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Classic Books for Kids

Here you will find all of my favorite old-fashioned and new classic books for kids. Included is my series of book lists featuring 10 titles from each decade in the 20th century. Happy Reading.

1970s Children’s Books {Picture Books}

October 6, 2014

10 classic children's books from the 1970s

This list of 1970s children’s books is meant as the picture book companion to my post about great 1970s chapter book classics that I compiled a few years ago as part of my series, Children’s Classics by the Decade in which I shared favorites from the 20th century. I think it is safe to say all…
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by: Erica posted in: Books 9 Comments

Ten 1950s Children’s Picture Books

April 28, 2014

Ten classic 1950s children's books modern kids will love. Click through for the entire list.

I love to read classic children’s books to my kids. These 1950s children’s books were popular read alouds with both my boys. You may remember my list of 1950s chapter books from my 20th century classics by the decade series. I’m working through picture books now, but as I explained in my list of 1960s picture books,…
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by: Erica posted in: Books 8 Comments

1960s Children’s Picture Books

February 10, 2014

Childrens picture books from the 1960s

Previously I compiled a list of 1960s children’s books as part of my series of classics for each decade of the 20th century. It’s fun to share vintage books and since that series featured chapter books I want to extend it to include some of my favorite 1960s children’s picture books. I’m not so ambitious…
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by: Erica posted in: Books 18 Comments

Classic Easy Reader Books for Kids

September 30, 2013

Easy Readers for kids that parents will like too.

After the positive response to easy reader books that won’t make parents groan, it seemed prudent to offer you an additional book list for your beginning readers. Parents may even remember reading some of these classic books when they were children. I’ve noticed that classic easy readers tend to be longer than some of the…
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by: Erica posted in: Books 25 Comments

Chapter Books That Stayed With Me

May 9, 2012

List of chapter books for kids that I can't forget, even 30 years later.

If someone were to ask me which chapter books I read as a child I could probably sit down make you a list of more than a hundred books, but if you were to ask me which ones were memorable, which ones sit in my memory still, the list would be much shorter. With one…
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by: Erica posted in: Books 21 Comments

Children’s Picture Books: Quiet Classics

May 7, 2012

Classic Childrens' Picture Books

We are all familiar with the powerhouse picture books like Goodnight Moon and Where the Wild Things Are, but there are many other classic picture books which all too frequently get left off “top ten” lists. These are books that I like to call “quiet classics,” picture books which manage to stay in print over…
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by: Erica posted in: Books 23 Comments

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