I would like to share with you some of my favorite books, the ones that feed my soul and imagination and no child should grow up without reading. Many of these books are available at your local library, but are well worth owning in order to peruse over and over again through the years and read to your children.

Alcott, Louisa May Little Women

Bunn, T. Davis The Messenger

Burnett, Frances Hodgson The Little Princess and The Secret Garden

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Lewis, Clives Staples The Chronicles of Narnia

MacDonald, George (one of my favorite authors, many books including the following)

“Alec Forbes of Howglen”

At the Back of the North Wind

“The Fisherman’s Lady” and “The Marquis’ Daughter”

“The Highlander’s Last Song”

“The Princess and the Goblins” and “The Princess and Curdie”

Montgomery, Lucy Maud Anne of Green Gables and the rest of the “Anne” series

Orzcy, Baroness The Scarlet Pimpernel

Phillips, Michael Legend of the Celtic Stone

Rawling, Marjorie Kinnan The Yearling

Wilder, Laura Ingalls The Little House… series

And these are some of my favorite reads more appropriate for older teens and ladies and gentlemen, either because the reading level may be too difficult or the subject matter may not be appropriate for very young children.

Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre

Caldwell, Taylor Romance of Atlantis

Leroux, Gaston The Phantom of the Opera

McKillip, Patricia A.

The Tower at Stony Wood

Riddle-Master, The Complete Trilogy

Rivers, Francine

The Atonement Child

The Scarlet Thread

Stoker, Bram Dracula