 | Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book! by Dr. Seuss
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.01 Our favorite ABC book, and we have many. Very entertaining, unlike most.
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 | There's a Wocket in My Pocket! (Dr. Seuss's Book of Ridiculous Rhymes) by Dr.; Geisel, Theodor Seuss Seuss
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.01 My boy loves the rhymes. He looks for the nink in the sink.
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 | Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! (Beginner Books(R)) by Dr. Seuss
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 This one seems to have caught my son's imagination.
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 | The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites by Dr. Seuss
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.01 One of my son's all-time favorites.
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 | Fox in Socks (Beginner Books) by Dr. Seuss
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 Nonsensical but great fun, and good for teaching rhymes and language generally.
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 | Cat in the Hat, the (Dr.Seuss Classic Collection) (Spanish Edition) by Dr Seuss
Buy used from: $0.02 A classic with good reason. Great fun.
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 | Go, Dog. Go! (Beginner Books) by P.D. Eastman
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 One of my boy's absolute favorites. Simple, yet blissfully free of the artificialities and inanities of so many "beginning reader" books.
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 | Hop on Pop (Beginner Books(R)) by Dr. Seuss
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 Another of the simplest Seuss...careful, your tot may take the title's advice to heart.
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 | Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 We may have read this one more than any other book, period. A perennial favorite. Very simple, but with a clear and understandable plot and very kid-satisfying ending.
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 | Green Eggs and Ham (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books) by Dr. Seuss
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 Another true Seuss classic that we have read many times, although not so much anymore, now that he's getting a little older.
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 | The Complete Adventures of Curious George by H. A. Rey
Buy new: $18.90 / Used from: $9.19 Every single one of the Curious George stories, without exception, is wonderful. My boy loves them all, and we have read all of them dozens of times. The ABC book and the hospital story are a little different from the others, but they are good as well.
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 | Mad About Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $5.77 The best of the Madeline books are the original and Madeline's Rescue, but the others are good as well. We've read them all many times as well. They're drawn perhaps a little strangely, but I think that is part of their appeal to kids.
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 | The Poky Little Puppy (A Little Golden Book) by Janette Sebring Lowrey
Buy used from: $0.99 My boy's favorite Little Golden Book. Annoyingly repetitious but somehow also charming.
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 | Scuffy the Tugboat and His Adventures Down the River by Gertrude Crampton
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 Another great Little Golden Book. Excellent story. Not so sure about the moral of it though.
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 | Thomas the Tank Engine: The Complete Collection by Wilbert Awdry
Buy used from: $7.75 A big fat Thomas collection. After my boy started watching the videos, he would request as many of these as I had patience to read. Like, six in a row. We've read over a hundred pages of this in a few weeks.
Also, accept no imitations. Go for the original stories! I just wish the illustrations were larger.
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 | Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $5.99 Bizarre but very interesting to our boy (and evidently lots of other kids). We like lots of Margaret Wise Brown's books.
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 | My World by Margaret Wise Brown
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.13 Companion book to Goodnight Moon. Maybe not quite as good, but equally trippy. These books are actually very subtle and thoughtful in their own way.
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 | The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 A great little story about how a bunny wants to run away from his mommy by becoming a bird, ship, or whatever, but his mommy always says she'll come after him. My boy loves this one.
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 | The Color Kittens (A Little Golden Book) by Margaret Wise Brown
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 An excellent (and also trippy) Little Golden Book by Margaret Wise Brown. The two color kittens, Brush and Hush, make all the colors of the world. Excellent intro to color.
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 | Chugga Chugga Choo Choo by Kevin Lewis
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $2.60 Our boy was crazy about this for a long time. He's outgrowing it now, but definitely highly recommended for 1-2 year olds.
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 | Duck in the Truck by Jez Alborough
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $4.26 Another obsession of our boy's--very funny and entertaining. Wonderful rhymes, wonderful illustrations. The duck is a bad un, but you can explain that to the kid...
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 | The Potty Book - For Boys by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.01 This was great for potty training. Our boy really got into it and seemed to have taken the message to heart. It really seemed to help!
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