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Aesops Fables Audio Books on Compact Disc, Inc.
 *Special Note: About the only thing that goes back to ancient Greece, is possibly the name Aesop. The fables were, primarily, written by monks in the monasteries

Adventures in Colonial America Book Series (Troll Associates)
    Knight, James E.
        Sailing to America: Colonists at Sea
        Salem Days: Life in a Colonial Seaport
        Seventh and Walnut: Life in Colonial Philadelphia
        The Farm: Life in Colonial Pennsylvania
        The Village: Life in Colonial Times
        The Winter at Valley Forge: Survival and Victory

 

Adventures in Discovery Book Series (Troll Associates)
    Goodnough, David
        Francis Drake
    Harley, Ruth
        Captain James Cook

Adventures in Frontier America Book Series (Troll Associates)
    Chambers, Catherine E.
        Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road
        Flatboats on the Ohio: Westward Bound
        Indiana Days: Life in a Frontier Town
        Log-Cabin Home: Pioneers in the Wilderness
        Texas Roundup: Life on the Range
        Wagons West: Off to Oregon

Alcott, Louisa May
    A Modern Mephistophelles Blackstone Audiobooks
    Good Wives
        Blackstone Audiobooks
        Recorded Books, Inc.

    Little Women Blackstone Audiobooks
    Little Men Blackstone Audiobooks
    Rose in Bloom Blackstone Audiobooks

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
    Story of a Bad Boy

American Heritage Series (Aladdin Books)
 *NOTE: This series has been long out of print to my knowledge. However, they can be secured at used book stores, yard/library sales, etc.

    Angell, Polly
        Andy Jackson: Long Journey to the White House
    Best, Herbert
        Ranger's Ransom
    Blackburn, Edith
        The Bells of Carmel
    Bosworth, Allan R.
        Ladd of the Lone Star
    Browin, Frances Williams
        Captured Words
    Brown, Slater
        Gray Bonnets
    Collier, Edmund
        Cowman's Kingdom
        King of the Clippers
    Derleth, August
        Empire of Fur
        Land of Gray gold
        The Captive Island
        The Country of the Hawk
    Fisher, Aileen
        Homestead of the Free
        Timber !
    Franklin, George Cory
        Back of Beyond
        Granberg, Wilbur J.
        Sons of the Big Muddy
    Herron, Edward A.
        The Big Country
    La Farge, Oliver
        Cochise of Arizona
    Lane, Frederick A.
        A Flag for Lafitte
        The Greatest Adventure
        The Magnificient Mariner
    Latham, Frank B.
        Jed Smith: Trail Blazer
        The Fighting Quaker
        The Law or the Gun
    Latham, Jean Lee
        Medals for Morse
        The Story of Eli Whitney
    Lundy, Jo
        The Challengers
    Nathan, Adele Gutman
        Wheat Won't Wait
    Smith, Bradford
        With Sword and Pen
    Spencer, Philip
        Day of Glory
    Steele, William O.
        Over-Mountain Boy
        De Soto: Child of the Sun
    Sterne, Emma Gelders
        Printer's Devil
        The Long Black Schooner
    Verral, Charles Spain
        Men of Flight
    Vinton, Iris
        Passage to Texas
    Wellman, Manly Wade
        Gray Riders

Anderson, C.W. (Blaze series -- 1st-2nd grade reading level)
    Billy and Blaze
    Blaze and the Gypsies
    Blaze and the Forest Fire
    Blaze Finds the Trail
    Blaze and Thunderbolt
    Blaze and the Mountain Lion
    Blaze and the Indian Cave
    Blaze and the Lost Quarry

 

Anderson, Hans Christian
    Andersen's Fairy Tales Audio Books on Compact Disc, Inc.
    The Emperor's New Clothes

A New True Book Series (Children's Press)
    The Constitution
    The Declaration of Independence

Armstrong, Sounder
    Sounder (3rd to 4th grade)

Atwater, Richard
    Mr. Popper's Penguins (2nd-3rd grade)

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Barrie, J. M.
    Peter Pan Recorded Books, Inc.

Baum, L. Frank
    The Wizard of Oz Blackstone Audiobooks
    The Magic of Oz
    The Marvelous Land of Oz
    Rinkitink in Oz
    The Patchwork Girl of Oz
    The Emerald City of Oz
    The Sea Fairies

Begnold, Enid
    National Velvet

Bemelmans, Ludwig
    Madeline
    Madeline and the Bad Hat
    Madeline's Rescue
    Madeline in London

Bond, Michael
    Bear Called Paddington

Brink, Carol Ryrie
    Caddie Woodlawn Recorded Books, Inc.

Brown, Marcia
    Dick Whittington and his Cat (2nd grade +)

Browning, Robert
    Pied Piper of Hamelin Audio Books on Compact Disc, Inc.

Bulfinch, Thomas
    The Age of Chivalry
        Blackstone Audiobooks
        Audio Editions

    The Age of Fable Blackstone Audiobooks
    Legends of Charlemagne

Bulla, Clyde Robert
    Lion to Guard Us
    Viking Adventure (3rd to 5th grade reading level)

BULLSEYE "STEP INTO CLASSICS" SERIES
 This series is approx. 1st grade reading level (can be used in conjunction with phonics reading programs) to 3rd grade remedial reading.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (ISBN #0-679-88070-4)
    Anne of Green Gables (ISBN #0-679-85467-3)
    Black Beauty (ISBN #0-679-80370-X)
    Great Expectations (ISBN #0-679-87466-6)
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (ISBN #0-679-87429-1)
    Kidnapped (ISBN #0-679-85091-0)
    Knights of the Round Table (ISBN #0-394-87579-6)
    The Last of the Mohicans (ISBN #0-679-84706-5)
    Les Miserables (ISBN #0-679-86668-X)
    A Little Princess (ISBN #0-679-85090-2)
    Little Women (ISBN #0-679-86175-0)
   The Man in the Iron Mask (ISBN #0-679-89433-0)
    Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (ISBN #0-394-85086-6)
    Oliver Twist (ISBN #0-679-80391-2)
    Peter Pan (ISBN #0-679-81044-7)
    Pinocchio (ISBN #0-679-88071-2)
    Robin Hood (ISBN #0-679-81045-5)
    The Secret Garden (ISBN #0-679-84751-0)
    The Three Musketeers (ISBN #0-679-86017-7)
    The Time Machine (ISBN #0-679-80371-8)
    Treasure Island (ISBN #0-679-80371-8)
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (ISBN #0-394-85333-4)
    Jane Eyre (ISBN #0-679-88618-4)

Burch
    Fine Print: A Story about Johann Gutenberg

 

Burnett, Frances Hodgson
    A Little Princess Audio Editions
    Little Lord Fauntleroy Recorded Books, Inc.
    The Secret Garden BBC Radio*

Burnford, Sheila
    The Incredible Journey (3rd to 4th grade)

Burton, Virginia
    Mike Mulligan and His Steamshovel (1st grade +)

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Canfield, Dorothy
    Understood Betsy (1916)

Carroll, Lewis
    Alice in Wonderland (1865) Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes
    Through the Looking Glass Blackstone Audiobooks
    The Complete Alce in Wonderland Audio Editions (Christopher Plummer is the reader)

Cather, Willa
    My Antonia Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes
    O Pioneers Blackstone Audiobooks

Chaucer, Geoffrey
    Canterbury Tales Audio Editions, Cliff Notes
 Caedmon has done an excellet audio tape on The Wife of Bath Chanticleer and the Fox


CHILDHOOD OF FAMOUS AMERICAN SERIES
 approx. 2nd to 4th grade remedial -- Only a few books in this series are currently being published. However, scouring flea markets, used book stores, library sales, and the like should assist you in locating these gems.

   Aird, Hazel B. & Ruddiman, Catherine
        Henry Ford: Young Man with Ideas
    Anderson
        John Jacob Astor
    Bare
        John Deere
    Barton
        John Smith
        Patrick Henry
    Bebenroth, Charlotta M.
        Meriwether Lewis: Boy Explorer
    Borland, Kathryn Kilby & Speicher, Helen Ross
        Allan Pinkerton
        Harry Houdini: Young Magician
        Eugene Field
    Bryant, Bernice
        Dan Morgan: Boy of the Wilderness
        George Gershwin
    Burnett, Constance Buel
        Lucretia Mott: Girl of Old Nantucket
    Burt, Olive W.
        Jed Smith: Young Western Explorer
        John Alden: Young Puritan
        John Wanamaker: Boy Merchant
        Luther Burbank: Boy Wizard
        The Ringling Brothers: Circus Boys
    Clark, Electra
        Osceola
        Robert Peary: Boy of the North
    Cleven
        Black Hawk
        John Hancock
    Comfort
        Herbert Hoover
    Corcoran
        Elias Howe
    de Grummond & Delanne
        Babe Didrikson
        Jeff Davis
    Dobler
        Cyrus McCormick
        Lee DeForest
    Dunham
        Abner Doubleday
        George Westinghouse
        Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
    Frisbee, Lucy Post
        John Burrough: Boy of Field and Stream
        John Fitzgerald Kennedy: America's Youngest President
    Govan
        Rachel Jackson
    Guthridge, Sue
        Tom Edison: Boy Inventor
    Hammontree, Marie
        Albert Einstein: Young Thinker
        A. P. Giannini: Boy of San Francisco
        Will and Charlie Mayo: Boy Doctors
    Henry, Margarite
        Andrew Carnegie
        Elizabeth Blackwell
        George Eastman
        Robert Fulton: Boy Craftsman
    Higgins, Helen Boyd
        Alec Hamilton: The Little Lion
        Juliette Low: Girl Scout
        Noah Webster
        Stephen Foster: Boy Minstrel
        Walter Reed
    Howe, Jane Moore
        Amelia Earhart: Kansas Girl
    Hudson, Wilma J.
        Dwight D. Eisenhower: Young Military Leader
        Harry S. Truman: Missouri Farm Boy
    Jordan, Polly Carver & Frisbee, Lucy Post
        Brigham Young: Covered Wagon Boy
    Long, Laura
        David Farragut: Boy Midshipman
        Douglas MacArthur
        George Dewey: Vermont Boy
        Oliver Hazard Perry: Boy of the Sea
        John Peter Zenger
    Mason, Miriam E.
        Dan Beard: Boy Scout
        Frances Willard
        Kate Douglas Wiggin
        John Audubon
        Mark Twain: Boy of Old Missouri (or, "Mark Twain: Young Writer")
        Mary Mapes Dodge: Jolly Girl
        William Penn: Friendly Boy
        Young Audubon: Boy Naturalist
    Melin
        Dorothea Dix
        Maria Mitchell
    Millender, Dharathula H.
        Crispus Attucks: Black Leader of Colonial Patriots
        Martin Luther King, Jr.: Young Man with a Dream
    Mitchell, Minnie Belle
        Hoosier Boy: James Whitcomb Riley
    Monsell, Helen Albee
        Boy of Old Virginia: Robert E. Lee (or, "Robert E. Lee: Young Confederate")
        Dolly Madison: Quaker Girl
        Henry Clay: Mill Boy of the Slashes (or, "Henry Clay: Young Kentucky Orator")
        John Marshall: Boy of Young America
        Susan B. Anthony: Champion of Women's Rights
        Tom Jackson: Young Stonewall
        Tom Jefferson: A Boy in Colonial Days (or, "Tom Jefferson: Third President of the United States")
        Woodrow Wilson: Boy President
         Young Stonewall: Tom Jackson
    Moore
        J. Sterling Morton
        Robert Goddard
    Myers
        F. W. Woolworth
        George Pullman
        Katharine Lee Bates
        Vilhjalmur Stefansson
    Myers, & Burnett
        Carl Ben Eielson
        Cecil B. DeMille
    Newman
        Liliuokalani
    Paradis
        Gail Borden
    Parks, Aileen Wells
        Bedford Forest: Boy on Horseback
        Davy Crockett: Young Rifleman (or, "Davy Crockett: Young Rifleman")
        James Oglethorpe: Young Defender
    Parks, Edd Winfield
        Teddy Roosevelt: All-Round Boy (or, "Teddy Roosevelt: Young Rough Rider")
    Peckham, Howard
        Nathaniel Greene
        Pontiac
        William Henry Harrison: Young Tippecanoe"
    Place
        Lotta Crabtree
    Schaaf
        Lew Wallace
    Scharbach
        Matthew Calbraith Perry
    Seymour, Flora Warren
        Bird Girl: Sacagawea
        Pocahontas: Brave Girl
    Smith, Bradford
        Dan Webster
        Stephen Decatur
        William Bradford: Pilgrim Boy
    Snow, Dorothea J.
        Eli Whitney: Boy Mechanic
        John Paul Jones: Salt-Water Boy
        Raphael Simmes: Tidewater Boy
        Samuel Morse
        Sequoyah
    Steele, William O.
        Francis Marion
        John Sevier: Pioneer Boy
    Stevenson, Augusta
         Abe Lincoln: Frontier Boy
        Andy Jackson: Boy Soldier
        Anthony Wayne: Daring Boy
        Ben Franklin: Boy Printer
        Booker T. Washington: Ambitious Boy
        Buffalo Bill: Boy of the Plains
        Clara Barton: Girl Nurse
        Daniel Boone: Boy Hunter
        Francis Scott Key: Maryland Boy
        George Carver: Boy Scientist
        George Custer: Boy of Action
        George Washington: Boy Leader
        Israel Putnam: Fearless Boy
        John Fitch
        Kit Carson: Boy Trapper
        Molly Pitcher: Girl Patriot
        Myles Standish: Adventurous Boy
        Nancy Hanks: Kentucky Girl
        Nathan Hale: Puritan Boy
        Paul Revere: Boy of Old Boston
        P. T. Barnum: Circus Boy
        Sam Houston: Boy Chiefton
        Sitting Bull: Dakota Boy
        Squanto: Young Indian Hunter
        Techumseh: Shawnee Boy
        U. S. Grant: Young Horseman
        Virginia Dare: Mystery Girl
        Wilbur and Orville Wright: Boy with Wings
         Zeb Pike: Boy Traveler
    Van Riper, Jr., Guernsey
        Babe Ruth: One of Baseball's Greatest
        Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion
        Knute Rockne: Young Athlete
        Lou Gehrig: Boy of the Sand Lots
        Richard Byrd: Boy who Braved the Unknown
        Will Rogers, Jr.: Young Cowboy
    Wagoner, Jean Brown
        Abigail Adams: A Girl of Colonial Days
        Jane Addams: Little Lame Girl
        Jessie Fremont: Girl of Capitol Hill
        Julia Ward Howe: Girl of Old New York
        Louisa Alcott: Girl of Old Boston
        Martha Washington: Girl of Old Virginia
    Warner, Anne Spence
        Narcissa Whitman: Pioneer Girl
    Weddle
        Joel Chandler Harris
        Walter Chrysler
    Weil, Ann
        Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag
        Eleanor Roosevelt: Fighter for Social Justice
        Franklin Roosevelt: Boy of the Four Freedoms
        John Philip Sousa: Marching Boy
        John Quincy Adams: Boy Patriot
    Widdemer, Mabel Cleland
        Aleck Bell: Ingenious Boy
        DeWitt Clinton
        Harriet Beecher Stowe: Connecticut Girl
        James Monroe
        Peter Stuyvesant: Boy with Wooden Shoes
        Washington Irving: Boy of Old New York
    Wilkie, Katharine E.
        Clyde Beatty: Boy Animal Trainer
        George Rogers Clark: Boy of the Old Northwest
        Helen Keller: From Tragedy to Triumph
        Mary Todd Lincoln: Girl of the Bluegrass
        Simon Kenton: Young Trail Blazer
        Will Clark: Boy in Buckskins
        William Fargo: Young Mail Carrier
        Zack Taylor: Young Rough and Ready
    Wilson
        Ernie Pyle
    Winders, Gertrude Hecker
        Ethan Allen
        James Fenimore Cooper: Leatherstocking Boy
        Jeb Stuart
        Jim Bowie: Boy with a Hunting Knife
        Jim Bridger

 

Church, Alfred
        Aeneid for Boys and Girls

Coerr, Eleanor
        Josefina Story Quilt

Collodi, Carlo
        Pinocchio Recorded Books, Inc.

Colum, Padraic
        The Children's Homer (3rd-6th grade)

Columbus, Christopher
        First Voyage to America: From the Log of the Santa Maria (Dover Publications)

Cooper, James Fenimore
        Last of the Mohicans (1826) Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes
        Deerslayer (1841) Cliff Notes
        The Pathfinder (1840)
        The Pioneers (1822) Blackstone Audiobooks
        The Spy (1821)
        The Prairie (1827) Blackstone Audiobooks
        The Pilot (1823)
        The Red Rover (1827)

Cornerstones of Freedom Book Series
    Ash, Maureen
        The Story of Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Fox, Mary Virginia
        The Story of Women Who Shaped the West
    Kent, Zachary
        Jefferson Davis
        The Battle of Antietam
        The Story of Clara Barton
        The Story of Geronimo
        The Story of the Battle of Bull Run
        The Story of the Surrender at Yorktown
        The Surrender at Appomattox Court House
        Williamsburg
    Prolman, Marilyn
        The Story of the Constitution
    Richards, Kenneth
        The Gettysburg Address
    Richards, Norman
        The Story of the Alamo
        The Story of the Bonhomme Richard
        The Story of the Declaration of Independence
    Stein, R. Conrad
        The California Gold Rush
        The Mississippi Steamboats
        The Oregon Trail
        The Story of Lexington and Concord
        The Story of the Boston Tea Party
        The Story of the Erie Canal
        The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
        The Story of the Pony Express
        The Trail of Tears
        The Underground Railroad

Costain, Thomas B.
    Silver Chalice

Crockett, Davey
    Life of Davey Crockett

Cushman, Karen
    Catherine, Called Birdy Recorded Books, Inc.
    The Midwife's Apprentice Recorded Books, Inc.

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Dahl, Roald (3rd to 6th grade)
    James and the Giant Peach
    Fantastic Mr. Fox
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    The Enormous Crocodile
    Matilda Recorded Books, Inc.
 *Special Note: Audio Editions provides The Roald Dahl Collection* with the reader being Roald Dahl which includes James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Enormous Crocodile


Dalgliesh, Alice
    The Courage of Sarah Noble (1st-2nd grade level)
    Bears on Hemlock Mountain (2nd grade)
    America Begins (3rd grade)

 

D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin
    Book of Greek Myths Audio Editions

De Angeli, Marguerite
    The Door in the Wall (3rd grade)
    Thee (3rd grade)

DeBrunhoff, Jean
    Babar (2nd grade +)

Defoe, Daniel
    A Journal of the Plague Year Books on Tape
    Robinson Crusoe (1719) Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes
    Moll Flanders Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes

de Jong, Meindert
    Wheel on the School
    Dirk's Dog Bello
    Far Out the Long Canal
    The House of Sixty Fathers
     Journey from Peppermint Street
    Nobody Plays with a Cabbage
    The Tower by the Sea

de Treviño, Elizabeth Burton
    I, Juan de Pareja

Derry, Joseph T.
    Story of the Confederate States: Or, History of the War for Southern Independence (1895)

Dickens, Charles
    A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes
    Oliver Twist (1838) Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes
    Great Expectations (1861)
        Blackstone Audiobooks
        Audio Editions* (BBC full cast dramatization)
        Cliff Notes

    David Copperfield (1850) Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes
     A Christmas Carol (1843) Blackstone Audiobooks
    The Pickwick Papers Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood Blackstone Audiobooks
    Martin Chuzzlewit Blackstone Audiobooks
    The Old Curiosity Shop Blackstone Audiobooks
    Dombey and Son Blackstone Audiobooks
    Barnaby Rudge Blackstone Audiobooks
    Hard Times Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes
    Bleak House Cliff Notes

Dodge, Mary Mapes
    Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates Recorded Books

Douglas, Lloyd C.
    The Robe

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
    The Sign of the Four (1890) Blackstone Audiobooks
    The Flayed Hand (1880)
    Guy de Maupassant, Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
    A Study in Scarlet (1887)
    The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) Blackstone Audiobooks
    The White Company (1891)
    The Speckled Band (1892)
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Blackstone Audiobooks
    The Lost World Blackstone Audiobooks
    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Blackstone Audiobooks
    The Return of Sherlock Holmes Blackstone Audiobooks
    The Valley of Fear Blackstone Audiobooks
 *Special Note: My girls enjoy comparing/contrasting the styles of Sir John Gielgud Soundelux Audio Publishing and Basil Rathbone Radio Classics. If you allow your children to watch videos, another interesting compare/contrast of styles is with Sir John Gielgud, Basil Rathbone & Jeremy Britt

 

Dumas, Alexander
    The Three Musketeers (1844)
        Blackstone Audiobooks
        Brilliance Corporation
        Cliff Notes

    The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes
    The Man in the Iron Mask (1850)
        Blackstone Audiobooks
        Audio Editions*

    The Black Tulip (1850)
    The Forty-Five Guardsmen (1848)
    The Conspirators (1843)
    The Queen's Necklace (1849)
    The Corsican Brothers (1845)
    Twenty Years After (1845)
    The Lady of Camellias (1848)
    The Whites and Blues
    Margaret de Valois
    Louise de la Valliere
    The Memoirs of a Physician
    The Companions of Jehu
    Chicot the Jester
    Ten Years Later
    The Three Guardsman
    The Page of the Duke of Savoy
    The Regent's Daughter

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Eastman, Philip
    Are You My Mother

Edmunds, Walter D.
    The Matchlock Gun (read aloud and 3rd to 4th grade reading level)

Eggleston, Edward
    Circuit Rider

Estes, Eleanor
    Ginger Pye (3rd - 4th grade)

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Farley, Karin Clafford
    Duel in the Wilderness

Farley, Walter
    The Black Stallion (3rd - 5th grade)

Ferrie, Edward
    Tales from the Greek Legends Audio Books on Compact Disc, Inc.
    Tales from the Norse Legends Audio Books on Compact Disc, Inc.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
    Understood Betsy

Fleming, Ian
    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Forbes, Ester
    Johnny Tremain (1944) Recorded Books, Inc.
    Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (1942)
    America's Paul Revere (1946) --- 6th grade reading level

Forbes, Kathryn
    Mama's Bank Account

Foxe, John
    Foxe's Book of Martyrs Blackstone Audiobooks

Freeman, Don
    Corduroy

Freeman, Douglas Southall
    Lee of Virginia

French, Allen
    Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow

Fritz, Jean
    Brendan the Navigator
    The Cabin Faced West
    George Washington's Mother (easy reader)
    And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
    Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?
    George Washington's Breakfast
    Shhhhh ... We're Writing the Constitution
    What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?
    Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?
    Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?
    Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock?
    Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?
    Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?
    Early Thunder

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Galdone, Paul
    The Gingerbread Boy (1st grade)
    The Little Red Hen (1st grade)
    The Three Bears and Goldilocks (1st grade)
    The Three Billy Goats Gruff (1st grade)
    The Three Little Pits (1st grade)
     Little Toot (1st grade +)

Gannet, Ruth Stiles
    My Father's Dragon (1st-2nd grade) Audio Editions
    Elmer and the Dragon
    The Dragons of Blueland

Giff, Patricia Reilly
    The Gift of the Pirate Queen

Gilbreth, Frank B. and Ernestine Carey
    Cheaper By The Dozen Recorded Books, Inc.
    Belles on Their Toes

Gipson, Fred
    Old Yeller Recorded Books, Inc.

Grahame, Kenneth
    The Wind in the Willows BBC Radio*
    Reluctant Dragon

Gray, Elizabeth
    Adam of the Road

Griffin, Judith Berry (3rd -4th grade reading level)
    Phoebe the Spy (or Phoebe and the General)

Grimms Brothers
    Grimm's Fairy Tales Audio Books on Compact Disc, Inc.

Gruelle, Johnny
    Raggedy Ann Stories and Raggedy Andy Stories

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Haggard, H. Rider
    King Solomon's Mines (1885) Blackstone Audiobooks
    Cleopatra (1889)
    She Blackstone Audiobooks
    Alan Quatermain Blackstone Audiobooks

Hale, Lucretia
    Complete Peterkin Papers

Harris, Joel Chandler
    Uncle Remus

Harness, Cheryl
    Three Young Pilgrims (2nd grade)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
    The House of the Seven Gables (1851) Books on Tape, Cliff Notes
    The Scarlet Letter Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes
    Tanglewood Tales Blackstone Audiobooks

Hays, Wilma Pitchford
    Fourth of July Raid (3rd - 5th grade)

Haywood, Carolyn
    Betsy & Billy (2nd grade +)

Henry, Marguerite
    Benjamin West and his Cat Grimlakin (3rd to 5th grade)
    Justin Morgan Had a Horse Recorded Books, Inc.
    Misty of Chincoteague (3-6th grade) Recorded Books, Inc.
    Misty's Twilight Recorded Books, Inc.

Henty, George Alfred (G. A.)
    For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
        (ISBN #1-887159-00-2)
    Beric the Briton: A Story of the Roman Invasion
        (ISBN #1-887159-06-1)
    The Young Carthaginian: A Tale of the Times of Hannibal
        (ISBN #1-887159-12-6)
    The Cat of Bubastes: A Story of Ancient Egypt
        (ISBN #1-887159-16-9)
    The Dragon and the Raven: Or the Days of King Alfred
        (ISBN #1-887159-01-0)
    In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce
        (ISBN #1-887159-03-7)
    Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades
        (ISBN #1-887159-13-4)
    Wulf the Saxon: A Story of the Norman Conquest
        (ISBN #1-887159-17-7)
    St. Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot Wars
        (ISBN #1-887159-08-8)
    By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic
        (ISBN #1-887159-04-5)
    Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
        (ISBN #1-887159-15-0)
    With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War
        (ISBN #1-887159-09-6)
    By Right of Conquest: Or with Cortez in Mexico
        (ISBN #1-887159-11-8)

Heroes and Warriors Book Series (Firebird Books) (6th - 8th grade)
    Healy, Mark
        Joshua: Conqueror of Canaan
        Judas Maccabeus: Rebel of Israel
        King David: Warlord of Israel

Herriot, James
    James Herriot's Treasury for Children (3rd grade)
    Blossom Comes Home (2nd - 4th grade)
    Bonny's Big Day (2nd - 4th grade)
    The Market Square Dog (2nd - 4th grade)
    Moses the Kitten (2nd - 4th grade)
    Only One Woof (2nd - 4th grade)
    Smudge, the Little Lost Lamb (2nd - 4th grade)
    All Things Bright and Beautiful Audio Editions
    All Creatures Great and Small Audio Editions
    All Things Wise and Wonderful Audio Editions
    The Lord God Made Them All Audio Editions
    James Herriot's Animal Stories Audio Editions
    Jame's Herriot's Favoite Dog Stories Audio Editions

Hodges, Margaret
    St. George and the Dragon

Holling, C. Holling
    Book of Cowboys
    Book of Indians
    Paddle to the Sea (3rd - 4th grade)

Homer
    Odessy Audio Books on Compact Disc, Inc.
Odds Bodkins, the reader, uses 37 character voices into a can't stop listening narrative

 

Hope, Laura
    The Bobbsey Twins series (2nd to 5th grade)

Hunt, Angela
    The Tale of Three Trees (3rd grade)

Hurwitz, Johanna
    Aldo Applesauce (3rd grade)

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I Know America Book Series (The Millbrook Press)
    2nd - 4th grade reading level
    Ayer, Eleanor
        Our Flag
    Johnson, Linda Carlson
        Our National Symbols
        Spies, Karen Bornemann
        Our Money
    St. Pierre, Stephanie
        Our National Anthem
        Our National Holidays

Irving, Washington
    Rip Van Winkle (1819)
        Blackstone Audiobooks
        Recorded Books, Inc
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    The Headless Horseman (1819)
    Sketch Book

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Jacobs, William Jay
    Coronado: Dreamer in Golden Armor
    Cortes: Conqueror of Mexico
    Pizarro: Conqueror of Peru

Jacques, Brian
    Redwall Recorded Books, Inc.
    Mossflower Recorded Books, Inc.
    Mattimeo
    Mariel of Redwall
    Salamandastron
    Martin the Warrior
    The Bellmaker
    Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales
    Pearls of Lutra
    The Outcast of Redwall

Jones, III, Douglas M.
    Scottish Seas (ages 5 - 8)
    Huguenot Garden: A Children's Story of Faith (ages 5 - 8)

Juster, Norton
    Phantom Tollbooth

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King James Bible Audio Editions (Reader: Alexander Scourby)

Keene, Carolyn
    Nancy Drew Series (56 books)

Keller, Helen
    The Story of My Life Blackstone Audiobooks

Kelly, Eric P.
    Trumpeter of Krakow

King James Bible Audio Editions (Reader: Alexander Scourby)

Kingsley, Charles
    Heroes
    Water Babies
    Westward Ho!(1855) Books on Tape

Kipling, Rudyard
    The Jungle Book (1894) Blackstone Audiobooks
    Captains Courageous (1897)
        Blackstone Audiobooks
        Recorded Books, Inc.

    Kim (1901) Blackstone Audiobooks
    The Light that Failed Blackstone Audiobooks
    The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories Blackstone Audiobooks
    Puck of Pook's Hill Blackstone Audiobooks

Knight, Eric
    Lassie Come Home (4th - 5th grade)

Krensky, Stephen
    George Washington: The Man Who Would Not Be King

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Lamb, Charles
    Adventures of Ulysses
    Beauty and the Beast

LANDMARK and WORLD LANDMARK BOOKS SERIES (Random House, NY)
 approx. 4th grade to 6th grade reading level -- Only a few books in this series are currently being published. However, scouring the internet's used curriculum boards, flea markets, used book stores, library sales, and the like should assist you in locating these gems.

 

    Adams, Samuel Hopkins
        The Pony Express
        The Santa Fe Trail
        The Erie Canal
        General Brock and Niagara Falls
    Blassingame, Wyatt
        The French Foreign Legion
    Bliven, Jr., Bruce
        The American Revolution
    Boylston, Helen Dore
        Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross
     Brown, John Mason
        Daniel Boone: Opening of the Wilderness
    Brown, Slater
        Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
     Bryan, III, J.
        The World's Greatest Showman: The Life of P. T. Barnum
    Buck, Pearl S.
        The Man Who Changed China
    Carter, Hodding
        Robert E. Lee and the Road of Honor
        The Marquis de Lafayette: Bright Sword for Freedom
    Castor, Henry
        Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
        America's First World War
    Considine, Robert
        The Panama Canal
    Considine, Bob and Lawson, Ted
        Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
    Costain, Thomas B.
        The Mississippi Bubble
    Crouse, Anna and Russel
        Peter Stuyvesant of Old New York
        Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
    Cousins, Margaret
        Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia
        Daniel, Anita
        The Story of Albert Schweitzer
    Daugherty, James
        The Landing of the Pilgrims
        Trappers and Traders of the Far West
        The Magna Charta
    Davenport, Marcia
        Garibaldi: Father of Modern Italy
    Dobie, J. Frank
        Up the Trail from Texas
    Douglas, William O.
        Exploring the Himalaya
    Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
        Paul Revere and the Minute Men
        Our Independence and the Constitution
    Fosdick, Harry Emerson
         Martin Luther
        The Life of Saint Paul
    Forester, C. S.
        The Barbary Pirates
    Gunther, John
        Alexander the Great
        Julius Caesar
    Hahn, Emily
        Mary, Queen of Scots
        Leonardo da Vinci
    Hanson, Harry
        Old Ironsides
        The Fighting Constitution
    Havighurst, Walter
        Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West Show
    Henty, Will
        The Texas Rangers
    Hill, Ralph Nading
        Robert Fulton and the Steamboat
        The Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever
    Holbrook, Stewart H.
        Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West
        Davy Crockett
        Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshal
    Household, Geoffrey
        The Exploits of Xenophon
    Hunt, George
        The Story of the U.S. Marines
    Jackson, Charlotte
        The Story of San Francisco
    Janeway, Elizabeth
        The Vikings
        The Early Days of Automobiles
    Jennings, John
        Clipper Ship Days
     Johnson, William
        Sam Houston, The Tallest Texan
    Kantor, MacKinlay
        Lee and Grant at Appomattox
    Kelly, Regina Z.
        Lincoln and Douglas
    Kielty, Bernadine
        Marie Antoinette
        The Fall of Constantinople
    Kieran, Margaret and John
        John James Audubon
    Kjelgaard, Jim
        The Explorations of Pere Marquette
        The Coming of the Mormons
    Kuhn, Ferdinand
        Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
        The Story of the Secret Service
    Lamb, Harold
        Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde
    Lawson, Marie
        Pocahontas and Captain John Smith
    Lewis, Oscar
        Hawaii: The Gem of the Pacific
    Marriott, Alice
        Sequoyah: Leader of the Cherokees
    Mayer, Jane
        Betsy Ross and the Flag
        Dolly Madison
    McNeer, May
        California Gold Rush
        War Chief of the Seminoles
    Moody, Ralph
        Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier
        Geronimo: Wolf of the Warpath
    Morenus, Richard
        The Hudson's Bay Company
    Nathan, Adele
        The Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad
    Neuberger, Richard L.
        The Lewis and Clark Expedition
        Royal Canadian Mounted Police
    Norman, Charles
        The Flight and Adventures of Charles II
    North, Sterling
        George Washington: Frontier Colonel
    Owen, Russell
        The Conquest of the North and South Poles
        Pinkerton, Robert
        The First Overland Mail
    Pond, Seymour Gates
        Ferdinand Magellan
        The Story of the Naval Academy
    Pratt, Fletcher
        The Monitor and the Merrimac
    Rachlis, Eugene
        The Voyages of Henry Hudson
    Reeder, Colonel Red and Campian, Nardi Reeder
        The West Point Story
    Reynolds, Quentin
        The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American Aviation
        Custer's Last Stand
        The F.B.I.
        The Battle of Britain
        The Life of Saint Patrick
    Robinson, Mabel L.
        King Arthur and His Knights
    Ross, Nancy Wilson
        Joan of Arc
    Scherman, Katharine
        The Slave Who Freed Haiti
        Catherine the Great
    Sheean, Vincent
        Thomas Jefferson: Father of Democracy
    Shippen, Katherine B.
        Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone
        Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel
    Smith, Bradford
        Rogers' Rangers and the French and Indian War
    Sperry, Armstrong
        The Voyages of Christopher Columbus
        John Paul Jones: Fighting Sailor
        Captain Cook Explores the South Seas
    Stewart, George R.
        To California by Covered Wagon
    Streatfield, Noel
        Queen Victoria
    Tallant, Robert
        The Pirate Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans
        The Louisiana Purchase
        Evangeline and the Acadians
    Thompson, Laurence
        The Story of Scotland Yard
    Tinkle, Lon
        The Story of Oklahoma
    Tregaskis, Richard
        Guadalcanal Diary
    Van Wyck Mason
        The Winter at Valley Forge
    Walsh, Richard J.
        The Adventures and Discoveries of Marco Polo
    Warren, Robert Penn
        Remember the Alamo!
    Weller, George
        The Story of the Paratroops
    West, Anthony
        The Crusades
    Whipple, A.B.C.
        Hero of Trafalgar: The Story of Lord Nelson
        Famous Pirates of the New World
    White, Anne Terry
        George Washington Carver
        Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre
    Whitridge, Arnold
        Simon Bolivar
    Winwar, Frances
        Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo
        Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada
    Young, Stanley
        Tippecanoe and Tayler, Too!

Landon, Margaret
    Anna and the King of Siam

Lane, Edward
    Arabian Nights

Lang, Andrew
    Pink Fairy Book
    Lilac Fairy Book
    Violet Fairy Book
    Yellow Fairy Book
    Green Fairy Book
    Blue Fairy Book
    Crimson Fairy Book
    Brown Fair Book
    Grey Fairy Book
    Olive Fairy Book
    Orange Fairy Book
    Red Fairy Book
    Tales of the Arabian Nights
    Tales of Troy and Greece

Latham, Jean Lee
    Carry On Mr. Bowditch

Lawson, Robert
    Tough Winter
    Ben and Me (3rd to 5th grade) Recorded Books
    Mr. Revere and I (3rd to 5th grade) Recorded Books, Inc.
    Rabbit Hill (3rd grade)
    Watchwords of Liberty
    Mr. Twigg's Mistake
    The Fabulous Flight
    McWhinney's Jaunt
    Captain Kidd's Cat
    I Discover Columbus
    They Were Strong and Good

Leaf, Munro
    The Story of Ferdinand (1st grade)

LeFevre, Felicite
    The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen (1st grade)

Lenski, Lois
    Prairie School (4th - 6th grade)
    Strawberry Girl (4th - 6th grade)

Lester, Julius
    Tales of Uncle Remus

Lewis, C. S.
    The Abolition of Man
    Mere Christianity
    The Great Divorce
    The Case for Christianity
    A Severe Mercy
    The Screwtape Letters Audio Literature
    The Magician's Nephew HarperChildren's Audio*
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Harper Children's Audio*
    Prince Caspian Harper Children's Audio*
    The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Harper Children's Audio*
    The Silver Chair Harper's Children's Audio*
    The Horse and His Boy Harper's Children's Audio*
    The Last Battle Harper's Children's Audio*
    Perelandra
 *Special Note: Not all of the C. S. Lewis books are for children. However, all of Mr. Lewis' books are included here to save time for busy parents --- especially after they have read one or two Lewis books & may enjoy his writing style.


Lindgren, Astrid
    Pippi Longstocking Recorded Books, Inc.

 

Llewellyn, Richard
    How Green Was My Valley

Lobel, Arnold (1st-2nd grade reading level)
    Days with Frog and Toad
    Frog and Toad All Year
    Frog and Toad Together
    Grasshopper on the Road
    Mouse Soup
    Mouse Tales
    Owl at Home
    Small Pig
    Uncle Elephant

Lofting, Hugh
    The Story of Dr. Doolittle (3rd - 4th grade)
    The Voyages of Dr. DoLittle (4th grade)

London, Jack
    White Fang (1906)
    The Sea Wolf (1904)
    Call of the Wild (1903) Recorded Books, Inc.
    Children of the Frost

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
    The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
    Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)
    Evangeline (1847)

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