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Mrs. Barney's Best Books


Dear Boys and Girls,

You know we have lots of book reviews and information about all of the stories we read on the TV show, but this is something even better. I have a friend who used to be a teacher and her favorite thing to do was read stories to her students.

After she stopped being a teacher to have her own children, she continued to read stories to them. This makes her some kind of an expert, don't you think? Anyway, I asked her to share with you her list of the top fifty stories she loved to read to children. Here it is. I call it Mrs. Barney's Best. I know you will agree.

I suggest you download the list and take it with you to the library, or use it as a guide when you ask for a book for Christmas or your birthday. Also, if there is a Birthday Book Club at your school, donations from the list as your "Birthday Book" might be a good idea.

I know you will enjoy this special list.

Mrs. L.


 

Mrs.  Barney's Best Stories for Children

 

TITLE AUTHOR ILLUSTRATOR
Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame Arthur Rackham
Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales Anderson
Henry Huggins Beverly Cleary Louis Darling
Rufus M. Eleanor Estes Louis Slobodkin
Calico Bush Rachel Field Allen Lewis (Engravings)
Johnny Tremain Ester Forbes Lynn Ward
Jungle Book(Mowgli's Brothers & Rikki-Tikki-Tavi) Rudyard Kipling
Homer Price Robert Mcloskey
Winnie-the Pooh A.A.Milne Ernest H. Shepard
The Borrowers Mary Norton Beth & Joe Krush
Mary Poppins Travers Mary Shepard
Charlotte's Web E.B. White Garth Williams
The Boy Who Could do Anything Anita Brenner Jean Chariot
English Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs John D. Batten
Three Without Fear Robert c. Du Soe Ralph Ray, Jr.
Old Yellow Fred Gipson Carl Burger
Mother Goose Tasha Tudor
Lavender's Blue Kathleen Lines Harold Jones
The Real Mother Goose Blanche Fisher Wright
The Tall Book of Mother Goose Feodor Rojankovsky
Mother Goose Kate Greenway
Fun in Americn Folk Rhymes Ray Wood Ed Hargis
Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel Virginia Lee Burton
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
Andy & the Lion James H. Daugherty
The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book Arthur Rackham
The Biggest Bear Lynn Ward
North Star Shining Hildegarde Hoyt Swift Lynd Ward
Little Tim & The Brave Sea Captain Edward Aedizzone
Ola lngfi & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Madeline Ludwig Bemelmans
Chanticleer & the Fox Barbara Cooney
Millions of Cats Wanda Gag
Make Way For Ducklings Robert McCloskey
Blueberries For Sal Robert McCloskey
ABC Bruno Munari
Song of the Swallows Leo Politi
The Tailor of Gloucester Beatfix Potter
The Little Island Golden Mac Donald Leonard Weisgard
The Night Before Christmas Clement C. Moore Leonard Weisgard
The Pied Piper of Hamelin Robert Browning Kate Greenway
The Panjandrum Picture Book R. Caldecott
Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book R. Caldecott
The Baby's Own Aesop Walter Crane
Baby's Opera Walter Crane
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter
The Heroes Charles Kingsley Vera Bock
Thunder of the Gods Dorothy Hosford Claire & George Louden
Time for Fairy Tales Arbuthnot
Mythology Edith Hamilton Steele Savage
 
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               September 01, 2011