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The Educated Child's Thirty Great Books Every Preschooler Should Meet

This list comes from William J. Bennett’s The Educated Child. He suggests also adding books central to your faith and heritage.
1.
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 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day  
2. Are You My Mother? (Beginner Books)
by P.D. Eastman
  
3.
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 Ask Mr. Bear
by Marjorie Flack
  
4. Caps for Sale Big Book (Reading Rainbow Book)  
5. The Carrot Seed: Lub Noob Zaub Ntug Hauv Paug Dlaaj/Lub Noob Zaub Ntug Hauv Paus Daj
by Ruth Krauss
  
6. A Hatful of Seuss: Five Favorite Dr. Seuss Stories
by Dr. Seuss
  
7. A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
  
8. Corduroy (Puffin Storytime)
by Don Freeman
  
9.
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 The Complete Adventures of Curious George
by Margret & H. A. Rey
  
10. Danny and the Dinosaur (An I Can Read Picture Book)
by Syd Hoff
  
11. Frog and Toad Are Friends Book and Tape (I Can Read Book 2)  
12.
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 Goodnight Moon
by Margaret Wise Brown
  
13.
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 Harry the Dirty Dog
by Gene Zion
  
14.
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 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
by Laura Joffe Numeroff
  
15. Little Bear Treasury
by Else Holmelund Minarik
  
16. The Little Engine That Could
by Watty Piper
  
17.
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 The Snowy Day
by Ezra Jack Keats
  
18.
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 Madeline
by Ludwig Bemelmans
  
19.
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 Make Way For Ducklings
by Robert McCloskey
  
20. Polar Express
by Chris Van Allsburg
  
21.
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 Richard Scarry's Best Storybook Ever
by Richard Scarry
  
22. The Runaway Bunny
by Margaret Wise Brown
  
23.
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 Story of Babar
by Jean De Brunhoff
  
24. Tales of Peter Rabbit and His Friends
by Beatrix Potter
  
25. The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Picture Puffin)
by Eric Carle
  
26.
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 There's a Nightmare in My Closet
by Mercer Mayer
  
27.
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 There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
by Simms Taback
  
28. Where the Wild Things Are  
29. Where's Spot? (Picture Puffin)  
30. The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
  
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Created by Carolyn on Mar 31, 2007.