Great Books For Kids

Hannah's Favorites

Classics – Old and New
Fundamentals for Babies and Toddlers
Bedtime Favorites
Especially for Boys 
Especially for Girls 
F – U – N! and Interactive Stories
Older Kids Love These Books

 

Classics – Old and New

• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• My Very First Mother Goose by Iona Opie (Illustrated by Rosemary Wells)
• The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Peter’s Chair by Ezra Jack Keats
• Frederick by Leo Lionni
• Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
• The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
• Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
• Corduroy by Don Freeman

 

Fundamentals for Babies and Toddlers

• Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
• Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
• Who Hops? by Katie Davis
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? by Bill Martin
• The Wing on a Flea: A Book About Shapes by Ed Emberley
• Richard Scarry’s Best First Book Ever by Richard Scarry
• Ten Dirty Pigs/Ten Clean Pigs: An Upside-Down Turn-Around Bathtime Counting Book by Carol Roth
  
• Eyes, Nose, Fingers and Toes by Judy Hindley
• Dr. Seuss’ ABC by Dr. Seuss
• Simms Taback’s Big Book of Words by Simms Taback

Bedtime Favorites

• Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton
• Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban
  
• Honey Baby Sugar Child by Alice Faye Duncan
• Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
• Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
• Time for Bed by Mem Fox
• My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
• How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight by Jane Yolen

Especially for Boys  (but girls love these, too)

• Good Night Engines by Denise Dowling Mortensen
• Freight Train by Donald Crews
• How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long
• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
• No, David! By David Shannon
• I Stink! By Kate and Jim Mcmullan
• Roger the Jolly Pirate by Brett Helquist
• Ker-Splash by George O’Connor
• Agent A to Agent Z by Andy Rash
• Dog and Bear: Two’s Company by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
  
  

 

Especially for Girls  (but boys love these, too)

• The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
• Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Herkes
• Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
• Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor
• Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems
• Madeline’s Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
• Eloise (Series) by Kay Thompson
• Angeline Ballerina by Katharine Holabird
• Olivia by Ian Falconer
• Chrysanthemum by Kevin Herkes

F – U – N! and Interactive Stories

• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback
• Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow
• Little Bunny Foo Foo by Paul Brett Johnson
• Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss
• Go Away, Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley
• Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewberry
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
• That’s Good! That’s Bad (Series) by Margery Cuyler
• Jamberry by Bruce Degen
  

 

Older Kids Love These Books (Your child is never too old to sit and listen to you
read a great story!)

• Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner
• The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
• Why Epossumondas Has no Hair on His Tail by Coleen Salley
• The Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza
• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
• Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
• A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon
• Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex
  
• Don’t Make Me Laugh by James Stevenson

 

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