The Giant Kids Books List

This is my current list of books that I enjoyed in my childhood and books that I have since read/bought for the kids in my life and would recommend to anyone looking to build up a children's library. Without further ado:

• Smoky The Cow Horse by Will James

• The Hank The Cowdog series by John R. Erickson

• Love You Forever by Robert Munsch and Sheila McGraw

• The Sandra Boynton board books

• Listen To My Dream by Debi Pearl

• Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

• The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

• Are You My Mother? by P. D. Eastman

• "Let's Make Jesus Happy" by Mack Thomas (illustrations by Bruce Day)

• The Amelia Bedelia books by Peggy Parish and Fritz Seibel

• The Paddington books by Michael Bond

• The House With Two Grandmothers by Rebecca Martin

• Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne

• The Frog and Toad books by Arnold Lobel

• Treasures of The Snow by Patricia St. John

• Stuart Little by E. B. White

• Captive Treasure by Milly Howard

• The Twenty One Balloons by William Penne Du Bois

• The Tin Tin books by Herge, translated

• The Girl Who Listened To Sinks by Justine Rendall

• Stop That Ball! by Mike McClintock

• The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss

• The Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems

• The kids books by Dr. Suess

• The Morris The Moose books by B. Wiseman

• If You Give A Pig A Pancake by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond

• The Bunny Book, a little golden book

• The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major

• Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

• The Great Molasses Flood by Beth Wagner Brust

• Katy and The Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton

• Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Suess

• Katie and The Lemon Tree by Esther Bender

• Wagon Wheels by Barbara Brenner and Don Bolognese

• The Princess Academy trilogy by Shannon Hale

• When The Soldiers Were Gone by Vera W. Propp

• The Little Horse series by Betsy Byars (good for early readers who are getting bored)

• Listen For The Whippoorwill by Dave and Neta Jackson

• Tikki Tikki Tembo retold by Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent

• Sarah Plain and Tall, Skylark, and Caleb's Story by Patricia MacLachlan

• Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

• The Tanglewoods Secret by Patricia St. John

• The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

• The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz

• Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

• The Mildred Keith Books, a Life of Faith series, based on the books by Martha Finley

• The Golly Sisters books by Betsy Byars and Sue Truesdell

• Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards

• The Boyhood of Grace Jones by Jane Langton

• The Song of The Winns trilogy by Frances Watts

• The Grandma's Attic series by Arleta Richardson

• The Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner

• Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame

• The Sign of The Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

• The Great Redwall Feast by Brian Jacques, illustrated by Christopher Denise

• The Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery

• Blueberries For Sal by Robert McCloskey

• My Side of The Mountain by Jean Craighead George

• You Are Special by Max Lucado

• The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

• Take Me To The River by Will Hobbs

• Star of Light by Patricia St. John

• The Rose Years book series by Roger Lea McBride

• The Mouse And The Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

• Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile and series by Bernard Waber

• The Poppleton books by Cynthia Rylant and Mark Teague

• The Sugarcreek Gang series by Paul Hutchens

• The Hank Zipzer series by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver

• The Caddie Woodlawn books by Carol Ryrie Brink

• Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes

• The Iris and Walter series by Elissa Haden Guest and Christine Davenier

• Caps For Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

• Look Through My Window by Jean Little

• The Moffat books by Eleanor Estes

• The Mandie Books by Lois Gladys Leppard

• Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

• Where The River Begins by Patricia St. John

• The True Princess by Angela Elwell Hunt, illustrated by Diana Magnusen

• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

• Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink

• The How To Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell

• Rainbow Garden by Patricia St. John

• The Original Complete Sherlock Holmes Series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

• The Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• The Secret at Pheasant Cottage by Patricia St. John