Reading Recommendations

Partial list of titles discussed in Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together by Ilana Kurshan.

Picture Books
The Steadfast Tin Soldier I Hans Christian Andersen
Otto: The Story of a Mirror I Ali Bahrampour
Hello Lighthouse I Sophie Blackall
Birthday Monsters I Sandra Boynton
But Not the Hippopotamus I Sandra Boynton
The Going to Bed Book I Sandra Boynton
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel I Virginia Lee Burton
The Very Hungry Caterpillar I Eric Carle
Princess Smartypants I Babette Cole
Freight Train I Donald Crews
Chirri & Chirra I Kaya Doi
Ella Kazoo Will Not Brush Her Hair I Lee Fox
The Seven Silly Eaters I Mary Ann Hoberman
Angelina Ballerina I Katharine Holabird
Peter’s Chair I Ezra Jack Keats
The Snowy Day I Ezra Jack Keats
The Philharmonic Gets Dressed I Karla Kuskin
George and Martha (series) / James Marshall
Miss Nelson ls Missing I James Marshall
The Paper Bag Princess I Robert Munsch
Five Minutes’ Peace I Jill Murphy
The Watermelon Seed I Greg Pizzoli
Before You Were Born I Howard Schwartz
Tell Me a Mitzi I Lore Segal
The Cat in the Hat I Dr. Seuss
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish I Dr. Seuss
Gregory, the Terrible Eater I Mitchell Sharmat
Wild About Books I Judy Sierra
The Giving Tree I Shel Silverstein
Caps for Sale I Esphyr Slobodkina
Brave Irene I William Steig
Doctor De Soto I William Steig
Pete’s a Pizza/ William Steig
Spinky Sulks I William Steig
Yellow & Pink I William Steig
The Library I Sarah Stewart
The Blueberry Pie Elf I Jane Thayer
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day I Judith Viorst
Cherries and Cherry Pits I Vera B.Williams
The Queen Who Couldn’t Bake Gingerbread I Dorothy Van Woerkom
A New Coat for Anna I Harriet Ziefert
Harry the Dirty Dog I Gene Zion
The Passover Parrot I Evelyn Zusman

Series for Early Readers
Ivy & Bean I Annie Barrows
Danny the Dinosaur I Syd Hoff
My Happy Life I Rose Lagercrantz
Frog and Toad I Arnold Lobel
Fancy Nancy I Jane O’Connor
Amelia Bedelia I Peggy Parish
Clementine I Sara Pennypacker
Morris Goes to School I B. Wiseman

Chapter Books
Little Women I Louisa. May Alcott
Fudge I Judy Blume
The Secret Garden I Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess I Frances Hodgson
Burnett Behind the AtticWall I Sylvia Cassedy
Beezus and Ramona (series) I Beverly Cleary
Matilda I Roald Dahl
The Twenty-One Balloons / William Pene du Bois
Mandy I Julie Andrews Edwards
The Hundred Dresses I Eleanor Estes
Harriet the Spy I Louise Fitzhugh
The Rabbi’s Girls I Joanna Hurwitz
The Phantom Tollbooth / Norton Juster
Lisa and Lottie I Erich Kastner
A Wrinkle in Time (series) I Madeleine L’Engle
The Railway Children I E. Nesbit
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH I Robert C. O’Brien
White Bird I R.J. Palacio
Bridge to Terabithia I Katherine Paterson
Call Me Ruth I Marilyn Sachs
The Little Prince I Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn I Betty Smith
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew I Margaret Sidney
All-of-a-Kind Family (series) I Sydney Taylor
Charlotte’s Web I E. B. White
Little House on the Prairie (series) I Laura Ingalls Wilder