Lazy Self-Indulgent Book Reviews

Lazy - “I bought the children’s books for Amelia today.”

Industrious - “Great! Which ones?”

Lazy - “…all of them.”

There are still some holes to fill in, but I think we’ve made a good start, considering she’s four months old.

Eight Cousins, Louisa May Alcott

Jo’s Boys, Louisa May Alcott

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Rose in Bloom, Louisa May Alcott

The Chronicles of Prydain, Lloyd Alexander

All of the Berenstain Bears Books, Stan Berenstain

The Fudge Books, Judy Blume

The Going to Bed Book, Sandra Boynton

The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll

The Complete Ramona, Beverly Cleary

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

The Dark is Rising Sequence, Susan Cooper

All of the Roald Dahl

D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths

D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths

Bonjour, Babar!, Jean De Brunhoff

The Black Stallion series - Walter Farley

Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh

The Owl Service, Alan Garner

The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Black and White, Tana Hoban

Everything, Marguerite Henry

The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats

Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg

Pat the Bunny, Dorothy Kunhardt

Peek-a Who?, Nina Laden

The Earthsea Cycle, Ursula K. Le Guin

The Wrinkle in Time Quintet, Madeleine L’Engle

The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

The Complete Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren

The Call of the Wild, Jack London

White Fang, Jack London

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, Bill Martin Jr.

The House at Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne

Now We Are Six, A.A. Milne

When We Very Young, A.A. Milne

Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne

The Anne Books, Lucy Maud Montgomery

Chronicles of Avonlea, Lucy Maud Montgomery

Further Chronicles of Avonlea, Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Emily Books, Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Road to Yesterday, Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Story Girl, Lucy Maud Montgomery

Five Children and It, E. Nesbit

The Enchanted Castle, E. Nesbit

The Phoenix and the Carpet, E. Nesbit

The Railway Children, E. Nesbit

The Story of the Amulet, E. Nesbit

The Story of the Treasure Seekers, E. Nesbit

The Would-Be-Goods, E. Nesbit

The Borrowers, Mary Norton

Hatchet, Gary Paulson

The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter, Beatrix Potter

My Big Animal Book, Roger Priddy

His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

The Complete Adventures of Curious George, H.A. Rey

The Wayside School Series, Louis Sachar

The Riverside Anthology of Children’s Literature, ed. Judith Saltman

The Good Master, Kate Seredy

The Singing Tree, Kate Seredy

The White Stag, Kate Seredy

A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

The Bare Naked Book, Kathy Stinson

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

A Starlit Snowfall, Nancy Willard

The Complete E.B. White, E.B. White

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Diana Wynne Jones