OLD FAVORITES

Here is a short list of the picture books that I remember from my childhood:

Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House and Mike Mulligan and His Steamshovel
Roger Bradfield, Giants Come in Different Sizes (out-of-print)
Don Freeman, Dandelion
Mary Ann Hoberman and Norman Hoberman, What Jim Knew (out-of-print), and others
Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day
Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak, A Hole is To Dig; also by Maurice Sendak, The Nutshell Library
Golden MacDonald and Leonard Weisgard, The Little Island
H. A. Rey and Margret Ray, Curious George
Hildegarde Swift and Lynd Ward, The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge
Eve Titus, Anatole and Anatole and the Cat
Gene Zion and Margaret Bloy Graham, Harry the Dirty Dog, and others

And a few of the picture books that I enjoyed with my children or since – many of these are classics that you may know about already, but I think just have to be listed anyway; perhaps some are less obvious than others. Of course, I’m sure that I am forgetting some (and some more!), so check back for additions:

Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall, Everybody Needs a Rock
Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline, and others
Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon, and others
Remy Charlip, Arm in Arm, Fortunately
Marie Hall Ets, Play With Me
Louis Fatio and Roger Duvoisin, The Happy Lion
Wanda Gag, Millions of Cats
Russell Hoban and Lillian Hoban, Bread and Jam for Frances, and others
Mary Ann Hoberman, A House is a House for Me, The Seven Silly Eaters, The Cozy Book, and others
Florence Parry Heide and Edward Gorey, The Shrinking of Treehorn, and others
Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon, and others
Randell Jarrell and Maurice Sendak, The Bat-Poet
Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak, A Very Special House, I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue, and more, more, more
Munroe Leaf and Robert Lawson, The Story of Ferdinand
Leo Lionni, Swimmy, Frederick, and others
Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad Are Friends, Mouse Soup, and others
James Marshall, George and Martha, etc.
Robert McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, and others
Elsa Holmelund Minarek and Maurice Sendak, Little Bear, and others
Doris Orgel and Maurice Sendak, Sarah’s Room
Chris Raschka, Thingy Things: Doggy Dog, and others
Carl Sandburg and Harriet Pincus, The Wedding Procession of the Ragdoll and the Broom Handle and Who Was In It
Lore Segal and Harriet Pincus, Tell Me A Mitzi
Maurice Sendak, Nutshell Library, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and others
Dr. Seuss, of course
Peter Sis, Madlenka, and others
Esphyr Slobodkina, Caps for Sale
Uri Shulevitz, Snow, and others
William Steig, Doctor De Soto, and others – anything by William Steig (and Jeanne Steig)
James Thurber and Louis Slobodkin, Many Moons
Richard Wilbur and Henrik Drescher, Runaway Opposites (poetry)
Marjorie Winslow and Erik Blegvad, Mud Pies and Other Recipes: A Cookbook for Dolls
Taro Yashima, Umbrella

And some favorite read-alouds:

L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and others
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake, The BFG, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and others
Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy
Rumer Godden and Tasha Tudor, The Doll's House
Russell Hoban and David Small, The Mouse and His Child
Laura Ingalls Wilder and Garth Wiliams, Little House in the Big Woods, and others
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
E. L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
A. A. Milne and Ernest Shepard, Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner
Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories
E. B. White and Garth Williams, Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little