(A guest post from my friend Liz Holst, who would surely be a children’s librarian if she had another life to live.)

1. Bear Snores On
2. Bear Wants More
3. Sailor Moo
4. One Dark Night
5. Goodnight Moon
6. The Big Red Barn
7. Pass the Fritters, Critters
8. The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear
9. Is Your Mama a Llama?
10. Sakes Alive a Cattle Drive
11. The Mitten (or any Jan Brett)
12. Click Clack Moo, Cows That Type
13. The Little Engine That Could
14. Fancy Nancy
15. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
16. Blaze and the Lost Quarry (and other Billy and Blaze books)
17. Wool Gathering: A Sheep Family Reunion
18. Panda Bear, Panda Bear What Do You See? (again, there are several)
19. If You Give a Pig a Pancake (entire series)
20. Cars and Trucks and Things That Go
21. Jamberry
22. Make Way for Ducklings

This obviously is not an all-inclusive list—just some of our personal favorites, from classics to newer authors.

What would you add?

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Great instruction directs us toward ideas, while helping us feel like we’re genuinely finding these ideas ourselves, rather than being blindly led.

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Answering Reformissionary,

1. Anything Can Happen
2. The Catcher in the Rye
3. Blue Like Jazz
4. Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus
5. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage

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The Road carves fatherhood down to its thinnest core, leaving the comfortable, untested reader wondering if he’s man enough for this job.

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Need help accomplishing some unlikely goal?

Like growing your hair out…

…or writing a novel?

Tell everyone that you’re gonna do it.

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