J
enna Ambrose
Jenna Ambrose loves cooking, textile arts, raising children and writing stories.
I am not just a writer, but a reader as well. Here is a list of books that I really love. If you have a recommendation for me I would love to hear about it.
- The Scottish Chiefs, Jane Porter (my all-time favorite)
- The Pathfinder, The Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer, and The Spy, James Fenimore Cooper
- Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
- The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
- Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Mansfield Park, Jane Austen. I like her other works, too, but these three are my favorite.
- Laddie, Jean Stratton Porter.
- Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace
- Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington
- The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
- Regency Buck, and Simon the Coldheart, Georgette Heyer
- The Gideon Trilogy, Linda Buckley-Archer
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
I have 5 children, and I make them read a lot. Also, I love to read aloud to the little ones. Sometimes it can be difficult to find good books at the library. Here is a list of books that I have found to be good, starting with the wee little ones and progressing in age:
- Nursery Rhymes (Mother Goose is an example)
- Beatrix Potter Books
- Aesop's Fables
- Old Mother West Wind, Thornton Burgess
- The Adventures of Chatterer, the Red Squirrel, Thornton Burgess
- Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
- Berenstain Bears Books, Stan and Jan Berenstain
- Fifty Famous Stories, James Baldwin (my personal favorite)
- Uncle Wiggily and His Friends, Howard R. Garis
- The Tale of Jolly Robin, The Tale of Solomon Owl, The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker, The Tale of Chirpy Cricket, and The Tale of Paddy Muskrat by Arthur Scott Bailey
- Scholastic I Can Read Series, like Sir Small and the Dragonfly and Give Me a Sign, Helen Keller
- The Courage of Sarah Noble, Alice Dagliesh
- The Matchlock Gun, Walter D. Edmonds
- The One Hundred Penny Box, Sharon Bell Mathis
- The Boxcar Children Series, Gertrude Chandler Warner
- Farmer Boy, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Little House Series, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Pinocchio, C. Collodi
- The Happy Hollisters, Jerry West
- Abel's Island, William Steig
- Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang, Ian Fleming
- Bambi, Felix Salten
- Ranger Rick Magazine
- Which Way USA Magazine
- Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew
- The Tom Swift Series, Victor Appleton
- The Rover Boys Series
- Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill, Alice B. Emerson
- Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (she has many more books that are very good)
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Douglas Wiggins
- Nick of Time, Ted Bell
- Books by Horatio Alger
- Books by G.A. Henty
Do you have any books that you would like to recommend? Or do you have a book that you have written that you think I might like? If so, please post in the comments below, or any other comments you would like to make!