100 Greatest Books For Kids

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Are you having a hard time trying to find and pick out good books for your library?  Parent and Child Magazine compiled a list of 100 greatest  books for kids and here they are.  I have broken down by age:

Ages 0-3

• Goodnight Moon by E.B. White
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
• Courduroy by Don Freeman
• Black on White by Tana Hoban
• The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
• Freight Train by Donald Crews
• Moo, Baa, La, La, La! by Sandra Boynton
• Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
• What Do You See? by Bill Martin
• Sylvia Long's Mother Goose by Silvia Long
• Smile! by Roberta Grobel Intrater
• Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes by Annie Kubler
• My Truck Is Stuck by Kevin Lewis
• Counting Kisses: A Kiss and Read Book by Karen Katz
• Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
• Peek-A-Who? Nina Laden
• Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
• No No Yes Yes by Leslie Patricelli
• Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard
• What Shall We Do With the Boo Boo Baby? by Cressida Cowell
• Gossie by Olivier Dunrea
• First Words by Roger Priddy

Ages 4-7

• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack
• Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
• The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
• Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
• The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
• Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
• The Mitten by Jan Brett
• Swimmy by Leo Lionni
• The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don & Audrey Wood
• What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry
• Not a Box by Antoinette Portis
• Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport
• The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
• Dear Juno by Soyung Pak
• The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
• Birds by Kevin Henkes
• Blackout by John Rocco
• Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
• What Do You Do With A Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
• Yoko by Rosemary Wells
• Interupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
• An Egg Is Quiet by Dianna Hutts Aston
• I Took The Moon For A Walk by Carolyn Curtis
• Animalia by Graeme Base

Ages 8-10

• Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
• Frog and Toad are Friends Arnold Lobel
• The Wind in the Willow by Kenneth Grahame
• When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shell Silverstein
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
• My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother by Patricia Polacco
• The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett
• Zen Shorts by John J. Muth
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• The Composition by Antonio Skarmeta
• Sarak, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
• Living Sunlight by Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm
• Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull
• Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
• The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan
• The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks by Joanna Cole
• Tea With Milk by Allen Say
• Hill Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold
• Ivy + Bean by Annie Barrows
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
• Puss in Boots by Charles Perault
• We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States by David Catrow
• The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey

Ages 11+

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• Harry Potter and the Scorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Are You There God?  It's Margaret by Judy Blume
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
• The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• The Lightning Theif by Rick Riordan
• Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
• The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznik
• Esperenza Rising by Pam Munoz
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katerine Paterson
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
• Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russel Freedman
• Rules by Cynthia Lord
• Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh
• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
• Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman