Since becoming a stay at home mom one of the main things that the kids and I have been doing a lot of is reading. At the beginning of me becoming a stay at home mom one of our kids would go weekly to have visitation with their mom and we were driving an hour away for a 4 hour visit so it didn’t make sense for us to drive home then drive back so we had to find things to do to kill time. The location of the visit was in a shopping center so naturally we browsed the stores in the shopping center and we came across Books-A-Million (BAM) and I fell in love. Books can get expensive though so we have been going to the public library also to get new books fairly frequently because we go through so many books I definitely couldn’t afford buying all of them. Some days I have to go back to the library the same day because Braydin has already finished his books that he has checked out. He checks out three at a time these days because he reads them so quickly (like within an hour).
We also have a three-year-old who absolutely loves books but isn’t reading yet, but she loves to be read to. So I started thinking about some of my favorite books that I read as a kid and wondered if they were just a big deal to me or if they were popular books in general. I looked at multiple sites and compiled a list of the top 52 books for children to read. This list was compiled by comparing all of the list and then seeing which books were on what list and then seeing how many times each book appeared.
Below each book I will post the Amazon link that way if you want to add it to your book collection you can. The thing I love about this list is that there are 52 books so there is a book for each week of the year!
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- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.
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Reading Age: 1-4 years old - Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
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Reading Age: 1-5 years old - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
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Reading Age: 3-7 years old - Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr
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Reading Age: 1-4 years old - Corduroy by Don Freeman
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Reading Age: 1-4 years old - Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
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Reading Age: Baby-3 years old - The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
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Reading Age: 2-5 years old - The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
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Reading Age: 1-5 years old - The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
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Reading Age: 1-5 years old - Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
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Reading Age: 5-9 years old - Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
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Reading Age: 1-11 years old - A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
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Reading Age: 3-8 years old - A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C Stead
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Reading Age: 2-5 years old - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
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Reading Age: 10-14 years old - Ada Twist, Scientist (series) by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
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Reading Age: 3-7 years old - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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Reading Age: 12+ years old - Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
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Reading Age: 4-7 years old - Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
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Reading Age: 2-4 years old - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl
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Reading Age: 5-9 years old - Charlotte’s Web by EB White
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Reading Age: 5-9 years old - Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
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Reading Age: 3-9 years old - Elephant and Piggie (series) by Mo Willems
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Reading Age: 3-6 years old - Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett
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Reading Age: 3-7 years old - Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
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Reading Age: 3-7 years old - Fry Bread A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal
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Reading Age: 2-6 years old - Go Dog Go by P.D. Eastman
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Reading Age: 1-3 years old - Good Dog, Carl by Alexandra Day
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Reading Age: 1-3 years old - Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
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Reading Age: 2-6 years old - Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crocket Johnson
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Reading Age: 2-5 years old - Holes by Louis Sachar
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Reading Age: 9-12 years old - If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
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Reading Age: 1-5 years old - Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
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Reading Age: 3-7 years old - Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarek
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Reading Age: 2-6 years old - Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
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Reading Age: 2-5 years old - Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
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Reading Age: 2-6 years old - Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
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Reading Age: 3-8 years old - My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
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Reading Age: 4-7 years old - Pete the Cat (Series) by Eric Litwin
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Reading Age: 3-6 years old - Pippi Longstocking (Series) by Astrid Lindgren
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Reading Age: 6-9 years old - Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
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Reading Age: 2-6 years old - The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
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Reading Age: 8+ years - The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
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Reading Age: 2-6 years old - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
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Reading Age: 8-12 years old - The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
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Reading Age: 1-4 years old - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Reading Age: 7+ years old - The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard and Oge Mora
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Reading Age: 5-8 years old - The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
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Reading Age: 4-9 years old - The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
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Reading Age: 2-6 years old - The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
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Reading Age: 5-12 years old - The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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Reading Age: 8-13 years old - We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Helen Oxenbury and Michael Rosen
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Reading Age: 2-4 years old - Wonder by RJ Palacio
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Reading Age: 9-11 years old
Here’s an extra one to read about children with arthritis.
Alex the Kid: Talks About Juvenile Arthritis
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Reading Age: Everyone
There you have it! Is your favorite childhood book on there? Is there one that you think should be added? Let me know in the comments!
-Ifferz
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