More Book Lists

More of our absolute favorites!

Non-fiction 5+
My First Number Book, Marie Heinst
Math for all Seasons, Greg Tang
Q is for Duck: An Alphabet Guessing Game, Mary Elting and Michael Folsom
Me on the Map, Joan Sweeney
I Can Be Safe, Pat Thomas
My New Family (adoption), Pat Thomas
Let’s Talk About It: Adoption, Fred Rogers

Anthologies
My Very First Mother Goose, Iona Archibald Opie
Mother Goose, Tasha Tudor
The Real Mother Goose, Blanche Fisher Wright
Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes, Marguerite de Angeli
Favorite Nursery Tales, Tomie dePaola
The Children's Book of Virtues, William Bennett
The Children's Book of Heroes, William Bennett

Poetry
Poems to Read to the Very Young, Josette Frank
The Baby's Good Morning Book, Kay Chorao
First Poems of Childhood, Tasha Tudor
Animal Crackers, Jane Dyer
Read Aloud Rhymes for the very Young, Jack Prelutsky
Sing a Song of Popcorn, Beatrice de Regniers
Nursery Rhyme Classics, Kate Greenaway
When We Were Very Young, A.A. Milne
Now That We Are Six, A.A. Milne
A Child's Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson
Hailstones and Halibut Bones, Mary O’Neill
Listen Rabbit, Aileen Fisher
Read Aloud Poems, Glorya Hale
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, Jack Prelutsky

Chapter books
Little House series, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
The House at Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne
Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
Heidi, Johanna Spyri
The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Beverly Cleary
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

Books for Parents
The Well-Trained Mind, Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer
Books Children Love, Elizabeth Wilson
Honey for a Child’s Heart, Gladys Hunt
Don’t Make Me Count to Three, Ginger Hubbard
Parenting with Scripture, Kara Durbin