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Children's Book Lists

Our kids read a lot of books -- sometimes, they even read a book several times in a row simply because they enjoy it so much! The following list is a relatively short list that currently has the kids staying up late at night or that includes some of their favorites. (All books available via Amazon.com.)

We also present two additional lists of children's things that our kids enjoy.

Seattle Children's Theatre Booklist

For every production that is performed through out the year, the Seattle Children's Theatre develops a booklist with the assistance of the King County Library system. In addition to providing some additional entertaining reading for children who are captivated by the play, this book list of between 10-15 titles is designed to help children get additional background on the issues presented in the play at the appropriate level. Moreover, there are also several books recommended for parents or teachers that are at a different level. To find the recommended books for each production, just click on the title below.

Children's Music

In addition to books, our boys have truly enjoyed learning about classical music through a series of CDs produced by an organization called Classical Kids. We've had the CDs in this set for over a year now. At first, the kids loved the stories which provide a sense of history and place and, ultimately, keep the kids interested in the entire CD. As they listened (time and time again), they started to pay more attention to the musical portions. Recently, we've been able to tell that they've picked up a sense of the music as we've listed to classical music on the car radio. Time and again, they perk up when listening to a piece of music and surprise us by saying "That's Beethoven". Sure enough - they've picked up something about the style of music that's characteristic of Beethoven. Sometimes it's the snippet of music from the CD and other times it's just the rhythms that are characteristic of that piece. As a family, we all recommend these.

Classical Kids: Collection (Save by getting 4 CDs:  Bach, Beethoven, Mozart's Magic Fantasy, Vivaldi.)  Or, get them separately:

The Classical Kids Collection Vol 2 (Save by getting 4 CDs: Tchaikovsky, Handel, Mozart's Magnificent Voyage, Song of the Unicorn.)  Or, get them separately:

Other Classical Kids CDs not yet in a boxed set: