Michelle Menner

The best kids' books, age-by-age

best children's book

• Baby

• The Going-To-Bed Book by Sandra Boynton

• Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

• Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

• Peek-A-Zoo! by Marie Torres Cimarusti 

• Time for Bed by Mem Fox

• Kitten’s First Moon by Kevin Henkes

• Where’s Spot? by Eric Hill

• Where is Baby’s Belly Button by Karen Katz 

• Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt 

• Little Blue & Little Yellow by Leo Lionni

• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.

• Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? By Bill Martin Jr. 

• Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney 

• Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh  

• Ages 2-4  

• My Friend Bear by Jez Alborough 

• ’m the Best by Lucy Cousins 

• Llama Llama Mad at Mama by Anna Dewdney  

• Big Dog... Little Dog by P.D. Eastman

• Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert 

• Corduroy by Don Freeman 

• My Garden by Kevin Henkes

• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

• A Book of Sleep by Il Sung Na 

• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff  

• Not a Box by Antoinette Portis

• No, David! by David Shannon

• Dinosaur vs. Bedtime by Bob Shea

• Art & Max by David Weisner 

• Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems  

• Ages 4-8 

• The Mitten by Jan Brett 

• Ramona by Beverly Cleary 

• Mercy Watson series by Kate DiCamillo 

• Bread and Jam for Francis by Russell Hoban 

• The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norman Juster 

• Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann

• Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor 

• Of Thee I Sing by Barack Obama

• Paula Deen’sMy First Cookbook 

• Amelia Bedelia series by Peggy Parish 

• Chicken Butt by Erica Perl 

• Duck! Rabbit! By Amy Krouse Rosenthal

• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

• Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner 

• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst  

• Ages 9-12

• Mr. Poppers Penguins by Richard Atwater

• SuperFudge by Judy Blume  

• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett  

• Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

• The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies 

• Hardy Boys series by Franklin W. Dixon 

• Guinness Book of World Records

• Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

• When Life Gives You O.J. by Erica Perl 

• 39 Clues series by Rick Riordan

• Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling  

• Wayside School series by Louis Sachar 

• Stuart Little by E.B. White 

• Charlotte\'s Web by E.B. White