下面的书单,是精选出来的质量很高的英文原文儿童读物。请记得,年龄段指的是以英语为母语的孩子。年龄段也是个大概而已,同年的孩子当中水平个异差别很大的。所以,国内学英语的孩子大致到初中甚至高中都可阅读(8-12岁那部分)。另外,我确实不知道在国内哪些书能买到,哪些买不到。但一定有一部分是能找到的。在Amazon是通通能买到的。
4-6岁:
1. Fables by Arnold Lobel
2. Whose Mouse Are you? by Robert Kraus
3. Franklin in the Dark by Paulette Bourgeois (Franklin系列)
4. Nuts to You! by Lois Ehlert
5. A Child’s Treasury of Nursery Rhymes by Kady MacDonald Denton
6. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
7. Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young by Jack Prelutsky
8. There’s a Wocket in My Pocket, Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss (很多书)
9. The 20th Century Children’s Poetry Treasury (Random House出版)
10. The 20th Century Children’s Book Treasury (Random House出版)
11. Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
12. Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik (4本)
13. Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant
7-9岁:
1. Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary
2. Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary (这位作者写了很多书,都很不错的)
2. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
3. Morning Girl by Michael Dorris
4. The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
5. My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
6. Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
7. Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
8. Babe: The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith (他写的其他书也不错)
9. Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace (系列)
10. Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
11. The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky (诗歌集)
12. Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
13. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (系列,共9本)
14. Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe
15. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
16. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Alexander Wolf and Jon Scieszka
17. The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka
18. Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
19. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (诗集)
20. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
21. Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol (系列)
22. Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
8-12岁
1. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
2. Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
4. The Snarkout Boys and the Avacado of Death by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
5. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
6. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
7. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
8. The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
9. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
10. The BFG by Roald Dahl (很幽默的作家)
11. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
12. The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
13. Half Magic by Edward Eager (系列,共7本)
14. Harriet the Spy by Loiuse Fitzhugh
15. Humbug Mountain by Sid Fleischman
16. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
17. The Wind in the Willow by Kenneth Grahame (学习高级词汇的好书,挺难的经典)
18. Redwall by Brian Jacques (系列,多本, 大块头的厚书)
19. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
20. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
21. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
22. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (系列, 多本)
23. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
24. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
25. Anne of Green Gable by Lucy Maud Montgomery (系列, 多本)
26. Rascal by Sterling North (学习高级词汇的好书,挺难的)
27. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
28. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
29. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
30. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
31. Tom’s Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearce
32. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
33. Harry Potter series
34. Holes by Louis Sachar
35. The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
36. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
37. Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
38. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
39. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
40. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
41. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
42. Sister Grimm Series by Michael Buckley and Peter Ferguson (至今6本)
43. A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket 另有博文介绍
12-13岁
探险求生
1. The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party by Marian Calabro
2. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
3. Downriver by Will Hobbs
4. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
5. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
6. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
7. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
8. Holes by Louis Sachar
9. Touching the Void: The Harrowing First-Person Account of One Man’s Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson
10. Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
自传与回忆录
11. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
12. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
13. Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
14. The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank
15. Rocket Boys/October Sky by Homer Hickam
16. Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
17. My Dog Skip by Willie Morris
18. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
19. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
20. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenez
魔幻
21. Watership Down by Richard Adams
22. The Lost Years of Merlin by T. A. Barron
23. Magic Kingdom for Sale – Sold ! by Terry Brooks
24. The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
25. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
26. The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
27. Redwall by Brian Jacques
28. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (also see The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass)
29. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
30. Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
历史小说
31. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
32. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
33. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
34. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
35. The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
36. My Anotnia by Willa Cather
37. Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
38. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
39. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
40. A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories by Richard Peck
幽默
41. Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer
42. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
43. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
44. Frindle by Andrew Clements
45. Remember Me to Harold Square by Paula Danziger (Also see The Cat Ate My Gymsuit)
46. Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
47. Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered by Gary Paulsen
48. The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts by Richard Peck
49. 5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars; the Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, etc by Daniel Pinkwater
50. No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
开阔眼界
51. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
52. Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson
53. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
54. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis
55. Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
56.Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman
57. Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
58. 1776 by David McCullough
59. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
60. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
神秘惊悚
61. Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery by Peter Abraahms
62. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
63. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
64. The Last Juror by John Grisham
65. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
66. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
67. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
68. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
69. Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? by Eleanor Updale
70. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
科幻
71. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
72. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
73. Dune by Frank Herbert
74. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
75. Fade by Robert Cormier
76. The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
77. The House of Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
78. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
79. Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddiz
80. The Giver by Lois Lowry
边缘/冲突
81. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
82. The Lord of Flies by William Golding
83. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
84. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
85. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
86. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
87. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
88. Seek by Paul Fleischman
89. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
90.Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
经典
91. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
92. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
93. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
94. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
95. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
96. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
97. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
98. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
99. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
100. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens