{"id":2608,"date":"2012-03-01T13:06:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T18:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iheartkids.smcse.com\/happy-world-book-day-share-a-wonderful-story\/"},"modified":"2012-03-01T13:06:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T18:06:39","slug":"happy-world-book-day-share-a-wonderful-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iheartkids.com\/happy-world-book-day-share-a-wonderful-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy World Book Day! Share a wonderful story:)"},"content":{"rendered":"

iHeartKids loves books! We love taking our nieces and nephews to the library and love a cozy bookstore:)<\/span><\/p>\n

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I came across this wonderful post today on The Daily Telegraph<\/a>, a newspaper in the UK. To celebrate World Book Day, Lorna Bradbury<\/a>, the Telegraph’s literary critic, tells parents how to create the perfect library with a list of 50 Books for Children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some of the fabulous reads from her Top 50!<\/span><\/p>\n

Picture Books<\/span><\/strong>
\n 1. Curious George by Margret Rey and HA Rey (Houghton Mifflin)<\/span>
\n 2. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Red Fox)<\/span>
\n 3. Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs (Puffin)<\/span>
\n 4. Gorilla by Anthony Browne (Walker)<\/span>
\n 5. The Mick Inkpen Collection (Hodder)<\/span>
\n Classic Novels<\/span><\/strong>
\n 21. Beatrix Potter: the Complete Tales (Warne)<\/span>
\n 22. The Adventures of Tintin by Herg\u00e9 (Egmont)<\/span>
\n23. Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, with illustrations by Yayoi Kusama (Penguin)<\/span>
\n 24. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer (HarperCollins)<\/span>
\n25. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, with art by Robert Sabuda (Simon & Schuster)<\/span>
\n Collections and Histories<\/span><\/strong>
\n 45. The Hutchinson Treasury of Children\u2019s Literature, edited by Alison Sage (Hutchinson)<\/span>
\n 46. Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Naomi Lewis and illustrated by Joel Stewart (Walker)<\/span>
\n 47. The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (Faber)<\/span>
\n 48. Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb (Puffin or, edition illustrated by Joelle Jolivet, Harry N Abrams)<\/span>
\n 49. Our Island Story: a History of Britain for Boys & Girls from the Romans to Queen Victoria by HE Marshall (Galore Park)<\/span>
\n 50. A Little History of the World by Ernst Gombrich (Yale)<\/span><\/p>\n

Visit Top 50 Books for Children<\/a> for the complete list and join the conversation. Thank you for sharing Lorna:) We hope everyone enjoys this list as much as we do!<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a picture of my favorite chick having a lil fun on our visit to the<\/span> West Bloomfield Library<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Please comment & share your favorite books with us! Thank you for reading<\/span> \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 …<\/p>\n

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