List of 100 Best Books for Children - Debt Free Spending (2024)

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#1. Tikki Tikki Tembo– This is my all-time favorite, and one that many people may not have heard about!

#2. Goodnight Moon– This is a classic bedtime book, and one that every child should hear many nights before hitting the hay!!

#3.The Cat in the Hat (Beginner Books(R)) – Is there any child in America who has not heard of this book? Also, ANY books written by Dr. Seuss!

#4. The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Adorable story to learn the days of the week! 🙂 ALL Eric Carle books are good!

#5. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Classic Board Books)

#6. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? – Another Eric Carle favorite, with fun rhymes!

#7. Corduroy

#8.The Snowy Day

#9. Where the Wild Things Are

#10. Love You Forever

#11. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

#12. Strega Nona (Aladdin Picture Books)

#13. The Kissing Hand

#14. Stone Soup (Aladdin Picture Books)

#15. Kindergarten Rocks!

16.Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

#17. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (If You Give…)

#18. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

#19.Yo! Yes? (Scholastic Bookshelf)

#20. The Mitten

#21. The Giving Tree
#22. The Polar Express
#23. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
#24. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
#25. Owl Moon
#26. Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
#27. Madeline
#28. The Monster at the End of This Book (Sesame Street) (Little Golden Book)
#29. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Classic Board Books)
#30. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Illustrated)

#1. ALL Dr. Seuss Books
#2. A Kiss for Little Bear (An I Can Read Book)
#3. All Dick & Jane Books
#4. One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
#5. Are You My Mother? (Beginner Books(R))
#6. Green Eggs and Ham (I Can Read It All by Myself)
#7. Little Bear (An I Can Read Book)
#8. Fox in Socks
#9. Frog and Toad Are Friends: I Can Read Level 2 (I Can Read Book 2)
#10. Hop on Pop

(Many of these are part of a chapter book series)

#1.Sophie #1: Sophie the Awesome (series)
#2. Horrible Harry in Room 2B (series)
#3.Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds #1: The Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds #1 (series)
#4. The Littles (series)
#5. The Case of Hermie the Missing Hamster (Jigsaw Jones Mystery, No. 1) (series)
#6. Amelia Bedelia (series)
#7. Mighty Monty (has sequels)
#8. A to Z Mysteries: The Absent Author (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) (series)
#9. Magic Tree House: Books 1-4 Ebook Collection: Mystery of the Tree House (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) (series)
#10. Lulu and the Brontosaurus (series)
#11. Missy’s Super Duper Royal Deluxe #1: Picture Day (A Branches Book) (series)
#12. Junie B.’s First Ever Ebook Collection!: Books 1-4 (Junie B. Jones)
#13. Amber Brown Is Not A Crayon
#14. Nate the Great
#15. The Flat Stanley Collection Box Set: Flat Stanley, Invisible Stanley, Stanley in Space, and Stanley, Flat Again!
#16. Clementine
#17. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
#18. Bink and Gollie
#19. My Father’s Dragon: The Classic Story for Children (Illustrated)
#20. The Frog and Toad Collection Box Set (I Can Read Book 2)

Classics:
#1. The Ralph Mouse Collection (The Mouse and the Motorcycle / Runaway Ralph / Ralph S. Mouse)
#2. Sarah, Plain and Tall
#3. Judy Blume’s Fudge Box Set
#4. Little House Nine-Book Box Set
#5. The Complete Ramona Collection: Beezus and Ramona, Ramona and Her Father, Ramona and Her Mother, Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Ramona Forever, Ramona the Brave, Ramona the Pest, Ramona’s World
#6. The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children Mysteries) (Series)
#7. Mr. Popper’s Penguins
#8. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
#9. Dear Mr. Henshaw (Avon Camelot Books)
#10. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)
#11. Stone Fox (Harper Trophy Book)
#12. Because of Winn-Dixie
#13. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (All of Roald Dahl’s Books are very good)
#14. Number the Stars
#15. Frindle
#16. The Chocolate Touch
#17. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1 (series)
#18. Charlotte’s Web (Trophy Newbery)
#19. Percy Jackson pbk 5-book boxed set (Percy Jackson & the Olympians)
#20. Bridge to Terabithia
#21. Tuck Everlasting
#22. Shiloh
#23. The Sign of the Beaver
#24. Where the Red Fern Grows
#25. Stuart Little
#26. Hatchet
#27. My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics)
#28. Freckle Juice
#29.The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: The Chronicles of Narnia
#30. The Indian in the Cupboard
#31. Caddie Woodlawn
#32. The Judy Moody Uber-Awesome Collection: Books 1-9
#33. Encyclopedia Brown Box Set (4 Books)
#34. Holes
#35. Walk Two Moons (Trophy Newbery)
#36. Inkspell (Inkheart Trilogy)
#37. The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
#38. Tucket’s Ride (The Francis Tucket Books)
#39. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Book 1)
#40. Out of the Dust

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