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.

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

Mother Goose nursery rhymes

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

The Arabian Nights

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