Meddybemps Book Lists / All-Time favorites
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Here are twenty-three timeless favorites of children. They ask for them again and again. I like them because they help children learn ways to act or interact in our world. Please feel free to let me know your favorites, too.
Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott
The Big, Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Billy Goats Gruff by Stephen Cosgrove
Blueberries For Sal by Robert McCloskey
Curious George by H.A. Rey
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr.
Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
Corduroy by Don Freeman
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub and He Won't Come Out by Audrey and Don Wood
Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
The Little House by Virginia Burton
Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia L. Burton
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
Paddington Bear by Michael Bond
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Red Riding Hood by James Marshall
Teddy Bear's Picnic by Jimmy Kennedy
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
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