{"id":3666,"date":"2020-11-06T17:13:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T01:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/bassol\/?page_id=3666"},"modified":"2025-11-18T22:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:23:43","slug":"family-read-aloud-lists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/bassol\/family-read-aloud-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Read Aloud Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few books that you might enjoy reading together as a family:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SERIES! The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates<\/strong>\u00a0by Caroline Carlson<\/li>\n<li><strong>SERIES! The Mouse and the Motorcycle<\/strong> by Beverly Cleary (movie!) *we are reading this now!<\/li>\n<li><strong>SERIES! The Wild Robot<\/strong> by Peter Brown<em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">(movie!)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>SERIES! Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing<\/strong> by Judy Blume<\/li>\n<li><strong>SERIES! Jake Drake, Bully Buster<\/strong> by Andrew Clements<\/li>\n<li><strong>SERIES!\u00a0 Paddington <\/strong>by Michael Bond (movie!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The One and Only Ivan<\/strong> by Katherine Applegate (movie!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>SERIES! A Bear called Paddington<\/strong> by Michael Bond<\/li>\n<li><strong>Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#8217;s Stone<\/strong> by J.K. Rowling (movie!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charlotte&#8217;s Web<\/strong> by E.B. White (movie!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>SERIES! The World According to Humphrey<\/strong> by Betty G. Birney<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tum Tum and Nutmeg<\/strong> <strong>series<\/strong> by Emily Bearn<\/li>\n<li><strong>James and the Giant Peach<\/strong> by Roald Dahl (movie!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Cricket in Times Square<\/strong> by George Selden<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wonder<\/strong> by R. J Palacio (movie!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>SERIES! My Father&#8217;s Dragon<\/strong> by Ruth Stiles Gannett (movie!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hundred Dresses<\/strong> by Eleanor Estes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh<\/strong> by Robert C. O&#8217;Brien<\/li>\n<li><strong>SERIES! Henry Huggins<\/strong> series by Beverly Cleary<\/li>\n<li><strong>Because of Winn-Dixie<\/strong> by Kate DiCamillo<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Tale of Despereaux<\/strong> by Kate DiCamillo (movie!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>*<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/blogs\/harperkids\/tagged\/chapter-book-7-8?view=childrens-sorted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More books to browse for family reading time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some Non-Fiction series to explore together:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/series\/DS3\/ordinary-people-change-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Ordinary People Change the World<\/strong><\/a> series by Brad Meltzer<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who Was?<\/strong> series (various authors)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/304889.The_Way_Things_Work?from_search=true&amp;from_srp=true&amp;qid=E7S6Cg5QIw&amp;rank=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Way Things Work Now<\/strong><\/a> series by David Macaulay<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/7-fascinating-books-for-fact-loving-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Books for fact loving kids<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few books that you might enjoy reading together as a family: SERIES! The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates\u00a0by Caroline Carlson SERIES! The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary (movie!) *we are reading this now! SERIES! The Wild Robot by Peter Brown\u00a0(movie!) SERIES! Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/bassol\/family-read-aloud-lists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Family Read Aloud Lists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8613,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/bassol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/bassol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/bassol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/bassol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/bassol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/bassol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9448,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/bassol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3666\/revisions\/9448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/bassol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}