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The MKL Editor's favorite books.:
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Make Way for Ducklings, The Little House, Goodnight Moon, Where the Wild Things Are, The Lorax, The Polar Express, The Giving Tree, The Snowy Day, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, Corduroy, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?, The Very Busy Spider, The Little Engine That Could
Non-chapter books, though they might have all the power and emotion of their lengthier brethren. :
The Wreck of the Zephyr
Reading List for pre-K through primary school.:
Make Way for Ducklings, Snow Friends, Whale of a Tale, Joseph Had A Little Overcoat, My Many Colored Days
The books that Max loves.:
One Morning in Maine, Where the Wild Things Are, Make Way for Ducklings, Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Moon, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, The Story of Ferdinand, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life, Smash! Crash! (Jon Scieszka's Trucktown)
We are starting to build a library for our one-month old. This list consists of the first books we want her to have.:
The Little House, Make Way for Ducklings, The Snowy Day, Time for Bed
AKA Low Attention Span books:
Dinosaur's Binkit
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
There's something about trains that is inherently appealing to little kids. Even in our age of air travel, space travel and the utter ubiquity and supreme convenience of cars, the romance of trains and train travel that still grips us.:
The Little Engine That Could, The Polar Express, Steam, Smoke and Steel: Back in Time With Trains, Trains: Steaming! Pulling! Huffing!, The Little Red Caboose
Books for your little car enthusiast.:
Everything I Know About Cars: A Collection of Made-Up Facts, Educated Guesses, and Silly Pictures ab, Smash! Crash! (Jon Scieszka's Trucktown), My Truck is Stuck!
I'm guessing that there are parents and non-parents (like me who is simply the weird auntie) who try to match books to ages...sometimes successfully, sometimes not. I have many friends with children of various ages, so maybe I'll keep a list here for my own sanity to help me in figuring out presents, etc.: