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Mar
Books of my childhood and adolescence…
- Hamilton Duck and Hamilton Duck’s Springtime Story by Arthur Getz
- Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Goodnight, Moon and The Golden Egg Book by Margaret Wise Brown and Leonard Weisgard
- Be Nice To Spiders by Gene Zion and Margaret Bloy Graham
- Jane Thayer’s Gus Was A Friendly Ghost
- Christina Katerina and the Box by Patricia Lee Gauch and Doris Burn
- Howard R. Garis’ Uncle Wiggily Stories
- The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by Dubose Heyward and Marjorie Flack
- Paddington Bear by Michael Bond and R. W. Alley
- The Book of Giant Stories by David L. Harrison and Philippe Fix
- Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree
- Mike Mulligan by Virginia Lee Burton
- The Animals’ Merry Christmas by Kathryn B. Jackson
- A. A. Milne’s The Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-The-Pooh
- Beatrix Potter’s books
- Doodlebug by Irene Brady
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz
- books by Dr. Seuss
- Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories and Riki-Tiki-Tavi
- Grimm’s fairy tales
- Andersen’s fairy tales
- Aesop’s fables
- The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
- Free To Be, You And Me by Marlo Thomas
- Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden and A Little Princess
- E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little
- P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins
- The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles and Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards
- Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes
- Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series
- Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
- Stories for Free Children by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- Jay Williams and Friso Henstra’s The Practical Princess
- Magic Elizabeth by Norma Kassirer
- Beverly Cleary’s books
- Robert McCloskey’s books
- Ruth Chew’s books
- Edward Eager’s books
- Judy Bloom’s books
- Keith Robertson’s Henry Reid series
- Jay Williams’ Danny Dunn series
- Ellen MacGregor’s Miss Pickerell series
- Donald J. Sobol’s Encyclopedia Brown series
- John Bellairs‘ books
- E. L. Konigsburg’s From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth
- William Pene du Bois’ The Twenty-One Balloons
- Marguerite Henry’s books
- Mary O’Hara’s My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead, and Green Grass of Wyoming
- Walter Farley’s books
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
- Jean Craighead George’s Julie of the Wolves and My Side of the Mountain
- Scott O’Dell’s Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quartet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Many Waters) and the Austens’ series
- Ellen Raskin’s The Westing Game
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Mary Stewart’s Merlin trilogy
- Anya Seton’s The Hearth and Eagle and Green Darkness
- The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein
- God: The Ultimate Autobiography by Jeremy Pascall
- The Dark Angel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce
- Terry Brooks Magic Kingdom for Sale — Sold!
- The Dragonlance series books by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Isaac Asimov’s Robot books
- Douglas Adams‘ books
- Piers Anthony’s Incarnations of Immortality series
- Anne McCaffrey’s Crystal Singer and Killashandra, and the Rowan series
- Jennifer Roberson’s Chronicles of the Cheysuli series
- J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings
- Frank Herbert’s Dune series
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