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My Reading List!
Please know this is NOT comprehensive. It is just a start. I promise someone will say “what about xyz?” and I will be dumbfounded with my lack of foresight and immediately add! Also, there is no order to this…I tried and failed. I love them all equally!
All things Steven Kellogg!
The Mysterious Tadpole, Chicken Little, folk stories, and his many collaborations. Steven Kellogg is my hero!
Ramon Shiloh's Illustrated and Gerald Hausman's
The Otter, the Spotted Frog & the Great Flood: A Creek Indian Story
Reeve Lindbergh
The Midnight Farm and The Day the Goose Got Loose (my favorite book)
Nancy Tillman
On the Night you were Born, It's Time to Sleep my Love, and more!
Graeme Base
The Eleventh Hour, The Sign of the Seahorse, and more!
Jan Brett
The Mitten, Berlioz the Bear, and many more!
Shel Silverstein
The Giving Tree, The Light in the Attic, and many more!
Roald Dahl
BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox and more!
Leo & Diane Dillon’s If Kids Ran the World
Jerry Pallotta’s Who Would Win? series and his Alphabet books!
Angie Pickman's Merry Menagerie
Beth Krommes’ Illustrated and Joyce Sidman’s Swirl by Swirl
John Parra’s Illustrated and Phil Bildner’s Marvelous Cornelius
Beth Krommes’ Illustrated and Susan Marie Swanson’s The House in the Night
Lizi Boyd's Flashlight and more!
Soyeon Kim's Illustrated and Elin Kelsey’s You are Stardust
Chris Hadfield's The Darkest Dark
Munro Leaf's Ferdinand the Bull
Kathleen Stevens' The Beast in the Bathtub
Axel Scheffler's Illustrated and Julia Donaldson's Room on the Broom
Sheila McGraw Illustrated and Robert Munsch's Love You Forever
Ron Barrett's Illustrated and Judi Barrett's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Sebastien Braun's Back to Bed, Ed!
Rosemary Wells' Timothy Goes to School and more!
James Marshall's George and Martha books
Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are
Virginia Lee Burton's The Little House and Mike Mulligan
Tomie dePolas' Illustrated and Tony Johnston's The Quilt Story
Richard Egielski's Illustrated and Arthur Yorinks' Hey, Al
Chief Seattle's Words and Susan Jeffers's Brother Earth Sister Sky
Rosie Wellesley's The Very Helpful Hedgehog
Gail Gibbons' From Seed to Plant
Linda Hager Pack's A is for Appalachia
Ole Risom's Illustrated and Richard Scarry's I Am A Bunny
Lois Ehlert's Eating the Alphabet
Guy Parker-Rees' Illustrated and Giles Andreae's Giraffes Can’t Dance
Mem Fox's Time for Bed and 10 little Fingers and 10 Little Toes
Frank Asch's Happy Birthday Moon
Drew Daywalt's The Day the Crayons Quit
Jack Kent's There is No Such Thing as a Dragon
P. Buckley Moss' Illustrated and Merle Good's Reuben and the Balloon
Mae Besom's Illustrated and Kobi Yamada's What do you Do with an Idea?
David Shannon Illustrated and Robbie Robertsons’ Hiawatha and the Peacemaker
Babette Cole’s The Trouble with Mom
Rod Clement Just Another Ordinary Day
Peggy Parish's Amelia Bedelia Books
Jaime Kim’s Illustrated and Laura Purdie Salas’ If you Were the Moon
Marilyn Sadler's PJ Funny Bunny Books
Liz Garton Scanlon's All the World and more!
Kadir Nelson’s If you Plant a Seed
Steven Jenkins’ Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest
Helen Musselwhite Illustrated and Louise Greig’s A Walk Through the Woods
Chris Van Allsburg's Jumanji and more!
Brian Lies' Bats at the Library
Diane Alber's I’m NOT just a Scribble
Rafe Martin's The Rough-Face Girl
Isabelle Arsenault's Illustrated and M.H. Clark's You Belong Here
Eloise Wilkin's Illustrated and Jane Werner Watson's Wonders of Nature
Ludwig Bemelmans and John Bemelmans Marciano's Madeline
Daniel San Souci's Illustrated and Freya Littledale's Little Mermaid
Crockett Johnson's Harold and the Purple Crayon
Tomie dePaola's Strega Nona and more!
Esphyr Slobodkina's Caps for Sale
Jim LaMarche's Illustrated and Laura Melmed's Rainbabies
Robert Munsch's Paper Bag Princess
Joy Cowley's The Wishing of Biddy Malone
Lauren Stringer's Illustrated and Cynthia Rylant's Snow
Georgina Tee, Carron Brown's Secrets of Winter
Daniel Salmieri's Illustrated and Adam Rubin's Dragons
Leonard Weisgard's Illustrated and Alvin Tresselt Rain Drop Splash
Sandra Boynton's The Going to Bed Book and More!
Sonia Sánchez's Illustrated and Douglas Florian's The Wonderful Habits of Rabbits
Jill McElmurry's Illustrated and Alice Schertle's Little Blue Truck
Priscilla Burris' Five Green and Speckled Frogs
Tom Lichtenheld's Illustrated and Beth Ferry's Ten Rules of the Birthday Wish
Max Lang Illustrated and Suzanne Lange's Grumpy Monkey
Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections
Sylvaine Perols' Volcanoes and More!
Mark Teague's Illustrated and Jane Yolen's How do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
Lika and Susan Elwood’s OM OM on the Farm
Richard Scarry’s Busy Busy World Books
Eliza Wheeler’s Home in the Woods and More!
Mary Sullivan’s Ball and More!
Kate Leiper Illustrated and Theresa Breslin's An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales
Linda Ashman's William Wakes Up and more!
Margret and Hans Rey's Curious George
Norman Bridwell's Clifford the Big Red Dog Books
Emily Winfield Martin's The Wonderful Things You will Be
Jocko Willink's Mikey and the Dragon
John Schoenherr's Illustrated and Jane Yolen's Owl Moon
Hilary Knight's Illustrated and Kay Thompson’s Eloise
Peter Spier's The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night
Bryan Langdo Illustrated and Harry Chapin's Mr. Tanner
Jan Berenstain, Stan Berenstain, Mike Berenstain's Berenstain Bears
Bruce Degen's Illustrated and Joanna Cole's The Magic School Bus Books
Barbara Cooney's Miss Rumphius
Mercer Mayer's Little Critters
Bernard Waber's Lyle Crocodile
Bettye Stroud's Patchwork Path
Lynne Cherry's The Great Kapok Tree
Stephen Gammell's Illustrated and Cynthia Rylant's The Relatives Came
Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes
Clement Hurd's Illustrated and Margaret Wise Brown's Good Night Moon and The Runaway Bunny
Ezra Jack Keats' The Snowy Day
Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar and all that is Eric Carle!
Eric Puybaret's Illustrated and Lenny Lipton and Peter Yarrow's Puff the Magic Dragon
Lois Ehlert's Illustrated and Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault's Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
William Steig's Pete’s a Pizza
Dr. Seuss' Oh the Thinks you can Think and My Many Colored Days
Beatrix Potter's The Tales of Peter Rabbit
David A. Carter's Builder Bugs: A Busy Pop-up Book
Beverly Cleary's Ramona Series
Emily Calandrelli's Ada Lace, on the Case
Hélène Desputeaux Illustrated and Robert Munsch's Purple, Green and Yellow
Young Adult …started and more to come!
Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time and more!
Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons
Kathryn Reiss’ The Glass House People
Anne Frank’s The Diary Of a Young Girl
Dan Millman's The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Jack London's Call of the Wild and White Fang
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game Series
Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
P.S. All books are celebrated, there are no banned books here. I am a librarian and have a code of ethics. I believe very strongly in the free and unfiltered access to information. Therefore, if there are books or authors listed that have been associated with malevolent social claims, please reach out and let’s have a dialogue. Let us work together through reason, curiosity, and compassion to better understand the world. Peace and love to you.