I will put up by “year” whatever books on their list can be found for free online. They have many that cannot be found online. You can go to the Ambleside website to see the complete booklist and to learn about their curriculum and Charlotte Mason education.
I’m organizing this just how they do. I’m just going down their list and using the links on their sites. If the link is for a download and you want to read online (or visa versa), search for the book at archive.org or just google it with the words “download” or “read online”. There are also Yahoo Groups at Ambleside where people share etexts in printable forms.
Some helps with narration prompts for those using the Charlotte Mason style of teaching can be found on the general resources page.
Year K
Brear Rabbit Harris Download Audio
The Three Billy Goats Gruff Jacob
The Real Mother Goose Download
Nursery Tales Told to Children Steedman
For the Children’s Hour Bailey Download
Online Beginner Readers Treadwell Primer First Reader Second Reader Fourth Reader Sixth Reader Eighth Reader
Year 1
- History
Trial and Triumph Hannula (Church history)
***Our Island Story Marshall Download Audio Book Part 1 Part 2 (This is mainly focused on England’s History. I have marked out various chapters on the World History page.)
Viking Tales Hall Download (Vikings–World History)
- Geography
Paddle to the Sea Holling Watch On You Tube Part 1 Part 2 Part 3; see “Books” page for Google Lit Trip (US Geography–a journey from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic)
- Nature Study
Handbook of Nature Study Comstock (Biology)
The Burgess Big Bird Book for Children Burgess Download
A Primary Reader Smythe
- Poems
A Child’s Garden of Verses Stevenson Download
- Literature
***Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare Nesbit Audio Book
Hans Christian Anderson’s Tales
The Wonder Clock Pyle Download (Middle ages)
***Just So Stories Kipling Audio Book — on the Robinson page also
Parables from Nature Gatty Download
- Extras
King of the Golden River Ruskin Download
***The Adventures of Pinocchio Collodi Audio Book — on the Robinson page also
The Velveteen Rabbit Williams Download
Year 2
- History
Here is a timeline one mom put together for this year of Ambleside history.
This Country of Ours Marshall Download (American History–I marked it out in sections on the American History page)
Our Island Story (year 1)
The Discovery of New Worlds Synge
The Little Duke Yonge (World History, Vikings, see study guide on “Books” page)
- Poetry
- Literature
***Pilgrim’s Progress Book 1 (Christian’s Story) Audio Book (both books) (also on Robinson page)
Parables from Nature (year 1)
Understood Betsy Fisher
The Wind and the Willows Grahame
***Robin Hood Pyle Audio Book (see “Books” page for unit study and lapbook materials)
- Extra Reading
***Heidi Spyri Audio Book also on Robinson page
***Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Sidney Audio Book also on Robinson page
***The Pied Piper Browning Audio Book also on Robinson page
A Wonder Book Hawthorne
Five Children and It Nesbit
The Story of Doctor Doolittle Lofting
Five Children and It Nesbit
Year 3
- History
(This Country of Ours, The Discovery of New Worlds, An Island Story, Trial and Triumph, The Handbook of Nature Study year2)
The Awakening of Europe Synge
Secrets of the Woods Long
- Science
The Story of Inventions McHugh
- Poetry
- Literature
(Parables from Nature, Tales from Shakespeare year 2)
***The Heroes Kingsley Audio Book — I think this matches, but I haven’t checked
***Pilgrim’s Progress Part II (part 1 in year 2) Audio Book (listed in year 2)
***Children of the New Forest Marryat Audio Book
The Jungle Book Kipling Book 1 Book 2 Audio Book 1 Audio Book 2
- Additional Reading Books
***A Little Princess Burnett Audio Book
***The Water Babies Kingsley Audio Book
***At the Back of the North Wind MacDonald Audio Book
***Men of Iron Pyle Audio Book
***Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass Carroll Audio Book also on “Robinson” page
The Bears of Blue River Major (American History, settlers)
Unknown to History: The Captivity of Mary of Scotland Yonge
English Fairy Tales Jacobs
Year 4
- History
(This Country of Ours-year 2, Our Island Story-year 1, Trial and Triumph-year 1)
***The Story of Mankind VanLoon Audio Book (world history)
- Natural History
Madam How and Lady Why Kingsley (Earth Science)
- Poetry
- Literature
***The Age of Fable Bulfinch Audio Book — I think this matches, but I haven’t checked myself
***The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Defoe Audio Book (also on Robinson page)
***Kidnapped Stevenson Audio Book
***The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Irving Audio Book (see unit available on the “Books” page)
***Paul Revere’s Ride Longfellow Audio Book (American Revolution–American History)
***Rip Van Winkle Irving Audio Book
- Additional Reading
***Black Beauty Sewell Audio Book
***Pollyanna Porter Download Audio Book
***The Secret Garden Burnett Audio Book
***The Railway Children Nesbit Read Online – Audio Book
A Book of Golden Deeds Yonge
The Peterkin Papers Hale Download Audio
Year 5
- History
(The Story of Mankind Van Loon, year 4; Our Island Story, year 1; This Country of Ours, year 2; Trial and Triumph, year 1)
- Nature
Handbook of Nature Study Comstock (general science)
Wild Animals I Have Known Seton (zoology)
- Science
The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella Burton Fisher (general science)
- Science Biographies
Great Astronomers Ball They have you read about Isaac Newton. (Science, earth science)
- Poetry
- Literature
(Oliver Twist is on the Robinson page, level 9)
Age of Fable Bulfinch (It looks like they have you read chapters 15-28.)
The Story of King Author and His Knights Pyle (world history, knights)
***Kim Kipling Audio Books
- Additional Reading
(Little Women-level 5, Captains Courageous-level 6, The Adventures of Tom Sawye- level 6r, The Prince and the Pauper-level 6, Treasure Island-level 7, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm-level 5 on Robinson page)
***A Christmas Carol Dickens Audio Book
Puck of Pook’s Hill Kipling
The Treasure Seekers Nesbit Download
***The Wouldbegoods Nesbit Download Audio Book
***Anne of Green Gables Montgomery Audio Book
***Hans Brinker Dodge Audio Book
Rilla of Ingleside Montgomery Audio Book (American history, WWI)
***The Story of My Life Helen Keller Audio Book (American history, 1900)
Year 6
- History
The Story of the Greeks Grueber (world history, ancient Greece)
The Story of the Romans Grueber (world history, ancient Rome)
(Trial and Triumph, year 1)
- Geography
The Story of David Livingstone Golding Map by Livingstone
- Nature Study
- Poetry
- Literature
Age of Fable Bulfinch chapters 29 to the end
The Illiad Homer Audio (World history, ancient Greece)
Tales of Troy Lang (World history, ancient Greece)
- Additional Reading
(Huckleberry Finn – level 9, Swiss Family Robinson – level 4, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea- level 8 are on the “Robinson” page)
Rob Roy Scott
Little Men Alcott
Jack and Jill Alcott Audio
The Cricket on the Hearth Dickens Download Audio
Call of the Wild London (see “Books” page for unit study)
Penrod Tarkington (takes place in Indiana in 1900) Download Audio
A Little Brother to the Bear Long
Year 7
- Bible
Bible study questions with maps (by book of the Bible)
Saints and Heroes Vol. 1 church history
The Pursuit of God Tozer
- History
The Birth of Britain Vol. 1 Churchill (700-1500)
Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People
William of Malmesbury’s Account of the Battle of Hastings (world history, 1066 Norman conquest of England)
The Magna Carta or a modern rendering (world history, England 1215)
In Freedom’s Cause Henty (world history, medieval Scotland)
History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea Tyre (world history, crusades)
The Life of King Alfred Asser (world history, England 871)
(Personal Recollections of) Joan of Arc Mark Twain (world history, France 1420)
- Citizenship
(Find Ivanhoe on the Robinson page, level 10)
Ourselves Charlotte Mason (modern English paraphrase)
- Literature
The History of English Literature for Girls and Boys Marshall
The Age of Chivalry Bulfinch (Middle Ages, World History)
- Poetry
The Oxford Book of English Verse
Alfred Lord Tennyson (Idylls of the King)
John Keats (The Eve of St. Agnes)
- Science
The Life of the Spider Fabre (Zoology)
Lay of the Land Sharp (Nature Study, Biology)
- Free Reading
(See A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court on the Books to Read page)
Legends of Charlemagne Bulfinch (800, World History)
The Lost Prince Burnett
The White Company Doyle (Hundred Years War, 1366, World History)
Beuwolf (Scandinavia, Geography/Cultures)
David Copperfield Dickens (England 1800s)
The Black Arrow Stevenson (War of the Roses, Knights, World History)
Hereward, the Last of the English Kingsley
Talisman Scott (Tale of the Crusades, World History)
Penrod and Sam Tarkington Download
Alhambra Irving (Spain, Geography/Cultures)
Feats on the Fiord Martineau (Norway, Geography/Cultures)
The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald (Icelandic Epic, Geography/Cultures)
Year 8
- Bible
(see Bible maps and timelines in year 7)
Saint and Heroes Vol. 2 Hodges
The Mind of the Maker Sayers
- history
The New World Vol 2. Churchill (you have to create an account with B and N online but then you can read this online and here is an audio but you have to become a free member there as well) 16th and 17th centuries
Death’s Duel, John Donne 1631, his last sermon
- biographies
A Man for All Seasons (a play) about Thomas More a recognized Catholic saint, was against Luther and Tyndale, in the play is shown as a man of conscience (study notes on Books page)
The Life of Francis Bacon born 1560 and worked for Queen Elizabeth and King James
History of Plymouth Plantation Bradford
The Life of John Donne born in 1573, man of the church
Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England
- geography
The Life of Christopher Columbus Hale
The Discovery of Muscovy Hakluyt
The Discovery of Guiana Raleigh
- government
I, Pencil Read (I actually have this on the chemistry page too)
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The Great Democracies Vol. 4 Churchill (1815-1900)
The Age of Revolution Vol. 3 Churchill (1688 – 1815)
August 10, 2011 at 2:31 am
anything for grades 9-12?
August 10, 2011 at 4:48 am
Ambleside — This links to their 9th grade list. Click on the other grades to the left. Type in any of the titles at archive.org to find it in pdf, kindle, etc.