Thinking of cultivating your little ones reading habit during this uncertain period? Well here’s a book list that parents can start their children off with.
Choosing the right books for your children can be easy if parents know what to look for. These are some of the books that you can get for your children and some of the famous children book authors that parents can keep in mind for future references.
The first thing to look at when buying a book is your child’s age and their level of reading ability. Here are some tips to choose an age-appropriate book for your child. Parents can also test your child’s reading and comprehension with these few reading level tests.
The first age category of book list that we will start off with is from age 3-5. This range of age needs books that have simple and bold pictures with rhyming texts that help them memorize the words that they see.
Repetitive and rhyming words are perfect for a fun learning process. Try and find books that can go on and on. The perfect story that can continue on into their dreams, especially when you read your children to sleep.
A Book List for 3-5 Years Old Toddler
1. Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
2. The Wonderful Things You Will Be by Emily Winfield Martin
3. Corduroy by Don Freeman
4. Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
5. Dear Zoo book by Rod Campbell
6. Stephanie’s Ponytail by Robert Munsch
7. Goodnight Moon By Margaret Wise Brown
8. Thomas’s Snowsuit Robert Munsch
9. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? By Bill Martin Jr.
10. A Color of His Own By Leo Lionni
A Book List for Primary School Students and above
Children in this age will want to be more independent and this means they will want to read by themselves.
1. The Famous Five By Enid Blyton
2. Secret Seven By Enid Blyton
3. Malory Towers By Enid Blyton
4. Nancy Drew By Carolyn Keene.
5. Hardy Boys By Franklin W. Dixon
6. Finishing School Series By Gail Carriger
7. Artemis Fowl By Eoin Colfer
8. Percy Jackson & the Olympians By Rick Riordan
9. Harry Potter By J.K Rowling
10. The 39 Clues by a collaboration of authors
If the book list does not help or you’re done with it. Here are some famous children’s books authors that wrote amazing, full of fun and inspirational storybooks.
Additional Reading: Author List
C. S. Lewis
Lewis is a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University and Cambridge University.
He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
Most have a theme involving Christianity such as sin, humanity’s fall from grace, and redemption. This happens as he fell from his faith and return back to his faith and become one of his main inspiration.
Roald Dahl
Meet Roald Dahl a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and when in need a wartime fighter pilot. He became one of the world’s best-selling authors in the 1940s with works for children and for adults. He has been referred to as “one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century”.
The short stories told by Dahl are known for their unexpected endings, and his children’s books for their unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, featuring villainous adult enemies of the child characters.
His books champion the kindhearted and feature an underlying warm sentiment. His work includes The Gremlins, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Matilda, The Magic Finger, and many more exciting books.
Robert Munsch
Robert Munsch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and from Boston University with a Master of Arts degree in anthropology.
Munsch is known for his exuberant storytelling methods, with exaggerated expressions and acted voices. His stories do not have a recurring single character; instead, the characters are based on the children to whom he first told the story, including his own children.
He often performs at children’s festivals and appears at elementary schools, sometimes unannounced. The Boy in the Drawer, David’s Father, Thomas’ Snowsuit, 50 Below Zero, Love You Forever, Angela’s Airplane, I Have To Go!, Giant; or Waiting for the Thursday Boat and many others.
Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss “Ted” Geisel)
Theodor Seuss was an American children’s author, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, screenwriter, and filmmaker. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr Seuss.
His work includes many of the most popular children’s books of all time. He published his first children’s book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street in 1937.
Along with this anapestic tetrameter metric method, Seuss also utilized italics, full capitalization, different coloured words and different sized letters to steer the reader down the paths of his books. Dr Seuss’s contributions stemmed beyond the creation of colourful words to benefiting the illiterate.
Kate Dicamillo
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo, born March 25, 1964, is an American writer of children’s fiction for all reading levels, usually featuring animals.
She is one of six people to win two Newbery Medals, recognizing her novels The Tale of Despereaux (2003) and Flora & Ulysses (2013).
Children love her books because it depicts the theme loss, separation, love, having a heart, fear, hope, despair, transformation, and being a disappointment to others.
The very real feelings and relatable characters are also why her books are so popular. Her best-known books for young children are the Mercy Watson series, illustrated by Chris Van Dusen. DiCamillo was the U.S. National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, appointed by the Library of Congress.