​Third Grade Read Aloud Titles

Read-Aloud Picture Books:

• Casey at the Bat ill. by LeRoy Neiman
• Cupid and Psyche by M. Charlotte Craft
• They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson
• The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg
• Persephone by Sally Pomme Clayton
• Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney
• Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling, ill. by Jerry Pinkney
• The Tale of the Firebird by Gennady Spirin
• Over the River and Through the Wood by Lydia Maria Child, ill. by Christopher Manson
• The Gift of the Christmas Cookie by Dandi Daley Mackall
• An Orange for Frankie by Patricia Polacco
• The Nutcracker by E.T.A Hoffmann and Janet Schulman
• The Nutcracker by Stephanie Spinner (with CD)
• Twas the Night Before Christmas ill. by Matt Tavares
• Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck
• Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky
• King Midas and the Golden Touch by Charlotte Craft
• Pegasus by Marianna Mayer
• The Tale of the Three Trees by Angela Elwell Hunt
• The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen, ill. by Jerry Pinkney
• The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
• Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library by Barbara Rosenstock
• Squanto & the Miracle of Thanksgiving by Eric Metaxas

​Read-Aloud Novels:

• Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
• Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
• D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
• American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne
• The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
• James Herriot’s Treasury for Children by James Herriot, ill. by Ruth Brown & Peter Barrett
• A Day on Skates by Hilda van Stockum
• The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
• The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
• The Borrowers by Mary Norton
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett