Natalie,
Thank you for your feedback! We are so pleased your family enjoyed your curriculum kit!
While we agree with you that it would be amazing to be able to have a bunch of reading material in hand, we feel that for most families both cost and space are at a premium and the convenience of having the books already does not outweigh these costs incurred by including them. For these reasons, we decided instead to include a massive reading challenge in your curriculum guide, which includes a huge list of titles from which to pick, allowing you the joy of reading without the headache of storing or cost of purchasing. We hope this explanation helps. Thank you for taking the time to write this review!
Hope—for the Timberdoodle Team