You might be surprised that I chose not to group these 160+book recommendations by age or grade. While these categories can be helpful, they are also unnecessarily limiting. Many a young child finds delight in listening to The Hobbit read aloud, even though Scholastic labels the book as “grade 7 to 12”. During his kindergarten years, our youngest loved listening to audiobooks classified as “12 and up”. Children don’t need to understand all the words within a story to follow along, and reading books to them that are a bit beyond their comprehension stretches their vocabulary, patience, and imagination.