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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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.
1960s Children’s Picture Books
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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Classic Easy Reader Books for Kids
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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Chapter Books That Stayed With Me
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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Children’s Picture Books: Quiet Classics
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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