Growing Readers: Thirteen Children’s Books That I Love

Everyone has a favorite children’s book. My husband’s favorite is Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. It is certainly a book that everyone can relate to! My list of favorites includes books that I love for purely sentimental reasons – they were read to me as a child or they are books that I read now to my own children. Some books are classics and some are brand new. It is impossible to narrow my list to thirteen favorites but for the sake of today’s Thursday Thirteen post I will try my hardest. For more children’s book recommendations see 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know courtesy of the New York Public Library.

• The Giant Jam Sandwich (Sandpiper Book)
• I Wish That I Had Duck Feet (Beginner Books(R))
• I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew: (Reissue) (Classic Seuss)
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• A Little Golden Book: The Pokey Little Puppy
• Goodnight Moon
• The Runaway Bunny
• Arnie, the Doughnut
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (or any book by Mo Willems)
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Guess How Much I Love You
• Green Eggs and Ham (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books)
• Fancy Nancy