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Favorite Books from Our Favorite Authors
Books hold memories. Children and adults make friends, share excitement, visit places that seem unreachable, laugh, and so much more in books. So, meet an old friend or find a new one here in these classics for all ages.

This section contains 10 articles.

Freight Train

By: Donald Crews

Age Level: 0-3
Reading Level: Pre-Reader

The individual cars of a long freight train — each a different color — travel through the country and past cities. Building speed as it goes, colors blur until the train again slows. This seemingly simple book provides a memorable journey for young readers.

Frog and Toad Are Friends

By: Arnold Lobel

Age Level: 6-9
Reading Level: Independent Reader

Five short stories about best friends celebrate everyday activities. Each of them has a very distinctive personality; but Frog and Toad find that their differences are what make their friendship special. Gentle illustrations and an easy-to-read text create treasured tales. Be sure to read other stories about the amphibious friends in Frog and Toad Together and Frog and Toad All Year.

Goodnight Moon

By: Margaret Wise Brown

Age Level: 0-3
Reading Level: Pre-Reader

In the "great green room," a young rabbit bids good night to all of the familiar objects, from the picture on the wall to the moon that peeps in the window — as the old lady comfortingly watches, as she has for generations.

Grandfather's Journey

By: Allen Say

Age Level: 6-9
Reading Level: Independent Reader

A young man travels from his native Japan to the vast country called America before returning to visit his home with his bride. The exquisite watercolors give the appearance of a family photo album as it relates this autobiographical but universal story of immigration.

Green Eggs and Ham

By: Dr. Seuss

Age Level: 3-6
Reading Level: Beginning Reader

Sam-I-Am tirelessly tries to convince the other guy that he'll just adore green eggs and ham. Resistance is futile. However, to the nameless fellow's delight, he discovers that he indeed likes the delicacy and will eat them everywhere! Readers — new and experienced — appreciate the silliness and verve of this rhyming adventure.

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

By: Kevin Henkes

Age Level: 3-6
Reading Level: Beginning Reader

When Lilly continues to show off her much-loved purple plastic purse and its contents in class, Mr. Slinger — an astute and stylish teacher — puts it away for the day. Lilly's anger toward her once favorite teacher comes out in a mean letter for which she ultimately repents.

Madeline

By: Ludwig Bemelmans

Age Level: 3-6
Reading Level: Beginning Reader

Miss Clavel has her hands full with her young students: twelve little girls of whom the youngest is Madeline. Madeline's fearlessness often causes Miss Clavel great consternation as they travel around Paris in two straight lines!

Pippi Longstocking

By: Astrid Lindgren

Age Level: 6-9
Reading Level: Beginning Reader

Pippi, an amazingly strong child, can pick up the house in which she lives alone in the middle of town. Her extraordinary adventures continue to delight and amaze children, just as Pippi did for the author's own daughter.

Where The Wild Things Are

By: Maurice Sendak

Age Level: 3-6
Reading Level: Beginning Reader

Max's imaginative adventure begins the night he wears his wolf suit and makes some mischief. When he is sent to his room to cool off, he travels to the land of the Wild Things, where he is crowned king. This beloved Caldecott-winning classic is also available in Spanish.

Go on a reading adventure with Reading Rockets' Where the Wild Things Are family literacy bag, available in English and Spanish!

Winnie-the-Pooh

By: A.A. Milne

Age Level: 3-6
Reading Level: Beginning Reader

The adventure of Christopher Robin, his friends, Pooh ("the bear of very little brain"), and the other animals in the Hundred Acre Wood remain as fresh as Milne's language and Shepard's line illustrations, presented here on sturdy, cream-colored pages. The narrator's voice of the audio book is well-matched for the tone of A. A. Milne's writing.