Lois Lenski Reading Order
1 series · 134 books
Lois Lenski was a prolific children's author and illustrator whose career spanned over seven decades, beginning in 1927 and eventually earning her the prestigious Newbery Medal. Known for her distinctive approach to both picture books and illustrated chapter books, she also ventured into poetry, songbooks, and short stories that captured the imaginative world of young readers. Her remarkable body of work—comprising nearly a hundred titles across multiple genres—established her as a influential figure in twentieth-century children's literature.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete134 books
Start with Skipping village, the first of 134 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | A Book of princess stories |
| 2 | A change of heart |
| 3 | A small book about Mr. Small |
| 4 | American Journeys Volume One |
| 5 | American Journeys Volume Two |
| 6 | At Our House |
| 7 | At our house |
| 8 | Auto Pequeno |
| 9 | Berries in the Scoop |
| 10 | Berries in the scoop, |
| 11 | Big Book of Small People |
| 12 | Children's hour with Cinderella |
| 13 | Chimney Corner Stories (Yesterday's Classics) |
| 14 | Christmas comes to Blueberry Corners and other Christmas stories for children |
| 15 | Davy and his dog |
| 16 | Davy's Day |
| 17 | Debbie and Her Grandma |
| 18 | Debbie's Baseball Game |
| 19 | I Went for a Walk |
| 20 | It Will Never Happen to Me [Paperback] [2001] (Author) Claudia Black |
| 21 | Jack Horner's pie |
| 22 | Judys Journey |
| 23 | Mama Hattie's Girl |
| 24 | Mother Goose rhymes |
| 25 | Newbery Award Treasures, No 2 |
| 26 | Ocean-Born Mary |
| 27 | Peanuts for Billy Ben |
| 28 | Prairie School |
| 29 | Prairie school |
| 30 | Puritan Adventure |
| 31 | Read - To - Me Storybook |
| 32 | Read-To-Me Storybook |
| 33 | San Francisco Boy |
| 34 | Songs of Mr. Small |
| 35 | Songs of Mr. Small by Lois Lenski with Music by Clyde Robert Bulla |
| 36 | The Betsytacy Treasury |
| 37 | The bean-pickers |
| 38 | The wonder city |
| 39 | They came from France |
| 40 | Vaquero Pequeno |
| 41 | We Live in the City Short Stories |
| 42 | When I Grow Up |
| 43 | When I grow up; |
| 44 | Skipping village 1927 |
| 45 | A little girl of nineteen hundred 1928 |
| 46 | Alphabet people 1928 |
| 47 | Two brothers and their animal friends .. 1929 |
| 48 | Spinach boy 1930 |
| 49 | Two brothers and their baby sister 1930 |
| 50 | Benny and his penny 1931 |
| 51 | Grandmother Tippytoe 1931 |
| 52 | Arabella and her aunts 1932 |
| 53 | The little family 1932 |
| 54 | Gooseberry garden 1934 |
| 55 | Surprise for mother 1934 |
| 56 | Little baby Ann 1935 |
| 57 | Sugarplum house 1935 |
| 58 | Phebe Fairchild 1936 |
| 59 | The Easter Rabbit's Parade 1936 |
| 60 | A-going to the westward 1937 |
| 61 | The little sail boat 1937 |
| 62 | Bound girl of Cobble Hill 1938 |
| 63 | The little airplane 1938 |
| 64 | Ocean-born Mary 1939 |
| 65 | Blueberry Corners 1940 |
| 66 | The little train 1940 |
| 67 | Animals for me 1941 |
| 68 | Indian captive 1941 |
| 69 | Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (Betsy-Tacy #3) 1942 |
| 70 | Bayou Suzette 1943 |
| 71 | Let's play house 1944 |
| 72 | Puritan adventure 1944 |
| 73 | Spring Is Here 1945 |
| 74 | Blue Ridge Billy 1946 |
| 75 | The little fire engine 1946 |
| 76 | Judy's Journey 1947 |
| 77 | Surprise for Davy 1947 |
| 78 | Boom town boy 1948 |
| 79 | Mr. and Mrs. Noah 1948 |
| 80 | Now it's fall 1948 |
| 81 | Cotton in my sack 1949 |
| 82 | Cowboy Small 1949 |
| 83 | I Like Winter 1950 |
| 84 | Texas tomboy 1950 |
| 85 | Prairie school 1951 |
| 86 | Peanuts for Billy Ben 1952 |
| 87 | We are thy children 1952 |
| 88 | We live in the South 1952 |
| 89 | Mama Hattie's girl 1953 |
| 90 | On a summer day 1953 |
| 91 | Corn-farm boy 1954 |
| 92 | Project boy 1954 |
| 93 | We live in the city 1954 |
| 94 | A dog came to school 1955 |
| 95 | San Francisco boy 1955 |
| 96 | Berries in the scoop 1956 |
| 97 | Big little Davy 1956 |
| 98 | Flood Friday 1956 |
| 99 | We live by the river 1956 |
| 100 | Houseboat girl 1957 |
| 101 | Little Sioux girl 1958 |
| 102 | Coal camp girl 1959 |
| 103 | We live in the country 1960 |
| 104 | Davy Goes Places 1961 |
| 105 | We live in the Southwest 1962 |
| 106 | Papa Small 1963 |
| 107 | Shoo-fly girl 1963 |
| 108 | The life I live 1965 |
| 109 | We Live in the North 1965 |
| 110 | High-rise secret 1966 |
| 111 | Cowboy Small 1967 |
| 112 | To be a logger 1967 |
| 113 | Adventure in understanding 1968 |
| 114 | Deer Valley girl 1968 |
| 115 | Lois lenski's christmas stories 1968 |
| 116 | The Little Auto 1968 |
| 117 | The Little Farm 1968 |
| 118 | Debbie and her family 1969 |
| 119 | Debbie herself 1969 |
| 120 | Debbie and her dolls 1970 |
| 121 | Debbie goes to nursery school 1970 |
| 122 | City poems 1971 |
| 123 | Debbie and her pets 1971 |
| 124 | Florida, my Florida 1971 |
| 125 | Journey into Childhood 1972 |
| 126 | More Mr. Small 1979 |
| 127 | Lois Lenski's Big Book of Mr. Small 1985 |
| 128 | Sing a Song of People 1990 |
| 129 | Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy #1) 1999 |
| 130 | Betsy-Tacy and Tib 1999 |
| 131 | Strawberry Girl 1999 |
| 132 | Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (Betsy-Tacy #4) 2000 |
| 133 | Susie Mariar an Old Folk Rhyme 2000 |
| 134 | Policeman Small 2001 |
Frequently Asked Questions
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- Lois Lenski has written 134 books across 1 series. Their published works span from 1927 to 2001.
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