Book Recommendations for Second Grade
We have collected our Waldorf inspired reading list that is age appropriate for each child.
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Reading aloud:
● Aesop: Aesop’s Fables
● Andrew Lang: The “Color” Fairy Tales book series
● Arthur Ransome: Old Peter’s Russian Tales
● Dalgliesh, Alice: Columbus Story
● Dalgliesh, Alice: Thanksgiving Story
● Daniela Drescher: The Garden Adventures of Griswald the Gnome
● David Kherdian: Feather and Tails Animal Fables
● Eleanor Farjeon: Ten Saints
● Ethel Cook Eliot: The Wind Boy
● George MacDonald: The Light Princess
● George MacDonald: The Princess and Curdie
● George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin
● Gerald McDermott: Zomo the Rabbit
● Glenda Millard:The Naming of Tishkin Silk
● Gunhild Sehlin: Mary’s Little Donkey and the Flight to Egypt
● Henry Barnes: The Golden Footprint and Other Fairy Tales
● Jacob Streit: Animal Stories
● Jacob Streit: Brother Francis
● Jacob Streit: Little Bee Sunbeam
● Jacob Streit: Saint Nicholas
● Jacob Streit:The Bee Book
● J.M.Barrie: Peter Pan
● Joel Chandler: Uncle Remus
● Kelly Morrow: King Thrushbeard
● Kelly Morrow: Lazy Jack
● Kelly Morrow: Sylvain and Jocosa
● Kelly Morrow: The Prince and the Dragon
● Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows
● Lin Grace: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
● Leo Lionni: Frederick’s Fables
● Luke Fischer: The Blue Forest (collection of bedtime stories)
● Marguerite De Angeli: Copper- toed Boots
● Marguerite De Angeli: Petite Suzann
● Marguerite De Angeli: Skippack School
● Michael Ende: Jim Botton and the Wild 13
● Micheal Ende: Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
● Milne A.A.: When We Were Very Young
● Milne A.A.: Winnie the Pooh
● Padraic Cloum: The King of Ireland’s Son
● Rose Esi Blissett: Stories from Africa “Tsie Na Atsie”
● Rudyard Kipling: Just So Stories
● Susan Cooper: The Selkie Girl
● Wyatt, Isabel: Eight Year Old Legend Book
● Wyatt, Isabel: Magical Wonder Tales
● Wyatt, Isabel: Seven Year Old Wonder Book
● Wyatt, Isabel: The Book of Fairy Princess
Beginning to Read:
● Barbara Cooney: Chanticleer and the Fox
● Barbara Cooney: Miss. Rumphius
● Bishop Clare: Five Chinese Brothers
● Eve Bunting: Winter’s coming
● Marie Dorléans: The Night Walk
● Rylant Cynthia: The Blue Hill Meadows
● Rylant Cynthia: The Cobble Street Cousins series
● Rylant Cynthia: The Lighthouse Family series
● Rylant Cynthia: Thimbleberry Stories
● Virginia Burton: Katy and the Big Snow
● Virginia Burton: Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel
● Virginia Burton: The Little House
● Walter Farley: Little Black, A Pony
● Walter Farley:Little Black Goes to Circus
● Ziefert, Harriet: New Coat for Anna
Read Myself:
● A First Reading Book for Waldorf Schools: Hay for My Ox
● Arnold Lobel: Mouse tales
● Arthur Pittis: Fee Fi Fo Fum
● Barbara Berger: Grandfather Twilight
● Burgess, Thornton: Old Mother West Wind
● Dalgliesh, Alice: Bears of Hemlock Mountain
● Dalgliesh, Alice: The courage of Sarah Noble
● Gannett Ruth Stiles: Elmer and the Dragon
● Gannett Ruth Stiles: My Father’s Dragon
● Gannett Ruth Stiles: The Dragons of Blueland
● Godden Rumer: Mouse House
● Iwamatsu Satomi: Crow Boy
● LeGuin Ursula : Catwing series
● Leaf Munro : Story of Ferdinand
● Lindgren Astrid: The Street of Troublemaker Street
● Lindgren Astrid: Tomten
● Lindgren Astrid: Tomten and the Fox
● Rappaport Doreen: Martin’s Big Words
● Ruth Sawyer: Journey Cake, Ho!