Companion Thread: Name your all-time three favorite children’s book, in order. No more than three, please

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Corduroy is a perennial favorite, as is the sequel “A Pocket for Corduroy”.

I also liked the Richard Scarry “Cars and Trucks and Things that Go” (really anything Richard Scarry) and “No, David” by David Shannon.

Runners up - “Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site” by Rinker & Lichtenfeld, and “I STINK!” by Kate and Jim McMillan. “Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel” by Virginia Burton and anything by Sandra Boynton, especially “Pajama Time” and “Calm Down, Boris” by Sam Lloyd.

All great little kid books.

(you never said the books have to be for big children!)

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A Hole is to Dig
The Little Engine That Could
Alice in Wonderland

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Phantom Tollbooth
One Morning in Maine (My great grandfather appears in the book.)
All the Winnie the Pooh stories.

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Very cool! Did he know McClosky?

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Yeah, Granpa Russ ran basically the only store in the area, also it was the post office, so he knew everyone. The McCloskeys lived on Deere Isle. Oddly, out here in upstate NY, I worked with someone who also knew McCloskey, mowed his lawn even.

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Wind in the Willows (Grahame)
What Do People Do All Day? (Scarry)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Silverstein)

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McCloskey also knew Richard Nixon, who was a passenger on the swan boat in Make Way For Ducklings.