Top 100 Children's Books

According to Childrensbooksguide.com, the following books are the top 100 Children's Books of all time. Blue titles are ones we own for Cole, pink are ones I have never even heard of! It surprises me how many there are!

Where the Wild Things Are - I may be the only person alive who doesn't like this book
The Giving Tree - I hated this book. I will never buy it for Cole.
Goodnight Moon - I can recite this in my sleep!
Green Eggs and Ham
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Guess How Much I Love You
Pat the Bunny
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Love You Forever - thank you Fairway CRC's Children's Worship for teaching me this book...I still remember every line!
Peek-a Who? - Cole LOVES this book!
Moo, Baa, La La La! - we like Sandra Boynton in this house!
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? - Cole is going to learn his colors from this book
The Going to Bed Book - Cole requests the "rock rock rock" book
The Lorax
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Press Here
Pinkalicious
Don't Let Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Animalia
A Sick Day for Amos McGee
No, David!
Everyone Poops
Go, Dog, Go!
Zen Shorts
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom - Cole giggles through this book
Goodnight, Gorilla - making up words for this one can get old
Blueberries for Sal - I don't know a single child that lasts more than two or three pages into this book
Fancy Nancy
The Lion & the Mouse
Flotsam
Corduroy - my childhood favorite
Stellaluna
Are You My Mother?
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Olivia
Strega Nona
Not a Box
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Curious George
Jumanji - I will never buy this book either
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type - LOVE
Where is Baby's Belly Button?
The Little Engine That Could
The Tale of Peter Rabbit - was never a big Peter Rabbit fan
Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day - I pretty much hate all things Richard Scarry
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - Love all the renditions of this
The Kissing Hand
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Caps for Sale
Tumford the Terrible
Sheep in a Jeep - this starts the giggles too
Tuesday
Tikki Tikki Tembo
Eleventh Hour
I Want My Hat Back
In the Night Kitchen
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
The Runaway Bunny
Someday
The Red Book
Once Upon a Potty
Art & Max
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
The Rainbow Fish
The Snowy Day
Madeline
The Little House
The Paper Bag Princess
Gallop!
The Napping House - did a project on this in my children's lit class
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?
The Cat in the Hat
Make Way for Ducklings - again too long for most kids
Open the Barn Door, Find a Cow
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
The Polar Express
The Story of Ferdinand - I really want this book
How the Grinch Stole Christmas - we have two versions of this on dvd, but no book
Hop on Pop
Jamberry
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book - definitely a favorite. He LOVES this one. I have it memorized!
Kitten's First Full Moon
Llama Llama Red Pajama
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear
Time for Bed
The Dot
How I Became a Pirate
Owl Moon
Amazing Grace
On the Night You Were Born
The Wump World
ABC3D
Miss Rumphius
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
Miss Nelson is Missing
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

Close calls that almost made the list:
Grandpa Green
Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse - I think most Eric Carle books are too wordy
Shark vs. Train
Have You Filled a Bucket Today?
Swimmy
The Story of Babar
George and Martha
Russell the Sheep
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
Bark George
My Friend Rabbit
Stone Soup
The Rainbow Goblins
Little Pea
Library Lion
Puff, the Magic Dragon
Sector 7
Snowflake Bentley
The Story About Ping
Counting Kisses


Apparently, Cole and I need to find more of these books and do some more reading!