iHeartKids loves books! We love taking our nieces and nephews to the library and love a cozy bookstore:)
I came across this wonderful post today on The Daily Telegraph, a newspaper in the UK. To celebrate World Book Day, Lorna Bradbury, the Telegraph’s literary critic, tells parents how to create the perfect library with a list of 50 Books for Children.
Here are some of the fabulous reads from her Top 50!
Picture Books
1. Curious George by Margret Rey and HA Rey (Houghton Mifflin)
2. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Red Fox)
3. Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs (Puffin)
4. Gorilla by Anthony Browne (Walker)
5. The Mick Inkpen Collection (Hodder)
Classic Novels
21. Beatrix Potter: the Complete Tales (Warne)
22. The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé (Egmont)
23. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, with illustrations by Yayoi Kusama (Penguin)
24. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer (HarperCollins)
25. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, with art by Robert Sabuda (Simon & Schuster)
Collections and Histories
45. The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Literature, edited by Alison Sage (Hutchinson)
46. Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Naomi Lewis and illustrated by Joel Stewart (Walker)
47. The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (Faber)
48. Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb (Puffin or, edition illustrated by Joelle Jolivet, Harry N Abrams)
49. Our Island Story: a History of Britain for Boys & Girls from the Romans to Queen Victoria by HE Marshall (Galore Park)
50. A Little History of the World by Ernst Gombrich (Yale)
Visit Top 50 Books for Children for the complete list and join the conversation. Thank you for sharing Lorna:) We hope everyone enjoys this list as much as we do!
Here is a picture of my favorite chick having a lil fun on our visit to the West Bloomfield Library
Please comment & share your favorite books with us! Thank you for reading 😯
