1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up Julia Eccleshare, Ed. Universe, 2009 This kind of reference makes you think about devoting an entire year to reading just children's books. When you see so many favourites discussed herein, you only want to reread them. And when you see
1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up Julia Eccleshare, Ed. Universe, 2009 Chances are that you've already heard of the voluminous list of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (I've spent even more time starting at this list, thanks to the 1% Well-Read Challenge, which requires that
Margaret Laurence's The Olden Days Coat (1979) Illus. Muriel Wood Tundra Books, 1998 Every time I read this book I think "surely this time I won't cry", but I always do. And it's not because this is a sad story, but there is something so overwhelmingly touching about it, that
Camille Yarbrough's The Shimmershine Queens Putnam-Penguin 1989 When I've had one of those soulfully-exhausting days (or weeks), one of the things that I like to do is browse in the children's library. I have my favourite branches, but often this is a hasty act of desperation which involves stopping at
Anita Silvey's 500 Great Books for Teens Houghton Mifflin, 2006 M.T. Anderson's Burger Wuss (1999) 12-14 Joan Bauer's Rules of the Road (1998) 12-14 Joan Bauer's Squashed (1992) 12-14 * Ann Brashares' The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001) 12-14 Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods (1998) 14-18 *
