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Share your summer reading lists

by Lolly Robinson
Jun 23, 2017 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
With schools finished for the season, most have posted summer reading lists. Back in my school days, I remember two kinds of lists: the ones with required reading (classics to be read before grade 9) and the much-preferred lists of books we were encouraged to read just for fun.

At the Horn Book, we create a list of books for fun which you can access here as a PDF or follow links to books for specific ages.

We'd love to hear about your school's list. Do you have an "all-school book," is reading for fun over the summer encouraged, or are there classics required as summer reading for certain grades?

Lolly Robinson

Lolly Robinson is a freelance designer and consultant with degrees in studio art and children’s literature. She is the former creative director for The Horn Book, Inc., and has taught children’s literature at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. She has served on the Caldecott and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award committees and blogged for Calling Caldecott and Lolly's Classroom on this site.

 

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