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28. Frederick There are many good ways to live. Frederick shows one of them.pic.twitter.com/aKjgZJQlui
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …
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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
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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
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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
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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
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38. Swimmy A children's introduction to ecobolshevism, ethereally illustratedpic.twitter.com/8zA6es7Wdv
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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
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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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41. Where The Wild Things Are Monarchoprimitivist Calvin and Hobbespic.twitter.com/v9J6hVQ4qk
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42. Corduroy Every think about how corduroy is probably actually a terrible fabric for a stuffed animal of any varietypic.twitter.com/8idYcX6Jt2
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43. Goodnight Moon Deep lore: 1. My ex had a theory the old woman was actually a ghost 2. Some old biddy kept this out of the New York Public Library for decadespic.twitter.com/1fuP9pvPuO
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Found more books on another bookcase Kids like diversity in their reading material right
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Baby is not due til late February/early March and this is all I know how to do to prepare for being a dad I find myself getting more books about as quickly I list them here, another dozen or two are on the way along with a few dozen I have that I haven't posted yet Oh dear
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44. Augie and the Green Knight By
@ZachWeiner and illustrated by@Bouletcorp I backed this on Kickstarter but lost the original copy It is extremely good, perfect really, for an unusually precocious grade schooler but might not be fully appreciated otherwisepic.twitter.com/UQCk6W9xrQ
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45. Charlotte's Web welphttps://twitter.com/mikeets14/status/1289329699735257088?s=19 …
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46. The Big Brown Bear Another extremely dumb book and I loved it when I was three Long-suffering wives with dumb husband's appears to be an ancient trope Sorry
@selentelechia we become the stories we readpic.twitter.com/9nViIvWz1j
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47. The Gashlycrumb Tinies A firm, morally-upright traditional British alphabet bookpic.twitter.com/wH0ZRq8lSK
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48. Bare Bear An ethnographic extract regarding the vile sartorial habits of polar megafauna Hilarious to four year oldspic.twitter.com/WOmzLqCUWn
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49. Various Eric Carle books Overall would rate: Caterpillar: 10/10 Ladybug: 6/10 Bear: 7/10 Spider: 9/10 Rereading I was slightly irritated that they're overengineered pedagogical devices rather than just stories but the art is gorgeouspic.twitter.com/Nwbxvyt4JQ
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50. The Story of Ferdinand, The Bull Who Just Wanted to Grill, Por Deo's Sake vaguely offensive to the entire Iberian Peninsula probablypic.twitter.com/zjmZ58ckdq
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51. The Tyger Voyage From the man who brought you Watership Down and Shardik, a Victorian tale of a father-son voyage (they are Tigers) No horrifying animal deaths but there is an element of the occult Newer versions have replaced the g-word with the preferred "Vistani"pic.twitter.com/3NMHYSuW8K
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52. Dorrie's Magic From a mutual's recommendation. Very much a learn-to-read book, I found it charming Dorrie just wants her room to be cleaned and she doesn't want to do it herself. Deeply relatable, with an ultimately Petersonesque messagepic.twitter.com/x77dPWTmPN
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53. The Sleeping Beauty Another Hyman retelling, very much not Disney-style A story about the importance of party etiquette and the ineluctability of Fate Illustrations include tasteful nudes and corpsespic.twitter.com/wChyIq7FHr
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54. Where the Sidewalk Ends Various horrifying poems and illustrations by Shel Silverstein, a strange man Beloved by third graders who have to read a poem for school I have to say they have stuck with mepic.twitter.com/DDBrAryXIK
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