The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter (also online here )
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit OR Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb
The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. See selected chapters. (If you prefer not to use Lang's you may want to look at Hans Christian Andersen's Tales or Howard Pyle's The Wonder Clock or, take a look at these Nine Tales with no fairies, witches or magic spells.) Read about fairy tales from CM's original PR magazine: 1, 2, 3, and read Wendi Capehart's article about Fairy Tales. Another option: Grimm's Fairy Tales; here is one possible suggestion for edits.
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling [**Note - How the Leopard Got His Spots has one occurance of a racial slur that will need to be omitted; it's near the very end of the chapter.] Nice free audio recordings of some stories here.
Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty; selections (This book used in Years 1-3.) purchase (This is a Christian character book using elements of nature to make its point; it's not a science book. If you feel you must substitute, we suggest Clara Dillingham Pierson's Among the __ People series because "each story closes with a gentle moral, inspiring children to right behavior," rather than substituting with a science book.)
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
Peter Pan (or, Peter Pan and Wendy) by James M. Barrie (parents may want to read this one aloud to edit, see below)
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
St. George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pocahontas by Ingri D'Aulaire
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