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Secular Charlotte Mason--Literature

Folk Tales/Mythology/Fairy Tales:

Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons," by Joseph Bruchac, Jonathan London and Thomas Locker

The Deetkatoo: Native American Stories About Little People," by John Bierhorst (Ed.) and Ron Hilbert Coy

Myth-o-Mania series, by Kate McMullan

Jim Weiss stories on cd

Sherwood Smith--recommended fantasy books

"Favorite Medieval Tales" retold by Mary Pope Osborne
"Oxford Myths and Legends"--Oxford University Press series

Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age Of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch

With a Whoop and a Holler: A Bushel of Lore from Way Down South by Nancy Van Laan and Scott Cook

 

 

Literature:

Picture Books On Shakespeare--

  • Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare, by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema
  • Will's Quill, or, How a Goose Saved Shakespeare by Don Freeman
  • William Shakespeare & the Globe by Aliki
  • All the World's a Stage, by Rebecca Piatt Davidson

Children's Illustrated versions of Shakespeare--   

  • Stories from Shakespeare: Six Dramatic Tales Retold for Children" retold by Nicola Baxter   (Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, and Antony & Cleopatra)
  • "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The Tempest" both retold by Bruce Coville
  • The Best of Shakespeare" by E. Nesbit (The Merchant of Venice, Tempest, As You Like It and seven others)\

Websites to find info and recordings/movies about Shakespeare--

books by Edith Nesbit

SearchLIT (online texts)

 

Poetry:

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson and Tasha Tudor

Poetry Speaks to Children (Book & CD) (Read & Hear) by Elise Paschen, Dominique Raccah, Nikki Giovanni, and X.J. Kennedy

Poetry Projects

 


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