Grade 1 curriculum: Book list

• How the Alphabet was Made, A Just So Story, by Rudyard Kipling
• Roots Shoots Buckets and Boots by Sharon Lovejoy
• Fly, Eagle, Fly an African Tale retold by Christopher Gregorowski
• Kalinzu and the Oxpeckers by Jeremy Grimsdell
• Once Upon a Time by Niki Daly
• All the Magic in the World by Wendy Hartmann
• Desert December by Dorian Haarhoff
• Where's Jamela? By Niki Daly
• One Round Moon and a star for me by Ingrid Mennen
• Not so fast Songololo by Niki Daly
• Lena's bottle tree by Wendy Maartens and Anna- Carien Goosen
• Old Bob's Brown Bear by Niki Daly
• The Gift of the Sun by Dianne Stewart and Jude Daly
• Mama, Papa, and Baby Joe by Niki Daly
• Charlie's House By Reviva Schermbrucker
• Nama Kwa's garden by Mary Clanahan
• The Dove by Dianne Stewart
• Grimm's fairy tales.
• Pooh bear stories by A.A. Milner
• Pelle's new suit by Elsa Beskow
• The Story of the Root Children by Sibylle Von Olfers

These books are great and my children enjoyed them up to grade three and some of them beyond that.