31 Days of Literature Unit Study Ideas

For the month of October, I'm going to be doing a special series here on the blog. It's no secret that I love reading and all things literature. For this month, I'm choosing thirty-one of my favorite children's books. I'll be sharing about the book, topics to discuss, activities to do in conjunction with the book, and links to other pages of fun things that might go well with a unit study of the book.

It's fairly easy to expand one great book into a short unit study by just taking ideas from the book and running with them. In this month's series, I want to show you how as well as provide thirty-one to get you started. I'll be using books for little ones, for younger elementary, for older elementary, and a few for older kids.

On this page, I'm sharing all thirty-one literature unit studies. You can find these 31 studies as well as 15 more, along with a unit study planner, blank notebooking pages, and graphic organizers for reading in my free ebook- The Ultimate Book of Unit Studies for Literature Lovers here.

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1-Little Bear by Elsa Holmelund Minarik


2-The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh


3-The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli


4-The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats


5-Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski


6-Charlotte's Web by E.B. White


7-Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt


8-Frog and Toad All Year by Arnold Lobel


9-Indian Captive by Lois Lenski


10-Little House In the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder


11-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl


12-The Moffats by Eleanor Estes


13-Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende and Harry Devlin


14-A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett


15-The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown


16-It Could Always Be Worse by Margot Zemach


17-Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans


18-The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis


19-Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery


20-The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle


21-A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond


22-How to Make An Apple Pie and See the World Marjorie Priceman


23-Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney


24-Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren


25-The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer


26-Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey


27-Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola


28-Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater


29-King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian by Marguerite Henry


30-Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter


31-The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall