I am compiling this list from a thread on GCM - these are books other Mama's recommended and a few that I loved growing up. I made them all linked to amazon so you can read reviews and get an idea of what they're about- check them out and support your local library!
My Personal Faves:
(picture books)
Miss Rumphious
Most any of The Frances Books
Poems to Read to The Very Young
Grandfather Twilight
Wykin Blykin and Nod
Puff the Magic Dragon
Time for Bed
Goodnight Moon
One-Sitting Read Alouds:
Horton Hatches An Egg
HarperCollins Treasury of Picture Book Classics: A Child's First Collection (has Pete's Pizza, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Caps For Sale, From Head to Toe)
20th Century Children's Book Treasury ( it has Madeline, Chika Chika Boom Boom, The Snowy Day, The Story of Ferdinand, and others)
Look and Find books
The "I Spy" books
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Esio Trot
Chapter Books for Read Aloud Times
Gladys Alyward: Adventure of a Lifetime
The Cricket in Times Square
Red Sails to Capri
The Whipping Boy
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Walk The World's Rim
Cheaper By The Dozen
By The Great Horn Spoon
Moccasin Trail
Little Britches (all of Ralph Moody's books are amazing read alouds...some swearing if I recall but easily edited!)
The Sign of the Beaver
The House of Sixty Fathers
The Master Puppeteer
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
A Billion for Boris
Peachtree Island
The Magic Treehouse Series
Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien
Five Children and It (any E.Nesbit books- for older children though.)
The Little House Books
The Family Under the Bridge
Ginger Pye
The Apple & the Arrow
Any Enid Blyton stories
Any of Beverly Cleary's books (Ramona etc.)
Favorite for Preschoolers (ot picture books):
The Wolf's Story: What Really Happened to Little Red Riding Hood
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
World Snacks books by Amy Wilson Sanger
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Harry the Dirty Dog
Llama Llama Mad At Mama
Pigeon Wants A Hotdog (and other pigeon stories)
Any Dr. Seuss book
Froggy books (Froggy bakes a cake, etc)
Click Clack Moo Cows That Type
anything by Kevin Henkes
Little Mouse Books... (The Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear)
I'm Quick as a Cricket
The Napping House
Silly Sally
The Maestro Plays
Favorite Board Books
Anything by Sandra Boynton
The Best Behaviors Series
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