Books for Josephine

Books have always been a huge part of my life, and I want the same for my daughter.  I have been working on her collection, and there are MANY more I cannot wait to buy her, but I also want suggestions on books she MUST have in her collection.


As I get her books, I will add them to this list (in alphabetical order by title).  Please, if you know of a great book that I should own, let me know in the comments.  


Thank you!


{A good chunk of these are board books, so if there is no author listed, it is probably a board book}

Josephine's Books:

123
A to Z (Sandra Boyton)
ABC
A Light in the Attic (Shel Silverstein)
All in a Day (Mitsumasa Anno, Eric Carle, Raymond Briggs, Nicolai Ye. Popov, Akiko Hayashi, Gian Calvi, Leo & Diane Dillon, Zhu Chengliang, and Ron Brooks)
Animal Babies Peek-A-Boo

Anoter Monster at the End of This Book (Jon Stone)
Baby Cat Nicky (Carol Friedman)
Baby Goofy Catches a Fish
Baby Signs 
Baby's First Bedtime
Baby's First Book of Rhymes
Baby's First Lullabies
Bambi's Fragrant Forest (Based on the original story by Felix Stalton)
Beach Day (Helen Oxenbury)

Beauty and the Beast
Bialosky Goes Out
Big Joe's Trailer Truck (Joe Mathieu)

Boom Chicka Rock (John Archambault)
Biscuit's Pet & Play Halloween (Alyssa Satin Capucilli)

Bread and Jam For Frances (Russell Hoban)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Eric Carle)

Brush Mona Lisa's Hair (Julie Appel and Amy Guglielmo)
Bug Safari (Bob Barner)

Bunny Goes to Market (Stephen Cosgrove and Charles Reasoner)
Butterfly Kisses (Sandra Magsamen)
Cape Cod Light: The Lighthouse at Dangerfield (Paul Giambarba)
Catch Picasso's Rooster (Julie Appel and Amy Guglielmo)
Children Make Terrible Pets (Peter Brown)

Chirpy Chick

Chrysanthemum (Kevin Henkes)

Clifford the Big Red Dog (Norman Bridwell)

Clifford the Firehouse Dog (Norman Bridwell)

Clifford the Small Red Puppy (Norman Bridwell)

Clifford’s Birthday Party (Norman Bridwell)

Clifford’s Family (Norman Bridwell)

Clifford’s First School Day (Norman Bridwell)

Clifford’s Hiccups (Norman Bridwell)

Clifford’s Ice Cream Mess (Norman Bridwell)

Clifford’s Sport’s Day (Norman Bridwell)

Clifford Teacher’s Pets (Norman Bridwell)

Color Train, Color Train! (Martin Kelly)

Cool Time Song (Carole Schaefer)

Corduroy (Don Freeman)

Curious George Plays Baseball (Margaret and H. A. Rey)
Cute As Can Bee
Dinosaur A-Z (Simon Mugford)
Dr. Suess's ABC (Dr. Suess)

Eight Animals on the Town (Ocho Animales) (Susan Middleton Elya)

Elmo's ABCs

Elmo’s 12 Days of Christmas

Everything Cat (Marty Crisp)
Fairy Poems for the Very Young (Beverlie Manson)
Falling Up (Shel Silverstein)
Family Lullaby (Jody Fickes Shapiro)
Fraggle Rock (Jocelyn Stevenson)
Go, Dog, Go! (Dr. Suess)
Goodnight Moon (Margaret Wise Brown)
Green Eggs and Ham (Dr. Suess)
Guess How Much I Love You (Sam McBratney)
Harold and the Purple Crayon (Crockett Johnson)

Hildilid’s Night (Cheli Duran Ryan)
Hop on Pop (Dr. Suess)
How Many Dragons Are Behind the Door? (Virginia Kahl)
I Am A Bunny (Ole Risom)

I Am Snow (Jean Marzollo)
I Love My Rabbit
I Love You Through and Through (Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak)

If You Give a Cat a Cupcake (Laura Numeroff)

If You Give a Moose a Muffin (Laura Numeroff)

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Laura Numeroff)

If You Give a Pig a Pancake (Laura Numeroff)

If You Give a Pig a Party (Laura Numeroff)

If You Take a Mouse to School (Laura Numeroff)

If You Take a Mouse to the Movies (Laura Numeroff)

In a People House (Theo LeSieg)
Interrupting Chicken (David Ezra Stein)
Just For You (Mercer Mayer)
Just Grandma and Me (Mercer Mayer)
Just Grandpa and Me (Mercer Mayer)
Just Me and My Dad (Mercer Mayer)
Just Me and My Mom (Mercer Mayer)
Just Shopping with Mom (Mercer Mayer)
Ladybug Girl (David Soman & Jacky Davis)
Library of First Questions and Answers About Water: Do Fish Drink? (Time Life for Children)

Little Bear (Else Holmelund Minarik)

Little Chick

Little Quack’s New Friend (Lauren Thompson)
Love You Forever (Robert Munsch)
Mama, How Long Will You Love Me? (Anna Pignataro)
Me & Neesie (Eloise Greenfield)
Melanie Mouse's Moving Day (Cyndy Szekeres)
Mickey Mouse's Picnic (Jane Werner)

Miss Rumphius (Barbara Cooney)

Miss Spider’s New Car (David Kirk)
Moo, Baa, La La La! (Sandra Boyton)
Moonlight (Jan Ormerod)
Mother Goose Kitten Rhymes
Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? (Dr. Suess)
Oh, The Places You Will Go! (Dr. Suess) 
Oh, What a Busy Day! (Gyo Fujikawa)

Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Salina Yoon)

On My Way with Sesame Street (Funk and Wagnalls)

One Drowsy Dragon (Ethan Long)
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (Dr. Suess)
Over the Rainbow (E. Y. Harburg)
Opposites (Sandra Boyton)
Opposites
Oscar's Book (Jeffrey Moss)
Pat the Bunny (Dorothy Kunhardt)
Peek-A-Boo Bedtime
Peek-A-Boo Farm

Peek-A-Moo (Marie Torres Cimarusti)

Peek-A-Zoo (Marie Torres Cimarusti)
Piggy's Playground (Amye Rosenberg)

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do you Hear? (Eric Carle)

Popcorn (Frank Asch)
Purple, Green, and Yellow (Helene Desputeaux)
Put Me in the Zoo (Robert Lopshire)

Rainbow Brite and the Big Color Mix-Up
Sammy Sheep's New Nibbles
Schoolhouse

Sleep Tight! (Constance Allen)
Snoozers (Sandra Boyton)

Snuggle Bunny (Lambert and Goldhawk)
Song and Dance Man (Karen Ackerman)

Sounds

Spot’s First Easter (Eric Hill)

Spring (Nuria Roca)
Stephanie's Ponytail (Robert Munsch)
Strega Nona (Tomie dePaola)
Tails Are Not for Pulling (Elizabeth Verdick)
The Berenstain Bears and the Week At Grandma's (Stan & Jan Berenstain)
The Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor (Stan & Jan Berenstain)

The Cat in the Hat (Dr. Suess)
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse, The Dog and His Bone, and The Fox and His Bone (Three Aesop Fables told by Patricia Scarry)
The Fairies' Alphabet Book (Beverlie Manson)

The First Adventures of Incredible You (Sarah Riley Headrick)
The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein)
The Glo Friends Glo-Year-Round Book
The Going to Bed Book (Sandra Boyton)
The Goodnight Moon Room Pop-up Book (Based on the book by Maragaret Wise Brown)

The Jolly Mon (Jimmy Buffett and Savannah Jane Buffett)
The Kissing Hand (Audrey Penn)

The Little Engine that Could (Watty Piper)
The Lorax (Dr. Suess)
The Magic Locket (Elizabeth Koda-Callan)
The Monster at the End of This Book (Jon Stone)
The Monster Under My Bed (Suzanne Gruber)
The Paper Bag Princess (Robert Munsch)
The Random House Book of Humor For Children

The Real Mother Goose
The Runaway Bunny (Margaret Wise Brown)
The Sneetches (and Other Stories) (Dr. Suess)

The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle)

The Very Lonely Firefly (Eric Carle)

The Very Quiet Cricket (Eric Carle)
The Sweet Smell of Christmas (Patricia Scarry)
There's a Wocket in My Pocket (Dr. Suess)
Thomas' Snowsuit (Robert Munsch)
Tickle Monster (Josie Bissett)
Tikki Tikki Tembo (Arlene Mosel)
Walt Disney Fun-to-Read Library Volume 3: Pinocchio’s Promise

Walt Disney Fun-to-Read Library Volume 9:  Our Wonderful Earth

Walt Disney Fun-to-Read Library Volume 18: Tell Me a Story
We All Went on Safari: A Counting Journey Through Tanzania (Laurie Krebs & Julia Cairns)

What is Your Language? (Debra Leventhal)

What’s For Dinner? (Ann Garnett)

Where the Sidewalk Ends (Shel Silverstein)
Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)
Whiskerville Firehouse (Joanne Barkan) 
Whiskerville Post Office (Joanne Barkan)
Who Loves Josephine? (Jennifer Dewing)
Winnie-The-Pooh Meets Gopher (A. A. Milne)
Winnie-The-Pooh: The Honey Tree (A. A. Milne)
Worse Than the Worst (James Stevenson)

Zinnia’s Flower Garden (Monica Wellington)


Books for Later:
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Madeleine L’Engle)

A Wind in the Door (Madeleine L’Engle)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
An Acceptable Time (Madeleine L’Engle)

Anastasia Krupnik (Lois Lowry)

Beezus and Ramona (Beverly Cleary)

By The Shores of Silver Lake (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Roald Dahl)
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Danny the Champion of the World (Roald Dahl)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Roald Dahl)
Farmer Boy (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)
Lessons from the Hundred Acre Wood

Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Little Town on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

Many Waters (Madeleine L’Engle)
Matilda (Roald Dahl)

Morning is a Long Time Coming (Bette Greene)
Now We Are Six (A. A. Milne)

Number the Stars (Lois Lowry)
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

Pipi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgreen)

Ramona and Her Mother (Beverly Cleary)

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Beverly Cleary)

Ramona the Pest (Beverly Cleary)

Stuart Little (E. B. White)
The BFG (Roald Dahl)
The Chronicles of Narnia (C. S. Lewis)
The First Four Years (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

The Giver (Lois Lowry)
The House at Pooh Corner (A. A. Milne)
The Long Winter (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

The Random House Book of Humor for Children

The Samantha Series (American Girl Dolls)
The Witches (Roald Dahl)
These Happy Golden Years (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Winnie-The-Pooh (A. A. Milne)
When We Were Very Young (A. A. Milne)

Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls)