Ambleside Online — Year 1: Assigned Reading

Ambleside Online is a free, Charlotte Mason–style homeschool curriculum built around "living books." Below is the assigned literature for Year 1 (Grade 1 (ages 6–7)) — the novels, tales, and poetry children read this year. (History spines, science, nature study, and artist/composer study are part of the full curriculum but listed separately on Ambleside Online.)

7 books · Grade 1 (ages 6–7).

1. 
   1The Aesop for Children

   by Milo Winter

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2. 
   2Just So Stories

   by Rudyard Kipling

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3. 
   3The Blue Fairy Book

   by Andrew Lang

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4. 
   4Parables from Nature

   by Margaret Gatty

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5. 
   5A Child's Garden of Verses

   by Robert Louis Stevenson

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6. 
   6When We Were Very Young

   by A. A. Milne

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7. 
   7Now We Are Six

   by A. A. Milne

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Assigned literature from the Ambleside Online Year 1 booklist (amblesideonline.org). View the official Ambleside Online booklist. Last verified 2026-06-29.