If you read this blog regularly you know that our family LOVES the library. I have cards to 2 different libraries and go to each one at least once a week. Well, this week is National Library Week and I want to help honor libraries!
Our local library is currently having some financial restraints so I am going to donate a dollar to our library for each comment I get on this entry. Please show some love to the library by making a comment!
And here are a few lists you can comment on if you want. The people at Fuse #8 recently took a poll and came up with the Top 100 Children’s Novels and Top 100 Picture Books.
I’m happy to note that I’ve already read Blake 2 of the top 10 Children’s novels – Charlotte’s Web and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. He really enjoyed both of them and I’m about to start A Wrinkle in Time with him.
Top 10 Children’s Novels
#1 Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
#2 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
#3 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
#4 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
#5 From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
#6 Holes by Louis Sachar
#7 The Giver by Lois Lowry
#8 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
#9 Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
#10 The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
(curl up with your kids this week and read some books!)
I’ve also read the top 10 picture books to my boys. Their favorites are: Where the Wild Things Are, Goodnight Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Harold and the Purple Crayon, and Knuffle Bunny.
Top 10 Picture Books
#1: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (1963)
#2: Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (1947)
#3: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (1979)
#4: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (1962)
#5: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems (2003)
#6: Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (1941)
#7: Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson (1955)
#8: Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans (1939)
#9: Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag (1928)
#10: Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems (2004)
What are some of your favorite children’s novels or picture books?