Kids' Literature

Basically a list of books I like or my kids like (note that all ages ranges are approximate):

Babies/ Toddlers
Baby Einstein books
Baby Faces (or similar)

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
Counting Kisses by Karen Katz
Critter series by Mercer Mayer
Dr Seuss books
God Gave Us You by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed 
Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino
Laura Numeroff books
Llama Llama series by Anna Dewdney
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman
P.D. Eastman books
Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
Patricia A Pingry books
Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Ten Little Ladybugs
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Walter the Farting Dog by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray
Wheels on the Bus 
Where's My Teddy? by Jez Alborough
Where's Spot? by Eric Hill

Ages 3-5
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr & Eric Carle
The Clifford Books by Norman Bridwell
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni
Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
Harold & the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
I'm as Quick as a Cricket by  Don and Audrey Wood
If You Take Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff
The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
Critter series by Mercer Mayer
Llama Llama books by Anna Dewdney
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Why  by Amy Shields
No, David! David Shannon
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
Pirates Don't Take Baths by John Segel
True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
The Very Grumpy Ladybug by Eric Carle
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne

Ages 5-7
Amelia Bedelia series by Peggy Parish
Berenstain Bears series by Jan & Stan Berenstain
Boxcar Children series by  Gertrude Chandler Warner
Charlotte's Web  by E.B. White
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi & Ron Barrett
Dr Seuss books
The Fancy Nancy series by Jane O'Connor
The Flat Stanley series by Jeff Brown
Frog & Toad series by Arnold Lobel
I Spy series by Jean Marzollo
If You Lived... series by Ann McGovern
Henry & Mudge series by Cynthia Rylant
Hooway For Wodney Wat by Helen Lester
The House that Had Enough by P E King
Junie B Jones series by Barbara Park
The Littles by John Peterson
Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne
Mercy Watson series by Kate DiCamillo
Miss Nelson Is Missing by Harry Allard
Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel
Mr Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
Mr Putter & Tabby series by Cynthia Rylant
The Princess & the Kiss by Jennie Bishop
Nate the Great series by Marjorie Sharmat
Scooby Doo comic books
Shel Silverstein books
Skippyjon Jones series by Judy Schachner
Stewart Little by E.B. White
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
The True Princess by Angela Elwell Hunt

Ages 8-10
A to Z Mysteries series by Ron Roy
Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret by Judy Bloom
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green
Baby Sitters Club series by Ann M Martin
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
Beverly Cleary books
The Black Lagoon series by Mike Thaler
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Bridge of Terebithia by Katherine Paterson
Captain Underpants & Super Diaper Baby series by Dav Pikey
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Dear America series (Various Authors)
Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine (I loved these as a kid)
Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull
Hardy Boys series by Franklin W. Dixon
How to Eat Fried Worms by  Thomas Rockwell
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke
James & the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Jungle Book by  Rudyard Kipling
Judy Moody series by Megan McDonald
The Last Dragon Chronicles series by Chris d'Lacey
Mary Poppins by P L Travers
The Magician's Elephant by Kate Dicamillo
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C O'Brien
Peter Pan by Eva Clift
Pippi Longstockings by Astrid Lindgren
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D Wyss
Tale of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo
Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Bloom
The Tiger Rising by Kate Dicamillo
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Wayside School series by Louis Sachar
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L Baum

Ages 10-12
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Animorph series by K A Applegate
Anne of Green Gables series by L M Montgomery
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
Bone series by Jeff Smith
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler by E.L Konigsburg
Harry Potter series by J K Rowling
Hatchet series by Gary Paulsen
The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien 
Holes by Louis Sachar
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
Little Women by Lousia May Alcott
Percy Jackson & the Olympian series by Rick Riordan
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porte
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D Taylor
Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket
Stories of Don Quixote by James Baldwin
White Fang by Jack London
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Zia by Scott O'Dell

Young Adult

Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carlson Levine
Emma by Jane Austen
The Giver series by Lois Lowry
His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
The Hunger Games
series by Susanne Collins
Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini
Lord of the Rings series by J R R Tolkien 
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Outsiders by S E Hinton
Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staples
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Wizard of Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin

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