What to Read to the Grandchildren?

Some of today’s kids’ favorite books are the same ones that you read to their parents – or even had read to you when you were a child. Here are some reminders of these time-tested titles, as well as a few “classics-in-the-making” – books published since you read aloud to your grandchildren’s parents – that may not be familiar to you. Try a few of these titles, or ask your local librarian or bookstore owner to recommend their favorite new books for kids.

For Babies and Toddlers
If you love Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, and Pat the Bunny, by Dorothy Kunhardt, check out Have You Seen My Duckling, by Nancy Tafuri, and Ten, Nine, Eight, by Molly Bang.


For Preschoolers
If you love anything by Eric Carle, such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar, get to know John Archambault’s Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, or Mouse Mess, by Linnea Asplind Riley.


If you fondly recall Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton, or Donald Hall’s The Ox-Cart Man, seek out Jan Brett’s The Mitten.


For Early Readers

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