I am a writer, but before that, and all my life, I’ve been a reader. And over the past few frozen weeks, I’ve taken great pleasure in an unusual project: I’m assembling (and rereading!) all my favorite books from my childhood through high school, birth to age 18, on a single honored shelf. (If they fit.) No Kindles! They’re not all great literature, though many are classics. I’m going to share them by stages, and would love to hear your favorites as well.
So here goes: Birth through Kindergarten, ten favorites.
Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown
Angus and the Cat, by Marjorie Flack
Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey.
Caps for Sale, by Esphyr Slobodkina
The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper (a.k.a. Arnold Munk)
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton
When We Were Very Young, poems by A.A. Milne
No Roses for Harry, by Gene Zion
A Big Ball of String, by Marion Holland
A Fly Went By, by Mike McClintock
What are yours?