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Children's Lit Gems
Children's Lit Gems
A chapter from
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is a tiny picture book canon. I’ve tried to include some titles that
are a bit more recent that your average Millions of Cats fare.
The Rabbit and the Turtle by Eric Carle—If you had to pick
only one collection of Aesop’s fables to include in
your collection, go with the one created by the only
children’s book illustrator to have his own museum.
bouncy, goofy format. This one got hit hard with the
“future classic” stick. If you haven’t discovered it
already, then you are out of the loop.
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry—A child helps save some Jewish
people in World War II Denmark. It’s always very difficult
to make the Holocaust a subject that is comprehensible to
children. Lowry’s is perhaps one of the smartest, and her
storytelling abilities shine on every page.