Book Recommendations for Fourth Grade
We have collected our Waldorf inspired reading list that is age appropriate for each child.
● Ann Tompert: Little Fox Goes to the End of the World
● Arthur Ransome: Swallows and Amazons
● Astrid Lindgren: Karlson on the Roof
● Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Goes on Board
● Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking
● Astrid Lindgren: Pippi on the Run
● Astrid Lindgren: The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
● Bill Peet: Big Bad Bruce
● Bill Peet: Eli
● C.S. Lewis: Prince Caspian
● C.S. Lewis: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
● C.S. Lewis: The Silver Chair
● Carlo Collodi: The Adventures of Pinocchio
● Charles Kovacs: Ancient Mythologies: India, Persia, Babylon, Egypt
● Chief Seattle: Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle
● Christine Nöstlinger: Conrad, The Factory – Made Boy
● Dan Millman: Quest for Crystal Castle
● Dan Millman: Secret of the Peaceful Warrior
● E.B. White: Charlotte’s Web
● E.B. White: Stuart Little
● E.B: White: The Trumpet of the Swan
● Ella Young: Celtic wonder Tales
● Ella Young: The Tangle-Coated Horse
● Ellis Credle: Down Down the Mountain
● Eric Kastner: Little Man
● Eric Kastner: Parent Trap
● Eric Knight: Courage of Lassie
● Eric Knight: Lassie Come Home
● Ezra Jack Keats: An American Legend
● Felix Salter: Bambi
● Frances Carpenter: Tales of a Korean Grandmother
● Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Little Princess
● Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden
● Frank L. Baum: Wizard of Oz
● Frank Waters: Book of the Hopi
● Han Micko: Turtle Power
● Holling C. Holling: The Book of Indians
● Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire: Norse Gods and Giants
● Ingwe: Ingwe
● Isabel Wyatt: King Beetle-Tamer and Other
● Isabel Wyatt: Lighthearted Wonder Tales
● Isabel Wyatt: The Book of Fairy Princes
● J.R.R. Tolkien: Farmer Giles of Ham
● Jacob Streit: Three Knight Tales
● James Matthew Barrie: The Adventures of Peter Pan
● James Thurber: The Thirteen Clocks
● Jill Barklem: Autumn Story
● Jill Barklem: Spring Story
● Jill Barklem: Summer Story
● Jill Barklem: The World of Brambly Hedge
● Jill Barklem: Winter Story
● Johanna Spyri: Heidi
● John Bauer: An Illustrated Treasury of Swedish Folk and Fairy Tales
● John Bierhorst: The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
● José Patterson: Angels, People, Rabbis and Kings from the Stories of the Jewish People
● Karin Michaelis: Bibi
● Karin Michaelis: Bibi Goes Traveling
● Kirsti Makinen: An Illustrated Kalevala – Myths and Legends from Finland
● L. Frank Baum: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
● Laura Ingalls Wilder: Farmer Boy (read first)
● Leo Politi: The Nicest Gift
● Leo and Diane Dillon: Ashanti to Zulu
● Leo and Diane Dillon: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ear
● Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland
● Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
● Lin Grace: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
● Lin Grace: When the Sea Turned to Silver
● Ludwig Bemelman: Madeline series
● Manitonquat: The Children of the Morning Light Wampanoag Tales as told by Medicine Story
● Marilee Heyer: The Weaving of a Dream
● Mark Twain: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the
● Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
● Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
● Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer
● Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer Abroad, By Huck Finn
● Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
● Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer, Detective
● Mary Pope Osborne: American Tall Tales
● Michael Ende: Momo
● Michael Ende: The Never Ending Story
● Michael Ende: The Night of Wishes
● Nancy Luenor: The Dragon Kite
● Norman Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth
● P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins
● P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins Comes Back
● P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins Opens the Door
● P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins in Cherry Lane
● P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins in the Kitchen
● P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins in the Park
● Peter Spier: London Bridge is Falling Down
● Phoebe Gilman: Something from Nothing
● R. and F. Atwater: Mr. Popper’s Penguins
● Rachel Carson: The Sense of Wonder
● Roald Dahl: James and the Giant Peach
● Roald Dahl: Matilda
● Roald Dahl: The B F G
● Roald Dahl: The Witches
● Robert Kimmel Smith: Chocolate Fever
● Robert Kimmel Smith: Jelly Belly
● Robert Kimmel Smith: Mostly Michael
● Robert Kimmel Smith: The War with Grandpa
● Robin Moore: When the Moon is Full: Supernatural Stories from the Old Pennsylvania Mountains
● Rudyard Kipling: Just So Stories
● Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book
● Russel Hiban: Bread and Jam for Frances
● Russel Hoban: Bedtime for Frances
● Ruth Manning-Sanders: Red Indian Folk and Fairy Tales
● Schocken Books: World Mythology Series
● Selma Lagerlöf: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson
● Storm: Seven Arrows
● Theresa Breslin: An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Castle Legends
● Theresa Breslin: An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales
● Theresa Breslin: An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Mythical Creatures
● Tony Johnston: The Adventures of Mole and Troll
● Ursula Le Guin: Catwings
● Ursula Le Guin: Catwings Returns
● Ursula Le Guin: Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings
● William Steig: Doctor DeSoto
● William Steig: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
● Williams: The Velveteen Rabbit
● Yen Shen: A Cinderella Story from China
● Yoshiko Uchida: The Magic Listening Cap