Easy Readers and Read Aloud Books

So, trying to decide what books to read and share with my children can be difficult. Of course, I have a few of my favorites, but there are so many books out there, and many of them I have NOT read (or even heard of). So I have decided to use the Sonlight Lists for Reading books and Read Alouds. You can of course get them from your local library, but I have also found that you can by them used for decent prices on ebay.com or from Wonder Book and Video(I like purchasing from here if buying more than one book b/c they have flat rate shipping of $3.99). I have also found some on paperbackswap.com (as previously mentioned). Amazon is also a good choice.
I have also purchased some phonic readers and early reading books from starfall.com, if you are not familiar with starfall.com, it's a great site to early reading skills, letter and sound recognition, etc. Cole loves these books b/c they are familiar characters to him from the website. I will be using the webiste this year with my 2 year old, as for the most part Cole has 'outgrown' it. Though there are older kid features as well.


Here is our read aloud list from Sonlight (not all are pictured), and we plan to add others according to our unit studies.
The House at Pooh Corner (Pooh Original Edition)

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

The Story about Ping (Reading Railroad Books)

The Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose: A Treasury of More Than 300 Classic Nursery Rhymes

The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 100 Favorite Poems

Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You Book (Pictureback(R))

Johnny Appleseed (First Biographies)

Capyboppy
My Father's Dragon: The Bestselling Children Story

Dolphin Adventure:: A True Story
The Light at Tern Rock (Puffin Newbery Library)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Books of Wonder)

The Apple and the Arrow

A Grain of Rice

The Hundred Dresses

Twenty and Ten (Puffin Story Books)

The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, No. 1) (Boxcar Children Mysteries)

In Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series)

Five True Dog Stories

The Family under the Bridge

James Herriot's Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small

Dolphin Treasure (Harper Trophy Books)

Mary On Horseback: Three Mountain Stories
AND MORE!!

Starfall Learn to Read Phonics Book Set: Zac the Rat and Other Tales!

AND MORE!!

Cole started his Science Classes yesterday. I stayed for the first class just to see how it went, but will be dropping him of next week and finding something to do with the other 2 for an hour. He seemed to enjoy it. He is the youngest in the class as it's for K-2 and the school year is wrapping up, so the K's are almost done with their school year. He got his first 'homework' assignment and has a project he needs to work on researching a bird of his choice (they are studying birds and mammals this month). He has chosen to do his project on Puffins. More to come on that later!