Love fairy tales? Have kids who are serious super sleuths? Looking for a great adventure? Budding bookworms can find a vast collection of children’s stories throughout the The Strong's exhibit galleries and may check them out at the Grada Hopeman Gelser Library desk located on the museum’s first floor.
The museum librarians have compiled a list of favorite children’s books that match the five literary landscapes in Reading Adventureland.
| Fairy Tales | Fantasy | Mystery | Nonsense | |
Early Readers |
Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose Gingerbread Boy Goldilocks Returns Is My Friend at Home? (Pueblo Fireside Tales) Previously Puss in Boots Tale of a Tricky Fox The Fairy Tale Cake |
Pinocchio the Boy Russell and the Lost Treasure The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbin The Boy Who Painted Dragons The Three Sillies |
Dot and Jabber: The Mystery of the Missing Stream Miss Nelson Is Missing Mystery Nate the Great and the Tardy Tortoise The Case of the Puzzling Possum |
Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share Imogene’s Antlers Mrs. McNosh Hangs up Her Wash Pocketful of Nonsense Why the Chicken Crossed the Road Yummy Riddles |
Intermediate Readers |
American Tall Tales Children of the Dragon Fairy Realm: The Flower Fairies The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit Walter the Giant Storyteller’s Giant Book of Giant Stories |
Digby and the Lost King Half Magic Igraine the Brave Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher Poppy |
A to Z Mysteries: The Canary Caper Hank the Cowdog and the Case of the Fiddle Playing Fox Princess for a Week Sly the Sleuth and the Sports Mysteries The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen Top Secret |
A Pizza the Size of the Sun Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon Clarice Bean Spells Trouble Kidnapped at Birth? The Quigleys |
Advanced Readers |
Straw into Gold The Two Princesses of Bamarre Zlateh the Goat |
A String in the Harp Eragon Loamhedge: A Tale from Redwall Sunwing Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast Watership Down |
The Grim Grotto The Hound of the Baskervilles The London Eye Mystery The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists Club The Sands of Time |
Anastasia at Your Service Leon and the Champion Chip Looking For Bobowicz Secret Letters from 0 to 10 The Puzzling World of Winston Breen |