CHILDREN'S BOOK FAVORITES FROM FRIENDS AND FANS
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 11:35AM 
My children and I love children's books, obviously. And so do my friends and fans on Facebook. So we made a list, together, and it is below. I didn't repeat books, and I didn't put the names of authors or illustrators - not because they aren't important, but because I couldn't type it all. Please check my facebook friend and fan pages for more details, or just email me. This list is random and long - and includes everything from board books to chapter books. Someone (well, actually, dear Catherine Elder) asked me about my favorite children's books. I'll mention just one for now: The Best Loved Doll by Rebecca Caudill Sometimes I still dream about it.
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Little Engine That Could
The Giving Tree
James and the Giant Peach
Where The Wild Things Are
A Wrinkle In Time
Stig of the Dump
Alexander and the Magical Mouse
Die Rosarote Kristal
My Side of the Mountain
Not Now Bernard
Little Blue Truck
The Phantom Tollbooth
Ferdinand the Bull
The Sea Thing Child
The Giver
The Elephant’s Child
Flotsam
Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
My Father’s Dragon
Big Red Barn
Are You My Mother?
George Shrinks
Ten Apples Up On Top
Frog and Toad
Goodnight Moon
Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel
The Lorax
Charlottes Web
Eloise
Nicolas Bunny
The Little House in the Big Woods
The Secret Garden
The Stinky Cheese Man
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Grey Bridge
The Littlest Angel
Freddy the Pig
Half Magic
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Snowy Day
And I Mean It, Stanley
The Revolt of the Darumas
The Thirteen Clocks
There’s A Nightmare in my Closet
Christina Katerina and the Box
The Mitten
The BFG
Moo Baaa La La La
Dear Dolphin
Charles Addams Monster Rally
The Sea Around Us
Frances
Jenny Linsky books
Marvin K. Mooney
Whoa Joey
Miss Nelson is Missing
The Tin Forest
There’s a Monster at the End of this Book
Two Bad Ants
The Wretched Stone
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
Watership Down
The Black Stallion
Where the Sidewalk Ends
The Trumpet of the Swan
Bread and Jam for Frances
Little Bear
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
The Runaway Bunny
The Boxcar Children
McElligot’s Pool
North to Freedom
Sylvester the Mouse with the Musical Ear
Green Eggs and Ham
Blueberries for Sal
Scaredy Squirrel
If You Give a Moose a Muffin
Keep the Lights Burning Abbie
The Little House (!)
Make Way for Ducklings
A Child’s Garden of Verses
Miss Suzy
Chrysanthemum
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
The Quiltmaker’s Gift
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Franklin the Turtle
Meet the Woodland Folk
Brendon Chase
Noggin the Nog
The Blueberry Girl
The Paperbag Princess
Mole and Troll
Miss Rumphius
Each Peach Pear Plum
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Corduroy
Mouse Paint
The Little Critters
Moomimtroll
The Cockatoucan
A Little Princess
The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Linnea’s Windowsill Garden
Harry the Dirty Dog
Wacky Wednesday
Cattle Drive
The Cow That Wouldn’t Come Down
Lost
A Regular Rolling Noah
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Curious George
Mr. Putter and Tabby
The Metamorphosis
Bridge to Teraibithia
Noisy Nora
In The Night Kitchen
Neverending Story
Alexander and the Wind Up Mouse
Your Monster Momma Loves You So
Fanny’s Dream
I am a Bunny
Peek A Who
St. George and a Dragon
Madeline
Wilfred Gordon McDonald Patridge
Dr. Seuss’ Sleep Book
Stuart Little
Andrew Henry’s Meadow
Frederick
Paddle to the Sea
The Child’s Garden of Verse
Wolf Story
The Ver Persistent Gappers of Frip
The Little Red Hen
Anne of Green Gables
Little Women
The Wind in the Willows
Ramona & Beezus
Ribsy the Dog
The Prince and the Pauper
Gulliver’s Travels
Her Stories
Noah’s Ark (Barbara Shook Hazen)
Old Turtle
The Tale of Three Trees
The Paper Crane
The Orchard Book of Greek Myths
Misty of Chincoteague
Where the Red Fern Grows
Three Little Horses
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
The Precious Present
Treasure Island
Nobody’s Boy
Barrington Bunny
Winnie the Pooh
Reader Comments (1)
Such a comprehensive list - but I think you forgot my daughter's favorite as a child - the 14 Oz books by L. Frank Baum. LFB was an interesting man - raised as a feminist by his mother, a friend of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an early advocate of women's rights. The book's main characters are girls (rare for a books published in the early 1900's), having all sorts of magical adventures. I think these books were, in a lot a ways, written a hundred years before their time.