Episode #10: Building a Home Library: Children's Books
In this episode of my series on building a home library, I share about my favorite subject in the whole world: children's books. Many families have asked me to help them find out how to systematically build a library of books they actually want to keep. The books I share in this episode are from my own bookshelves, and they are the ones you don't want to let your children leave home without reading. Without these wonderful books, they will live a kind of deprived world!
Younger Years
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Winnie the Pooh books by A.A. Milne
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame; illustrated by Ernest Shepherds
Books by Beatrix Potter
Nursery Rhymes by Marguerite de Angeli
Crow Boy by Taro Yashima
Umbrella by Taro Yashima
The Story of Ping by Marjorie Flack
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
Read Aloud Bible Stories Vol 1 by Ella Lindvall
Watch the Stars Come Out by Riki Levinson
The Treasure by Uri Shulevitz
Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field
The Small Books by Lois Lenski
Just Plain Fancy by Patricia Polacco
Now One Foot, Now the Other by Tomie dePaola
Children's Classics
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Peter Pan by James Barry
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
King Arthur and His Knights by Roger Lancelyn
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Anderson's Fairy Tales
Grimm's Fairy Tales
A Child's Book of Stories illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Chapter Books
The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight
Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearce
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
More Books You Don't Want to Miss
Dangerous Journey
Tales of the Kingdom by David R. Mains and Karen Burton Mains
Children of Genius series by Lepscky (especially book on Albert Einstein)
Thee, Hannah! by Marguerite de Angeli
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
The Shoe Books by Noel Streatfeild
Far Out the Long Canal by Meindert DeJong
Books by Genevieve Foster
The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff
Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Star of Light by Patricia St. John
All of a Kind Family books by Sydney Taylor
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
Of Courage Undaunted by James Daugherty
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