Literature Lists

Literature for preschool age
The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau, by Jon Agee
The Runaway Bunny, by Margaret Wise Brown
Stellaluna, by Jannell Cannon
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, by Mem Fox
Matthew's Dream, by Leo Lionni
Owl at Home, by Arnold Lobel
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, by William Steig
The Sky Jumps into Your Shoes at Night, by Jasper Tomkins
Albert's Toothache, by Barbara Williams
Morris the Moose, by B. Wiseman

Literature for ages 5-8
The Christmas Menorahs: How A Town Fought Hate, by Janice Cohn
Frog and Toad Together, by Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad Are Friends, by Arnold Lobel
The Mountain That Loved a Bird, by Alice McLerran
The Upside-Down Cat, by Elizabeth Parsons
Hildilid's Night, by Cheli Duran Ryan
The Amazing Bone, by William Steig
Brave Irene, by William Steig
Yellow and Pink, by William Steig
The Bear That Wasn't, by Frank Tashlin
The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams
I Know a Lady, by Charlotte Zolotow

Literature for ages 7-10
The Wizard of Oz, by Frank Baum
Danny, The Champion of the World, by Ronald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach, by Ronald Dahl
The Chinese Mirror, by Mirra Ginsburg (trans.)
The Poet-Bat, by Randell Jarrell
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis
The Dragon with the Red Eyes, by Astrid Lindgren
Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren
The World of Pooh, by A.A. Milne
The Bears' House, by Marilyn Sachs
Fran Ellen's House, by Marilyn Sachs
Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
Stuart Little, by E.B. White

Literature for ages 9-12
The Lemming Condition, by Alan Arkin
Knee-Knock Rise, by Natalie Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
Behind the Attic Wall, by Sylvia Cassedy
Secret of the Andes, by Ann Nolen Clark
Grendel, by John Gardner
In the Suicide Mountain, by John Gardner
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Kosigsburg
Lesse Webster, by Ursula LeGuin
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L'Engle
Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, by Betty Bao Lord
Raging Robots and Unruly Uncles, by Margaret Mahy
Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit
The Story of the Amulet, by E. Nesbit
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, by Robert C. O'Brien
Tom's Midnight Garden, by Philippa Pearce
A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupery
Old Ramon, by Jack Shaefer
Abel's Island, by William Steig
The Real Thief, by William Steig
Many Moons, by James Thurber
A Traveler in Time, by Alison Uttley
The Sword in the Stone, by T.H. White

High School Literature
The Universe and Dr. Einstein, by Lincoln Barnett
The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, by George Berkeley
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life, by Sissela Bok
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
Mrs. Bridge, by Evan Connell
Meditations on First Philosophy, by Descartes
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
The Campaign, by Carlos Fuentes
The Mind's I, composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sophie's World, by Jostein Gaarder
In A Different Voice, by Carol Gilligan
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
"A White Heron," in The Country of the Painted Firs and Other Stories, by Sarah Orne Jewett
The Trial, by Franz Kafka
Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death, by Soren Kierkegaard
A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold
The Time of the Hero, by Mario Vargas Llosa
Philosophical Fragments, by Soren Kierkegaard
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, by Milan Kundera
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tar Baby, by Toni Morrison
What Does It All Mean?, by Thomas Nagel
The Examined Life, by Robert Nozick
Tell Me A Riddle, by Tillie Olsen
A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality, by John Perry
The World of Silence, by Max Picard
The Republic, by Plato
A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
Nausea, by John-Paul Sartre
No Exit, by Jean-Paul Sartre
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
A Young Person's Guide to Philosophy, edited by Jeremy Weate
The Quest for Christa T., by Christa Wolf
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf

Further Resources
Bohm, David. On Dialogue. (1990)
Bruner, Jerome. The Process of Education.
Coles, Robert. The Political Life of Children. (1986)
_____. The Moral Life of Children. (1986)
_____. The Spiritual Life of Children. (1990)
Dewey, John. On Education.
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind. (1983)
_____. The Unschooled Mind. (1991)
Lipman, Matthew, and Ann Margaret Sharp. Growing Up With Philosophy. (1978)
Lipman, Matthew, et.al. Philosophy in the Classroom. (1980)
Lipman. Matthew. Philosophy Goes to School. (1988)
_____. Thinking in Education. (1991)
_____, ed. Thinking Children and Education. (1993)
Matthews, Gareth. Philosophy and the Young Child. (1980)
_____. Dialogues with Children. (1984)
_____. The Philosophy of Childhood. (1994)
Piaget, Jean. The Child's Conception of the World.
Vygotsky, L.S. Thought and Language.