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Post Number: 183
Registered: 05-2002
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Okay, after pondering this a while, I sat here and composed this list.
Here is a list of children's literature recommended by The Whole Hearted Child, as well as several others I am adding from the Moore's Catalog. I am not listing all the books WHC recommends, only the ones that they say are particularly family-affirming, morally and/or spiritually inspiring. I'll break the list further into categories as well.
These are NOT all acceptable according to the Moores standards. Discernment and personal conviction must still certainly be used when choosing books from this or any other list! I am only trying to include fiction or true story-based here, not biographies or testamonies, as those are clear cut in the Moore Catalog.
Some of these *are* found in the Moore Association catalog. I shall put an asterisk by the ones that are.
CLASSIC LITERATURE
Little Women; Little Men; Jo's Boys; and others by (Louisa May Alcott)
Anne of Green Gables; Anne of Avonlea (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates (Mary Mapes Dodge)
Heidi (Johanna Spyri)
*Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
Pollyanna (Eleanor H. Porter)
Freckles; Girl of the Limberlost; others by Gene Stratton Porter
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Kate Wiggins)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
The Swiss Family Robinson (Johann Wyss)
CONTEMPORARY FICTION
All of a Kind Family books (Sydney Taylor)
Chronicles of Narnia (CS Lewis)
Elsie Dinsmore series (Martha Finley)
Five Little Peppers books (Margaret Sidney)
*Little House series (Laura Ingalls Wilder) (The Moores *DO* sell the Prairie Primer...)
*Little House on Rocky Ridge
Little Britches; Father and I Were Ranchers; others by (Ralph Moody)
Treasures of the Snow; others by (Patricia St. John)
Uncle Arthur's Children's Stories (Arthur Maxwell)
*Missionary Stories and The Millers
*Wisdom and the Millers
*Storytime and the Millers
*The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls
*Tiger and Tom and other Stories for Boys
*The Little Medicine Carrier
*Little Daisy and the Swearing Class
*Little Woodchopper
*Secret Church
*Teddy's Button
PICTURE BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATED STORY BOOKS
Brother Francis and the Friendly Beasts (Margaret Hodges)
A Chair for Mother (Vera B. Williams)
Dangerous Journey (John Bunyan, condensed Pilgrims Progress)
Little Pilgrim's Progress (my children's favorite version!)
Least of All (Carol Purdy)
Love You Forever (Robert Munsch)
Miss Rumphius; Only Opal (Barbara Cooney)
Robin Hood (Margaret Early, Abrams)
Song and Dance Man (Karen Ackerman)
St. George and the Dragon (Margaret Hodges)
The Velveteen Rabbit (Rose Reed)
Wilford Gordon McDonald Partridge (Mem Fox)
William Tell (Margaret Early, Abrams)
The Young Artist (Locker)
HISTORY (okay, some of these AREN'T fiction...)
Ancient World:
The Bronze Bow (Elizabeth Speare)
Joel, A Boy of Galilee (Johnston)
Middle Ages:
Joan of Arc (Lucy Foster Madison)
Saint Valentine (Robert Sabuda)
Reformation:
The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt By Day (Scott O'Dell)
Morning Star of the Reformation (Andy Thompson)
Ink on His Fingers; The Bible Smuggler; others by (Louise Vernon)
(available from Greenleaf Press)
Colonial America:
*The Courage of Sarah Noble; The First Thanksgiving, others by (Alice
Dalgliesh)
Little Maid of New England; Little Maid of Virginia (Alice Turner
Curtis)
Three Young Pilgrims (Cheryl Harness)
Christian Liberty Press books [Exploring American History; Stories of
Pilgrims; etc.]
Revolutionary America:
Amos Fortune (Elizabeth Yates)
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (Jean Lee Latham)
Pioneer America:
Caddie Woodlawn (Carol Ryris Brink)
Johnny Appleseed (Steven Kellogg)
POETRY:
A Child's Garden of Verses (Robert Louis Stevenson)
A Christian Treasury (Crossway Books)
Susan McGlohn
Homeschooling 9 years and counting 
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