My Top 108 Children's Books

Like most teachers I love everything about children's books. I love to use voices when I read.  I am very animated when I read to the children.  I stop and explain vocabulary or ask questions about the story or characters. I love to include the children in our story time (Owl Babies, Go, Dog. Go! and That's Good. That's Bad are just a few examples of books that I use where the children can be involved in the story).

Children's Book Week is May 12th-May 18th.  My two all time favorite children's books are Where the Wild Things Are and The Very Hungry Caterpillar but there are also so many other books I love.  I tried to keep the list to one hundred but was unable to remove any of my choices so here are my top 108 favorite children's books (sorry in most cases I did not include authors).

1. Fall-Halloween-Thanksgiving   Barn Dance      
2. Rattlebone Rock
3. Halloweiner
4. Big Pumpkin
5. Go Away Big Green Monster
6. The Monster at the End of this Book
7. Inside a House That is Haunted
8. The Vanishing Pumpkin
9. A Turkey for Thanksgiving
10. Winter & Christmas   The Night Before Christmas illustrated by Jan Brett         
11.  The Night Before Christmas illustrated by Tomie de Paola
12.  The Night Before Christmas illustrated by Marry Englebriet
13. The Snowy Day
14. The Mitten retold  by Jan Brett
15. The Wild Christmas Reindeer
16.  The Jacket I Wear in the Snow
17. Snowmen at Night
18. The Amazing Christmas Extravaganza
19. The 12 days of Christmas-a pop up book Robert Sabuda
20. Santa Calls by  William Joyce (I really love the ending of this story)
21. Polar Express
22. Santa’s Twin by Dean Koontz  (It's Dean Koontz.  It's illustrated but not for little ones.)
23. Thomas’ Snowsuit                              
24. Classics & Everything Else I Love   Goggles         
25. The Snowy Day
26. Whistle for Willie
27. Frederick
28. Have You Seen My Ducklings
29. Ping
30. Blueberries for Sal
31. Make Way for Ducklings
32. The Carrot Seed
33. Strega Nona
34. Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato
35. Clever Tom and the Leprechaun
36. Bedtime for Frances
37. The Story of Ferdinand
38. Go Dog.  Go!
39. Green Eggs and Ham
40. The Cat in the Hat
41. Inch by Inch
42. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
43. Polar Bear, Polar Bear What do you Hear?
44. Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you See?
45. The Grouch Ladybug
46. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
47. It Looked like Spilt Milk
48. Harry the Dirty Dog
49. Tiki Tiki Tembo
50. Miss Nelson is Missing
51. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
52. Pete the Cat  I Love my White Shoes
53. Never Tease a Weasel
54. Going on a Bear Hunt   illustrated by Eve Bunting (an MCP favorite!)
55. Where the Wild Things Are
56. The Giving Tree
57. A House is a House
58. Jamberry
59. That’s Good That’s Bad
60. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
61. Madeline
62. Don’t Let Pigeon Drive the Bus
63. m & m Counting Book
64. No, David!
65. Pigsty  by  M. Teague
66. Ten Apples Up on Top
67. A Busy Year by Leo Lionni
68. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
69. Jimmy’s Boa and the Big Splash Birthday Bash (There are several stories about Jimmy's boa but this is my favorite.)
70. Prehistoric Pinkerton (Likewise with Pinkerton, many books but love this one.)
71. Going on a Whale Watch  photography by Bruce McMillan
72. Bugs  by Nancy WinslowParker and Joan R. Wright
73. Gone Wild Endangered Animal Alphabet
74. Alphabet City
75. Over in the Ocean in a Coral Reef
76.  Berlioz the Bear
77.  Where’s Waldo
78. I SPY  photographs by Walter Wick   ( the original big hardback books)
79. If the Dinosaurs Came Back
80. Dinosaurs by Gail Gibbons
81. No Jumping on the Bed (I  prefer the old school illustrations vs. the updated version)
82. Wordless Books   Noah's Ark illustrated by Peter Spier
83. Rain  illustrated by Peter Spier 
84. The Snowman  illustrated by Raymond Briggs
85. Good Dog, Carl  illustrated by Alexandra Day
86. Family   Come Over to My House
87. Stellaluna                 
88. Owl Babies
89. Froggy Gets Dressed (Like most series, the first story is the best)
90. 5 People in My Family Sesame Street
91. Seven Silly Eaters (I love Mrs. Peters)
92. Guess How Much I Love You
93. Mama, Do You Love Me?
94. The Relatives Came
95.  I Love You Forever
96. The Kissing Hand
97. Is Your Mama a Llama
98. A Chair for My Mother
99. Are You My Mother?
100. Five Minutes Peace  (This is the first of several stories about Mrs. Large and her family. I love Mrs. Large.) 
101. Fairy Tales and Fractured Fairy Tales   Piggie Pie!
102. No Moon, No Milk!
103. 3 Little Wolves and The Big Bad Pig
104. Mary Had a Little Lamb   photographs by Bruce McMillan
105. The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
106. The Frog Prince, Continued
107. The Gingerbread Girl
108. The Gingerbread Cowboy