber, H.A. Guerber, H.A. Hannula, Richard Title What Everyone whould Know About the 20th Century (5,6) Genesis, Finding Our Roots Archimedes and the Door of Science Age of Fables (4,5,6) The Sea Around Us Handbook of Nature Study (1,2,3,4,5,6) Albert Einstein and Theory of Relativity Secrets of the Universe (OR "The Boy Scientist" by John Llewellyn) Augustus Caesar's World Story of the Greeks Story of the Romans Trial and Triumph (1,2,3,4,5,6) Tales of Troy (alternate) Missionary Travels School of the Woods Never Give in (Winston Churchill) Oridnary Genius (alternate) Animal Farm Plutarch's Lives (4,5,6)

Lang, Andrew Livingstone, David Long, William J. (*) Mansfield, Stephen McPherson, Stephanie (*) Orwell, George Plutarch

(*) Rosen, Sidney Sutcliff, Rosemary (*) A29Tolkien, J.R.R. Van Loon, Hendrick Various Translators

Galileo and the Magic Numbers Black Ships Before Troy (Illian alternate) The Hobbit Story of Mankind (old version) The Illiad (some versions online)

Year 6: Suggested Extra

Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Louisa May Benary-Isbert, Margo Brother, Andrew Dickens, Charles Gates, Doris Hautzig, Esther Hesse, Karen Hitt, Russel T London, Jack Long, William J. Lowry, Lois McSwigan, Marie Rawls, Wilson Scott, Sir Walter Sorensen, Virginia Speare, Elizabeth George Tarkington, Booth Taylor, Mildred D. Twain, Mark Van Stockum, Hilda Verne, Jules Von Trapp, Maria Wyss, Johann Jack & Jill Little Men The Ark God's Smuggler The Cricket on the Hearth Blue Willow The Endless Steppe Letters from Rifka Jungle Pilot: Nate Saint, Missionary to Ecuador The Call of the Wild Little Brother of the Bear Number the Stars Snow Treasure Where the Red Fern Grows Rob Roy Miracles on Maple Hill The Bronze Bow Penrod Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Winged Watchman Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea The Von Trapp Family Singers Swiss Family Robinson