Friday, September 13, 2024

Best list of children's picture books, The ones I would re-buy if there was a fire

Best children's picture books.
The ones I would rebuy if there was a fire. The ones I would keep to read to my grandchildren

CONTINUES TO BE UPDATED



Solo         by Paul Geraghty

The Three Trees     by Angela Elwell Hunt

The Bear that Heard Crying    by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

Journey
Quest
Return    by Aaron Becker

The Christmas Story
The Easter Story        by Brian Wildsmith

Remy and Lulu       by K

Bernice Gets Carried Away
Extraordinary Jane                 by Hannah E Harrison

I am a Bunny
What do people do all day
Funniest Stories Ever
Cars and Trucks and Things that Go
The Bunny Book/When Bunny Grows Up
Richard Scarry's Nursery Rhymes
Richard Scarry's Best Storybook Ever [compilation]
Best Mistake Ever and other stories                                By Richard Scarry
Anything ACTUALLY by Richard Scarry and not his ghostwriters/ghostartists
I especially love his early works, in the realistic style [I am a Bunny]

Jesus-pictures---Illust. by Chris Molan [Chosen more for their pictures than their text]
Jesus and John the Baptist 
Jesus Begins His Work
Miracles by the Sea
The First Easter
DK  The Life of Jesus


Tattered Sails [rhyming verse] by

Saint Valentine by Robert Sabuda

It's not easy being a Bunny      by   Marilyn Sadler
Very Bad Bunny*                      by   Marilyn Sadler

Street Through Time   [DK]

The Thief who stole Heaven
The Spider who stole Christmas
The Magnificent Mischief of Tad Lincoln                    by  Raymond Arroyo

Our Lady of Guadalupe                           by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand and Tonya Engel



Bread and Jam for Frances
Best Friends for Frances
Bedtime for Frances
A New Sister for Frances 
A Bargain for Frances                                 by ??????


OLDER KIDS---HISTORY, PART PICTURE

Peter Connolly's 
The Roman Army, 
The Greek Armies, 
Hannibal and the enemies of Rome, 
History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus [Holy Land]
Greece and Rome at War
The Ancient City

Would you survive series

The Usborne Book of World History