These are just some of the books we have enjoyed with our younger children (ages 6 and under) over the years.

	Atwater, Richard & Florence, Mr. Popper's Penguins
	Awdry, Christopher, Great Little Engines
	Awdry, Rev. W., Gordon the Big Engine
	Awdry, Rev. W., James the Red Engine
	Awdry, Rev. W., Percy the Small Engine
	Awdry, Rev. W., The Three Railway Engines
	Barham, Rev. R.H., illus. Lynette Hemmant, The Jackdaw of Rheims [We borrowed this one from the library; I wouldn't have read it to the children this young, except that the illustrations were so good. They really enjoyed it, though.]
	Baum, Frank L., The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
	Bemelmans, Ludwig, Madeline
	Blyton, Enid, Brer Rabbit's a Rascal
	Blyton, Enid, Hurrah for Little Noddy
	Blyton, Enid, Well Done, Secret Seven
	Boardman, Alan, & Roland Harvey, The First Fleet
	Brisley, Joyce Lankester, Milly-Molly-Mandy and Billy Blunt
	Brisley, Joyce Lankester, More of Milly-Molly-Mandy
	Brown, Marcia, Stone Soup
	Browning, Robert, (illus., Kate Greenaway), The Pied Piper of Hamelin
	Bruna, Dick, Miffy [& others by the same author – I have never been particularly fond of Dick Bruna, but these have been particularly popular with our children at about the age of 2]
	Bunyan, John, Pilgrim's Progress (retold in modern English) [We read this once, but we keep coming back to the unabridged version]
	Burton, Virginia, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
	Burton, Virginia, The Little House
	Carruth, Jane, Tales from Grimm, Anderson, and Perrault
	Carter, Mary, Mary Jones and Her Bible
	Caselli, Giovanni, The Everyday Life of A Boston Trader
	Caselli, Giovanni, The Everyday Life of A Cathedral Builder
	Caselli, Giovanni, The Everyday Life of A Florentine Merchant
	Caselli, Giovanni, The Everyday Life of A German Printer
	Caselli, Giovanni, The Everyday Life of A Master Engineer
	Caselli, Giovanni, The Everyday Life of A Medieval Monk
	Caselli, Giovanni, The Everyday Life of An American Pioneer
	Caselli, Giovanni, The Everyday Life of An Irish Pilgrim
	Chadwick, Doris, John of the Sirius
	Dalgliesh, Alice, The Courage of Sarah Noble
	Dalgliesh, Alice, The Little Wooden Farmer
	De Brunhoff, Jean, The Story of Babar
	Dickson, Margaret, The Boy Who Ran Away
	Dorling Kindersley, The Big Book Of Things That Go
	Flack, Marjorie & Kurt Wiese, The Story About Ping
	Flack, Marjorie, Angus and the Ducks
	Fulton, Ginger Adair, Saying No to Mr Stranger
	Fulton, Ginger Adair, When I'm a Daddy
	Fulton, Ginger Adair, When I'm a Mommy
	Gag, Wanda, Millions of Cats
	Graham, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows
	Grove, Ella, Adventures of Mohan [Rod & Staff]
	Grove, Ella, This is Mohan [Rod & Staff]
	Harrison, Sarah, Laura and Edmund [retold from Lark Rise to Candleford]
	Harrison, Sarah, Laura and Old Lumber
	Harrison, Sarah, Laura and The Lady
	Harrison, Sarah, Laura and The Squire
	Herriot, James, Bonny's Big Day
	Herriot, James, Moses the Kitten
	Herriot, James, Only One Woof
	Herriot, James, The Christmas Day Kitten
	Hissey, Jane, Little Bear Lost
	Hissey, Jane, Old Bear
	Hodges, Margaret, Saint George and the Dragon
	Hughes, Shirley, Alfie's Boots
	Hughes, Shirley, Alfie Gets in First
	Hughes, Shirley, Dogger
	Jaques, Faith, Tilly's House
	Jaques, Faith, Tilly's Rescue
	Kincaid, Eric (illus.), A Children's Book of Verse
	King-Smith, Dick, Babe [old title – The Sheep Pig] – this is one we have to keep coming back to, it’s so good!]
	King-Smith, Dick, Farmer Bungle Forgets
	Kipling, Rudyard, Just So Stories [especially “The Elephant's Child”, “How the Whale got his Throat”, “How the Camel got his Hump”, & “How the Rhinoceros got his skin” – probably in that order; the children don't necessarily understand it all, but they love the sound of the words.]
	Ladybird “Well Loved Tales”, Dick Whittington and His Cat
	Ladybird Books, Chicken Licken
	Le Feuvre, Amy, Daddy's Sword
	Leaf, Munro, Wee Gillies
	Lewis, C.S., The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
	Lewis, C.S., The Horse and His Boy
	Lewis, Gary & Nan McNab, A-Z of Australian Wildlife
	Lobel, Arnold, Frog and Toad are Friends
	Lofting, Hugh, The Story of Dr Doolittle
	Lofting, Hugh, The Voyages of Dr Doolittle
	Lofting, Hugh, Dr Doolittle's Circus
	Lofting, Hugh, Dr Doolittle's Post Office
	Lofting, Hugh, Dr Doolittle's Zoo
	Marshall, H.E., Kings and Things: First Stories from English History
	Martin, Maria, Caterpillar Green [Rod & Staff]
	Mayo, Pamela, My First Atlas
	McCloskey, Robert, Make Way for Ducklings
	Milne, A.A., When We Were Very Young
	Minarik, Else Holmelund, Little Bear
	Morgan, Teresa, Days on the Farm with Annette and Samuel [Rod & Staff]
	Morris, Jill, Rufus the Red Kangaroo
	Morris, John, & Ken Ham, What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?
	O'Brien, Patrick, The Making of a Knight: How Sir James Earned His Armor
	Opie, Iona & Peter, The Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes
	Parish, Peggy, Come Back Amelia Bedelia
	Parrish, Peggy, Ootah's Lucky Day
	Porter, Eleanor H., Pollyanna (abridged version)
	Potter, Beatrix, Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes
	Potter, Beatrix, The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit
	Potter, Beatrix, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
	Potter, Beatrix, The Tale of Johnny Town Mouse
	Potter, Beatrix, The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher
	Potter, Beatrix, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
	Potter, Beatrix, The Tale of Pigling Bland
	Potter, Beatrix, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
	Potter, Beatrix, The Tale of Tuppenny
	Potter, Beatrix, The Tale of Two Bad Mice
	Proysen, Alf, Little Old Mrs Pepperpot
	Rees, Leslie, Sarli the Barrier Reef Turtle
	Regent Classics, Robin Hood and His Merry Men
	Rod & Staff, Poems for Memorisation (selections)
	Roughsey, Dick, The Rainbow Serpent
	Scarry, Richard, What Do People Do All Day?
	Schoolland, Marion M., Leading Little Ones to God
	Sedgwick, Modwena, The Adventures of Galldora
	Selsam, Millicent E., Questions and Answers About Ants [and other science titles by the same author]
	Sensenig, Janet Martin, Daryl Borrows a Brother [Rod & Staff]
	Seuss, Dr, Green Eggs and Ham
	Seuss, Dr, Horton Hatches the Egg
	Seuss, Dr, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
	Spencer, Rita, Bushrangers
	Steel, Barry & Anne, The Romans (Living History)
	Stevenson, R.L., A Child's Garden of Verses (Selections)
	Stevenson, R.L., Treasure Island
	The Country Life Book of Nursery Rhymes
	Thiele, Colin, Farmer Schulz's Ducks
	Usborne Story Books, Aesop's Fables
	Usborne, Then and Now
	Usborne, Things People Do
	Vos, Catherine, The Child's Story Bible (3 vols.)
	Waddell, Martin, Let's Go Home, Little Bear
	Waddell, Martin, Sailor Bear
	White, E.B., Charlotte's Web [Caution with this one: most of our children enjoyed it, but one became very upset when Charlotte died.]
	White, Paul, Jungle Doctor's Fables
	White, Paul, Whatever's Happening to Mother
	Wilkes, Angela, The Adventures of King Arthur (Usborne Picture Classics)
	Williams, Ursula Moray, The Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse
	Winthrop, Elizabeth, My First Book of the Planets (Little Golden Books)
	Zakhoder, Boris, The Crocodile's Toothbrush
	Ziefert, Harriet, A New Coat for Anna
	Zion, Gene, Harry by the Sea
	Zion, Gene, Harry the Dirty Dog
	Zion, Gene, No Roses for Harry