The National Education Association's Top 100 Children's Books

An unlikely friendship between Wilbur the pig and Charlotte the spider helps Wilbur become invaluable to his owner.

My kids love this book. We have a great time rolling our "terrible eyes," showing our "terrible teeth," and the like. More important is the point of what home is.

As one reviewer humorously put it, "The Giving Tree gives and gives... a selfish boy takes and takes." All kidding aside, this lovely book's ending is deliberately left vague, leaving room for the reader to draw their own conclusions.

This was the first book I told my parents to "read it again!" ...over and over and over ad nauseum. It'll help your kids learn to love the cadence of the English language. It might even give them the courage to try new foods. You can't go wrong with Dr. Seuss, and this is by far my favorite.

Before my daughters could speak in complete sentences, they could respond to the line "And a quiet old lady who was whispering..." with a lingering "hush..."

This humorous, touching story of the love between a mother and her son leaves no dry eyes in its wake.

Inspiring and empowering. A book every child should read, or have read to them.

The little house is a great illustration of the old saying "be careful what you wish for." As a young house, surrounded by nature and filled with the love of a family, the little house longed to see the big city. Slowly, the glow in the distance approaches, the city comes closer and closer, until the little house finds itself alone and surrounded by the tall buildings, noise and pollution of the big city, and longing to be out in the country again.

One of my all time favorites... especially the set that includes the book on tape. I've officially now listened to it — while I flip the pages — more times than my grandsons. Shhh, I sneak peeks between their visits. The illustrations and the story awaken the child within me: I'm on the train (can't you hear its chugging pace?), I'm searching for my ticket, I'm watching out the windows, cold nose pressed against the glass... it's as if the writer gives the train full of growing children one last heart-spinning visit to make-believe, before they are pressed to grow up. All aboard!