Experts Share Their Favorite Reads For Every Age

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While your child may request multiple readings of “Goodnight Moon” every evening, there are so many wonderful children’s books out
there just waiting to be discovered. We chatted with experts from
Scholastic, Barnes & Noble, The New York Public Library and the musical story hour mavens behind Storytime By Design, Inc. for their of-the-moment favorite books for every age.

For Babies (Board Books)

How Do Dinosaurs Laugh Out Loud,”
by Jane Yolen

Dot & Dash Meet Their Friends,”
by Emma Dodd
—recommended by Scholastic

Guess How Much I Love You,”
by Sam McBratney

Little Blue Truck,”
by Alice Schertle
—recommended by Barnes & Noble

Hello, Animals!and “Hello, Bugs!
by Smriti Prasadam

Pecan Pie Baby
by Jacqueline Woodson
—recommended by the NY Public Library

Beautiful Oops!
by Barney Saltzberg 

Ten Tiny Babies
by Karen Katz
—recommended by Storytime By Design


Picture Books (0-4)

Mr. Putnety’s Quacking Dog,”
by Jon Agee

And I Love You,”
by Ruth Krauss
—recommended by Scholastic

We Are in a Book! (Elephant & Piggie Series)”
by Mo Willems

How Rocket Learned to Read
by Tad Hills
—recommended by Barnes & Noble 

Creak! Said The Bed
by Phyllis Root

Children Make Terrible Pets” 
by Peter Brown
—recommended by Storytime By Design

Farm
by Elisha Cooper

Chalk
by Bill Thompson —recommended by the NY Public Library


Early Readers (5-8)

From Caterpillar To Butterfly
by Deborah Heiligman

Stink: Solar System Superhero (Book #5)
by Megan McDonald
—recommended by Barnes & Noble

Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same
by Grace Lin

Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse
by Marilyn Singer
—recommended by the NY Public Library

Bink & Gollie
by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee

Pierre The Penguinby Jean Marzollo
—recommended by Storytime By Design


Middle Grade (7-10) 

The Clockwork Three
by Matthew Kirby

Bobby The Brave (Sometimes)
by Lisa Yee
—recommended by Scholastic 

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson

Strange Case of Origami Yoda
by Tom Angleberger
—recommended by Barnes & Noble

One Crazy Summer
by Rita Garcia-Williams’s

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place:
Book One: The Mysterious Howling
by
Maryrose Wood
—recommended by the NY Public Library

The Mysterious Benedict Society Collection
by Trenton Lee Stewart
—recommended by Storytime By Design, Inc.


Young Adults/ Tweens 

Plain Kateby Erin Bow

Half Brotherby Kenneth Oppel
—recommended by Scholastic

A Young People’s History of the United
States
by Howard Zinn

Hunger Games (Hunger Games Book #1)
by Suzanne Collins
—recommended by Barnes & Noble

Manifestby Artist Author 

For the Winby Cory Doctorow
—recommended by the NY Public Library

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