Reading together as a family can be a wonderful and very important part of your children's education. I hope this list will assist with that. I've tried to include books which are not too intense for little ones and yet interesting enough for the older ones. You'll still have to use good judgement in some cases as some children are more sensitive than others. Click on underlined titles to jump to their book review.

• Abe Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz
• Andries by Hilda Van Stockum
• Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery
• Beorn the Proud by Madeleine Polland
• Bernadette, Our Lady's Little Servant by Hertha Pauli
• The Book of Virtues edited by William Bennett
• Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
• Catholic Stories for Boys and Girls (Neumann Press)
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• The Clown of God by Tomie de Paola
• Columbus by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
• The Cottage at Bantry Bay Series by Hilda Van Stockum
• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
• Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Fingal's Quest by Madeleine Polland
• For the Children: Words of Love and Inspiration from His Holiness Pope John Paul II
• Francis and Clare: Saints of Assisi by Helen Walker Homan
• From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Koningsburg
• Gettysburg by Makinlay Kantor
• Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
• The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore Jewett
• The Holy Bible
• If All the Swords in England by Barbara Willard
• Just David by Eleanor Porter
• The Lady of Guadalupe by Tomie de Paola
• The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky
• Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Magical Melons by Carol Ryrie Brink
• Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson
• The Mitchells Series by Hilda Van Stockum
• The Moral Compass edited by William Bennett
• Mother Cabrini: Missionary to the World by Francis Parkinson Keyes
• Old Sam: Dakota Trotter by Don Alonzo Taylor
• Once Upon a Time Saints and More Once Upon a Time Saints by Ethel Pochocki
• The Orphans Find a Home: A Story of St. Frances Cabrini by Joan Stromberg
• The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
• The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery
• Saint Anthony and the Christ Child by Helen Walker Homan
• Saint Augustine and his Search for the Faith (Vision)
• Saint Benedict by Mary Fabyan Windeatt
• St. John Bosco and St. Dominic Savio by Catherine Beebe
• Saint Paul the Apostle by Mary Fabyan Windeatt
• St. Philip of the Joyous Heart by Francis X. Connolly
• Saint Therese and the Roses by Helen Walker Homan
• Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
• The Swamp Fox of the Revolution by Stewart Holbrook (Landmark Series)
• Thomas A. Edison: Young Inventor by Sue Guthridge (Childhood of Famous Americans)
• Where was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? by Jean Fritz
• Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? by Jean Fritz
• The Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum
• The Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Note: Not all of the stories in The Book of Virtues and The Moral Compass are necessarily appropriate for small children, but you'll find many, many good selections.