These books are aligned with Waldorf Education curriculum and principles. For more information on what I mean by that, please visit this page: What is Waldorf-Aligned?
Published 1970 Theme: Friendship; Easy Reader Best for: 5- 8 This is one of those books that is important not because it is great literature, but because it is possible for children to read it on their own, love it, remember it, imitate it, and feel the magic that comes from learning to read...
First Published 1910 Theme: Resilience Best for: ages 9 - 12 Five Star "Of course, there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen." The power of nature to heal, the power of friendship to encourage, and the power of determination all combine in this classic...
Published 1922 Theme: Power of Love Best for: ages 5 to 9 Five Stars That night, he was almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst." I feel any list of great children's literature which omitted this book would be quite remiss.
Published 1952 Theme: Friendship Best for: Ages 8 and up "After all, what's a life anyway? We're born, we live a little, we die...By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle." A simple and moving story of friendship and humane treatment of animals...
Published 1886 Theme: Power of Love and Kindness Best for: Ages 6 and up, especially boys Five Stars "His greatest charm was this cheerful, fearless, quaint little way of making friends with people. Finding this children's book, the first ever written by Burnett, was like going to the pure, unpolluted, ancient source of story itself...
Published 1908 Theme: Friendship Best for: Any Age Five Stars "At last over the rim of the waiting earth, the moon lifted with slow majesty till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off, free of moorings..."The lyrical nature of the writing alone would be enough to rave about the book. But that's just the beginning...
Published 2000 Theme: Fairies Best for: 5 - 8 years old I love the Fairy Realm series, stepping from our human world into the world of the fairies, where magic, beauty, goodness, and yes, also a bit of evil, mingle together...
Published 2009 Theme: Nature Best for: ages 5 - 8 This small little children's book has the best elements of combining fiction and non-fiction into a little tale. It is lyrical, it is sensitive, it is keenly accurate, and it is accompanied by the most delicate illustrations one could find in a children's book...
Published 1999 Theme: Selfless Service & Humility Best for: Boys 11 and up That is why the rare human who is truly good is so remarkable. And the rare human who acquires true wisdom...is so magnificent.". Yet again, Gerald Morris has taken a classic, Arthurian literature and created an inspirational children's book...
Published 2001 Theme: Adventure and self-discovery Best for: ages 10 and up Five Stars "Perhaps I'm mad--and the professor, too--but I think children must lead big lives...if it is in them to do so." What is the mark of a great children's book, really? For me, it is the feeling of immense goodness about the world that rises up when I finally read the last word of the book...
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