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PICTURE BOOK CLASSICS

What makes a book a classic? Story line? Illustrations? Language? That indefinable “something”? These wonderful read-aloud books have delighted children through the years. Some are relatively new, and some are books parents will remember reading as children. Most authors listed have written many books so be sure to enjoy their other titles. Titles found in the sections listed below are arranged alphabetically by author or by call number.

JE PICTURE BOOKS
Author Title  
Allard Miss Nelson Is Missing! cover
Asch                      Happy Birthday, Moon     
Bang                      Ten, Nine, Eight
Barrett                    Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Bemelmans            Madeline
Briggs                    The Snowman
Brown                    Arthur's Eyes
Brown                    Goodnight Moon  
Burton                   Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel  
Carle                      The Very Hungry Caterpillar  
Cousins                  Maisy Drives the Bus cover
Crews                    Freight Train
Day                        Good Dog, Carl
Ehlert                     Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z
Freeman                 Corduroy
Galdone                 The Three Billy Goats Gruff                     
Guarino                 Is Your Mama a Llama?  
Henkes                  Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse  
Hoban                    Bread and Jam for Frances  
Holabird                Angelina Ballerina  
Hutchins                Rosie’s Walk cover
Johnson                 Harold and the Purple Crayon
Joosse                    Mama Do You Love Me?
Keats                     The Snowy Day
Kellogg                  Mysterious Tadpole
Kraus                     Whose Mouse Are You?  
Leaf                       The Story of Ferdinand  
Lester                     Tacky the Penguin  
Lionni                    Frederick  
London                  Froggy Gets Dressed  
Martin                    Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? cover
McCloskey            Make Way for Ducklings
McKee                   Elmer
Munsch                  Thomas’ Snowsuit
Neitzel                   The Jacket I Wear in the Snow
Numeroff              If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Piper                      The Little Engine that Could  
Potter                     The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit  
Rathmann              Good Night, Gorilla  
Rey                        The Original Curious George  
Rosen                    We’re Going on a Bear Hunt  
Scott                      On Mother’s Lap  
Sendak                   Where the Wild Things Are cover
Seuss                     Horton Hears a Who!
Silverstein              The Giving Tree
Slobodkina            Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
Steig                       Doctor De Soto
Stoeke                    A Hat for Minerva Louise
Viorst                     Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day  
Waber                    The House on East 88th Street cover
Waddell                 Owl Babies
Walsh                    Mouse Paint
Wells                     Max Cleans Up
Wiesner                 Tuesday
Williams                “More More More,” Said the Baby: 3 Love Stories  
Wood                     Napping House  
Yolen                     Owl Moon  
Zion                       Harry, the Dirty Dog  
Zolotow                 William’s Doll  

JR READERS
Averill                   The Fire Cat cover
Eastman                Go, Dog, Go!
Lobel                     Frog and Toad Are Friends
Minarik                  Little Bear
Seuss                     The Cat in the Hat

J CLASSIC FOLKTALES, RHYMES, AND POETRY
J 398.2 MAR Marshall      Goldilocks and the Three Bears cover
J 398.20944 BRO        Brown         Stone Soup: An Old Tale
J 398.20947 PAR        Parkinson    The Enormous Turnip
J 398.209477 BRE      Brett            The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale
J 398.209489 ISA        Isadora        The Ugly Duckling
J 398.209489 SED       Sedgwick     The Emperor’s New Clothes  
J 398.20951 MOS        Mosel          Tikki Tikki Tembo  
J 398.20966 MCD       McDermott  Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti  
J 398.21 AYL              Aylesworth  The Gingerbread Man cover
J 398.2452 FOR          Forest          The Little Red Hen: An Old Fable
J 398.2452 PIN            Pinkney       The Lion & the Mouse
J 398.8 HER               Opie            Here Comes Mother Goose
J 808.81 CAR             Carle           Eric Carle’s Animals Animals

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