Favorite Children's Books?

What are your favorite children's books? Mine's are:

1) The Fool and the Flying Ship by Eric Metaxas
2) The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship by Arthur Ransome
3) Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
4) A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
5) Miss Nelson is Missing! by James Marshall
6) Pat the Beastie by Henrik Drescher
7) John Henry by Brad Kessler
8) Simon's Book by Henrik Drescher
9) Runaway Opposites by Richard Wilbur
10) In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
11) The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
12) The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
13) Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
14) The Firebird by Brad Kessler
15) Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Lorax is fantastic.

Big fan of The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler too.

:-)

1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
2. Corduroy
3. The Giving Tree
4. The Little House
5. There's a Nightmare in My Closet
6. My Little Sister Ate One Hare
7. Bud, Not Buddy
8. The Rainbow Fish
9. Papa Please Get the Moon For Me
10. Millions of Cats

I have too many favorite books to list, but here are a few of my most favorite authors - not necessarily in priority order:

Novels:
1. Jerry Spinelli
2. Louis Sachar
3. Peg Kehret
4. Bill Wallace
5. Mary Downing Hahn

Picture Books:
6. Eve Bunting
7. Patricia Maclachlan
8. Patricia Polacco

My quick top 5:

1. Where the Wild Things Are
2. Treasure Island
3. Charlotte's Web
4. The Secret Garden
5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

I agree, too many, but that's what a favorite collection/tag is for. :) Some of my favorites include (trying to narrow this list down to those I've read many times, though more fit that category and I have many other favorites!)...

Picture books:

The Digging-est Dog - Al Perkins

The House of Four Seasons - Roger Duvoisin

Snuffle to the Rescue - Elisabeth Beresford

The Little Lamb - Judy Dunn

A Good Fish Dinner - Barbara K. Walker

Morris Has a Cold - Bernard Wiseman

Huge Harold - Bill Peet

The Perfect Ride - Lady McCrady

Sam and the Firefly - P. D. Eastman

Novels/other (very difficult to narrow down, again trying to list multiply read though it's not all of them; most are favorites by that author):

The Dream Catcher - Monica Hughes

A Year at Sheepfold Farm - Susan Williams

George's Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl

Blind Flight - Hilary Milton

Who Stole Kathy Young? - Margaret Goff Clark

Princess - Carolyn Lane

R My Name is Rosie - Barbara Cohen

Lassie Come-Home - Eric Knight

Lucy and the Merman - Audrey Brixner

Shadows - Lynn Hall

A Horse Named Doodlebug - Irene Brady

Trina - Patricia Miles Martin

Anna Sewell's 'Black Beauty' - adapted by Jane Carruth

White Ruff - Glenn Balch

My Wolf My Friend - Barbara Corcoran

Laura's Luck - Marilyn Sachs

Baby Island - Carol Ryrie Brink

Mishmash and the Substitute Teacher - Molly Cone

I agree these are excellent: From Anna by Jean Little
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
but don't recall having read the second many, many times, and From Anna I never encountered until an adult. Speaking of which, other favorites discovered later:

Dark Summer - Dorothy K. Aldis

Mine for Keeps - Jean Little

The Silent Spillbills - Tor Seidler

Now You See It... - Vivian Vande Velde

Spillbills I recall I've read at least twice but don't own the book, and the Velde book I read the public library copy twice within a year before obtaining my own copy. Mind you I have heaps of favs. I might have read once or twice that I also intend to read again!

These are a few that pop into my mind. I'll try to limit it to one per author.

Picture Books:

Animalia by Graeme Base
Jillian Jiggs by Phoebe Gilman
Jeremiah Learns to Read by Jo Ellen Bogart
An Undone Fairy Tale by Ian Lendler
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Murmel, Murmel, Murmel by Robert Munsch
Nothing Ever Happens on My Block by Ellen Raskin
Silly Sally by Audrey Wood
Garbage Delight by Dennis Lee

Novels:

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
From Anna by Jean Little
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
The Changeoverby Margaret Mahy
After Candlemas by Ruth M. Arthur
Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken
Mary-Lou at the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis
Alice in Wonderland
Books by Roald Dahl
Percy Jackson series
Hunger games by Suzanne Collins
Harry Potter, of course and in the same vein as the Harry Potter series, the recently released book by Melissa Studdard titled, Six Weeks To Yehidah

Petunia by Roger Duvoisin
No Roses for Harry by Gene Zion
Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown
Anything by Sandra Boynton but especially Moo Baa Lalala
The Joan Walsh Anglund Story Book
Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
Are You My Mother? and Go Dog Go! by PD Eastman
Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Cars and Trucks and Things that Go by Richard Scarry

So many beloved children's books!