Sunday, July 29, 2012

Year Zero Books

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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