In no particular order:
the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder--we are currently reading By the Banks of Plum Creek. Annie and Jacob adore these books and are often discovered acting out scenes we have read
One Morning in Maine and Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey
Where's Spot, Spot's Birthday Party, and other Spot books, by Eric Hill. Sophie likes Spot. :)
the Beatrix Potter stories (Annie likes to listen to these on tape during rest time)
the Little Bear stories by Else Minarik
The Ox-Cart Man, by Donald Hall
Frederick, Swimmy, Fish is Fish, and other titles by Leo Lionni
Play with Me, Gilberto and the Wind, Just Me, and In the Forest by Marie Ets
Chicken Soup with Rice, by Maurice Sendak
Harry the Dirty Dog, by Gene Zion
Two Bad Ants, by Chris van Allsburg (favorite of Jacob)
Song and Dance Man, by Karen Ackerman
On Market Street, by Arnold Lobel
Read Aloud Bible Stories, by Ella Lindvall (there are 5 volumes and the older three kids loved these re-tellings)
Freight Train, by Donald Crews
The Parable of the Pumpkin Patch, by Liz Curtis Higgs
Island Boy and Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney (favorites of Annie)
Nic of the Woods, Lynd Ward
My Getting Ready for School Book, Harriet Ziefert (favorite of Sophie)
Aileen Fisher's poetry books
3 in 1 by Joanne Marxhaussen (great illustration of the Trinity)
Big Thoughts for Little People and others by Kenneth Taylor
Mother Goose, illustrated by Michael Hague
cloth books for chewing (favorite of Nora)
The Big Red Tractor and the Little Village, by Francis Chan (I didn't know he had written children's books--this one was adored by Jacob)
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