 | Little Red Riding Hood by Josephine Evetts-Secker
Buy used from: $0.64 As a practice I don't read books with violence to our little girls, but in this case it's worth it. Well told with excellent illustrations.
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 | And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon by Janet Stevens
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.64 This is another favorite of my 3yo. It's a very amusing Mother Goose adventure where the dish and spoon run away and don't come back, and cat, dog and cow have to go look for them.
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 | All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown by Sydney Taylor
Buy used from: $18.43 This is the 3rd book in a series of chapter books written in the 1940s, and my 6yo just loves them. Though it was cited as a book for 9 to 12 year olds, it's appropriate for both our little ones.
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 | The Dragon and the Unicorn by Lynne Cherry
Buy new: $7.00 / Used from: $0.96 The dragon and the unicorn live wild and free in an old growth forest and then humans come, and things change. A king begins to build a castle and it's his daughter that resolves this tale.
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 | Oma's Quilt by Paulette Bourgeois
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $0.74 Such a sweet story of how a little girl and her mother make a very special quilt for Grandma, after she moves into a retirement home.
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 | Sky Dancer by Jack Bushnell
Buy used from: $0.32 This is a more serious story, of a young girl who befriends a hawk. The hawk watches her throughout her farm chores and she feels like it's come just for her. There is a hawk hunter who comes...
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 | How Much Is a Million? 20th Anniversary Edition (Reading Rainbow Book) by David M. Schwartz
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.82 A gentle, fun math lesson. "If a million kids climbed onto one another's shoulders, they would be.../taller than the tallest buildings, higher than the highest mountains..." Illustrations are great!
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 | The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by Dubose Heyward
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.01 Written in 1939 this book is fascinating to me, especially since it is all about a little girl bunny who wishes to do what the bigger men bunnies do (be an Easter Bunny) and she succeeds!
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 | The Honest-to-Goodness Truth by Patricia C. McKissack
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.94 When Libby lies to her mother, they have a talk about the importance of telling the truth. A little preachy but the kids liked it.
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