Winnie the Pooh series by AA Milne and Ernest H. Shepard (purchase
boxed set, hardback)
Beatrix Potter series (purchase
23 books):
The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper (purchase)
Ferdinand by Munro Leaf (purchase)
Ox-Cart Man by Barbara Cooney (purchase)
Stone Soup (purchase)
and other folk tale retellings by Marcia Brown
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney (purchase)
The Story of Little Babaji by Helen Bannerman (purchase)
Brer Rabbit books by Joel Chandler Harris (purchase)
read
the online etext
Poems and Prayers for the Very Young by Martha Alexander (search
for a used copy)
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson * (illustrated by
Tasha Tudor (purchase), or Jessie Wilcox Smith (purchase).
The Little
Red Hen, The Gingerbread Man, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three
Billy Goats Gruff. (Joseph Jacob's versions online here and here)
A good collection of Aesop's Fables, such as the one illustrated by Milo
Winter (purchase
with CD)
Poems for Young Children compiled
by Caroline Royds (search amazon to purchase)
A Child's Book of
Poems by Gyo Fujikawa (purchase)
The Golden Books Family Treasury of Poetry selected by Louis
Untermeyer (purchase)
The Oxford Book of Children's Verse edited by Peter Opie (purchase)
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