 | Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Buy new: $6.50 / Used from: $0.01 Teaches a lesson about lying and how it can be bad or acceptable, but there are many deeper things like a general grasp of human nature given with a wonderful dry sense of humor that kids understand and adore.
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 | A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 This is one of the very best children's books. ...Ever. The main character, Sarah, is the perfect heroine: human enough to make readers want to be someone wonderful, but not THIS someone.
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 | The Big Orange Splot by D. Manus Pinkwater
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.37 This bright book shows that going against the crowd can most certainly be a good thing, and not to give up even if others object. And of course kids love it.
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 | The Little Prince
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $3.56 Pro-creativity! Good for anyone from four to 100.
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 | The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Buy new: $10.99 Baum's creativity was boundless. The array of characters and fantastical events in the Oz books are incredible!
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 | Stupid Emilien by S. T. Mendelson
Buy used from: $1.49 (Customer picture on the item page.) This is a much-overlooked tale of a rabbit who enjoys a very simple life: on the roof in the summer, by the stove in the winter. He manages to find his way, with wit and magic, to being offered the spot of the king, only to turn it down for his cozy, simple home.
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 | Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.29 The cleverness of this series will amuse both kids and adults! With nonsensical humor Sachar tells tales of a classroom of students at the top of a 30-story school, using satire to poke fun at all the stereotypes kids recognize.
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 | The BFG by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: $0.01 Dahl is quite possibly the best children's author in print. He uses all of the elements expected of adult's books while making his stories delightfully hilarious, suspenseful, and clever. Not to mention he covers both virtues and vices in his heroes and villains. When the BFG and Sophie travel out to go "dream-catching", you (or a kid, or you, a kid) will be hypnotized.
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 | The Princess and the Goblin (Puffin Classics) by George Macdonald
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.21 When I read this I HAD to show my father. He read it and loved it as well. This mysterious and extremely unique tale ought not be overlooked.
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 | Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 The true tale of a girl's happy snow-covered childhood. Her father's story of an encounter with a panther is both terrifying and wonderful. Will make your child dream of sun-drenched days and mystical nights.
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 | Tuck Everlasting (A Sunburst book) by Natalie Babbitt
Buy used from: $0.01 Okay, the movie was fun, but it didn't mean a thing. This book manages, incredibly, to teach something deep and wise to an 8-year-old what most adults will never grasp.
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 | Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales by Beatrix Potter
Buy new: $25.20 / Used from: $16.99 Gently kooky books for all manner of children, with scenes like a fussy mouse shooing a dusty bumblebee out of her house.
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