This is just a personal list of opinions, mainly because I will have to go through this again with L, Noting which books are worth finding and which I can skip is pretty important, and with my memory this is the only way! I cut and pasted the list from AO. Then added my notes. If there is no note, either I didn't find it yet, can't remember, or something else.
1-4.Winnie the Pooh series by AA Milne and Ernest H. Shepard (Winnie-The-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six). Accept no substitutes for the original stories!
Meh
5-15ish. Beatrix Potter series (Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, etc,) We have a 'complete works of' and the notes about Beatrix are worth reading by parents before each story. some are worth sharing with kids too
16. The Little House by Virginia Burton long but good
17. The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack eh
18. The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper not sure I found the right version? but the story is timeless
19. Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
20. Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
21. One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
22. Ferdinand by Munro Leaf silly flower sniffing bull
23. Ox-Cart Man by Barbara Cooney
24. Stone Soup and other folk tale retellings by Marcia Brownpriceless story, and I think I this version is good (if I am remembering the right one)
25. Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney (CM idea of duty in bringing beauty to the world)cute
26. The Story of Little Babaji by Helen Bannerman or other retelling of the Sambo story with more appropriate illustrations
27. Brer Rabbit books by Joel Chandler Harrisnever liked em as a kid, they don't speak English! though I did like the concepts, their online version wont work for me, might look into finding one translated into less umm...hickspeak?
28. Poems and Prayers for the Very Young by Martha Alexander
29. A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson Also for year one, so why do it twice?
30ish. A good collection including classic stories and folktales such as The Little Red Hen, The Gingerbread Man, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Billy Goats Gruff. these are the tales we tell in cars, no book needed!
31. A good collection of Aesop's Fables, such as the one illustrated by Milo Winter again doing this in year one, must we repeat? Though in my house with all these kids of course we do
32. A nice Mother Goose collection
33.and 34. Illustrated classic poetry such as Poems for Young Children compiled by Caroline Royds
A good collection of classic children's poetry such as A Child's Book of Poems by Gyo Fujikawa; The Golden Books Family Treasury of Poetry selected by Louis Untermeyer; The Oxford Book of Children's Verse edited by Peter Opie have I mentioned how little I like poetry?
Online some are found via the Baldwin Project
For the Children's hour
books with audio
Advisory Favorites
1. The Church Mice and others in this series by Graham Oakley. These are delightful.
2. Hiawatha by Longfellow, illustrated by Susan Jeffers meh
3. Paul Revere's Ride by Longfellow, illustrated by Ted Rand
4. My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Ted Rand
5. Picture books depicting Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, such as The Elephant's Child reading em in year 1....
6. Roxaboxen by Barbara Cooney
7. The Tale of Three Trees illustrated by Angela Elwell Hunt cute
8. Wynken, Blynken and Nod illustrated by either Susan Jeffers or Barbara Cooney
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