My Favorite Children's Books

Heather Idoni's personal recommendations for the best children's books ever written.



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Aladdin American Heritage Series

By Heather Idoni

Updated Saturday, March 28, 2009

  • Andy Jackson, Long Journey to the White House by Polly Angell (1956)
  • Back of Beyond by George Cory Franklin (1952)
  • The Bells of Carmel, Mission Days in California by Edith Blackburn (1954)
  • Big Bridge to Brooklyn, The Roebling Story by Frances Williams Brown (1956)
  • The Big Country, A Story of Alaska by Edward A Herron (1953)
  • The Captive Island by August William Derleth (1952)
  • Captured Words, The Story of a Great Indian by Frances Williams Browin (1954)
  • The Challengers, Oregon in the 1840's by Jo Lundy (1953)
  • Cherokee Strip, The Race for Land by Aileen Fisher (1956)
  • Cochise of Arizona, The Pipe of Peace is Broken by Oliver La Farge (1953)
  • The Country of the Hawk by August William Derleth (1952)
  • The Cowman's Kingdom by Edmund Collier (1952)
  • Day of Glory, The Guns at Lexington and Concord by Philip Spencer (1955)
  • De Soto, Child of the Sun, The Search for Gold by William O. Steele (1956)
  • The Empire of Fur, Trading in the Lake Superior Region by August William Derleth (1953)
  • The Fighting Quaker, The Southern Campaigns of General Nathanael Greene by Frank B. Latham (1953)
  • A Flag for Lafitte, The Story of the Battle of New Orleans by Frederick A. Lane (1954)
  • Gray Bonnets, In the Days of Roger Williams by Slater Brown (1954)
  • Gray Riders, Jeb Stuart and His Men by Manly Wade Wellman (1954)
  • The Greatest Adventure, A Story of Jack London by Frederick A. Lane (1954)
  • Green Grows the Prairie, Arkansas in the 1890's by Charlie May Simon (1956)
  • Homestead of the Free, The Kansas Story by Aileen Fisher (1953)
  • Jed Smith, Trail Blazer by Frank B. Latham (1952)
  • King of the Clippers, Adventure on the High Seas by Edmund Collier (1955)
  • Ladd of the Lone Star by Allan R. Bosworth (1952)
  • Land of Gray Gold, Lead Mining in Wisconsin by August Derleth (1954)
  • Let the Moon Go By, A Book of Tall Tales by Emma Gelders Sterne (1955)
  • Little Giant of Schenectady, A Story of Charles Steinmetz by Dorothy Markey (1956)
  • The Long Black Schooner, The Voyage of the Amistad by Emma Gelders Sterne (1953)
  • The Magnificent Mariner, An Early Story of John Paul Jones by Frederick A. Lane (1953)
  • Mark Twain, Adventures in Old Nevada by Blaise Lane (1956)
  • Medals for Morse, Artist and Inventor by Jean Lee Latham (1954)
  • Men of Flight, Conquest of the Air by Charles Spain Verral (1954)
  • One Bit of Land, A Story of Imperial Valley by Edith H. Blackburn (1955)
  • Over-Mountain Boy by William O. Steele (1952)
  • Passage to Texas by Iris Vinton (1952)
  • Pat and the Iron Horse, New Americans in the 1840's by Polly Angell (1955)
  • Printer's Devil by Emma Gelders Sterne (1952)
  • Ranger's Ransom, A Story of Ticonderoga by Herbert Best (1953)
  • Return of the Alaskan, Mailboat in the Outpost by Edward Albert Herron (1955)
  • River of Gold, Oregon and the Challenge of the Gold Rush by Gifford Paul Cheshire (1955)
  • Sons of the Big Muddy, Dakota Territory in the 1880's by Wilbur J. Granberg (1954)
  • The Story of Eli Whitney, Invention and Progress in the Young Nation by Jean Lee Latham (1953)
  • Timber! Logging in Michigan by Aileen Fisher (1955)
  • Wagon Wheels, A Story of the National Road by William A. Breyfogle (1956)
  • Wheat Won't Wait by Adele Gutman Nathan (1952)
  • Wildcat, the Seminole, A Story of the Florida War by Electa Clark (1956)
  • With Sword and Pen, The Adventures of Captain John Smith by Bradford Smith (1956)

 




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