100 Books

I am a collector of book lists. I saw this list at The Peterson Party and decided to create my own list (most of the books from her list are there, but I deleted a few and added some that I wouldn't want my daughter to miss. The ones in red are the ones we have NOT read yet. (We've read a LOT of books not on this list as well.) There are so many lists of "100 books before kindergarten" or "100 picture books everyone should know." I think the important thing is to read a variety of new and classic picture books to our children and not worry if the book was on a list of any sort. My biggest criteria for a book is for Bear to say "again" as soon as I say "the end." Then I know I have chosen a book that resonates with her.

That said, please don't forget to read fairytales and nursery rhymes to your children. I taught third and fourth grade before Bear was born and you would be amazed at how many students in my classroom were not familiar with the common fairytales.

1. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
2. Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing
3. Andy and the Lion
4. Angelina Ballerina
5. Blueberries for Sal
6. Bread and Jam for Frances
7. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?
8. Caps for Sale
9. The Carrot Seed
10. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
11. A Chair For My Mother
12. Corduroy
13. Curious George
14. Chrysanthemum
15. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
16. Dear Zoo
17. Doctor De Soto
18. Eating the Alphabet
19. Each Peach Pear Plum
20. Freight Train
21. Fancy Nancy
22. Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
23. Goodnight Moon
24. Gossie
25. Guess How Much I Love You
26. Happy Birthday, Moon
27. Harold and the Purple Crayon
28. Harry the Dirty Dog
29. Henny Penny
30. Horton Hatches the Egg
31. I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!
32. Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue? An Adventure in Color
33. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (and also If you Give a Pig a Pancake)
34. In the Tall, Tall Grass
35. Is Your Mama a Llama?
36. It Looked Like Spilt Milk
37. Jamberry
38. Little Red Hen
39. Leo the Late Bloomer
40. Little Blue and Little Yellow
41. Little Red Riding Hood
42. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
43. Madeline
44. Make Way For Ducklings
45. Maisy Goes Swimming
46. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
47. Millions of Cats
48. Mouse Mess
49. Mouse Paint
50. Mr. Grumpy's Outing
51. Morris' Disappearing Bag
52. The Napping House
53. My Very First Mother Goose
54. Old Black Fly
55. Olivia
56. Over in the Meadow
57. Owen
58. The Very Busy Spider
59. Planting a Rainbow
60. The Polar Express
61. Rosie's Walk
62. Rumpelstiltskin
63. Seven Blind Mice
64. The Snowy Day
65. Stone Soup
66. The Story of Ferdinand
67. Strega Nona
68. Swimmy
69. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
70. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
71. The Doorbell Rang
72. The Three Billy Goats Gruff
73. Tikki Tikki Tembo
74. The Three Little Pigs
75. The Story of Babar
76. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
77. The Three Bears
78. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
79. There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
80. There's a Nightmare in My Closet
81. Wemberly Worried
82. Where the Wild Things Are
83. Where's My Teddy?
84. When I was Young in the Mountains
85. The Wheels on the Bus
86. We're Going on a Bear Hunt
87. Sheep in a Jeep
88. The Empty Pot

90. The Relatives Came
91. Gifts
92. A House is a House for Me
93. Peek-a-Boo (Janet and Allen Ahlberg)
94. Roxaboxen
95. The Little House
96. Lily's Purple Plastic Purse
97. A Tree is Nice
98. The Story about Ping
99. The Little Engine that Could
100. Where's Spot?

Add in there a few number counting books and a few ABC books too.

What are your children's favorite books?