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Showing posts with label all time best children's books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label all time best children's books. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Children’s Picture Books: All-Time Top 50
First posted 2/17/2019; updated 2/19/2019.
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These are the top 50 children’s pictures books based on an aggregate of titles’ appearances on more than a dozen best-of lists specifically about children’s picture books, 25+ more general children’s book lists, and another 50+ general book lists. Words and pictures are both by the same person unless noted otherwise (w = words, p = pictures).
- Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are (1964)
- Eric Carle The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969)
- Margaret Wise Brown (w)/ Clement Hurd (p) Goodnight Moon (1947)
- Dr. Seuss The Cat in the Hat (1957)
- Dr. Seuss Green Eggs and Ham (1960)
- Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree (1964)
- Beatrix Potter The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901)
- Ezra Jack Keats The Snowy Day (1962)
- Shel Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974)
- Judith Viorst (w)/Ray Cruz (p) Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (1972)
- H.A. & Margaret Rey Curious George (1941)
- P.D. Eastman Go, Dog, Go! (1961)
- Robert McCloskey Make Way for Ducklings (1941)
- Crockett Johnson Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955)
- Don Freeman Corduroy (1976)
- Laura Numeroff (w)/Felicia Bond (p) If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (1985)
- Dr. Seuss The Lorax (1971)
- Ludwig Bemelmans Madeline (1939)
- Robert Munsch (w)/Sheila McGraw (p) Love You Forever (1986)
- Jon Scieszka (w)/Lane Smith (p) The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (1989)
- Esphyr Slobdkina Caps for Sales (1947)
- Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault (w)/Lois Ehlert (p) Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (1989)
- Russell Hoban (w)/Lillian Hoban (p) Bread and Jam for Frances (1964)
- Harry Allard (w)/James Marshall (p) Miss Nelson Is Missing! (1977)
- Ian Falconer Olivia (2000)
- Munro Leaf (w)/Robert Lawson (p) The Story of Ferdinand 1936)
- Sam McBratney (w)/Anita Jeram (p) Guess How Much I Love You (1994)
- Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1964)
- Chris Van Allsburg The Polar Express (1985)
- Bill Martin Jr. (w)/Eric Carle (p) Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (1967)
- William Steig Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969)
- Watty Piper (w)/George & Doris Hauman (p) The Little Engine That Could (1930)
- Dr. Seuss Oh, the Places You’ll Go! (1990)
- Jean de Brunhoff The Story of Babar (1933)
- Judi Barrett (w)/Ron Barrett (p) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (1978)
- Virginia Lee Burton The Little House (1942)
- David Shannon No, David! (1998)
- Arnold Lobel Frog and Toad Are Friends (1970)
- Philip C. Stead A Sick Day for Amos McGee (2010)
- Chris Van Allsburg Jumanji (1981)
- P.D. Eastman Are You My Mother? (1960)
- Dr. Seuss One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (1960)
- Dr. Suess Hop on Pop (1963)
- Virginia Lee Burton Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (1939)
- Jan Brett The Mitten (1989)
- Gene Zion (w)/Margaret Bloy Graham (p) Harry the Dirty Dog (1956)
- Wanda Gag Millions of Cats (1928)
- Dr. Seuss Horton Hears a Who! (1954)
- Margery Wlliams (w)/William Nicholson (p) The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)
- Mo Willems Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (2003)
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows published 100 years ago today
| First posted 7/4/2020; last updated 7/5/2020. |
 
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The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame
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First Publication: April 1, 1908 Category: children’s literature Sales: 25 million |
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About the Book: “One of the most cherished works of children’s literature ever written.” AZ After Kenneth Grahame “retired…as secretary of the Bank of England, he moved back to Berkshire, where he had lived as a child, and spent his time by the River Thames doing much as the animal characters in his book do – …‘simply messing about in boats’ – and expanding the bedtime stories he had earlier told his son Alastair into a manuscript for the book.” WK “The Wind in the Willows chronicles the adventures of four friends” BN “in a pastoral version of Edwardian England.” WK “The story begins at the arrival of spring where we find the good-natured Mole tired of doing his spring cleaning. Mole decides to abandon his cleaning in order to enjoy the fresh air of spring. He journeys to the river where he meets Rat, whom he quickly befriends. Together the two row down the river eventually meeting up with Toad at Toad Hall. There they discover Toad’s current obsession with his horse-drawn caravan, one which he quickly abandons for a motorcar when his caravan is run off the road by one. A fourth friend enters the story in the form of Badger and when it is discovered that Toad’s obsession is becoming self-destructive, Mole, Rat, and Badger intervene to help protect Toad from himself.” AZ The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality and camaraderie.” WK It was adapted by A.A. Milne for the state in 1929 and as a musical almost a century later. The first of several film adaptions came in 1946. WK Resources and Related Links:
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Monday, October 16, 2000
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe published 50 years ago today
| First posted 6/11/2020; updated 7/6/2020. |
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The Lion, the Witch, and the WardrobeC.S. Lewis
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First Publication: October 16, 1950 Category: fantasy children’s novel Sales: 85 million |
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About the Book: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was the first in a series of seven children’s fantasy novels known as The Chronicles of Narnia. WK C.S. Lewis “wrote the book for, and dedicated it to, his goddaughter Lucy Barfield. She was the daughter of Owen Barfield, Lewis’ friend, teacher, adviser, and trustee.” WK “Shortly before the Second World War many children were evacuated from London to the English countryside to escape bomber attacks on London by Nazi Germany.” WK In 1939, three girls came to live at Lewis’ home. He gained a new appreciation for children and he started a story about four siblings who had to leave London because of the air raids and live with a relative of their mother.” WK “The novel uses Christian iconography in Aslan's dramatic sacrifice and resurrection. Edmund's transition from self-interested schoolboy to heroic young man is also resonantly spiritual.” TG Most of the story “is set in Narnia, a land of talking animals and mythical creatures that one White Witch has ruled for 100 years of deep winter.” WK After the youngest of the four children visits Narnia “via the magic of a wardrobe in a spare room” WK she is accompanied by her siblings on “her third visit, which verifies her fantastic claims.” WK “The siblings seem fit to fulfill an old prophecy” WK and “when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change…and a great sacrifice.” AZ Resources and Related Links:
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