Classic Novels Your Kids Will Love

These books all come highly recommended by the Craveread review team. Grab them for your young readers today.

Magic Treehouse

The first Magic Tree House was published in 1992 — introducing the world to Jack and Annie, a brother and sister who discover a magical tree house filled with books. In Dinosaurs Before Dark, the tree house takes them on their first journey, an adventure in prehistoric times.

Stuart Little

Stuart Little is a mouse born to human parents in New York City. Stuart's family helps him adapt to his diminutive size in a house made for human-sized inhabitants. Stuart rises before the rest of the family and confronts the issue of washing himself.

The Mouse & The Motorcycle

“Pb-pb-b-b-b. Pb-pb-b-b-b." Ralph, the mouse, revs up a dream come true with these magic vocables--his very own motorcycle. Living in a knothole in a hotel room, young Ralph has seen plenty of families come and go, some more generous with their crumbs than others. But when young Keith and his parents check in to the hotel, Ralph gets his first chance to check out. He has always fantasized about venturing beyond the second floor, maybe even outside. Curiosity overcomes caution, and Ralph must have a go at Keith's toy motorcycle. Soon, the headstrong mouse finds himself in a pickle when all he wanted was to ride a motorcycle.

Sarah Plain & Tall,

This beloved Newbery Medal-winning book, is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family. Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall, say to the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes from Maine to the prairie to answer Papa's advertisement for a wife and mother. Before Sarah arrives, Anna and her younger brother Caleb wait and wonder.

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Spend Your Free Time Listening To Classic Audiobooks

No one can ignore the pleasure that audiobooks bring. Whenever you think of having a hands-free reading experience, you can’t think of anything other than classic audiobooks. Let's look at some of the classic audiobooks that you should try listening to.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Originally published on January 8, 1813, Pride and Prejudice is one of the world’s most popular classic audiobooks. The brilliant narrator offers a stunning performance that makes the audiobook even more interesting to listen to. Rosamund Pike is the protagonist, sister, and best friend to Jane Bennet. Pike’s understanding of the narrative and its characters is on another level.

Moby-Dick - Herman Melville

This is one of the most accomplished audiobook legends in history. Narrator Frank Muller gives an outstanding performance of Herman’s “Moby-Dick.” Melville strives to bring out the theme of epicness while emphasizing the narrator’s humble character. Moby-Dicks central metaphor seems to be growing more powerful compared to the tale itself.

Amnesty - Aravind Adiga

Aravind Adiga, a journalist and Indo-Australian writer, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. In this audiobook, he tells the story of an illegal Sri Lankan immigrant mixed up in a deadly crime. He has no option but to say to the police every relevant information that he knows. The narrator of this audiobook is Vikas Adam; he breathes life into Amnesty's characters, bringing the listening experience to new heights.

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Enjoy these lines from the best classic books ever written

Spend a few moments enjoy these well-known lines from some of the greatest classics written.

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune’s throw?

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.

Jack London, The Call of the Wild

I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons

Ask no questions and you’ll be told no lies.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

I will wear him

In my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal—this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.

George Eliot, Middlemarch

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