Kids Books

part of Educating Kids

• a Brit-heavy top-100 list

Good kids' books (for <5yrsold)

• Kevin Henkes https://kevinhenkes.com/mouse-books/ Kids Books With Chicks
• Arnold Lobel
• DrSeuss (I encourage my kids to make up rhyming words)
• David McKee's Elmer series
• pretty good
  • Cinder Edna ISBN:0688162959 and Cindy Ellen ISBN:0064438643 Kids Books With Chicks
  • Madeline series. Kids Books With Chicks. Some of the Clang-Tint is good.
  • Story Of Ping ok only so you can laugh at this SlashDot thread.

A bit older - time to get Subliminal Subversive

• AndrewClements (Frindle http://www.frindle.com/ - and others)
• Mark Crilley's Akiko series http://www.markcrilley.com/childrensbookscomics.html Kids Books With Chicks
• Roald Dahl (I esp like Danny The Champion Of The World)
• CS Lewis Narnia Kids Books With Chicks
• Astrid Lindgren Pippi Longstocking series is really just 3 full books. Kids Books With Chicks
• History
  • Dover coloring books have lots of info along with the pictures.
  • History Dudes series
  • "You Wouldn't Want To..." series
  • "Cartoon History of..." series by Larry Gonick
  • "CrashCourse" history videos on youtube by John Green
    • more recently he's made a few "BigHistory" videos which are a good intro to the span of the whole universe
    • there's also a series of science-education videos done by his brother Hank Green

Older kids (Young Adult)

• Robert Heinlein juveniles
• Hardy Boys
  • Nancy Drew: Kids Books With Chicks
• Alfred Hitchcock's Three Investigators/Jupiter Jones series
• Nov'2011: David Brin gives a SciFi-for-Young Adult-s list.
• Sept'2014: Mark Bernstein shares a great list for a kid who has already enjoyed Harry Potter, The HungerGames, and To Kill A Mockingbird.

Possible purchases Jul'2007 (boys are 9 and 7)

Ruth Chew http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~aahobor/Lucy-Day/Authors/Chew.shtml Kids Books With Chicks

• typically paperback $2-7 each; plus $3.90 each shipping
• Magic in the park ISBN:059040119X
• Magic Cave ISBN:0803847114
• Magic Coin ISBN:0590407791
• Last Chance for Magic ISBN:0590602101
• Earthstar Magic ISBN:0803819552
• Do-it-Yourself Magic ISBN:0590407848

David Adler: Picture Book of... Thomas Edison too easy ISBN:0823414140

Allan Ahlberg: Man who wore all his clothes ISBN:0763614327 used ~$3

Lloyd Alexander http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Alexander

• Fortune-tellers ISBN:0140562338
• House Gobballeen ISBN:0140565043 used ~$3

Butterworth: Enormous Egg ISBN:0316119202

Cooper: Magician's Boy ISBN:1416915559

Dadey: Bailey School Kids series 51 of them

Jules Feiffer (Meanwhile...) http://www.julesfeiffer.com/jf06.html

Fleischman Mc Broom series of 10

Martin Rafe: StorytellingPrincess ISBN:0142500852

Emily Rodda Fairy Realm series

Peter Ropp: Buttons For General Washington ISBN:0876144768 and Keep The Lights Burning Abbie ISBN:0876144547 part of multi-author On My Own History series

Jon Scieszka Knights of the Kitchen Table ISBN:0142400432 part of Time Warp Trio series

Maida Silverman: Anna and the Seven Swans ISBN:0688027563 Out Of Print avail used

John Steptoe: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters ISBN:0688040454

James Thurber children's books

Chris Van Allsburg: Jumanji, PolarExpress and others

Bernard Wiseman MorrisAndBoris series looks too young

Jeanne Betancourt: PonyPals series

Judy Blume: Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing ISBN:0142408816 in Fudge series Kids Books With Chicks

Michael Bond: Bear Called Paddington ISBN:0618150714 in series

Michael Bond: Olga Da Polga series all Out Of Print

Patrick Catling: The Chocolate Touch ISBN:0688161332

CharlesDickens: Magic Fishbone Out Of Print avail used

Kathleen Duey: Unicorns Secret series

Jean Fritz: And Then What Happened Paul Revere ISBN:0698113519

Bruce Hale: HamsterOfBaskervilles ISBN:015202509X Chet Gecko series

Carolyn Marseden: GoldThreadedDress ISBN:0763629936

Mc Cully: Beautiful Warrior ISBN:0590374877 hardcover $18

Seuling: Robert And The Great Escape ISBN:0812627008 series

Sobol: Encyclopedia Brown series

Stanley: Rumpestilstskins Daughter ISBN:0064410951

Williams: Adventure Of The Little Wooden Horse hardcover at Barnes And Noble; paperback via amazon

Cowell: How To Train A Dragon ISBN:0316737372

Merlin-as-boy stories ISBN:0399237348