Has anyone been reading Scalzi's "The Human Division?" It is a multi-part book that has been released in chunks on Amazon (perhaps other outlets as well?)
I have been enjoying it. I'm about halfway through (on part 5 or 6). Overall, I find this an interesting way to release a book. I am not sure if Scalzi had this in mind when he wrote it, but it very much feels like a written form tv mini-series in that each part has a beginning, middle, and end, but the parts seem to be tied together well enough. The parts seemed really unrelated, but around now the relationships are coming together in an interesting fashion.
The audio version of the first part shows some labored writing on Scalzi's part. It seemed to be smoothed out after the first. I have mostly read the subsequent sections so I'm not sure if I would have noticed the choppy writing in the first part if I hadn't been listening to it.
The Magic Treehouse series is at least 50 books long by now.
The Littles series is another bunch of good short chapter books.
All the Frances books
Flea- I am going to forward to my BFF who i an early childhood educator and see if she has any recs. Can I give her your email?
Flea, I see you already have several Curious George books on the list, but I suggest adding
Curious George Rides a Bike.
That was the book that got me started with origami in the 2nd grade.
You could add a few other Rosemary Wells books. Also the Sydney Taylor
All of a Kind Family
series. Patricia MacLachlan's
Sara Plain and Tall. The Secret Garden.
The
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
series, or at least one or two. Dorothy Canfield Fisher's
Understood Betsy.
I also found this list, which leans toward the younger kids: [link]
Two more suggestions, books I have fond but vague memories of from about 3rd grade:
Owls in the Family
by Farley Mowat: [link]
and
Follow My Leader
by James B. Garfield: [link]
Flea, I recommend "Key to the Treasure" (and others in that series) by the Amelia Bedelia author Peggy Parish. It was the first chapter book I ever read, and I loved it so much I kept reading it over and over and over until my dad finally got sick of seeing me read it and put it on top of the fridge so I'd have to read something else (had we only known there were sequels....)
Huh. I didn't realize "Lust Over Pendle" was a play on an actual book title Mist Over Pendle. (A book about witchcraft in 17th century Lancashire.)
For picture books, we really loved Rosie and the Rustlers and Croconile.
Older - The Ivy & Bean books, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series
Even Older - The Gone Away Lake, Phantom Tollbooth
