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BLOG: 10 Classic Books to Read with Your Kids

These books (singles or series) are classic must-reads and perfect for an afternoon on the couch as the weather starts to turn! You will rediscover characters you loved, memories forgotten, maybe even read a book you never read. Your children will be introduced to new friends and stories that will hopefully stay with them for a lifetime! And most of all, you will spend time together!

1.  Charlotte’s Web

2.  Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock

3.  Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

4.  Little House in the Big Woods

5.  The Hobbit

6.  The Secret Garden

7.  James and the Giant Peach

8.  The Boxcar Children

9.  Bridge to Terabithia

10.  Treasure Island

There are so many more—The Chronicles of Narnia, Winnie-the-Pooh, Anne of Green Gables, The Wizard of Oz...and this list doesn’t begin to cover the new reads that are sure to be considered classics soon!  

What favorites would you add to the list?

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Jenni Pompi

8:47 pm on Sunday, September 23, 2012

So many of my favorites are already on this list. I remember my mom reading us Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and Black Beauty. I look forward to reading those to my boys when they get older.

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Beth Panageotou

11:22 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Jenni,

Love those! Thanks so much for adding to the list!

(adding to a Reader's Choice board on Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/pagescorner)

tuyet duong

8:56 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Swiss Family Robinson (for fantasizing about the tree house!), any Roald Dahl book, Borrowers, The Little Princess, Aesop's Fables...

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Beth Panageotou

11:24 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Fables are so cool! And Swiss Family Robinson is a great adventure! Thanks for sharing your picks!

(adding to my Reader's Choice board on Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/pagescorner)

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