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Caddie Woodlawn
Submitted by rob on Sun, 12/09/2007 - 21:55.SarahKate's Notes:
This story is based on the author's grandmother's life - and it is outstanding. An incredible story of a brave tomboy.
 | author: Carol Ryrie Brink rating:  asin: 1416940286 binding: Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99 USD |
At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin. In 1864, this is a bit much for her Boston-bred mother to bear, but Caddie and her brothers are happy with the status quo. Written in 1935 about Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother's childhood, the adventures of Caddie and her brothers are still exciting over 60 years later.
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Submitted by SarahKate on Sat, 11/03/2007 - 23:04. | author: Laura Ingalls Wilder rating:  asin: 0064400042 binding: Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99 |
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle.
Little House in the Big Woods
Submitted by SarahKate on Sat, 11/03/2007 - 23:04. | author: Laura Ingalls Wilder rating:  asin: 0064400018 binding: Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99 |
Although the Little House stories are traditionally seen as "girl" books, boys might be happily surprised if they take another peek at their sisters' shelves. Little House in the Big Woods--the first book of the series and Laura Ingalls Wilder's first children's book--is full of the thrills, chills, and spills typically associated with "boy" books. Any boy or girl who has fantasized about running off to live in the woods will find ample information in these pages to manage a Wisconsin snowstorm, a panther attack, or a wild sled ride with a pig as an uninvited guest.
Stone Fox
Submitted by SarahKate on Tue, 11/06/2007 - 16:20.SarahKate's Notes:
This is one of the books I wish I'd read all the way through before I read it to the girls (then ages 4 and 7). It is a really amazing book, the girls begged to hear it and at the end we all almost cried! This is an excellent story for older kids.
 | author: John Reynolds Gardiner rating:  asin: 0064401324 binding: Paperback list price: $5.50 USD amazon price: $5.50 USD |
Little Willy's Grandfather is sick, and it's up to Willy to save their farm from tax collectors. Their only hope is the prize money from the National Dogsled Race. But a lot of other people want to win the race, too, including Stone Fox, who has never lost a race in his life.
Fairy Tales for the New Age
Submitted by SarahKate on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 16:42.- Acts of kindness and generosity
- Adventure
- age 10
- age 11
- age 12
- age 3
- age 4
- age 5
- age 6
- age 7
- age 8
- Chapter book
- Courage and strength
- Emotions and Feelings
- Empowering boys
- Empowering girls
- Encouraging cooperation
- Fairies, elves, gnomes...
- Folk tales, fairy tales and ledgends
- Gentle stories for sensitive souls
- Helpful Children
- Imagination
- Magical
- Rural / Simple life
- Siblings caring for each other
SarahKate's Notes:
In my opinion this is one of the finest collections of fairy tales
I've read. They aren't syrupy and super-positive. They are gentle,
original stories of children overcoming their fears, learning powerful
lessons, and meeting magical spirits. We savor this book and I read
the a story from it every few weeks and it is a real treat the whole
family enjoys.
 | author: Arlene Williams rating: asin: 0960544445 binding: Paperback list price: $12.95 USD amazon price: $12.95 |
A collection of twelve original fairy tales with a gentle, sensitive flavor. There are no wicked witches threatening to cook and eat small children, no big, bad wolves devouring your grandma. You will find instead, stories in which good things happen to characters who work at making their lives and relationships better--with and without magic.