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Gypsy, Kate Seredy (The Viking Press, 1951; out of print) 107
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Happy Days, Ogden Nash (out of print; see Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash, Black Dog & Leventhal, 1995; hardcover) 53
The Happy Prince and Other Tales, Oscar Wilde (Everyman’s Library, 1995; hardcover) 76
Hare’s Choice, Dennis Hamley (Delacorte Press, 1988; out of print) 100
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J. K. Rowling (Scholastic, 1997; hardcover) 62
Harry the Dirty Dog, Gene Zion (Harper Trophy 1976; paperback) 15
Hattie and the Wild Waves, Barbara Cooney (Puffin, 1993; paperback) 40
Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Betty MacDonald (Harper Trophy, 1989; paperback) 50
Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More to Life, Maurice Sendak (Harper Trophy, 1979; paperback) 91
Histories; or, Tales of Times Past, Charles Perrault (out of print; see The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Houghton Mifflin, 1993; hardcover) 115
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, J. R. R. Tolkien (Ballantine Books, 1990; paperback) 92
A Hole Is to Dig, Ruth Krauss (Harper Trophy, 1989; paperback) 39
Hop on Pop, Dr. Seuss (Beginner Books, 1966; hardcover) 88
The Horse and His Boy, C. S. Lewis (Harper Trophy, 1994; paperback) 55
The House at Pooh Corner, A. A. Milne (Puffin, 1992; paperback) 20
How to Make an Earthquake, Ruth Krauss (Harper & Row, 1954; out of print) 35
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Laura Joffe Numeroff (Harper Trophy, 1997; paperback) 65
If You Listen, Charlotte Zolotow (Harper & Row, 1980; out of print) 110
If You’re Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow, Cooper Edens (Simon & Schuster Children’s Books, 1992; paperback) 60
Incredible Ned, Bill Maynard (Putnam, 1997; hardcover) 21
The Indian in the Cupboard, Lynne Reid Banks (Avon, 1995; paperback) 12, 84
Insectlopedia, Douglas Florian (Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998; hardcover) 26
The Iron Ring, Lloyd Alexander (New American Library, 1999; paperback) 49
It’s Like This, Cat, Emily Neville (Harper Trophy, 1992; paperback) 16
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Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson (Harper Trophy, 1990; paperback) 11
Journey from Peppermint Street, Meindert Dejong (Harper & Row, 1968; out of print) 123
Judy Scuppernong, Brenda Seabrooke (Cobblehill Books, 1990; out of print) 117
The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm, Vol. II, Lore Segal (Noonday Press, 1992; paperback) 92
Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling (Puffin, 1995; paperback) 24, 94
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King Matt the First, Janusz Korczak (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986; out of print) 48, 77, 86
The King’s Equal, Katherine Paterson (Harper Trophy, 1996; paperback) 60
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The Land of Right Up and Down, Eva-Lis Wuorio (The World Publishing Co., 1964; out of print) 69
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, Maya Angelou (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1993; hardcover) 10
A Light in the Attic, Shel Silverstein (HarperCollins Children’s Books, 1981; hardcover) 86
The Little Bookroom, Eleanor Farjeon (Oxford University Press, 1956; out of print) 75
The Little Engine That Could, Watty Piper (Platt & Munk, 1990; hardcover) 9
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1982; paperback) 52, 71, 76, 104, 118
Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper Trophy, 1973; paperback) 61
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (Scholastic Paperbacks, 1994; paperback) 41, 79, 92
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Madeline, Ludwig Bemelmans (The Viking Press, 1977; paperback) 8
Mary Poppins, P. L. Travers (Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1997; paperback) 14, 58
Max Makes a Million, Maira Kalman (Viking Penguin, 1990; hardcover) 20
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Howard Pyle (New American Library, 1991; paperback) 97
Miracles on Maple Hill, Virginia Sorensen (Harcourt, Brace, 1990; paperback) 82
Misery Loves Company, Suzanne Heller (Paul S. Eriksson, Inc., 1967; out of print) 52
Miss Bianca, Margery Sharp (Little, Brown & Co., 1962; out of print) 82, 84
Miss Charity Comes to Stay, Alberta Wilson Constant (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1959; out of print) 52, 72, 115
Miss Hickory, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (The Viking Press, 1977; paperback) 39, 46, 72
Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney (Puffin, 1985; paperback) 129
The Moon Lady, Amy Tan (Aladdin Paperbacks, 1995; paperback) 114
Morning Girl, Michael Dorris (Hyperion Books for Children, 1994; paperback) 45, 118
The Most Beautiful Place in the World, Ann Cameron (Knopf, 1993; paperback) 34, 102
Mother Carey’s Chickens, Kate Douglas Wiggin (Houghton Mifflin, 1930; out of print) 54
Mother Goose nursery rhymes (many editions; see Mother Goose, Arthur Rackham, NTC Contemporary, 1998; paperback) 49, 111
The Mouse and His Child, Russell Hoban (Harper & Row, 1967; out of print) 7, 106, 117
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien (Aladdin Paperbacks, 1986; paperback) 108
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic, Betty MacDonald (Harper Trophy, 1989; paperback) 99
My Father’s Dragon, Ruth Stiles Gannett (Knopf, 1988; paperback) 88
My Mama Says There Aren’t Any Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires, Creatures, Demons, Monsters, Fiends, Goblins, or Things, Judith Viorst (Aladdin Paperbacks, 1987; paperback) 56
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Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus, Isaac Bashevis Singer (Sunburst, 1987; paperback) 98
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories: The Hidden Staircase, Carolyn Keene (Applewood Books, 1991; hardcover) 113
National Velvet, Enid Bagnold (Flare, 1991; paperback) 25, 46
Nobody Stole the Pie, Sonia Levitin (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980; out of print) 81, 110
The New Kid on the Block, Jack Prelutsky (Greenwillow, 1984; hardcover) 67
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry (Yearling Books, 1990; paperback) 99
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Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, Dr. Seuss (Random House, 1990; hardcover) 50
Oh, the THINKS You Can Think!, Dr. Seuss (Beginner Books, 1975; hardcover) 20
The 101 Dalmations, Dodie Smith (Puffin, 1989; paperback) 27, 29
Opposites: Poems and Drawings, Richard Wilbur (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1973; out of print) 78
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse (Scholastic Paperbacks, 1999; paperback) 80, 107
The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton (Puffin, 1997; paperback) 88, 117
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Edward Lear (HarperCollins Children’s Books, 1998; hardcover) 31
Ozma of Oz, L. Frank Baum (Ballantine Books, 1990; paperback) 43
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Peach and Blue, Sarah S. Kilborne (Dragonfly, 1998; paperback) 36
The Perilous Road, William O. Steele (Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1990; paperback) 77
Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie (Puffin, 1996; paperback) 21, 23, 128
The Peterkin Papers, Lucretia P. Hale (St. Martin’s Press, 1994; hardcover) 102
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster (Random House, 1988; paperback) 12, 47, 87
Phoebe and the Spelling Bee, Barney Saltzberg (Hyperion Books for Children, 1997; hardcover) 17
Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren (Puffin, 1997; paperback) 22, 38
Pleasant Fieldmouse, Jan Wahl (Harper & Row, 1964; out of print) 96
Poems, Rachel Field (The Macmillan Company, 1957; out of print) 70
Popcorn, James Stevenson (Greenwillow, 1998; hardcover) 114
The Puck of Pook’s Hill, Rudyard Kipling (Penguin, 1991; paperback) 60
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin (Puffin, 1995; paperback) 14, 22, 109, 124, 129
Rewards and Fairies, Rudyard Kipling (out of print; see Rudyard Kipling: Complete Verse, Doubleday, 1989; paperback) 104
> Rhymes of Childhood, James Whitcomb Riley (out of print; see The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Indiana University Press, 1993; paperback) 89
A Ring of Endless Light, Madeleine L’Engle (Laurel Leaf Library, 1981; paperback) 101
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor (Viking Penguin, 1997; paperback) 47
Roller Skates, Ruth Sawyer (Puffin, 1986; paperback) 36
Rootabaga Stories: Part One, Carl Sandburg (Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1974; paperback) 74, 99
The Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown (Harper Trophy, 1977; paperback) 32
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Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan (Harper Trophy, 1987; paperback) 73
Sarah Somebody, Florence Slobodkin (The Vanguard Press, 1969; out of print) 116
School for Sillies, Jay Williams (Parents Magazine Press, 1969; out of print) 106
Scooter, Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow, 1993; hardcover) 21
Scorpions, Walter Dean Myers (Harper Trophy, 1995; paperback) 44
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (Scholastic, 1997; paperback) 118, 122
Sid Seal, Houseman, Will Watkins (Orchard Books, 1989; out of print) 89
Sounder, William H. Armstrong (Harper Trophy, 1972; paperback) 72, 101
Stories for Children, Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984) v
Sumi’s Special Happening, Yoshiko Uchida (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1966; out of print) 126
Sun & Spoon, Kevin Henkes (Puffin, 1998; paperback) 45
The Sweet and Sour Animal Book, Langston Hughes (Oxford University Press, 1997; paperback) 27
Switch on the Night, Ray Bradbury (Pantheon Books, 1955; out of print) 34
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The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks, Katherine Paterson (Puffin, 1995; paperback) 35
Tales Told Again, Walter de la Mare (Knopf, 1927; out of print) 83
Tar Beach, Faith Ringgold (Dragonfly, 1996; paperback) 24
Thimble Summer, Elizabeth Enright (Yearling Books, 1987; paperback) 15
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll (Puffin, 1996; paperback) 64, 98
Timothy Twinge, Florence Parry Heide and Roxanne Heide Pierce (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1993; out of print) 19
To Be A Drum, Evelyn Coleman (Albert Whitman & Co., 1998; hardcover) 79
Top Banana, Cari Best (Orchard Books, 1997; hardcover) 14
The Treasure, Uri Shulevitz (Sunburst, 1986; paperback) 105
A Tree Is Nice, Janice May Udry (Harper Trophy, 1987; paperback) 71
The Trumpet of the Swan, E. B. White (Harper Trophy, 1973; paperback) 8, 70, 110
The Trumpeter of Krakow, Eric P. Kelly (Aladdin Paperbacks, 1992; paperback) 120
Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt (Sunburst, 1985; paperback) 40, 120, 123
The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pène du Bois (Puffin, 1986; paperback) 93
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Uncle Wiggily’s Story Book, Howard R. Garis (Grosset & Dunlap, 1987; hardcover) 40
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The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams (Scholastic Paperbacks, 1990; paperback) 33
Victor and Christabel, Petra Mathers (Knopf, 1993; hardcover) 34
The View from Saturday, E. L. Konigsburg (Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998; paperback) 10, 66
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting (Yearling Books, 1997; paperback) 47
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Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech (Harper Trophy, 1996; paperback) 33
The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley (Puffin, 1995; paperback) 27, 51, 84, 104
Waterless Mountain, Laura Adams Armer (Longmans, Green and Co., 1931; out of print) 28, 95, 101, 112
What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything? and Other Stories, Avi (Candlewick Press, 1997; paperback) 56, 79
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein (Harper Collins Children’s Books, 1974; hardcover) 67
Where the Wild Geese Go, Meredith Ann Pierce (E. P. Dutton & Co., 1988; out of print) 59
Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak (HarperTrophy, 1988; paperback) 13
The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman (Troll Communications, 1996; paperback) 117
Willie Without, Margaret Moore (Coward-McCann, 1951; out of print) 24, 59, 95
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame (Puffin, 1995; paperback) 14, 38
Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne (Puffin, 1992; paperback) 9, 40
The Wizard’s Tears, Maxine Kumin and Anne Sexton (McGraw-Hill, 1975; out of print) 29
The Wonderful Farm, Marcel Aymé (Harper Trophy, 1995; paperback) 47
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum (Oxford University Press, 1997; paperback) 61
The World Is Round, Gertrude Stein (Young Scott Books/William R. Scott, 1939; out of print) 44
Worse Than the Worst, James Stevenson (Greenwillow, 1994; hardcover) 53
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The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Aladdin Paperbacks, 1988; paperback) 11
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, Dr. Seuss (Random House, 1966; hardcover) 96
Acknowledgments and Permissions
I would like to thank the authors and their publishers listed below for permission to reprint excerpts from their works. Thanks also to Margaret Gorenstein for handling permissions. I am grateful to everyone at Algonquin Books, especially Amy Hayworth, Andra Olenik, Suzie Sisoler, Dana Stamey, and Anne Winslow; and deepest appreciation to my wise and wonderful publisher, Elisabeth Scharlatt, and my gifted editor, Antonia Fusco, truly an editor’s editor! Finally, thank you to Sondra and Ira Gash for their help and to Mark and Nick for inspiring me.
William Cole: From introductory poem from Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls by William Cole. Published in the United Kingdom by Mammoth. Reprinted by permission of the author and Laurence Pollinger Ltd.
Paul S. Eriksson, Publisher: From Misery Loves Company by Suzanne Heller. Copyright © 1967 by Suzanne Heller and reprinted by permission of Paul S. Eriksson, Publisher.
Estate of Eleanor Farjeon: Lines from “A Morning Song” from The Children’s Bells by Eleanor Farjeon, published by Oxford University Press. Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates Ltd. for the Estate of Eleanor Farjeon.
Harcourt Brace & Co.: From “How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga Country” and “And the Blue Wind Boy” in Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg, copyright 1923, 1922 by Harcourt Brace & Company and renewed 1951, 1959 by Carl Sandburg. From “Opposites” in Opposites: Poems and Drawings by Richard Wilbur, copyright © 1973 by Richard Wilbur. From “Marigolds” in Everything Glistens and Everything Sings: New and Selected Poems, copyright © 1987 by Charlotte Zolotow. From “The Crickets” in Insectlopedia by Douglas Florian, copyright © 1998 by Douglas Florian. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company.
HarperCollins Publishers: From “Ridiculous Rose” from Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. Copyright © 1974 by Evil Eye Music, Inc. From “How Not to Have to Dry the Dishes” from A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein. Copyright © 1981 by Evil Eye Music, Inc. From “Growing Up” from Always Wondering by Aileen Fisher. Copyright © 1991 by Aileen Fisher. From Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. Copyright 1947 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Copyright renewed 1975. From The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown. Copyright 1942 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Copyright © renewed 1970. From Annie Bananie by Leah Komaiko. Text copyright © 1987 by Leah Komaiko. From Fables by Arnold Lobel. Copyright © 1980 by Arnold Lobel. From If You Give A Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff. Copyright © 1985 by Laura Joffe Numeroff. From A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry. Text copyright © 1956 by Janice Udry. From Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion. Text copyright © 1956 by Eugene Zion. From “Animal Crackers” from Chimneysmoke by Christopher Morley Copyright © 1921, 1949 by Christopher Morley. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Houghton Mifflin Co.: Excerpt from the moral to “Little Red Riding Hood” from The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. Translation copyright © 1993 by Neil Philip
and Nicoletta Simborowski. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Co. and Albion Press Ltd.
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.: From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Copyright © 1964 by Roald Dahl. Copyright renewed 1992 by Felicity Dahl, Tessa Dahl, Theo Dahl, Ophelia Dahl and Lucy Dahl Faircloth. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and David Higham Associates Ltd. Published in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books Ltd.
Little Brown and Co.: From Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight by Ogden Nash. Copyright © 1961 by Ogden Nash. From Verses From 1929 On by Ogden Nash. Copyright 1933, 1936 by Ogden Nash, renewed. Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown and Company, Andre Deutsch Ltd. and Curtis Brown Ltd.
William Morrow & Co. Inc: From “Backyards” in Popcorn by James Stevenson. Copyright © 1998 by James Stevenson. From “My Mother Says I’m Sickening” in The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky. Text copyright © 1984 by Jack Prelutsky. By permission of Greenwillow Books, a division of William Morrow & Co., Inc. and Egmont Children’s Books Limited, London.
Overlook Press: Lines from “I Feel Awful” and from “Thoughts on Talkers” from The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig by Walter R. Brooks. Copyright © 1927, 1930, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1958 by Walter R. Brooks. Published by The Overlook Press, 2568 Rte. 212, Woodstock, NY 12498 (914) 679-6838.
Oxford University Press: From Black Misery by Langston Hughes. Text copyright © 1969 by Arna Bontemps and George Houston Bass as Executors of the Estate of Langston Hughes. Illustrations copyright © 1969 by Arouni. “A Lion” copyright © 1994 by Romana Bass and Arnold Rampersad, Administrators of the Estate of Langston Hughes from The Sweet and Sour Animal Book by Langston Hughes. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.
Penguin Putnam Inc.: From Judy Scuppernong by Brenda Seabrooke. Copyright © 1990 by Brenda Seabrooke. Used by permission of Cobblehill Books, an affiliate of Dutton Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc. From Max Makes a Million by Maira Kalman. Copyright © 1990 by Maira Kalman. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc. From Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans. Copyright 1939 by Ludwig Bemelmans, renewed © 1967 by Madeleine Bemelmans and Barbara Bemelmans Marciano. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc. and Scholastic Ltd. From The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper. Copyright 1930, 1945, 1954, and 1961 by The Platt & Munk Co., Inc. From The Pony Engine by Mabel C. Bragg, copyright by George C. Doran & Co. Used by permission of Platt & Munk, Publishers, a division of Grosset & Dunlap, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc. From Incredible Ned by William H. Maynard. Copyright © 1997 by Bill H. Maynard. Used by permission of G.P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.