Favorite Children's Books

Favorite Picture Books

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester
Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London
The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Lowrey
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood

J Non-Fiction

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
The Mitten by Jan Brett
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka

Favorite Chapter Books

J Fiction

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Fudge-A-Mania by Judy Blume
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
A Murder for Her Majesty by Beth Hilgartner
Bunnicula by Deborah Howe
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

JH Fiction

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

J Non-Fiction

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Honorable Mentions:

Although not included in our Top 15 lists, these authors and series were among those listed as staff favorites.

Favorite Authors

JE Picture Books

J & JH Fiction

J Non-Fiction

Hans Christian Andersen
The Brothers Grimm
Rudyard Kipling
Shel Silverstein
Vladimir Vagin

Favorite Series

Black Stallion by Walter Farley
Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede
Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
Paddington Bear by Michael Bond
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne