A friend is having a baby (gender unknown) and I want to get them 18 books – 1 a year to read to the baby (until the child starts reading them on their own!). Would love to hear your recommendations for any age between 1 and 18!! Tysm:)
by ashley1252
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I don’t know about babies or older kids but I just bought my friend’s 4yo some of Julia Donaldson’s books that help children learn to read – the child was thrilled and loves them.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
For like 4 years old Pumpkin soup by Helen Cooper
7 years old a book by Lindgren, my favorite at that age was Rasmus and the Vagabond, but you could also get Ronja or Mio my son
8 years old The hobbit by Tolkien
9-10-11 you could get the first three books in the Nevermoor series by Jessica Townsend (it’s really good and book 4 comes out in September)
12 years old His dark materials by Pullman (or earlier as well)
13 years old Ender’s Game by Scott Card
14 years old The Murderbot diaries by Martha Wells
15 years old The long way to a small angry Planet
16 A closed and common orbit by Becky chambers
17-18 Scholomance series by Naomi Novik
What a great idea! Since you’re giving them all at one time they should be timeless classics. My suggestions are based on what my kids liked at those ages. My oldest is 18 and currently reading Frankenstein.
Love you Forever by Robert Munsch
Mr. Brown can Moo, can you? by Dr. Seuss
The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton
If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
Junie B. Jones books by Barbara Park
The Magic Treehouse books by Mary Pope Osbourne
Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Ralls
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
A. A. Milne: When We Were Six; Winne the Pooh; House at Pooh Corner
Twain: Tom Sawyer
Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
C. S. Lewis: Narnia series
Go To Bed Fred – Alison Inches
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – Laura Numeroff (there is an entire series of books – If You Give a Moose a Muffin…..)
Pumpkin Jack – Will Hubbell
I bought my friend books from songs – guns & roses, the beetles and Bob Marley. A little break for the parents
**For toddlers to kindergarten age**
*Guess How Much I Love You* by Sam McBratney
*Goodnight Moon* by Margaret Wise Brown
*The Velveteen Rabbit* by Margery Williams
*The Story of Ferdinand* by Munro Leaf
*The Very Hungry Caterpillar* by Eric Carle
**For school aged/pre-teen kids**
*Anne of Green Gables* by Lucy Maud Montgomery
*The Chronicles of Narnia* by C.S. Lewis
*Ella Enchanted* by Gail Carson Levine
*Alice in Wonderland* by Lewis Carroll
*Heidi* by Johanna Spyri
*A Little Princess* by Frances Hodgson Burnett
*The Little Prince* by Antoine de Saint-éxupery
**For teens**
*The Giver* by Lois Lowry
*The Outsiders* by S.E. Hinton
*The Book Thief* by Markus Zusak