 | Pat the Bunny (Touch and Feel Book) by Dorothy Kunhardt
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.95 Oooh.... textures!
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 | Sing, Spell, Read and Write : PreK Readiness Program by Sue Dickson
Buy new: $106.00 / Used from: $89.00 How I learned to read.
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 | Word Bird's Hats (Word Bird's Readers) by Jane Belk Moncure
Buy new: $22.79 / Used from: $0.75 What makes a kid prefer one learning-to-read book to another? I don't know, but I loved Word Bird. And I love hats.
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 | How Big Is a Pig? by Clare Beaton
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Okay, you figured me out! I'm too old to have read this book when I was in its target age group. But I've read it since, and it rocks.
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 | Stop that Ball! (Beginner Books) by Mike McClintock
Buy used from: $8.23 "Could this go on all day and night? It could you know, and it just might!" is one of literature's greatest lines.
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 | The Fuzzy Kitten by Miriam Teichner
Buy used from: $13.75 More texture, but unlike Pat The Bunny, this has a storyline!
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 | Beginner's Bible, The by Karyn Henley
Buy used from: $0.01 My first Bible.
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 | Trouble with Trolls by Jan Brett
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.01 Great illustrations.
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 | How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head (Sandpiper Books) by Bill Peet
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $2.92 Has proven astonishingly memorable.
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 | Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $1.08 So cool.
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 | The Berenstain Bears and the Dress Code (Big Chapter Books(R)) by Stan Berenstain
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 The Berenstein Bears were my first chapter books. And unlike the Berenstein Bear picture books, look at the edgy issues the chapter books take on!
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 | The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
Buy new: $6.50 / Used from: $0.01 Ah, nothing like anthropomorphized animals...
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 | The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
Buy new: $11.69 / Used from: $3.91 Still hilariously irreverent.
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 | Wayside School Boxed Set: Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, Wayside School is Falling Down, Sideway Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Buy new: $12.22 / Used from: $9.08 Louis Sacher's mind must be a very interesting place.
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| Adventures of Barbie: Mermaid Island (Adventures With Barbie) by Suzanne Weyn
Buy used from: $0.01 Any description of my childhood would be remiss without a nod to Barbie.
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 | Willow Wind Farm: Betsy's Story (Polish American Girls Series) by Anne Pellowski
Buy used from: $74.20 In these days, I thought it would be kind of cool to live on a farm.
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 | Snowbound (Baby-Sitters Club Super Special, 7) by Ann M. Martin
Buy used from: $0.01 This obsession didn't end until I had read all the Baby-Sitters Club books in my home, library, and local bookstore.
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 | Meet Addy: An American Girl (The American Girls Collection Book 1) by Connie Porter
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.01 I think American Girls is a better series than The Baby-Sitters Club.
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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: $27.73 / Used from: $25.00 The life of everyone's (besides those crazy Pippi Longstocking fans) favorite red-headed orphan. (This is a very nice box set, by the way.)
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 | Little Women (Unabridged Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $2.39 A classic.
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| CHICKEN TREK (Bantam-Skylark Book) by Stephen Manes
Buy used from: $0.11 Bizarre... in a good way.
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 | My Life as Polluted Pond Scum (The Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle #11) by Bill Myers
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Each Wally Mcdoogle adventure is essentially the same: a humorous adventure with a good moral. But they're all fun, so that's okay.
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 | I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X: A Rod Allbright Alien Adventure by Bruce Coville
Buy used from: $0.01 The first novel of what was probably the most suspenseful series I ever read as a kid.
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 | The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $26.32 / Used from: $14.88 Also classic. Any childhood lacking these books is a deprived one.
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 | The Time Quartet Box Set (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters) by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy used from: $47.55 Sweet and original sci-fi/fantasy adventures.
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