Going to the library with my kiddos should be a relaxing and fun time but alot of times it isn't. As soon as you get inside they start pulling books from the shelves. Their criteria... pretty covers...mine quality content.
I feel like I'm playing a real life game of Minesweep. Remember that one. Check the box.. safe... check the box safe... check the box BOOM! I asked several people who share the same passion for good children's books from a broad spectrum. Here are the recommendations.
Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
Rubia and the Three Osos by Susan Elya
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by
Laura Numeroff
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
Click Clack Moo Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin
The new Adventures of Curious George collections
Will God's Might Warrior by Sheila Walsh
The Grandma's Attic books by Arleta Richardson
Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Gannett
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
If you decide to go to the moon by Faith McNulty
Zack’s Aligator by Shirley Mozelle
Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff
A Chair for Baby Bear by Kaye Umansky
Norman the Doorman by Don Freeman
The Black Lagoon series by Mike Thaler
Goofy’s Big Race – A Walt Disney Beginning Reader book (old)
The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Tale of the Three Trees by Angela Hunt & Tim Jonke
Reader's Digest's The World's best Fairy Tales
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's Magic by Betty Macdonald
Chronicles of Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis
The Adventures in Odyssey Imagination Station Books
The All of A Kind Family by Sidney Taylor
The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Banks
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Mongomery
The Sugar Creek Gang series by Paul Hutchens
Little Britches by Ralf Moody
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald Sobol
The Biggest Shadow in the Zoo by Jack Kent
A Porcupine Named Fluffy by Helen Lester
Are You My Mother by P.D. Eastman
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
Robert McCloskey
books including picture books and chapter books
Elsie Dinsmore
books by Martha Finley
Horse books by Mageurite Henry
Johnny
Tremain by Esther Forbes
Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
Five children
and It by E. Nesbit
Missionary
story books by Dave and Neta Jackson
Native
American series by Kenneth Thomasa
Pilgrims
progress by John Bunyan
Gail Carson
Levine books (ella enchanted)
Amelia Bedelia
by Peggy Parish
Night of the
moonjellies(picture) by Mark Shasha
Down, Down
the Mountain by Ellis Credle
Scrambled
Eggs Super by Dr Seuss
Everyday
graces by Karen Santorum
William Bennets
book of America/virtues
The Velveteen
Rabbit By Margery Williams
How to Make
an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman
The Story of Ferdinand
by Munro Leaf
The Story
About Ping by Marjorie Flack
A Pair of Red
Clogs by Masako Matsuno
Madeline by
Ludwig Bemelmans
Owl moon By Jane Yolen
Shoes by Elizabeth Winthrop
When Dinosaurs Came with Everything by Elise Broach
Skippyjon Jones
by Judy Schachner
Kevin Henkes
books (lily ones)
Frances books
by Russell Hoban
Winnie the
Pooh by AA Milne (not disney versions)
Beatrix
potter books
Follow My Leader
by James Garfield
Little Pear
by Eleanor Lattimore
Henry Huggins
by Beverly Cleary
Stone Fox by
John Gardiner
Where the Red
Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Chicka Chicka
123 by Bill Martin Jr., Michael Sampson & Lois Ehlert
Hank the Cow
Dog by John Erickson
The Bronze
Bow by Elizabeth Speare
The Read
A-Loud Handbook by Jim Trelease
Dinosaurs for
Kids by Ken Ham
The Castle in
the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
Dad’s
Dinosaur Day by Diane Hearn
There’s No
Such Thing as a Dragon by Jack Kent
Adventures of
Young Buffalo Bill by E. Cody Kimmel
How Doofus
the Dragon Lost His Head by Bill Peet
Goodnight
Goodnight Sleepyhead by Ruth Krauss (board book)
The American
Boys Handy Book by Daniel Beard
The Little
Fish that Got Away by Bernadine Cook
Big Red barn
by Margaret Wise Brown (board book)
Fifteen
Animals! By Sandra Boynton (board book)
The Big
Hungry Bear by Don & Audrey Wood (board book)
Meghan Rose
books by Lori Scott
Treasures of
the Snow by Patricia St. John (not the revised version)
The
Adventures of Harold & the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
Frog &
Toad by Arnold Lobel
Magic
Treehouse Books by Mary Pope Osborne
Cowgirl and
Cocoa by Erica Silverman
Incredible
Journey – Shiela Burnford
Boom Chicka
Rock by John Archambault
Cul-De-Sac
Kids Books by Beverly Lewis
Mandy Books
by Lois Gladys Leppard
The Usborne
Children’s Encylopedia
Head to the library and enjoy :)
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