Monkey and I are about to embark on at least a two year long journey together of home schooling.  I’ve picked my curriculum for prek and Kindergarten and am really excited to get started.  It’s called Moving Beyond the Page and is lit based.  Oddly enough one complaint I found is that there aren’t enough books included.  I scratched my head and wondered why the parents couldn’t just supplement with other books they find at their local library, Barnes and Noble, Half Priced Books, etc. So last night I decided to see if there are any reecommended reading lists for children Monkeys age – 4.

I came across some really crappy lists, I won’t link to them but I do want to say… Seriously, seriously 5 books and you thought that was worthy of publishing on the internet? We’ll knock that out in an hour on a lazy afternoon.

I came across a sort of okay list

And then, this morning, I found this… the Database of Award Winning Children’s Literature. I was able to get a list of almost 500 age appropriate books for Monkey to read this year. Now that will keep us busy.  Lisa Bartle, a librarian, created this site and it appears that she is the only one who updates it as well.  I can’t even imagine how much work this has to be for her.  I think she deserves a standing ovation.

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