A list from Anita Silveys Book 100 Best Books for Children:

A Parents Guide to Making the Right Choices for Your Young Reader, Toddler to Preteen
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Books 1-5 [board books]: birth to age 2
Books 6-33 [picture books]: ages 2 to 8
Books 34-37 [books for beginning readers]: ages 5 to 7
Books 38-51 [books for young readers]: ages 7-9
Books 52-88 [books for middle readers]: ages 8-11
Books 89-100 [books for older readers]: ages 11-12
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Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown

Mr. Gumpy's Outing Board Book, by John Burningham
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (MINIATURE EDITION), by Eric Carle
Freight Train Board Book (Caldecott Collection)
The Carrot Seed Board Book, by Ruth Krauss
Miss Nelson Is Missing!, by Harry Allard
Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans
"The Snowman (Step-Into-Reading, Step 1) ", by Raymond Briggs
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton
Millions of Cats (Gift Edition) (Picture Puffin Books), by Wanda Gag
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, by Kevin Henkes
Swamp Angel, by Anne Isaacs
The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats
Leo the Late Bloomer, by Robert Kraus
The Story of Ferdinand (Reading Railroad Books), by Munro Leaf
John Henry (Picture Puffins), by Julius Lester
Swimmy (Knopf Children's Paperbacks), by Leo Lionni
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by Bill Martin Jr.
Snowflake Bentley, by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Make Way for Ducklings (Picture Puffins)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Potter), by Beatrix Potter
Officer Buckle & Gloria (Caldecott Medal Book), by Peggy Rathmann
Curious George (Curious George), by H. A. Rey
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, by Jon Scieszka
Where the Wild Things Are
"Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business "
Doctor De Soto (A Sunburst Book)
The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg
"Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day ", by Judith Viorst
Tuesday, by David Wiesner
A Chair for My Mother 25th Anniversary Edition (Reading Rainbow Books), by Vera B. Williams
Seven Blind Mice (Reading Railroad), by Ed Young
? Harry the Dirty Dog, by Gene Zion
Frog and Toad Are Friends (I Can Read Book 2), by Arnold Lobel
Little Bear (An I Can Read Book), by Elsa Holmelund Minarik
Henry And Mudge First Book, by Cynthia Rylant
The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss
Ramona the Pest (Ramona Quimby), by Beverly Cleary
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics), by Eleanor Coerr
Morning Girl, by Michael Dorris
The Hundred Dresses, by Eleanor Estes
My Father's Dragon (My Father's Dragon Trilogy (Paperback)), by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Stone Fox, by John Reynolds Gardiner
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Fairy Tale by the Brothers Grimm (Little Pebbles), by Jacob Grimm
Misty of Chincoteague, by Marguerite Henry
Babe: The Gallant Pig (Babe), by Dick King-Smith
Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy Books), by Maud Hart Lovelace
"Sarah, Plain and Tall ", by Patricia MacLachlan
The New Kid on the Block, by Jack Prelutsky

A list from Anita Silveys Book 100 Best Books for Children:
A Parents Guide to Making the Right Choices for Your Young Reader, Toddler to Preteen
50 Grandfather's Journey, by Allen Say
51 Little House in the Big Woods Book and Charm (Charming Classics), by Laura Ingalls Wilder
52 The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
53 The Incredible Journey, by Sheila Burnford
54 The Dark is Rising (The Dark is Rising Sequence), by Susan Cooper
55 The BFG, by Roald Dahl
56 Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
57 Half Magic, by Edward Eager
58 Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh
59 Lincoln: A Photobiography (Houghton Mifflin social studies), by Russell Freedman
60 Julie of the Wolves (rack), by Jean Craighead George
61 The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics), by Kenneth Grahame
62 The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, by Virginia Hamilton
63 ? Redwall, by Brian Jacques
64 The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
65 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg
66 Rabbit Hill (Puffin Modern Classics), by Robert Lawson
67 A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet), by Madeleine L'Engle
68 "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) ", by C. S. Lewis
69 Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren
70 In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, by Bette Bao Lord
71 The New Way Things Work, by David Macaulay
72 Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition), by A. A. Milne
73 Anne of Green Gables (Modern Library Classics), by L.M. Montgomery
74 The Great Fire, by Jim Murphy
75 Rascal (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics), by Sterling North
76 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Aladdin Fantasy), by Robert C. O'Brien
77 Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell
78 Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
79 Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen
80 Tom's Midnight Garden, by Philippa Pearce
81 The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics), by Ellen Raskin
82 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1), by J.K. Rowling
83 Holes (Readers Circle), by Louis Sachar
84 The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends), by George Selden
85 The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
86 Mary Poppins (Odyssey Classics), by Dr. P. L. Travers
87 Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery), by E. B. White
88 The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi
89 Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt
90 Behind the Attic Wall (Avon Camelot Books), by Sylvia Cassedy
91 "Catherine, Called Birdy (Trophy Newbery) ", by Karen Cushman
92 Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes
93 Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
94 Out Of The Dust, by Karen Hesse
95 "A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1) ", by Ursula K. Le Guin
96 The Giver, by Lois Lowry
97 "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry ", by Mildred D. Taylor
98 The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
99 Homecoming (Tillerman Series), by Cynthia Voigt
100 Humbug Mountain, by Sid Fleischman