# Recommend some children's books to me.

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**Created:** [November 16, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-childrens-books-to-me/603164 "2011-11-16T20:00:25Z")\
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[Heavenly Horse From the Outermost West](http://www.amazon.ca/Heavenly-Horse-Outermost-West/dp/0671654101) - Mary Stanton

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Definitely agree about the Ramona books. Do those first, then the Henry Huggins and Beezus books to fill in the background. The older ones are a bit creaky - I read Henry Huggins when I was a kid.

Also agree about the Oz books, not stopping with the first one.  
Winnie the Pooh - the real books is great too, as well as Alice in Wonderland.

I read a lot (over 30) of the 1950s - 1960s Nancy Drew books to my daughter. When she got older I read some of the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys joint books, since they are a bit more advanced (people actually get killed in them.) We also read some of the 1930s reissues, but they are a bit racist in spots.

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