I’m stocking up! We’ve got a few already, including some of my favorites from when I was little. But give me all your recommendations!
Short post today – it’s Graham’s first day back at work and things are crazy. But they’re also wonderful and fulfilling and everything just feels so new and special. How lucky we are to be parents to our beautiful Lucy Lady. 😊
A Virginia Writer's Diary 
i read it every nov 2. luigi and the long nosed soldier by slovobodkin
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J and I loved the Little Bear series, but it is likely a while before Lucy is ready for that! J’s favorite was Birthday Soup and my mother would let him help her make it “carrots and potatoes, peas and tomatoes.” I think he was around 4 or 5 when we discovered them. Somewhere, I still have one of them!
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The nun series with the nun in Paris. Not sure of the title.
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The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein is one of my favorites. We also have a collection of Dr Seuss and the old Golden Books.
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Touch and Feel Books were great and Dr. Seuss of course. Then as my son got older, books from Melanie Watt, the Dog Man series, and The Wimpy Kid.
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This will date me, but I still have the first book I recall owning (which I got hen I was 3 or 4): Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses.” Of course c I turned out to be a poet so perhaps it’s a dangerous choice.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and Horton the Elephant. I love children’s books…still.
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I do, too. 🙂
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These were first books and I highly recommend them:
Little Bear Books –> https://www.google.com/search?q=little+bear+books&oq=little+bear+boo&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgAEAAYgAQyBwgAEAAYgAQyBggBEEUYOTIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQLhiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIHCAkQABiABKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Stop that Ball!
Book by Michael McClintock
Danny and the Dinosaur
Book by Syd Hoff
Hurry up, slowpoke
Book by Crosby Bonsall
All the DR. Suess Books
McBroom and the big wind,
by Sid Fleischman
Pyewacket
Novel by Rosemary Weir
Big Max (An I can read mystery)
by Kin Platt
The Fire cat
Book by Esther Averill
Where the Sidewalk Ends (this one was my kids favorite and not one of my first books)
Shel Silverstein
https://www.icanread.com/ all the I Can Read Books
these are just a few … i still own all my very first books. they are classics now.
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More than a picture book, The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett was my all-time favorite read as a young girl.
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I haven’t read the comments so I apologize if this was already recommended. “I love you forever ” is one of the best children’s books! I read it to each of my kids when they were little and now to my grandkids. 😁
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I love that book! It’s already on the shelf. 🙂
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We bought our girls a boxed set of Dahl’s books. Best purchase ever!
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books..did you say books? We’ve so many books from good night moon to The big hungry bear, to the pout pout fish a new one.. it goes on and on and our bookshelf is lined with free ones.
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Always always The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle ❤️ She may be a bit too little for that one maybe?
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