I’ll let you in on a little secret…one great thing about having four kiddos is that I have a really, really good excuse for my enormous collection of picture books. It’ll be a lot harder to explain when the kids are grown and gone and the books remain – at least until the grandchildren come along!
These are the tried and true favorites that my kids and I have enjoyed over the years. As I was putting the list together a couple of them took a peek, and it was like a sweet walk down memory lane – like meeting good friends we hadn’t seen in far too long, and were delighted to bump into. I hope you’ll make friends with some of them, too!
1. Alex
ander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
by Judith Viorst
2. Amelia Bedelia
by Peggy Parish
3. A Bad Case of Stripes
David Shannon
4. Bear Snores On
by Karma Wilson
5. Bread and Jam for Francis
by Russell Hoban
6. Camilla the Cupcake Fairy
by Tim Bugbird
7. Chester’s Way
by Kevin Henkes
8. A Chocolate Moose for Dinner
by Fred Gwynne
9. Chrysanthemum
by Kevin Henkes
10. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
by Judi Barrett
11. Corduroy
by Don Freeman
12. The Day the Crayons Quit
by Drew Daywalt
13. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
by Mo Willems
14. Elephant and Piggie Series
by Mo Willems
15. Farm Flu
by Teresa Bateman
16. Fly Guy series
by Tedd Arnold
17. Frog and Toad Series
by Arnold Lobel
18. The Giving Tree
by Shel Silverstein
19. George and Martha
by James Marshall
20. Go Away, Big Green Monster
by Ed Emberly
21. Green Eggs and Ham
by Dr. Suess
22. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
by Laura Numeroff
23. I’ll Be Me and You Be You
by Jim Howard
24. The Incredible Book Eating Boy
by Oliver Jeffers
25. Ira Sleeps Over
by Bernard Weber
26. It Looked Like Spilt Milk
by Charles Shaw
27. It’s Not Fair
by Amy Kraus Rosenthal
28. The Kissing Hand
by Audrey Penn
29. Little Bear Series
by Martin Waddell
30. The Loudness of Sam
by James Proimos
31. Madeline
by Ludwig Bemelmans
32. Miss Nelson is Missing
by James Marshall
33. Miss Rumphius
by Barabara Cooney
34. The Mitten
by Jan Brett
35. Not All Princesses Dress in Pink
by Jane Yolen & Heidi Stemple
36. Officer Buckle and Gloria
by Peggy Rathmann
37. Olivia
by Ian Falconer
38. Owen
by Kevin Henkes
39. Pinkalicious
by Victoria and Elizabeth Kann
40. Red is Best
by Kathy Stinson
41. Ruby the Copy Cat
by Peggy Rathmann
42. The Rules
by Marty Kelley
43. Stellaluna
by Janell Cannon
44. Thomas’ Snowsuit
by Robert Munsch
45. Tikki Tikki Tembo
by Arlene Mosel
46. Too Princessy
by Jean Reidy
47. The Velveteen Rabbit
by Margery Williams
48. The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants
by Priscilla Turner
49. Water Hole Waiting
Jane and Christopher Kurtz
50. When Sophie Gets Angry – Really, Really Angry
by Molly Bang
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