Book List for 2024/2025

Below is a list of books we will be using in each Form. If you are attending Litera Academy in person, you do not need to purchase every book. If you have yet to receive your welcome packet, please wait until you do before buying books for class.

Form Zero

One Big Story Bible Storybook by The Gospel Project

The Real Mother Goose by Scholastic

The Children's Book of Virtues by William J Bennett

When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne

The World Treasury Of Literature Vol 1 and 2 by Clifton Fadiman

A Beatrix Potter Treasury by Beatrix Potter

Dr. Seuss’ ABCs: An Amazing Alphabet Book by Dr. Seuss

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr

The Alphabet Book by PD Eastman

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman

Give Bees A Chance by Bethany Barton

Who Took The Cookies from the Cookie Jar by Bonnie Lass and Philemon Sturges

The Dot by Peter H Reynolds

But No Elephants by Jerry Smath

The Wide Mouth Frog by Keith Faulkner

Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae

The Little Red Hen by Paul Galadone

Inch by Inch byLeo Lionni

The Giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord

The Knight and The Dragon by Tomie daPaola

The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant

The Ox Cart Man by Donald Hall

Pancakes Pancakes by Eric Carle

The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco

Red Riding Hood by James Marshall

The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

The Gigantic Turnip by Aleksei Tolstoy

The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Anderson

Zin Zin A Violin by Lloyd Moss

Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up the Wash by Sarah Weeks

Hattie and the Fox by Mem Fox

The Little Yellow Digger by Betty Gilderdale

Put Me In The Zoo by Robert Lopshire

When A Line Bends A Shape Begins by Rhonda Gowler Green

The Shape of Things by Dayle Anne Dodds

Round is a Tortilla by Roseanne Thong

Tangled a Story About Shapes by Ann Miranda

Square by Mac Barnett

Circle by Mac Barnett

Triangle by Mac Barnett

Halflings

Logic of English, Phonems

Doodling Dragons

Whistling Whales

Foundations Manuscript Workbook Level A

Language Arts

Math

Mathematics Power Learning for children Number understanding & Recognition - Addition of Fingers

Geography

Children Just Like Me by DK Books

This is How We Do It by Matt Lamothe

Amazing World Atlas

Christmas Around the World by Mary D Lankford

History

Fifty Famous People by James Baldwin

Buffalo Bill by Ingri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire

The Children’s Book of America by William J. Bennett

Literature

Winnie the Pooh

The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Miline

My Father’s Dragon

Elmer & The Dragon

The Dragons of Blueland by Ruth Stiles Gannett

Poetry

A Child’s Book of Poems Collection, Illustrated by Gyo Fujikawa

Short Stories

Beatrix Potter Collection

The Children’s Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett

The Foxwood Treasury by Cynthia & Brian Paterson

The Children’s Book of Heroes, by William J. Bennett

Science

Mother West Wind by Thornton W. Burgess

One Small Square - Woods by Donald M. Silver

Seed Babies by Margaret Warner Morley

One Small Square - Backyard by Donald M. Silver

Shakespeare

The Usborne Complete Shakespeare & Poetry for Kids

Form 1

Language Arts

Logic of English, Phonems & Spelling Practice

Geography

Cross-Country Geography for Children by Hanna & Cohn

National Geographic Kids Ultimate Us Road Trip Atlas 2nd Ed

Beautiful Feet Foldable US Map

Home Geography for Primary Grades by C. C. Long

History

A Child’s First Book of American History by Earl Schenck Miers

Lief the Lucky by D’Aulaire

Columbus by D’Aulaire

Pocahontas by D’Aulaire

Literature

Ables Island by William Steig

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Florence & Richard Atwater

David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd

Poetry

Falling Up by Shel Silverstein

A Child’s Garden f Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

When We Were Young by A. A. Miline

Short Stories

The Fair Stories by Oscar Wild

Aesop Fables

The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett

Science

Berean Builders - Science in the Beginning

Shakespeare

The Usborne Complete Shakespeare

Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare

Form 2

Language Arts

English for the Thoughtful Child

Geography

A Child’s Geography of the World by VM Hillyer

Cm’s Elementary Geography

Home Geography for Primary Grades by CC Long

History

Story of the World Vol 1: Ancient Times

d’ Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths, by Ingir & Edgar Parin d’ Aulaire

Literature

Poetry

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes

Selected Poems: Carl Sandburg

The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems April 2002

Science

Berean Builders - Science and The Ancient World

Shakespeare

Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare

Form 3

Language Arts

Our Mother Tongue: A guide to English Grammar

Getting Started With Latin by William E Linney

Geography

Richard Halliburton’s Book of Marvels- The Orient

History

Birth of Britain by Winston Churchill

Literature

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Beowulf by Rafel Burton

King Arthur by Andrew Lang

Poetry

The Oxford book of English Verse

Science

Berean Builders - Science in the Atomic Age

Shakespeare

Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare