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What you will find on my children’s bookcases
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items Books we read and re-read to our children that didn’t make it to the give to Goodwill box.
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Books for ages 1-12
Books for ages 1-12
By all means the sweetest book for read alouds. The characters are so fun amd easily relatable. The relationships between the characters is endearing. My teens still refer to each other as being a Pooh, or Piglet or even Tigger. And their siblings k...
Winnie-the-Pooh Complete Fiction 6 Book Set
Sweet little books for chubby baby hands. Good stories and pretty for the nursery or anywhere in your home.
Our Very Little Library Board Book Set
One of the most memorable classics of all time. We read this to our infants all the way up to 10 years. Now my teens still talk about this heartwarming story.
The Giving Tree
Heartwarming and such a good lesson for any age. The power of love and being loved over and over, this book gives children (and adults) a relatable example of how being loved is everything.
The Velveteen Rabbit: The Classic Children's Book
Let me say that we started reading this to our kids at about age 2 and now it’s a coffee table book because we all love to pick it up and look at the dreamy illustrations or read the entire book. The movie is also 10/10z
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
This book warms the heart of all ages. It’s whimsical, earthy, and unforgettable.
The Story of the Root Children: Mini Edition
Do I even need to say a word about Beatrix Potter and her little creatures? Every once in a while I see one of my teens picking this up and bathing in nostalgia. The little stories are adorable and will stay with you, but the illustrations will keep...
A Beatrix Potter Treasury (Peter Rabbit)
The illustrations alone keep the reader enchanted for years. Grown women with families buy this book for their children but keep it for themselves.
The Complete Brambly Hedge: Illustrated Classics
Oh Madeline! My teens can still recite this entire book. The stories rhyme, the illustrations captivate and keep the reader seeing new things every time they peek inside the pages.
Madeline (Puffin Storytime) (Book & CD)
If sweetness were a book it would be this one. Best read in springtime or any other time or year, with kids on lap because they will ask you to read it 27 times in one sitting.
Blueberries for Sal
This book teaches persistence through tough circumstances through a gardener who thought he was too little, and his garden who taught him otherwise.
The Little Gardener
Brilliant illustrations, this book is an effective and fun way to open up conversations about feelings, which are sometime hard to express in children and adults.
The Grand Hotel of Feelings
A good first book for new parent to begin the bedtime ritual. Holding your little one and reading about saying good night to all the things teaches
the names of things as well as preparing them for bed. This was a staple for every single bedtime i...
Goodnight Moon
A fantastical story of a little girl who has a dream and the way it comes to life.
The Maggie B
These Magic Tree House books will boost your children’s imaginations, but don’t be surprised if they want you to build them a treehouse. These books teach so many lessons in a captivating style for young readers.
Magic Tree House Boxed Set, Books 1-4
There are many reasons why this book has received so many awards. One of them is the beauty of flowers and kindness and how they can change the world. You and your kids will fall in love with the main character in this story, and possibly speaking b...
Miss Rumphius