A cry for Help!

I have a dilemma... My children are missing something.... It's called Literature!  haha!  Seriously though, it's that time of year again where I go crazy trying to figure out what the heck I am going to teach them next year.  "I" is going to be in Grade ONE this coming fall!  He's breezing through his kindergarten year.  He's already reading small books and doing addition and subtraction like a pro.

This year I am taking a more classical approach to their language arts and history programs.  In order to do this, I need to get my hands on some classic books.  I would love to own these books so that I don't have to scramble around looking for them for the upcoming kids.  So I created a book list, researched them all online for prices and found that some of them I can't even buy anymore.  The ones that I can buy will get pretty expensive if I have to buy them all new. 

So then I had an idea... what if some of my lovely friends and families had some of these books just laying around not being used?  What if those said friends and family members would love to get rid of those books for a small price.  I am going to put my book list out there and hope that someone somewhere has at least a few of them and is willing to let me take them off their hands.    I will try to link as many of the books to Chapters or Amazon as I can so that you can see which versions I need.  Keep in mind that these books are going to be read to a 6, 8 and 11 year old so the versions that I need have to be adapted for those ages.  Here goes!!

Book list

Stories and Poems by, about or from…

Ancients  

Trojan Horse by David Clement-Davies

The Odyssey by Geraldine McCaughrean

Black Ships beforeTroy: The Storyof Iliad by Rosemary Sutcliffe

The Gods andGoddesses of Olympus by Aliki

Pandora by Robert Burleigh

Atalanta’s Race: AGreek Myth by Shirley Climo

King Midas: TheGolden Touch by Demi

Pegasus by Marianna Mayer

An IllustratedTreasury of Read-Aloud Myths and Legends by Joan C Verniero and Robin Fitsimmons

Favorite GreekMyths by Mary Pope Osborne

Aesop’s Fables

Anything about Plato

Anything about Aristotle

Eygtian God’s and Goddesses by Henry Barker

Savitri: A Tale ofAncient India by Aaron Shephard

The Adventures ofSpider: West African Folktales by Joyce Cooper Arkhurst

Anything about Confucius

The Five ChineseBrothers by Claire Bishop

Ancient Chinese and Japanese poetry

Anything about Cicero or Virgil

Traditional Irish Fairy Tales by James Stevens

Medieval/Early Renaissance 

Beowulf: A NewTelling by Robert Nye

Sir Gawain and theGreen Knight by J.R.R. Tolkien

The CanterburyTales by Geoffrey Chaucer (retold by Geraldine McCaughrean)

Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Translated by Nevill Coghill)

Dante’s Inferno (Translated by Robert Pinsky)

Saint George andthe Dragon by Edmund Spenser (retold by Geraldine McCaughrean)

The Sword and theCircle by Rosemary Sutcliff

The Boy’s KingArthur by Thomas Malory

The Sword in theStone by T.H. White

Le Morte D’Arthur (Audiobook version read by Derek Jacobi)

Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield

Late Renaissance/Early Modern  

John Milton

Perrault's Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.  adapted by James Riordan

Pilgram’s Progress by John Bunyan

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo and Marc Cerasini

The ThreeMusketeers by Alexander Dumas and Debbie Felder

Songs of Innocence by William Blake

William Wordsworth

Jane Austen

Poetry for Young People by Lord Tennyson Alfred 

The Pied Piper ofHamelin by Robert Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Grimms Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens  (Illustrated by Dean Morrissey)

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Monica Kulling

The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear

Christina Rossetti (Children’s poems)

Through theLooking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Any stories by Mark Twain

Last of theMohicans by James Fenimore Cooper  (or any of his novels)

Any novels by Jules Verne especially 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Norwegian FolkTales by Peter Asbjrnsen

So there it is.. there you have it... If you could be so kind as to look on your bookshelves for any of these books, Please contact me through email, facebook or comment on this post!