Children's Books You Loved as a Child
These Are the 32 Books From Your Childhood That Your Kids Should Have

With so many amazing books for children out in the world, nursery and kid-room bookshelves have the tendency to get filled up pretty quickly — but are you stocking them with the stories you once enjoyed? Maybe you were the type to have your parents read Madeline to you until they were blue in the face, or perhaps you preferred a few poems from Where the Sidewalk Ends. Either way, it's time to revisit those books that you once (and probably still) love so that your kiddos can enjoy them as well.
Read through for the 32 books from your childhood that your tots need to have on their bookshelves, stat!
1 Tikki Tikki Tembo

2 The Velveteen Rabbit

3 Madeline

4 Where the Sidewalk Ends

5 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

6 Harold and the Purple Crayon

7 Stellaluna

8 Frog and Toad Are Friends

9 Pippi Longstocking

10 Stuart Little

11 The Tale of Peter Rabbit

12 Where the Wild Things Are

13 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

14 The Giving Tree

15 Oh, the Places You'll Go!

16 Strega Nona

17 Charlotte's Web

18 Corduroy

19 The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

20 A Bad Case of Stripes

21 The Cat in the Hat

22 Guess How Much I Love You

23 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

24 The Little Prince

25 The Giver

26 Goodnight Moon

27 Green Eggs and Ham

28 Matilda

29 Love You Forever

30 The Very Hungry Caterpillar

31 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

32 Holes
