What are recommended children's books?

Children's Books

See the links to the right for recommendations from parents collected over the years at misc.kids.

Here are suggestions for specific books:

• Where the Wild Things Are

• "I Can Read" Books and "Step Into Learning" series are great for beginning readers. Check on eBay for huge lots of these books. Purchase about 50 to 100 of them. An instant library! Take the time to read each one with your child and before you know it, they'll be reading to you! I did this with my five and 3 year old. My daughter can read now and she just started Kindergarten. My son can read on particular book that he reads by memory. This is good practice!

• "Goodnight Moon", "The Runaway Bunny", "Feminist Folktales From Around the World", (has to be ordered but is well worth it), "My Mama Says...There's No Such Thing as Monsters", "The Snowy Day"...anything you as a parent feel is appropriate and that your children are interested in hearing or reading!
• My children have all been fascinated with the Laura Ingalls Wilder series of 'Little House' books. They are a way of teaching history values and writing skills all in one without the child realizing it! There are even websites to join if they get really hooked.
• The Beatrix Potter tales...these are very sweet little books, about rabbits and mice and such. They have beautiful illustrations and are fascinating to young children when read aloud.
• We recently had a local author visit our school (Stocklmeir Elementary School) and they just loved her book. The author's name is Jennifer Fosberry and her book is titled "My Name is Not Isabella". It centers on strong historical women such as Elizabeth Blackwell, Marie Curie and Rosa Parks, who are great role models for todays little girls. It even has a short biography for each women.
• Our favorites not listed: Courderoy, Ferdinand, Eloise, The Three Questions, The Little Engine That Could, Olivia and Click Clack Moo - Cows that Type.

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