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TJEd Early Recommended

A Thomas Jefferson Education is Oliver and Rachel DeMille's home-education method. It recommends three reading lists by the age of the reader — Early, Youth and Adult — and these are the earliest.

37 books in the catalog stand on this list. The list itself (opens the list's own website) ↗

A reader aged

12 of these books cover age 6. The 7 that name no age at all are left off rather than guessed at — choose any age to bring them back.

• Chicken Little by folk tale, 1840 · ages 4–8
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• Cinderella by folk tale, 1697 · ages 4–8
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• Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1855 · ages 6–9 · AR 5.2
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• Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, 1901 · ages 4–6 · Lexile 610L · AR 4.2 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids
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• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling, 1894 · ages 6–10 · Lexile 810L · AR 5.0 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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• Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky, 1986 · ages 5–7 · Lexile 620L · AR 4.0
  also on NY Public Library
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• The Blind Men and the Elephant by Karen Backstein, 1992 · ages 4–8 · Lexile 470L · AR 2.6 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
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• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, 1964 · ages 5–7 · Lexile 530L · AR 2.6 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
  also on Davidson Gifted
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• The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper, 1976 · ages 5–7 · Lexile 500L · AR 3.5 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Halsted - Best Friends, Mensa Kids
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• The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning, 1842 · ages 5–7 · AR 5.7 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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• Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore, 1823 · ages 4–8 · Lexile 880L · AR 4.3
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• Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, 1926 · ages 5–9 · Lexile 790L · AR 4.6 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Halsted - Best Friends, Mensa Kids, NY Public Library
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