All good suggestions here! I grew up with Maurice Sendak and we read all his books to our daughter. They are timeless. The "Nutshell Library" is perfect for small hands and young minds. Same with Dr. Seuss. if you can still find an unaltered edition of "And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street", extra credit. The story was changed to make it more politically correct a few years back. I think that they changed "and a Chinaman who eats with sticks" to "And an ethnic Han person, born in China, who is a faithful Party member and runs his People's Fentanyl Factory #7 with dissident Uyghur slave labor". My copy came to my parents via their boss at work, who bought it for his kids not long after it was published. It's a first edition, but has had decades of childhood wonderment rubbed into it. Our daughter loved the Junie B. Jones series, and we still quote them often. "Madeline" is another wonderful children's book, one that stood up to hundreds of readings. "The Cunning Little Vixen" was also a favorite, and my wife and I read it to each other, years later.
Once they start reading on their own, there' a whole new world waiting for them.
Once they start reading on their own, there' a whole new world waiting for them.
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