We asked what book(s) will you forever keep in your child’s bookshelf and why; these are your favorites.
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by Dubose Heyward
The Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Moo Baa La La La by Sandra Boynton
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Complete Winnie-the-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
Is There Really a Human Race? by Jamie Lee Curtis
I Love You, Blue Kangaroo by Emma Chichester Clark
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children by Caroline Kennedy
Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Williems
Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Williems
Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator! by Mo Williems
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems
The Paddington Bear Books by Michael Bond
Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae
The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
The Wind Boy by Ethel Cook Eliot
The Lorax and The Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! By Dr. Seuss
Collections of Greek and Norse Mythologies
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
Quick As a Cricket by Audrey Wood
Free to Be You & Me by Marlo Thomas
I Am Mixed by Garcelle Beauvais
Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers
The Gift of Nothing by Patrick McDonnell
You are My I Love You by Maryann Cusimano Love
The Paper Bag Princess, by Robert Munsch
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
Murmel, Murmel, Murmel by Robert Munsch
Alligator Baby by Robert Munsch
Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett
Cat Heaven by Cynthia Rylant
Blue Hill Meadows by Cynthia Rylant
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
What Do People Do All Day by Richard Scarry
Cars, Trucks and Things That Go by Richard Scarry
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy E. Shaw
Half Magic by Edward Eager
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins
The Folk of the Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood
Whose Mouse Are You? by Robert Kraus
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
How to Behave and Why by Munro Leaf
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
I Love You, Stinky Face by Lisa McCourt
Eloise by Kay Thompson
Olivia by Ian Falconer
The Little Prince by Katherine Woods and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by James Dean and Eric Litwin
The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O by Shel Silverstein
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Every Thing On It by Shel Silverstein
It’s Time to Sleep, My Love by Nancy Tillman and Eric Metaxas
On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Jane Dyer
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park
Arthur by Marc Brown
Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm by Alice Provensen
Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle
Paddle-to-the Sea by Holling C. Holling
Where Children Sleep by James Mollison
Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola
Raggedy Ann and Andy by Johnny Gruelle
Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Sight by Sherri Duskey Rinker
Mahalia Mouse Goes to College by John Lithgow
All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon
Bear By Himself by Geoffrey Hayes
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Blossom and Boo by Dawn Apperley
On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman
Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Rainbow Goblins by Ul de Rico
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
The Night Fairy by Laura Amy Schlitz
Mike Mulligan by Virginia Lee Burton
Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter by Diane Stanley
Usborne Farmyard Tales by Heather Amery
The Giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord
The Balloon Tree by Phoebe Gilman
The Circus Ship by Chris Van Dusen
I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont
Jamberry by Bruce Degen
Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett;
The Guardians of Childhood by William Joyce
There’s No Such Thing as a Dragon by Jack Kent
Good-bye, Pie! by Tim Healy
