Best Books for Children

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From the book by Anita Silvey. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. The books are arranged in order of intended audience:

Books 1-5 [board books]: birth to age 2
Books 6-33 [picture books]: ages 2 to 8
Books 34-37 [books for beginning readers]: ages 5 to 7
Books 38-51 [books for young readers]: ages 7-9
Books 52-88 [books for middle readers]: ages 8-11
Books 89-100 [books for older readers]: ages 11-12

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  1. 1.
    Goodnight Moon, 60th Anniversary Edition
    by Margaret Wise Brown

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  2. 2.
    Mr. Gumpy's Outing
    by John Burningham

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  3. 3.
    The Very Hungry Caterpillar
    by Eric Carle

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  4. 4.
    Freight Train/Tren de carga

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    Miss Nelson Is Missing
    by Harry Allard

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  6. 7.
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    Madeline
    by Ludwig Bemelmans

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  7. 8.
    The Snowman
    by Raymond Briggs

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  8. 9.
    Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
    by SSI/HMI

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  10. 11.
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    Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
    by kevin Henkes

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  11. 12.
    Swamp Angel
    by Anne Isaacs

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  12. 13.
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    Snowy Day
    by Ezra Jack Keats

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  13. 14.
    Leo the Late Bloomer
    by Robert Kraus

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  14. 15.
    Story of Ferdinand, The
    by Munro Leaf

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  15. 16.
    John Henry (Picture Puffins)
    by Julius Lester

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  16. 17.
    Swimmy.
    by Leo Lionni

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  17. 18.
    Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Aladdin Picture Books)
    by Bill Martin Jr.

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  18. 19.
    Snowflake Bentley (Caldecott Medal Book)
    by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

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  19. 20.
    Make Way for Ducklings (Picture Puffins)
    by Robert McCloskey

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  20. 22.
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    Officer Buckle and Gloria
    by Peggy Rathmann

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  21. 23.
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    Curious George
    by H. A. Rey

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  22. 24.
    The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!
    by Jon Scieszka

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  23. 25.
    Where the Wild Things Are

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  24. 27.
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    Doctor De Soto
    by William Steig

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  25. 28.
    The Polar Express Twentieth Anniversary Edition
    by Chris Van Allsburg

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  27. 30.
    Tuesday
    by David Wiesner

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  29. 33.
    Harry the Dirty Dog Board Book
    by Gene Zion

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  30. 36.
    Henry and Mudge: The First Book (Henry & Mudge)
    by Cynthia Rylant

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  31. 38.
    Ramona the Pest
    by Beverly Cleary

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  32. 39.
    Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
    by Eleanor Coerr

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  33. 40.
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    Morning Girl
    by Michael Dorris

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  34. 41.
    The Hundred Dresses
    by Eleanor Estes

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  35. 42.
    My Father's Dragon (My Father's Dragon Trilogy (Paperback))
    by Ruth Stiles Gannett

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  36. 43.
    Stone Fox. (Ab 12 J.).
    by John Reynolds Gardiner

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    SNOW-WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS, A Tale from the Brothers Grimm.
    by Randall (Brothers Grimm) Jarrell

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  38. 45.
    Misty of Chincoteague
    by Marguerite Henry

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  39. 46.
    Babe: The Gallant Pig (Babe)
    by Dick King-Smith

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  40. 47.
    Betsy-Tacy
    by Maud Hart Lovelace

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  41. 48.
    Sarah, Plain and Tall
    by Patricia MacLachlan

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  42. 49.
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    The New Kid on the Block
    by Jack Prelutsky

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  43. 50.
    Grandfather's Journey (Caldecott Medal Book)
    by Allen Say

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Created by RosemarieSeaver on Dec 30, 2006.
 

Comments

List Fixed — 31 weeks ago

About 20 to 25 books were randomly added at the end of the list, but I fixed it. Now it’s like the list in the book.


kalavinka
Los Angeles

duplicate — 2 years ago

“A Wrinkle In Time” is on here twice. #67 & #109

Nice list ‘cos I’ve been thinking of reading children’s book I never read as a kid or re-reading what I don’t remember and this is a good source.