Book Recommendations for First Grade-
Perfect for Reading Aloud
We have collected our Waldorf inspired reading list that is age appropriate for each child.
● A First Reading Book for Waldorf Schools: Hay for My Ox
● Afanaser: Russian Fairy Tales
● Alfred Tennyson: The Brook
● An Illustrated Treasury of Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Daniela Drescher
● Arthur Ransome: Old Peter’s Russian Tales
● Asbjornsen and Moe: East of Sun and West of Moon
● Astrid Lindgren: Christmas in the Noisy Village
● Astrid Lindgren: Christmas in the Stable
● Astrid Lindgren: The Children on Troublemaker Street
● Barbara Helen Berger: Animalia
● Barbara Helen Berger: Grandfather Twilight
● Barbara Helen Berger: Gwinna
● Barbara Helen Berger: The Donkey’s Dream
● Barbara Helen Berger: The Jewel Heart
● Barbara Helen Berger: When the Sun Rose
● Carol Ann Williams: Tsubu the Little Snail
● Cicely Mary Barker: Flower Fairy Books
● Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
● Daniel C. Bryan: Sun and Seed
● D’Aulaire: Children of the Northern Light
● Elizabeth Orton Jones: Twig
● Eric G. Müller: The Invisible Boat and the Molten Dragon
● Ethel Cook Eliot: The Wind Boy
● Famke Zonnenveld: Waldorf Alphabet Book
● Flora Annie Steel: English Fairy Tales
● Gerald McDermott: Zomo the Rabbit
● Gunhild Sehlin: Mary’s Little Donkey
● Henry Horenstein: My Mom’s Vet
● Hunt, Margaret and James Stern, editors: The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales (introduction by Padraic Colum and commentary by Joseph Campbell. pub. Pantheon Jacobs, Joseph, editor: English Fairy Tales illustrated by John D. Batten)
● Jacob Streit: Puck the Gnome
● Jacob Streit: Tatatuk’s Journey to the Crystal Mountings
● Joel Chandler: Uncle Remus
● Judith Adams: Hedgehogs’ Midnight Milking
● Judith Adams: Looking for a Fairy
● Julius Lester: The Tales of Uncle Remus
● Kenneth Grahame: The Reluctant Dragon
● Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows
● Luke Fischer: The Blue Forest
● Maj Lindman: Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and the Three Kittens series
● Orczy: Old Hungarian Fairy Tales
● Paul F. Cooper: Tal: His Marvelous Adventures with Noom-Zoor-Noom
● Rinna Hermann: The Sand Elephant
● Robert McCloskey: One Morning In Maine
● Shelley Davidow: The Wise Enchanter
● Sieglinde De Francesca: A Gnome-in-Training (Book 5)
● Sieglinde De Francesca: Gnomes and Friends (Book2)
● Sieglinde De Francesca: Nine Gnome Nights (Book 4)
● Sieglinde De Francesca: The Gnomes’ Rosette (Book 3)
● Sieglinde De Francesca: The Way of the Gnome (Book 1)
● Steig William: Dominic
● Tomie De Paola: Big Anthony
● Tomie De Paola: Clown of God
● Tomie De Paola: Oliver Button is a Sissy
● Tomie De Paola: Stregna Nona
● Wyatt Isabel: Seven Year Old Wonder Book
● Wyatt Isabel: The Book of Fairy Princes