Preschool Booklist
The sections called “Literature”, “Classic Texts”, and “Christian Literature” on this page are carefully chosen resource guides meant to support your child’s learning during this important time in their growth. While these books aren’t required parts of the formal curriculum, each one has been carefully reviewed and recommended for its excellent variety of literary styles, meaningful themes, and valuable moral and spiritual lessons. These books aim to expand your child’s thinking and help their spiritual growth, offering a well-rounded approach to learning beyond just school subjects. By reading these selected works, your child will be exposed to a wide range of ideas and values, encouraging them to think deeply, develop imagination, spark creativity, and gain a better understanding of both timeless truths and modern viewpoints.
In the “Curriculum Texts” section, you will find books that we highly recommend or required to effectively follow the provided curriculum. While your approach to designing your child's learning program may vary, certain reading assignments will be directly drawn from these materials.
Christian Literature
The Child’s Story Bible - Catherine Vos
Little Hands Learning to Pray - Carine Mackenzie
The Ology - Marty Machowski
God is Holy - Jessica Scott
Tiny Hands Collection- Hannah Estes
Do Great Things for God Series
All About Bible Animals - Simon Piscioneri
Training Young Hearts Series - Abbey Wedgeworth
Jesus Saves: The Gospel for Toddlers - Sarah Reju
Literature
The Story of Ferdinand - Munro Leaf
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carl
The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter
Corduroy - Don Freeman
Madeline - Ludwig Bemelmans
The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night - Peter Spier
Make Way for Ducklings - Robert McCloskey
Blueberries for Sal - Robert McCloskey
Anatole - Eve Titus
John Henry - Julius Lester
Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
The Trumpet of Swan - E.B. White
Kate DiCamillo Collection (The Tale of Despereaux)
The Cricket in Times Square - George Selden
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
Now We Are Six -
The Chronicles of Narnia Series (simplified versions) - C.S. Lewis
Miss Rumphius - Barbara Cooney
The Children’s Book of Virtues - William J. Bennett
This is the Way We Go to School - Edith Baer
Curriculum Texts
The Bible
Aesop's Fables (simplified versions) (620-650 BCE) - Aesop
A Child’s Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson
Handbook of Nature Study - Anna Botsford Comstock
Thornton Burgess Animal Stories
The Little House Books - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Classic Texts
Aesop's Fables (simplified versions) (620-650 BCE) - Aesop
The New England Primer (Boston 1777) - David Barton
McGuffey Readers (1830s) - William Holmes McGuffey
The Original Blue-Black Speller (1824) - Noah Webster
Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812) - Jacob Grimm
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales (1835) - Hans Christian Andersen
The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1766) - Oliver Goldsmith
Peter Parley Book of Fables (1834) - Ingram Cobbin and Samuel Griswold Goodrich
A Visit from St. Nicholas (Twas the Night Before Christmas) (1823)- Clement Moore
The Swiss Family Robinson (1812-1827) - Johann David Wyss
Robinson Crusoe (1719) - Daniel Defoe
Gulliver’s Travels (1726) - Jonathan Swift
Treasure Island (1883) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped (1886) - Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon’s Mines (1885) - H. Rider Haggard
Age-Appropriate Shakespeare
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- The Tempest
- The Comedy of Errors

