Old and New  Favorite Read-Alouds

J Fic Atw     Atwater, Richard and Florence - Mr. Popper’s Penguins. The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar re-gions.

 

J Fic Bar     Barrie, J.M. - Peter Pan.  The adven- tures of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.     

 

J Fic Bar     Barry, Dave - Peter and the Starcatchers. Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from Eng- land on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, who mission is to guard a trunk of medical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island.

 

J Fic Bir     Birdsall, Jeanne - The Penderwicks.

While vacationing with their widowed father in the

Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four

through twelve, share adventures with a local boy,

much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.

 

J Fic Bya     Byars, Betsy - My Dog, My Hero. A

panel of three judges has to decide which dog out of eight finalists deserves to win the title of My Hero.

 

J Fic Cle     Cleary, Beverly - The Mouse and the Motorcycle. A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Moun-

Tain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling.

 

J Fic Coa     Coatsworth, Elizabeth - Daisy. During the family’s Christmas vacation in Mexico, and eleven-year-old girl decides to explore Mexico City on her own and gets hopelessly lost.

 

 

J Fic Dah     Dahl, Roald - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Willy Wonka’s famous chocolate factory is opening at last, but only five lucky children will be allowed inside. The beginning adventures of Charlie Bucket.

 

 

 

 

J Fic Gan     Gannett, Ruth Stiles - My Father’s Dragon. A young boy determines to rescue a poor baby dragon who is being used by a group of lazy wild animals to ferry them across the river on Wild Island.

 

J Fic Hoe     Hoeye, Michael - Time Stops for No Mouse. When Linka Perflinger, a jaunty mouse, brings a watch into his shop to be repaired and then disappears, Hermux Tantamoq is caught up in a world of dangerous search for eternal youth as he tries to find out what happened to her.

 

J Fic How     Horvath, Polly - The Pepins and Their Problems. The unusual Pepin family confront numerous problems, such as having a cow who creates lemonade rather than milk and having to cope with a competitive neighbor, and the reader is invited to help them solve them.

J Fic Kip     Kipling, Rudyard - Just So Stories.

Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other

Subjects include “How the Camel Got His Hump,”

“The Butterfly That Stamped,” and “How the Alphabet Was Made.”

 

J Fic Mac     MacDonald, Betty - Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children’s diseases as Won’t-Put-Away-Toy-it is, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarelitis

 

J Fic Spi     Spinelli, Jerry - Maniac Magee. After

his parents die, Jerry Lionel Magee’s life be-

comes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.

 

J FIc Wil     Wiles, Deborah - Each Little Bird That

Sings. Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-

year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-

wrenching events that begins on the first day of

Easter vacation with the sudden death of her be-loved great-uncle Edisto.