The 100 Best Children’s Books

Nonfiction or Poetry

• Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank

• It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris, illustrated by Michael Emberley

• A Light in the Attic, by Shel Silverstein

• The New Kid on the Block, by Jack Prelutsky

• Talking Like the Rain (anthology), by Dorothy and X.J. Kennedy

• The Way Things Work, by David Macaulay

• You Be Good and I’ll Be Night, by Eve Merriam

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