Listless Monday: Great Read Aloud Books for Kids

Listless Monday was inspired by both Amanda at A Bookshelf Monstrosity's feature Books by Theme and Court at Once Upon a Bookshelf's Listed feature. Be sure to check out their lists!

It's been ages since my last Listless Monday, and I remembered the suggestion made by Amber about doing a list of great read aloud books for kids.  This list is pretty wide in age-range, probably from kindergarten (and earlier) up.  That's not to say that every book is good for a kindergartener, as there are some more mature titles.  Use your discretion!  But these all seem, in my narrow experience and wisdom, to be books that would be great fun to share with your kids or students.

Great Read Alouds for Kids of All Ages!

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner (recommended by Emily)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or James and the Giant Peach (and other Roald Dahl)
Charlotte's Web or Stuart Little by E.B. White
The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (recommended by Amber)
The Flint Heart by Katherine and John Paterson
Frindle and other books by Andrew Clements (recommended by Amber)
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (recommended by Amber)
The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (recommended by Emily and Amber)
Holes by Louis Sachar (recommended by Emily and Amber)  
The Humming Room and The Kneebone Boy by Ellen Potter (recommended by contemplatrix)
The Indian in the Cupboard and other Lynne Reid Banks' books (recommended by Cheltz and Emily)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (recommended by Amber)
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville (recommended by Emily)
Little House On the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Long Way From Chicago, A Year Down Yonder, and A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater (recommended by Lee)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald (recommended by Cheltz)
The Name of This Book is Secret series by Pseudonymous Bosch (recommended by Amber)
Princess Ben and Wisdom's Kiss by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Ramona books and The Ralph Mouse Collection by Beverly Cleary (recommended by Emily)
Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan
Rules by Cynthia Lord (recommended by Amber)
Savvy and Scumble by Ingrid Law
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Serial Garden by Joan Aiken
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls (recommended by Amber)
The Tale of Despereaux, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, and other Kate DiCamillo books (recommended by contemplatrix and Des)
A Tale Dark and Grimm and In a Glass Grimmly by Adam Gidwitz
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (recommended by Emily)
Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George
The Wednesday Wars and Okay For Now by Gary D. Schmidt
Where Mountain Meets Moon and Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin
Wonder by R.J. Palacio

And there are so many others (like all those classic kid's books you remember).  I'd love to hear your suggestions too!

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Retell Me a Story: New and Upcoming Retellings

Listless Monday was inspired by both Amanda at A Bookshelf Monstrosity's feature Books by Theme and Court at Once Upon a Bookshelf's Listed feature. Be sure to check out their lists!

Welcome to the second day of Retell Me a Story!  I've got another guest post coming up later, but be sure to check out the giveaway and Nikki's guest post from yesterday.  Also, for more complete lists of retellings, check out my giant list of classic and mythological retellings and my list of fairy tale retellings.
 
I'm happy to be sharing with you some of the excellent MG and YA retellings (and I use that term pretty loosely here) that have just come out or that are coming out this year.  I thought it would make a delightful Listless Monday post, too!  As you will see from the length of this post, there are certainly a LOT of retellings being published right now.  These range from fairy tale to mythological to classic retellings.  Hopefully you will see one or two here that pique your interest.

Recently Released Retellings:

Soonchild by Russell Hoban (August 2012)
Retelling Innuit mythology
The Odyssey by Gillian Cross (September 2012)
Retelling The Odyssey by Homer
Fathomless by Jackson Pearce (September 2012)
Retelling The Little Mermaid

Ten by Gretchen McNeil (September 2012)
Retelling And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Turning by Francine Prose (September 2012)
Retelling The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm by Philip Pullman (November 2012)
Retelling Grimm's fairy tales

Princess of the Silver Woods by Jessica Day George (December 2012)
Retelling Red Riding Hood (and Robin Hood)
Tempestuous by Kim Askew and Amy Helmes (December 2012)
Retelling The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Snow Whyte and the Queen of Mayhem by Melissa Lemon (Dec 2012)
Retelling Snow White

Doomed by Tracy Deebs (January 2013)
Retelling the Pandora myth
Catherine by April Lindner (January 2013)
Retelling Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Splintered by A.G. Howard (January 2013)
Retelling Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Dr. Frankenstein's Daughters by Suzanne Weyn (January 2013)
Retelling Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (more of a sequel)

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Upcoming Retellings:

The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepherd (January 2013)
Retelling The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Trouble with Flirting by Clare LaZebnik (February 2013)
Retelling Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer (February 2013)
Retelling Red Riding Hood

A Touch of Scarlet by Eve Marie Mont (March 2013)
Retelling The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Strands of Bronze and Gold by Jane Nickerson (March 2013)
Retelling Bluebeard
Frogged by Vivian Vande Velde (April 2013)
Retelling The Frog King

Life After Theft by Aprilynne Pike (April 2013)
Retelling The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle by Christopher Healy (April 2013)
Retelling various fairy tales
Nameless: A Tale of Beauty and Madness by Lili St. Crow (April 2013)
Retelling Snow White

Furious by Jill Wolfson (April 2013)
Retelling (featuring?) the Greek Furies
Vengeance Bound by Justine Ireland (April 2013)
Retelling (featuring?) the Greek Furies
Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl Shurtliff (April 2013)
Retelling Rumpelstiltskin

Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood by Abby McDonald (April 2013)
Retelling Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Beauty by Nancy Ohlin (May 2013)
Retelling Snow White
Towering by Alex Flinn (May 2013)
Retelling Rapunzel

Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay (July 2013)
Retelling Beauty and the Beast
All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry (July 2013)
Retelling the Orpheus and Eurydice myth
The Fairest of Them All by Carolyn Turgeon (August 2013)
Retelling Rapunzel and Snow White

Antigoddess by Kendare Blake (September 2013)
Retelling (starring?) various Greek gods
Cold Spell by Jackson Pearce (Fall 2013)
Retelling The Snow Queen (cover not available)
Across a Star-swept Sea by Diana Peterfreund (Fall 2013)
Retelling The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (cover not available)
My Name is Rapunzel by K.C. Hilton (sometime in 2013)
Retelling Rapunzel

As you can see, a lot of retellings recently released or coming out this year.  I'd love for you to share with me any that I might have missed. Or any that you are particularly excited about!

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