Websites offering summertime book recommendations can be overwhelming.
One of my favorite online resource for book recommendations is
http://www.neh.gov/projects/summertime-kto3.html Their recommendations are refreshingly on target for age appropriate titles.
In choosing books children will enjoy, parents should pay attention not just to the reading level but also to the emotional readiness a child brings to the story.
Some of my favorite evergreen titles:
Picture books ….& NO one ever outgrows the love of a great picture book:
Amos & Boris by William Steig
Henrietta and the Golden Egg by Hanna Johansen
Unlovable by Dan Yaccarino
Way to Start a Day by Byrd Baylor
Books for children in grades 2-5
Balto and the Great Race by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Jake Drake Know-It-All by Andrew Clements
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Books for Children in Grades 4-6+
The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber|
Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O’Brien
