 | The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.94 Sweet and simple, a great good night book.
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 | Birthday Presents by Cynthia Rylant
Buy used from: $36.48 This birthday book brings a tear to my eye when we read it on special days.
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 | Long Night Moon by Cynthia Rylant
Buy new: $14.03 / Used from: $9.95 A beautifully illustrated book showing the same scene through the year, moon by moon.
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 | The Saggy Baggy Elephant (Big Little Golden Book) by Kathryn Jackson
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.03 All about a little elephant named Suki finding his way.
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 | Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
Buy used from: $19.99 Wonderful, detailed drawings show both sides of a mother and baby bat's search for each other.
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 | Big Red Barn (rpkg) by Margaret Wise Brown
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $0.01 A calm, happy book -- it shows in perfect detail what a day is like for animals on the farm.
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 | Skip to My Lou by Mary Ann Hoberman
Buy used from: $8.25 We've been reading and laughing along with this one for years!
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 | I Know a Rhino by Charles Fuge
Buy used from: $3.97 A child's stuffed animals come to life in her imagination.
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 | Over the Moon: A Collection of First Books: Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and My World by Margaret Wise Brown
Buy new: $15.59 / Used from: $10.83 These three are classics for a reason.
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 | Caps for Sale Big Book (Reading Rainbow Book) by Esphyr Slobodkina
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $12.78 50 cents a cap!
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 | A Baby Sister for Frances Book and Tape by Russell Hoban
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $2.50 All of the Frances books we've read have been wonderful.
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 | Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Big Book by Eileen Christelow
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $14.95 This book brings a lot of glee around this place.
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 | Barnyard Dance! (Boynton on Board) by Sandra Boynton
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.01 Oh, Sandra Boynton, how we love thee...
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 | Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Book& CD) by Bill Martin Jr.
Buy new: $7.91 / Used from: $5.88 You can sing it, you can say it and we love it every which way.
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 | The Great Gracie Chase: Stop That Dog! by Cynthia Rylant
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $1.18 We found this at the library way back in the day and it's such a hit around here Grace wound up with a nickname based on the work.
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 | The Stars Will Still Shine by Cynthia Rylant
Buy new: $14.03 / Used from: $7.44 We started reading this before our move from NJ to VA and it's so generously comforting we've loved it ever since but esp. in times of transition.
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 | Snip Snap!: What's That? by Mara Bergman
Buy new: $13.25 / Used from: $4.79 I love the suspense in this story and then how the children snap out of their fear and take control of the situation.
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 | Starting School (Picture Puffin) by Allan Ahlberg
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 An awesome way to prepare children for... well, for starting school.
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 | The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.99 Another fantastic book about handling a scary situation.
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 | In the Night Kitchen (Caldecott Collection) by Maurice Sendak
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $10.35 A hilarious story, an impish boy, and the first children's book where I've heard of people using white out to cover genitals. That last part is ridiculous, of course -- it's just an adorable book.
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 | A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $4.00 Simple and sweet story of love and belonging.
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 | Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star by Sylvia Long
Buy used from: $0.01 Many verses, incredible illustrations.
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 | The Day We Met You (Aladdin Picture Books) by Phoebe Koehler
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $2.57 A gorgeous way of showing a family joyfully preparing for adoption.
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 | On the Day You Were Born: Book and Musical CD by Debra Frasier
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $10.87 Showing how a world welcomes a child.
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 | Little Bunny on the Move by Peter Mccarty
Again, the illustrations and a simple sweet story make this one of the best books.
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 | Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?: 40th Anniversary Edition (Brown Bear and Friends) by Bill Martin Jr.
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $14.85 I've never seen a child who did not adore this book.
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 | We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.39 Such a fun story.
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 | Who's Hiding? by Satoru Onishi
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.63 A great way to teach children how to pay attention to what's on the page. Or how to memorize :)
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 | Mommy Loves Her Baby/Daddy Loves His Baby by Tara Jaye Morrow
Buy used from: $0.62 Read it one way and it's all about moms, flip it and it's about dads and their babies. You'll probably wind up flipping it back and forth a lot.
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