Dana's Rec Room: 25 Picture Books

Recommended titles from children's-book expert Dana Gaskin Wenig

Flat Stanley (the original), by Jeff Brown

Stellaluna, by Jannell Cannon

Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney

Jabari Jumps, by Gaia Cornwall

Fairy Tales, by E. E. Cummings

Garfield (comic series), by Jim Davis

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, by Mem Fox

Corduroy, by Don Freeman

Millions of Cats, by Wanda Gág

Stormy, by Goujing

The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats

The Owl and the Pussycat, by Edward Lear 

Frog and Toad, by Arnold Lobel

Owl at Home, by Arnold Lobel

In a Jar, by Deborah Marcero

Shy Willow, by Cat Min

Little Bear, by Else Holmelund Minarik

Thunder Cake, by Patricia Palacco

The Bee Tree, by Patricia Palacco

Rechenka’s Eggs, by Patricia Palacco

Caps for Sale, by Esphyr Slobodkina

The Bear That Wasn’t, by Frank Tashlin

Putting the World to Sleep, by Shelley Moore Thomas

The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams

Nurse Lugton’s Curtain, by Virginia Woolf