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
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