literature for the little ones

Today in my developmental psych class on fantasy and reality, we talked about children's books, and whether kids believe everything that's read to them, OR that everything read to them is fictional, so that even morals are lost on them. Either way, it got me thinking about the books I read as a child, and some of the books I want to make sure I read to my children. I had a lot of books going through my head, so I figured, as usual, It's time for a...

List of Books, Series and Authors I Plan to Read To/With My Children:

• Goodnight Moon. Margaret Wise Brown's golden classic. 'Nuff said
• Actually, anything by Margaret Wise Brown
• Tomie DePaola
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
• Ladybug Girl
• Leo Leonni
• Eric Carl
• The Snowy Day--Ezra Jack Keats
• The Snowman--Raymond Briggs
• Knuffle Bunny
• Pat The Bunny
• Curious George
• Beatrix Potter
• The Little Engine That Could
• Little Golden Books
• The Carl books by Alexandra Day
• Jan Brett. The woman is a goddess
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day
• Eloise!
• Amelia Bedelia
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
• The Missing Piece--Shel Silverstein. Not usually a fan of his style, but this one I love
• Chris Van Allsburg (Polar Express, Just a Dream, etc)
• ZOOM by Istvan Banyai
• The Little House--Virginia Lee Burton
• Where The Wild Things Are
• Maurice Sendak in general
• Harold and the Purple Crayon
• George Shrinks--William Joyce
• Mooncake!
• Arthur!
• Angelina Ballerina
• Chrysanthemum
• The Story About Ping
• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
• Blueberries for Sal
• Mouse Paint--Ellen Stoll Walsh
• Lon Po Po
• Baba Yaga and Vasilisa The Brave
• No, David!
• Olivia
• Max & Ruby
• Little Critter
• Gyo Fujikawa (Are You My Friend Today?, etc)
• The Rainbow Fish
• Math Curse
• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs--John Scieszka
• Franklin the Turtle
• Corduroy
• Two Bad Ants
• Dr. Seuss. I never really liked The Cat in the Hat, but I loved Hop on Pop and that one that ends with a paddle battle in a bottle...whichever that is. oh and One Fish Two Fish, Horton, The one about the truffula trees, etc
• Richard Scarry's Busytown!
• Where's Spot?
• Clifford the big red dog!
• Love You Forever (although I always cry when I read this book. Always.)
• The Giving Tree (likewise)
• Allan and Janet Ahlberg
• Jill Murphy (All In One Piece, etc)
• A. A. Milne
• Babar
• Madeline
• Sandra Boynton
• Anansi
• Possibly Aesop's Fables? Not a huge fan of the preachy morality, but cultural classics
• Same goes for Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes and the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales. Questionable in content but undeniably classic.
• The Boxcar Children
• The Berenstein Bears
• The Magic Schoolbus
• The Chronicles of Narnia
• The Golden Compass? maybe I'll just encourage that for when they're middle school aged
• Harry Potter
• The Hobbit
• Llama, Llama

Have I forgotten any?