2. Madeline, of course! The story of a cheeky girl who lives in an orphanage (??) and gets appendicitis. My copy comes with a helpful list of the Parisian landmarks depicted in the illustrations.pic.twitter.com/SECCa8llTK
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13. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Although it is a story of the industrial age, its themes are eternal You can read this book to your child while you hold back tears thinking about how GPT-5 has rendered your labor entirely without valuepic.twitter.com/yad3jkur4r
14. Look Out For Pirates! Out of print and hard to find, a rollicking adventure story about a group of sea-boys besting a group of Pirates, stealing their treasure, and pulling a Wickerman (Nic Cage) on the pirate crewpic.twitter.com/CFTIwe47ez
15. YOU WILL GO TO THE MOON First published in 1959, this book has led to deep cynicism about the rate of technological advances in several generations of children No Virginia you will not go to the fucking Moonpic.twitter.com/pea9aUJ7wn
16. Wombat Stew A companion story to Stone Soup, involving more soup, more rampaging violations of the NAP, and more pranking It's fine. Mostly have for nostalgia.pic.twitter.com/hIE04RtnBJ
17. Pickles the Fire Cat a somber Diogenetic reflection on virtue, wrath, remorse, and repentencepic.twitter.com/hqydn6v8IK
18. The Velveteen Rabbit This one is actually extremely good and beautiful and I don't think I can actually remember the details of the story and I'm not going to reread it now because I'm not in a mood to sob uncontrollablypic.twitter.com/wYUvovTi0v
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19. Love You Forever I liked this book as a child (I don't think my parents read it to me) and it made me appreciate their love for me in a very real way. I also learned about growing up, maybe. I will not be getting it for my kids because it turns out it is heartbreakingpic.twitter.com/QwloJZJtCp
20. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom One of the dumber ways to introduce kids to the alphabet but its got a good beat and you can dance to itpic.twitter.com/AuhHNugyUI
21. The Runaway Bunny A cute book about motherly love for an age when kids aren't really ready to be aggressively independentpic.twitter.com/180hEBPYts
22. The Paper Bag Princess A book that teaches girls about the importance of being brave and clever and not tolerating bums And boys to appreciate brave and clever girls, and to not be bumspic.twitter.com/NcNsJtPEHv
23. Saint George and the Dragon The author adapted /Spencer/ for kids and Hyman illustrated down to marginalia. We shall see her work again. Kegan 3 is important for kids because good things are, Good and this book is an embodiment of this precept. A thing of beauty.pic.twitter.com/agcysFdTmm
24. Bilbo's Last Song It turns out that you can never introduce Tolkein too early. I only learned of this a week ago, and wasn't sure what I would get; I rather like it! A lovely poem, a nocturne, an elegy. Sleep well, kiddo, and dream of Amanpic.twitter.com/0MhS9vvgdu
25. The Little Prince Written by war hero Antoine de Saint-Exupery, needing no introduction, of course you must have known this book would make the list and everyone should read it BUT Did you /also/ know that some magnificent bastard made an unabridged pop-up version?pic.twitter.com/oedKYhCXv6
26. The Kitchen Knight This is another Hodge/Hyman collaboration, this time retelling part of the story of Gareth from the Matter of England Another entry in my Good Things are Good early childhood curriculum, upon which I shall expound going forwardpic.twitter.com/CWrjGSdG5K
27. East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Norse folk tales.
@orthonormalist has a fantastic reading list somewhere--preparation for a great books curriculum, but for kids.
I understand it's full of folk tales. This is not a mistake.
Children's books should be beautiful.pic.twitter.com/KWDQHK1DKt
28. Frederick There are many good ways to live. Frederick shows one of them.pic.twitter.com/aKjgZJQlui
29. Babar My parents took me to a children's theater production of Babar when I was six. The narrator was introducing the Elephant King with a series of astounded questions--"Who could this be?" I shouted "It's Babar, silly!" and he graciously granted me, "Yes, it's Babar."pic.twitter.com/nj3kFroTsr
30. Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins I don't know whether this was a popular Jewish story before it was published in _Cricket_ but by the time I was nine even my semirural Catholic school had a copypic.twitter.com/3WAXpZECkz
32. Little Red Riding Hood Of course everyone knows this story, but everyone must also hear it for the first time. A problem with many stories is that they are written for the entertainment of a jaded reader, rather than for a naive child. Modern Disney movies exemplify this.pic.twitter.com/XUD5wY1eqf
33. The Stinky Cheese Man This book is a distillation of the phenomenon I mentioned above. It is nonsensical without a familiarity of the base material; it is an attaqq on decency and aesthetics; it is concentrated irony poisoning. It is however reasonably funny.pic.twitter.com/C6ZlHzRd7h
31. Oops I missed it Here's the name of the list I mentioned, haven't found a direct link Thanks buddy!https://twitter.com/orthonormalist/status/1288647840189698048?s=19 …
34. The Little Old Man Who Could Not Read Recommended by a mutual, this is the story of a sweet old man and his incredibly long-suffering wife. I suspect there is much empathy for illiterate kids here.pic.twitter.com/nz4rIDw9S4
35. The Rainbow Goblins
Another mutual's recommendation although @selentelechia remembers it from her childhood
A tale of wickedness, gluttony, and hubris
Sumptuously illustrated by an Italian Count, painting oil on oakpic.twitter.com/o4KQnAw1rA
36. Rapunzel I wonder what it was like to publish stories about heteronormative families with uncomplicated love for one another in the late 20th century. Especially as Hyman herself was divorced, with a child; she may have been gay. What was she looking for in her art?pic.twitter.com/eU85Yy1o5h
37. Calvin and Hobbes Extremely good to read as a parent or as a kid or just generally. The complete collection is very nice but heavy for small hands. I used to babysit a bright two year old named Phinneas who identified with Calvin intensely. He made his own transmogrifier.pic.twitter.com/ujo4U3BXB1
38. Swimmy A children's introduction to ecobolshevism, ethereally illustratedpic.twitter.com/8zA6es7Wdv
39. Strega Nona A good introduction to the multifarious dangers of witchcraft, and the corruption of even the clergy by that black art. Excellent preparatory material for a future scholar of Malleus Maleficarumpic.twitter.com/eMp3W4U067
40. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Stories are not actually scary. Appropriate for ages 0-3.pic.twitter.com/2Mg3tPZB4z
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