 | Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 The classic.
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 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Buy new: $8.61 / Used from: $0.01 This was a beautifully illustrated book--honestly, on this one, I'm relying on my mother's memory more than on my own. Apparently I loved it.
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 | Harold and the Purple Crayon 50th Anniversary Edition (Purple Crayon Books)
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.24 How can one not like this one? A boy draws himself through the world with a purple crayon.
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 | One Morning in Maine (Picture Puffin) by Robert McCloskey
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story by Gloria Houston
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.24 Maybe it's th
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 | Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.98 This is my favorite children's book by far. A beautiful story about an independent woman and how she spreads beauty in the world around her. (Admission: I went and bought a copy of this for myself--as an adult.)
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 | The Giving Tree
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $2.75 A beautiful and a sad book.
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 | The Little House Collection Box Set (Full Color) (Little House) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Buy new: $29.69 / Used from: $17.99 How could this not be on here? The (autobiographical) story of a little girl's childhood and growing up on Midwestern homesteads.
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 | The Blue Fairy Book (Dover Storybooks for Children) by Andrew Lang
Buy new: $8.76 / Used from: $1.13 The Andrew Lang "Fairy Books" are really beautifully translated collections of fairy tales. They're fairly complete--you'll find lots of stories in here that you haven't seen elsewhere.
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 | The Witch of the Woods: Fairy Tales from Sweden by Helena Nyblom
Buy used from: $6.78 A beautiful book of fairy tales.
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 | Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $1.32 Given the fact I spent a large part of my childhood pretending to be one or another of these sisters, I think this deserves to be called a favorite. The story of a family of four sisters growing up during the Civil War.
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 | An Old-Fashioned Girl (Puffin Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Little Women is probably a better novel, but I had a thing for this one as well.
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 | The BFG by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: $0.01 This is a beautiful and funny children's book about a Big Friendly Giant (BFG) who distributes dreams.
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| Lisa and Lottie (An Avon Camelot Book) by Erich Kastner
Buy used from: $1.44 This is the original "Parent Trap" story.
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 | Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 A girl trying to find her mother, and learning about her American Indian heritage. I didn't read this until I was older (it was given to my sister), but really enjoyed it and thought it was very well done.
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 | Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 A story of sibling rivalry.
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 | The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, ... Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside) by L.M. Montgomery
Buy new: $29.69 / Used from: $27.85 |
 | Emily of New Moon (Emily Novels) by L.M. Montgomery
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $2.43 |
 | The Wrinkle in Time Quintet Boxed Set (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, An Acceptable Time) by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy new: $23.09 / Used from: $25.42 This is a *fantastic* set of books. Good role models for girls going into science, though it is a bit suspicious of computers and AI. It also has some good messages about valuing those who may not resemble you outwardly.
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| The Fellowship Of The Ring - Being The First Part Of The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
I'm sure this is in print--I'm confused that it's not being offered here. I'm not one of those people who's read The Lord of The Rings multiple times or anything like that, but this was a book that my father read aloud to my sister (6) and I (10), and it made for a fantastic read-aloud book.
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 | THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE A True Story by Forrest Carter
Buy used from: $4.00 This is a book my mother read to me.
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 | A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.35 Another great book read aloud by my father (around the same time (ages 6 and 10))--there's a whole series. Again--I'm not a science fiction or fantasy fan, but these are really worthwhile.
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 | The Good Earth (Enriched Classics) by Pearl S. Buck
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.45 |
 | Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah L. Delany
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Yet another book my mother read to us. The autobiography of two 100-year-old African-American sisters.
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 | Madame Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie
Buy new: $14.25 / Used from: $5.20 I have to say that I read this in an abridged form, so I don't know what the full version would be like for kids...probably ok for kids getting on towards 9 or 10. But Marie Curie had a fascinating life, and is such a great woman for young girls to learn about.
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 | My Brilliant Career (Penguin Classics) by Miles Franklin
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $2.77 I know this wouldn't necessarily count as a children's book, but it's a book my mother read to me. One of those following-your-dreams, figuring-out-who you are books, describing the early life of a writer-to-be.
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 | The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.43 |
 | The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.18 We're moving into adolescence here, but this is another one of the classics.
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 | The Song Of The Lark (Signet Classics) by Willa Cather
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $3.47 |
 | Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics) by Jostein Gaarder
Buy new: $8.80 / Used from: $4.75 An introduction to philosophy in the form of a novel--probably only interesting to the child who has a particular interest in philosophy. This is a book I was really interested in when I first read it (14 or so?) but that I probably wouldn't read again. My 10th grade English teacher's favorite book.
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 | The Bean Trees: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A story about a young woman's sudden growing up when, on a cross country drive to escape her hometown, a baby is left in her car. An early high school book.
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 | Imani All Mine by Connie Rose Porter
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $0.01 This has some really tough, adult issues in it--it is a story of a teenage girl in a tough neighborhood who is thrust into single motherhood after having been raped--but it is really worth reading, and is appropriate for a high schooler.
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 | Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club) by Alan Paton
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.46 A hard story (but one that believes in humanity) from apartheid South Africa.
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 | I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 This is a beautiful book for a high schooler about a teen's coming of age in England.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.39 A book about the absurdity of war. Appropriate for a high-schooler.
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