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Adapted from 100 Best Books for Children by Anita Silvey
Birth to age 2
(Board Books)
Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown
Mr. Gumpy's Outing | John Burningham
The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle
Freight Train | Donald Crews
The Carrot Seed | Ruth Krauss
Ages 2-8
(Picture Books)
Miss Nelson is Missing! | Harry Allard
Madeline | Ludwig Bemelmans
The Snowman | Raymond Briggs
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel | Virginia Lee Burton
Millions of Cats | Wanda Gag
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse | Kevin Henkes
Swamp Angel | Anne Isaacs
The Snowy Day | Jack Keats
Leo The Late Bloomer | Robert Kraus
The Story of Ferdinand | Munro Leaf
John Henry | Julius Lester
Swimmy | Leo Lionni
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
Snowflake Bentley | Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Make Way For Ducklings | Robert McCloskey
The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter
Officer Buckle and Gloria | Peggy Rathmann
Curious George | H. A. Rey
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs | Jon Scieszka
Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak
Caps For Sale | Esphyr Slobodkina
Doctor De Soto | William Steig
The Polar Express | Chris Van Allsburg
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day | Judith Wiesner
Tuesday | David Wiesner
A Chair for My Mother | Vera Williams
Seven Blind Mice | Gene Zion
Harry the Dirty Dog | Ed Young
Ages 5-7
(Beginning Readers)
Frog and Toad Are Friends | Arnold Lobel
Little Bear | Else Holmelund Minarik
Henry and Mudge | Cynthia Rylant
The Cat in the Hat | Dr. Seuss
Ages 5-7
(Intermediate Readers)
Ramona the Pest | Beverly Cleary
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes | Eleanor Coerr
Morning Girl | Michael Dorris
The Hundred Dresses | Eleanor Estes
My Father's Dragon | Ruth Stiles Gannett
Stone Fox | John Reynolds Gardiner
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Misty of Chincoteague | Marguerite Henry
Babe: the Gallant Pig | Dick King-Smith
Betsy – Tacy | Maude Hart Lovelace
Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan
The New Kid on the Block | Jack Prelutsky
Grandfather's Journey | Allen Say
Little House in the Big Woods | Laura Ingalls Wilder
Ages 8-11
(Intermediate Readers)
The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Incredible Journey | Sheila Burnford
The Dark is Rising | Susan Cooper
The BFG | Roald Dahl
Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo
Half Magic | Edward Eager
Harriet the Spy | Louise Fitzhugh
Humbug Mountain | Sid Fleischman
Lincoln: A Photobiography | Russell Freedman
Julie of the Wolves | Jean Craighead George
The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales | Virginia Hamilton
Redwall | Brian Jacques
The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E.L. Konigsburg
Rabbit Hill | Robert Lawson
A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis
Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson | Bette Bao Lord
The New Way Things Work | David Macaulay
Winnie-the-Pooh | A.A. Milne
Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy | Jim Murphy
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O'Brien
Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell
Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson
Hatchet | Gary Paulsen
Tom's Midnight Gardene | Philippa Pierce
The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | J.K. Rowling
Holes | Louis Sachar
The Cricket in Times Square | George Selden
The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare
Mary Poppins | P.L. Travers
Charlotte's Web | E.B. White
Ages 11-12
(Advanced Readers)
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi
Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babitt
Behind the Attic Wall | Sylvia Cassedy
Catherine, Called Birdy | Karen Cushman
Johnny Tremain | Esther Forbes
Anne Frank: Diary of A Young Girl | Anne Frank
Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse
A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula Le Guin
The Giver | Lois Lowry
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred Taylor
The Hobbit | J.R. Tolkien
Homecoming | Cynthia Voigt
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