Horizonal Reading and the Foundational Lingual Arts Classical Literature Curriculum Classical Children s Literature Preparatory Works Curricular Element III.a Contents A Brief Note of Explanation Page 2 Preparatory Works: Horizonal Readings in Classical Children s Literature: Horizons One through Six Page 2 1 of 5
Nota bene: This document, Element III.a, contains only the bare syllabus of the Classical Children s Literature portion of the Horizonal Reading Program. For the complete program, including the Seminal World Literature portion and both a discussion of the concept of horizonal reading and an explanation of the structure, purpose, and use of the Horizonal Reading Program as a whole, see Element III: The Meaning of Horizonal Reading. For the Seminal World Literature portion alone, see Element III.b: Seminal World Literature. Horizon One 1. Beatrix Potter's Tales The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin The Tailor of Gloucester The Tale of Benjamin Bunny The Tale of Two Bad Mice The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit The Story of Miss Moppet The Tale of Tom Kitten The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or, The Roly-Poly Pudding The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies The Tale of Ginger and Pickles The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes The Tale of Mr. Tod The Tale of Pigling Bland The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse The Tale of Little Pig Robinson The Fairy Caravan Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes 2. The House that Jack Built (Randolph Caldecott, Illustrator) 3. Kate Greenaway's Language of Flowers (and others) 4. Elsa Beskow, The Tale of the Little, Little Old Woman 5. Elsa Beskow, Pelle's New Suit 6. Elsa Beskow, Peter in Blueberry Land 7. Elsa Beskow, Children of the Forest 8. Elsa Beskow, The Sun Egg 9. Elsa Beskow, Ollie's Ski Trip 10. Elsa Beskow, Around the Year 11. Elsa Beskow, Peter's Old House 12. Elsa Beskow, Christopher's Harvest Time 13. Elsa Beskow, Woody, Hazel, and Little Pip 14. Elsa Beskow, The Flowers' Festival 15. Michael Bond s Paddington Bear Stories A Bear Called Paddington More About Paddington Paddington Helps Out Paddington Abroad Paddington at Large Paddington at Work Paddington Goes to Town Paddington Takes the Air Paddington s Garden Paddington s Blue Peter Story Book and others... 2 of 5
Horizon Two 1. Jill Barklem's Brambly Hedge Stories Spring Story Summer Story Autumn Story Winter Story The Secret Staircase The High Hills Sea Story Poppy's Babies 2. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Spring Cleaning 3. Frances Hodgson Burnett, Racketty-Packetty House 4. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Troubles of Queen Silver-Bell 5. The Original Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright edition) 6. Ruth Stiles Gannett, Three Tales of My Father's Dragon My Father's Dragon Elmer and the Dragon The Dragons of Blueland 7. A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh 8. A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner (and other stories) 9. Hugh Lofting s Dr. Dolittle Stories The Story of Dr. Dolittle The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Doctor Dolittle s Post Office Doctor Dolittle s Circus Doctor Dolittle s Zoo Doctor Dolittle s Caravan Doctor Dolittle s Garden Doctor Dolittle in the Moon Doctor Dolittle s Return Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary Doctor Dolittle s Puddleby Adventures Horizon Three 1. Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows 2. Howard Pyle, The Garden Behind the Moon 3. Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House Series Little House in the Big Woods Little House on the Prairie On the Banks of Plum Creek By the Shores of Silver Lake The Long Winter Little Town on the Prairie These Happy Golden Years The First Four Years 4. Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses [Poetry] 5. Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy 6. Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess 7. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden 8. E. B. White, Stuart Little 9. E. B. White, Charlotte's Web 10. E. B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan 11. Edith Nesbit, Wet Magic 12. Edith Nesbit, The Magic City 13. Edith Nesbit, The House of Arden 14. Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 15. Johanna Spyri, Heidi 16. Fred Gipson, Old Yeller 17. Mary O'Hara, My Friend Flicka 18. Anna Sewell, Black Beauty 3 of 5
Horizon Four 1. Mary Mapes Dodge, Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates 2. Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins 3. Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook s Hill 4. Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories for Little Children 5. Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie [Poetry] 6. Edith Nesbit, Five Children and It 7. Edith Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet 8. Edith Nesbit, The Story of the Amulet 9. George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin 10. George MacDonald, The Princess and Curdie 11. George MacDonald, The Lost Princess 12. Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book 13. Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book 14. Lloyd Alexander, The Iron Ring 15. C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia The Voyage of the Dawn Treader The Silver Chair The Horse and His Boy The Magician's Nephew The Last Battle Horizon Five 1. Lucy Maud Montgomery s Anne of Green Gables Series Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne of the Island Anne of Windy Poplars Anne s House of Dreams Anne of Ingleside Rainbow Valley Rilla of Ingleside 2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha [Poem] 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls 5. Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio 6. George MacDonald, The Light Princess 7. George MacDonald, The Golden Key 8. Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 9. Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle 10. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 11. Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There 12. Isaac Watts, Divine Songs for Children [Hymns] 13. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline [Poem] 14. Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain 15. Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels 16. Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain The Black Cauldron The Castle of Llyr Taran Wanderer The High King The Foundling and Other Tales from Prydain 17. George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind 4 of 5
Horizon Six 1. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin 2. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women 3. Louisa May Alcott, Little Men 4. Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys 5. Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins 6. Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom 7. Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island 8. Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped 9. Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour 10. Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow 11. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Tom Sawyer 12. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Huckleberry Finn 13. T. S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats [Poem] 14. Madeleine L'Engle, The Time Trilogy A Wrinkle in Time A Wind in the Door A Swiftly Tilting Planet 15. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit 16. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers The Return of the King 5 of 5