 | Cowboy Slim by Julie Danneberg
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $0.67 An homage to the American art of cowboy poetry. And Slim is so cute. The illustrations are full of treats for the observant
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 | A Is For Asia by Cynthia Chin Lee
Buy used from: $0.93 Cynthia Chin-Lee has a refreshingly clear voice in her writing and Yumi Heo is one of my favorite illustrators--such easy beauty.
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 | If I Ran the Circus (Classic Seuss) by Dr. Seuss
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.28 Dr. Seuss, the epitome of perfection in children's books, but why this one? I ask myself everytime I pick up the copy I've had for about 35 years. I love it. Hilarious. Mr. Sneelock, where are you?
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 | Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World by Cynthia Chin-Lee
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $4.95 I really do like Cynthia Chin-Lee's work. She has chosen 26 very interesting women to highlight here. Alphabetical by first name. Amazing illustrations made of just about everything.
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 | When the New Baby Comes, I'm Moving Out by Martha G. Alexander
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 This is the funniest, most true-to-life new sibling book I've ever seen. No namby pamby learn a lesson about love and charity. Honest and funny.
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 | Too Young for Yiddish by Richard Michelson
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $0.29 Beautifully told story of an aging grandfather and the loss of history. Coffee table worthy.
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 | Nutshell Library (Caldecott Collection) by Maurice Sendak
Buy new: $12.20 / Used from: $9.72 Couldn't get enough of this adorable child's hand-sized collection when I was a kid. Favorite: Chicken Soup with Rice.
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 | Walter the Farting Dog by William Kotzwinkle
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $0.02 Because I giggle and giggle and giggle
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 | Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.88 Permission to have a bad day and cute, cute, cute.
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 | Harold and the Purple Crayon 50th Anniversary Edition (Purple Crayon Books) by Crockett Johnson
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.83 Crockett Johnson is a genius with a line. How could something so simple be so amazing?
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 | The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $8.05 Grace Lin is a pitch perfect children's book author and illustrator. This is her first book and it's A-level.
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 | Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 This is YA, but I love a book that makes me cry from beginning to end
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 | Gossie by Olivier Dunrea
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 I want to squeeze Gossie and Gertie, they're so cute. And when they share the red boots... sublime.
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 | John Coltrane's Giant Steps (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover)) by Chris Raschka
Buy new: $14.03 / Used from: $0.89 Because Chris Raschka is an outstanding Chagallian artist and everyone should be happy to read his books.
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 | The Harmonica by Tony Johnston
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $1.61 Again, books that make me cry.
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 | Excuse Me... Are You a Witch? by Emily Horn
Buy used from: $7.84 This converted a cat-hater. Herbert is adorable.
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 | Scatterbrain Sam by Ellen Jackson
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $0.01 Is it wrong to have a crush on an illustrated character? Also one that isn't the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree? Ah, well.
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 | The Annotated Brothers Grimm (The Annotated Books) by Jacob Grimm
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $20.00 The Brothers Grimm... it's a given, but this one has such gorgeous illustrations. Look at it all day long.
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