What books do you own?

Where do I start? I don’t know the ages of your children, but here are some I consider essential:

For the younger set:

Make Way for Ducklings and Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey

Anything by Eric Carle

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See and its sequels by Bill Martin Jr.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and others by Virginia Lee Burton

Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

The Little Engine that Could

For the chapter book and older set:

Winnie the Pooh (Milne)

Little House series (Wilder)

Louisa May Alcott

Jane Austen (high school and up)

Caddie Woodlawn (Brink)

Anne of Green Gables series

Chronicles of Narnia

Alice in Wonderland

The Secret Garden and The Little Princess by Burnett

The Ramona books and the Henry books by Beverly Cleary

That’s only a sampling of what I’ve collected over the years. Dh says I have too many. I say if you’re homeschooling, you can never have too many books.

HTH,

Karen

I’ll take you on a tour of our home. Please come in. This is the entry room, which is where we keep the books. Now step into the family room, which is where we keep the books. As you pass through the kitchen notice that this is where we keep the books. Oh, and these are the bedrooms, which is where we keep the books.

Karen keeps telling me, “Moderation in everything . . . except books.” Of course, that’s only second to “Can you build some more shelves please?”

Many of our favorites are in the CM Bookfinder too.

I’m not sure how old your children are, but for art appreciation books in the younger years, we love Lucy Micklethwait’s books and Gladys S. Blizzards Come Look With Me series.  Our favorites for living geography books are My Sahara Adventure: 52 Days by Camel by Lawrie Raskin, plus Sovietrek and AfricaTrek by Dan Buettner.

Have fun expanding your library.    I (along with anyone else on this forum, I am sure) love looking for new books.