Book list resources- how to find good books!
(MACHS parent-recommended book lists below)
- Books Children Love Elizabeth Laraway Wilson
- Honey for a Child’s Heart – Gladys Hunt
- Honey for a Teen’s Heart – Gladys Hunt
- Ambleside Online
- Read for the Heart – Sarah Clarkson
- SonLight curriculum website for their book list
- Danea Lawrenson “Read Aloud School” recommended reading list
Favorite places to buy books
- thrift stores- they have lots of classics pretty cheap
- Heritage Resources (Carman MB) –local bookseller, you can visit the store if you call ahead
- amazon.ca
- abebooks.com
- Nerman’s Books and Collectables (700 Osborne Street, Winnipeg)
- Well Trained Mind
- Christianbook.com
- Wholesome audio books from www.belovedbooks.com example: The Sugar Creek Gang.
- YWAM website
Favorite Read Alouds
- My Side of the Mountain series (Jean Craighead George)
- Christian Heroes: Then & Now (Janet and Geoff Benge)
- Julie of the Wolves series (Jean Craighead George)
- Heidi (Johanna Spyri)
- Lamplighter books
- Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis
- The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
- Bully Boys Eric Walters (all our kids favorite)
- Little Pilgrim’s Progress (younger kids) Helen L. Taylor
- Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan
- Bruchko Bruce Olson
- Secret Believers Brother Andrew and Al Janssen
- Through The Gates of Splendour. Elisabeth Elliot
- Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Finn Family Moomintroll Tove Jansson
- Peter Pan J.M. Barry
- All of a Kind Family Sydney Taylor
- Owls in the Family Farley Mowatt
- Ramona books Beverly Cleary
- Bears on Blue River Charles Major
- The Hundred Dresses Eleanor Estes
- The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place Maryrose Wood
- The Wilderking Trilogy Jonathan Rogers
- Green Ember S.D. Smith
MACHS Parent-Recommended Favourite Books for Kids
- The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
- The Indian in the Cupboard series- Lynn Reid Banks
- Watership Down– Richard Adams
- Around the World in 80 Days– Jules Verne
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh– O’Brian
- Little House series– Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Amos Fortune, Free Man
- Blueberries for Sal – Robert McCloskey
- Esio Trot (Roald Dahl)
- Giraffe, Pelly and Me (Roald Dahl)
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Barbara Robinson)
- The Christmas Blessing (Donna Van Liere)
- Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls: Moving Day (Meg Cabot)
- The Twits (Roald Dahl)
- George’s Marvellous Medicine (Roald Dahl)
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (Roald Dahl)
- Junie B. Jones Series
- The Trumpet of the Swan (E.B. White)
- Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
- Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne)
- Pollyanna (Eleanor Porter)
- A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
- Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maude Montgomery)
- The Naughtiest Girl in the School (Enid Blyton)
- The Naughtiest Girl Again (Enid Blyton)
- The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor (Enid Blyton)
- A Series of Unfortunate Events (Lemony Snicket) {older children enjoy these}
- Canadian Flyer Series (Frieda Wishinsky)
- books by Barbara Greenwood (The Last Safe House, Gold Rush Fever, A Pioneer Story)
- God’s Generals for Kids Series– by Roberts Liardon & Olly Goldenbergg
- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Series by Bety MacDonald
- Pippi Longstocking Series by Astrid Lindgren
- Mr.Popper’s Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Princess Bride (by William Goldman)
- White Fang by Jack London
- 30 Events That Shaped Church (by Alton Gansky)
- Women In Black History (by, Tricia Williams Jackson)
- Famous Five Series (Enid Blyton)
- Kingdom Series (Chuck Black)
- Hardy Boys Series (Franklin W. Dixon)
- Red Rock Mysteries (Jerry B. Jenkins)
- Books by Patricia St. John (Where the River Begins, Treasures of the Snow, Star of Light, The Tanglewood’s Secret, Rainbow Garden, The Secret at Pheasant Cottage)
- Two Little Knights of Kentucky (Annie Fellows Johnston)
- The Burgess Animal Book for Children
- A Dog’s Purpose
- YWAM Heroes of History Series
- The Jesus Centered Bible