Book Recommendations for Second Grade

We have collected our Waldorf inspired reading list that is age appropriate for each child.  

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Second Grade Reading Aloud

Second Grade Beginning to Read

Second Grade Read Myself 

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! 

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