 | If You Give a Pig a Pancake Big Book (If You Give...) by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Buy used from: $8.95 All of the If You Give... books are great. My daughter particularly liked this one because there was a girl in it, as well as maple syrup.
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 | The Gruffalo (Picture Books) by Julia Donaldson
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $8.99 All of Donaldson's books are fabulous. These three were my daughter's favs.
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 | The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson
Buy new: $9.91 / Used from: $2.89 |
 | Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.96 |
 | Richard Scarry's Best Storybook Ever! (Giant Little Golden Book) by Richard Scarry
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.45 Anything by Richard Scarry has been well received in our house. This book is nice to take on vacation because a lot of stories are jammed into it.
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 | Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $8.86 My kids have liked both this book & The Snowy Day.
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 | Berry Magic by Teri Sloat
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $2.28 My daughter loves berries, so this appealed to her.
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 | Percy the Park Keeper: A Classic Treasury by Nick Butterworth
Buy used from: $62.77 Percy is wonderfully cute!
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 | Mog Collection by Judith Kerr
Buy new: $25.55 / Used from: $20.96 The Mog books are probably in my top ten for kids to read.
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 | Elizabeti's Doll (Elizabeti Series) by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $1.11 My daughter likes all of the Elizabeti stories, but this one in particular fascinated her.
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 | The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
Buy used from: $19.62 Very cute. I'm a fan of Judith Kerr's.
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 | Pegasus by Marianna Mayer
Buy new: $14.03 / Used from: $4.72 Beautiful illustrations. Anything by Marianna Mayer is great, but this one really captivated my daughter.
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 | The Elves and the Shoemaker by Jacob Grimm
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $3.59 Cool illustrations
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 | Flowers Festival by Elsa Maartman Beskow
Buy new: $16.00 / Used from: $9.13 We have the majority of Elsa Beskow's books. My daughter loves them.
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 | Woody, Hazel and Little Pip by Elsa Maartman Beskow
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $11.02 |
 | The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $9.82 My daughter is very into being a girl & all things that talk about/imply that girls are awesome.
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 | The Runaway Rice Cake by Ying Chang Compestine
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $6.01 A version of the Gingerbread Man. Both of my kids like this, and incidentally, we have used the Nian Gao recipe in the back & it worked well.
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 | Child of Faerie, Child of Earth by Jane Yolen
Buy used from: $20.00 A very cute story, well received in our house.
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 | Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A classic for good reason.
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 | How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (Dragonfly Books) by Marjorie Priceman
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.72 Cute story. Made my daughter want to bake a pie.
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 | The Well at the End of the World by Robet D. San Souci
Buy used from: $2.99 Funky illustrations
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 | Tuttle Chinese for Kids Flash Cards Kit Vol 1 Simplified Character (Tuttle Flash Cards) (Chinese Edition) (v. 1)
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.89 We lived in China for 2 1/2 years, and my daughter was fluent in Mandarin when we came back to the States. I have tried to keep it up in her head by giving her some CDs to listen to, as well as doing these flash cards. She likes studying Chinese, and particularly likes these cards. She does them on her own, and with me.
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 | All I See Is Part of Me by Chara M. Curtis
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.83 It's hard to find spiritual books that I approve of giving to my kids at their current ages. This one fit the bill.
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 | The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Buy used from: $10.86 I adore this book, and both of my kids did too.
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 | Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $6.25 It's got pink & cupcakes, can't go wrong!
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 | Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton
Buy new: $9.59 / Used from: $2.47 A nice compliment to Mike Mulligan. Both of these books were fun to read.
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 | The Unicorn and the Lake
Buy used from: $0.01 Cool story
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 | The Littlest Matryoshka by Corinne Bliss
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $9.10 A really nice story. I gave this to my daughter for Xmas, along with a nesting doll (which she loves & carries around in her purse).
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 | A Pair of Red Clogs by Masako Matsuno
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $11.41 My daughter really likes this story.
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 | Poppleton by Cynthia Rylant
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 My daughter thoroughly enjoyed all of the Poppleton stories. They're cute & funny.
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 | The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $5.86 One of my favs from childhood.
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 | How a Seed Grows (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) by Helene J. Jordan
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.44 All of these "Let's Read & Find Out Science" books are wonderful. Both of my kids are into natural science & have lots of questions about how things grow, develop, and work. It's nice being able to supply them with some answers via these books.
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 | From Caterpillar to Butterfly (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1) by Deborah Heiligman
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | A Nest Full of Eggs (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1) by Priscilla Belz Jenkins
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Kingfisher First Animal Encyclopedia (Kingfisher First Reference) by John Farndon
Buy used from: $0.50 My daughter loves animals, and this has been a nice source of information for her.
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 | Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.50 A great story
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 | Pippi Longstocking (Puffin Modern Classics) by Astrid Lindgren
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $2.00 We're big fans of Pippi at my house. My kids both love reading the stories, and watching the Pippi movies (well worth the hefty price).
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 | The World of Pooh: The Complete Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner (Pooh Original Edition) by A. A. Milne
Buy new: $17.15 / Used from: $2.94 I love Pooh, and it's nice for the kids to see these original drawings, rather than thinking of Pooh all Disney-fied.
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 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Movie Tie-in Edition (rack) (Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 I am a huge of fan the Narnian series. Thus far, I've read the first three with my kids. This one has been their favorite so far.
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