From: mimi@apollo.hp.com (Mimi Wellington)
Subject: Long books for 4yo--summary
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:49:41 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

Many thanks to everyone who sent me recommendations for
long books for four-year-olds!  I dropped a bundle at the
bookstore and bought several of the books you recommended.
We'll see what works!  (Right now we're reading 
_Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle_, which is a big hit.)

Many people requested that I post the recommendations I
got.  Here's a summary.  If you're interested in reading
all the mail I got, let me know and I'll email it to you.

I've arranged the recommendation list alphabetically by
author, and I've included the number of recommendations
each book got.  That's not to make it a popularity contest 
or anything...I just thought it was interesting that so 
many people found the same books to be tried-and-true 
successes.

I've also added my own recommendations--the books that've
already been successes for us.  I hope this list is useful to
some of you!                                             

                                        Happy reading!
                                        Mimi Wellington  

P.S.  I tried to thank everyone who responded individually.
If I missed someone, I apologize.

P.P.S.  A very special thanks goes out to Betsy Perry, who
helped me identify authors for almost all of the books.
Betsy did this while at home suffering from strep throat--
now *that's* dedication!  (But blame me, not Betsy, for
any errors.)

Book                            Author          No. of Recs.
============================================================ 
Ananse the Spider               Peggy Appiah            1
Mr. Popper's Penguins           R.&F. Atwater           2
The Devil's Storybook           Natalie Babbitt         1
Peter Pan                       J.M. Barrie             1
Animalia                        Grahame Base            1
The Eleventh Hour               Grahame Base            2
Oz books                        F.L. Baum               3
A Bear Called Paddington        Michael Bond            3
Paddington Storybook            Michael Bond            1 
Old Mother West Wind books      T.W. Burgess            1
Snow White                      N.E. Burkert (illus.)   1
The Secret Garden               F.H. Burnett            1
The Happy Orpheline             Natalie S. Carlson      1
Alice in Wonderland             Lewis Carroll           3
Through the Looking Glass       Lewis Carroll           2
Ramona series (Ramona the Pest) Beverly Cleary          2
Henry Huggins series            Beverly Cleary          1
Fantastic Mr. Fox               Roald Dahl              1 
Charlie and the Chocolate Fac.  Roald Dahl              4
James and the Giant Peach       Roald Dahl              1
Skippack School                 Marguerite D'Angeli     1
Yonnie Wondernose               Marguerite D'Angeli     1
Tunnel Through Time             Lester del Rey          1
The Little Prince               Antoine de St Exupery   2
Hardy Boys series               Franklin W. Dixon       1
Half Magic et al                Edward Eager            1 
Black Stallion                  Walter Farley           1
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang         Ian Fleming             1
My Side of the Mountain         Jean C. George          1
The Princess Bride              William Goldman         1
The Wind in the Willows         Kenneth Grahame         3 
My Father's Dragon books        R.S. Gannett            1
Uncle Remus stories             Joel Chandler Harris    1
B is for Betsy series           Carolyn Haywood         4
The Weaving of the Dream        Marilee Heyer           1
Bobbsey Twins                   Laura L. Hope           1
Moomin series                   Tove Jansson            1
The Phantom Tollbooth           Norton Juster           1
Nancy Drew series               Carolyn Keene           1
Babe, the Gallant Pig           Dick King-Smith         1
Just So Stories                 Rudyard Kipling         3
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Selma Lagerhof         1 
Prairie School                  Lois Lenski             1
Strawberry Girl                 Lois Lenski             1
Narnia books                    C.S. Lewis              2
Pippi Longstocking series       Astrid Lindgren         2
Betsy & Tacy books              M.H. Lovelace           2
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle              Betty MacDonald         4
The Light Princess              George MacDonald        1 
Beauty (retelling of Beauty &   Robin McKinley          1
   the Beast)
Pooh Books                      A.A. Milne              1
Anne of Green Gables series     L.M. Montgomery         1 
The Borrowers                   Mary Norton             1 
Swallows & Amazons (older)      Arthur Ransome          1
The Talking Eggs (short)        R.D. San Souci          1
anything                        Shel Silverstein        1 
some things                     Louis Slobodkin         1
Call it Courage (older)         Armstrong Sperry        1
A Child's Garden of Verses      R.L. Stevenson          1
The Shoes Series (Ballet Shoes) Noel Streatfield        1
The 13 Clocks                   James Thurber           1
Many Moons                      James Thurber           1
The Hobbit                      J.R.R. Tolkien          2
The Lord of the Rings           J.R.R. Tolkien          2
Mary Poppins                    P.L. Travers            3
Tom Sawyer                      Mark Twain              1
Boxcar Children series          Gertrude Warner         1
Charlotte's Web                 E.B. White              7
Stuart Little                   E.B. White              4
The Trumpet of the Swan         E.B. White              2
Little House series             L.I. Wilder             9
The Velveteen Rabbit            Margery Williams        1
Dragons books (Dealing w/       Patricia Wrede          1
   Dragons) 
Honey Bunch and Norman          (no author given)       1
Ladder to the Sky               (no author given)       1
Pappa Dolphin's Table           (no author given)       1
Soonie and the Dragon           (no author given)       1
Stories for 4yo's               (no author given        1
   (in Chinaberry catalog)
Tal and his Marvelous           (no author given)       1
   Adventures with Noom-Zor-Noom              
general fairy tales                                     2
Chinaberry catalog (source)                             1
For Reading Out Loud (source)   (no author given)       1