Starting a family library
These titles, recommended by the Association of Library Service to Children/Association of Booksellers for Children Joint Committee and BlueSuitMom mothers are excellent choices for getting your home library off to a good start:
Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary , Philip D. Eastman
Webster's New World College Dictionary
The New American Roget's College Thesaurus in Dictionary Form Roget's Twenty-First Century
Checking Your Grammar (Scholastic Guides) , Marvin Terban
Everything You Want to Know About Sports Encyclopedia , Neil Cohen, editor
Dictionary of Nature , David Burnie,
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
American History Smart Junior : Exploring America's Past
The New Way Things Work , David MaCaulay and Neil Ardley
300 Incredible Things for Kids on the Internet , Ken Leebow
The Children's Book of Virtues , William Bennet
The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud
Aesop's Fables , Aesop
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales , Hans Christian Andersen
From Sea to Shining Sea, A Treasury of Folklore and Folk Songs , Amy Cohen
Random House of Poetry for Children , Jack Prelutsky
The Hobbit , J.R.R. Tolkein
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