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Sparks, to be a work of fiction – contains explicit material. Full of compassion for the angst of adolescence, we recommend it as a cautionary tale about the dangers of drug use; but be sure your teen is ready.
3 Best enjoyed after having read the previous two titles in the Earthsea cycle.
4 Adventures are to chapter books as gin is to tonic. How could we restrict ourselves?
5 Yes, you read that right. The centipede would like others to believe he has the full quotient of a hundred feet, as his name would suggest. But, as Dahl clearly knew, most centipedes in fact do not.
6 We did say our cures were ‘almost’ always fiction.
7 By, respectively, Sam McBratney, illustrated by Anita Jeram; Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd; the Rev. W Awdry; and Arnold Lobel.
8 By Daniel Defoe.
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We’ve all been there – some more recently than others. See our lists below.
THE TEN BEST BOOKS FOR BABIES
The Baby’s Catalogue ALLAN AHLBERG, ILLUSTRATED BY JANET AHLBERG
Each Peach Pear Plum ALLAN AHLBERG, ILLUSTRATED BY JANET AHLBERG
Forever EMMA DODD
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes MEM FOX, ILLUSTRATED BY HELEN OXENBURY
Mother Goose KATE GREENAWAY
Peek-a-Who? NINA LADEN
Faces JO LODGE
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? BILL MARTIN JR, ILLUSTRATED BY ERIC CARLE
Tickle Tickle HELEN OXENBURY
On the Night You Were Born NANCY TILLMAN
THE TEN BEST PICTURE BOOKS FOR RHYTHM AND RHYME
The Witch with an Itch HELEN BAUGH, ILLUSTRATED BY DEBORAH ALLWRIGHT
Mister Magnolia QUENTIN BLAKE
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed EILEEN CHRISTELOW
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy LYNLEY DODD
The Snail and the Whale JULIA DONALDSON, ILLUSTRATED BY AXEL SCHEFFLER
Oh, No! CANDACE FLEMING, ILLUSTRATED BY ERIC ROHMANN
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom BILL MARTIN JR AND JOHN ARCHAMBAULT, ILLUSTRATED BY LOIS EHLERT
Little Rabbit Foo Foo MICHAEL ROSEN, ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR ROBINS
Sing a Song of Bottoms JEANNE WILLIS, ILLUSTRATED BY ADAM STOWER
Green Eggs and Ham DR SEUSS
THE TEN BEST TOUCHY-FEELY BOOKS
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly PAM ADAMS
Fuzzy Fuzzy Fuzzy! SANDRA BOYNTON
The Very Hungry Caterpillar ERIC CARLE
Feely Bugs DAVID A CARTER
In My Tree SARA GILLINGHAM AND LORENA SIMINOVICH
I Love to Eat AMELIE GRAUX
Pat the Bunny DOROTHY KUNHARDT
Animal Kisses BARNEY SALTZBERG
Wet Pet, Dry Pet, Your Pet, My Pet DR SEUSS
That’s Not My Puppy FIONA WATT, ILLUSTRATED BY RACHEL WELLS