If they were readers,
many of our older persons might remember the classics. Reading one of the great books together, whether a second time or the first, is a wonderful activity. Set aside reading time each day or each time you visit.
Here are just a few of the many classic to choose from:
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales by Beatrix Potter
- The Real Mother Goose (Many of these rhymes and stories were recited as children which an older person may recognize and may have fun reciting again.)
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
- The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett
- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
- Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
