Children's Books You Loved as a Child
These Are the 31 Books From Your Childhood That You Should Give Your Kids as Gifts
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With so many amazing books for children out in the world, nursery and kid-room bookshelves have the tendency to get filled up pretty quickly — but are you stocking them with the stories you once enjoyed? Maybe you were the type to have your parents read Madeline to you until they were blue in the face, or perhaps you preferred a few poems from Where the Sidewalk Ends. Either way, it's time to revisit those children's books that you once (and probably still) love so that your kiddos can enjoy them as well.
Read through for some of the books from your childhood that your kiddos need to have on their bookshelves, stat!
1 The Velveteen Rabbit
2 Love You Forever
3 Guess How Much I Love You
4 The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
5 Tar Beach
6 The Giver
7 Strega Nona
8 Corduroy
9 Madeline
10 Charlotte's Web
11 The Giving Tree
12 Amazing Grace
13 Where the Sidewalk Ends
14 Holes
15 Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
16 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
17 Matilda
18 Stellaluna
19 Where the Wild Things Are
20 Oh, the Places You'll Go!
21 Green Eggs and Ham
22 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
23 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
24 Harold and the Purple Crayon
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson ($7)
25 Frog and Toad Are Friends
26 Stuart Little
27 The Tale of Peter Rabbit
28 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
29 A Bad Case of Stripes
30 The Little Prince
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry ($11)
