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40 Favorite Children's Books

In honor of RIF's 40th anniversary, we asked you what book you loved most as a child. Was is a fantasy, a fairy tale, or a soothing bedtime story? The results are in and we have compiled a list of the 40 Favorite Children's Books, as decided by you! 

1. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

2. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

3. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

4. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

5. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr. 

6. Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

7. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown 

8. Chica Chica Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault

9. Curious George by H.A. Rey

10The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein 

11. The Three Little Pigs 

12. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats 

13. The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton 

14. Corduroy by Don Freeman

15. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 

16. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle 

17. Cinderella

18. Pokey Little Puppy by Golden Books Staff 

19. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 

20. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 

21. Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book by Dr. Seuss 

22. Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams 

23. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling 

24. Heidi by Johanna Spyri 

25. Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss

26. Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

27. I Love You Always and Forever by Jonathon Emmett 

28. Little Red Riding Hood

29. No. David! by David Shannon

30. The Box Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner 

31. Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch

32. Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey 

33. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

34. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff

35. Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey 

36. Are You My Mother by P. D. Eastman 

37. Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney 

38. The Wind in The Willows by Kenneth Grahame 

39. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

40. Olivia by Ian Falconer

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