Host Tonya Mosley gets a few reading suggestions for kids books from Juanita Giles, founder and executive director of the Virginia Children’s Book Festival.
Juanita Giles’ Book Recommendations:
“The Long Winter” by Laura Ingalls Wilder
“The Don't Worry Book” by Todd Parr
“The Witches” by Roald Dahl
“Rascal” by Sterling North
“Brown Girl Dreaming” by Jacqueline Woodson
“Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir” by Robin Ha
Other Books To Read With Your Kids (And The Whole Family)
“Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads” by Bob Shea, illustrated by Lane Smith
“Walter the Farting Dog” by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray, illustrated by Audrey Colman
“The Velveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams, illustrated by William Nicholson
“A Day No Pigs Would Die” by Robert Newton Peck
“The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Chains” by Laurie Halse Anderson
“The Girl with the Silver Eyes” by Willo Davis Roberts
“President of the Whole Fifth Grade” by Sherri Winston
“The Borrowers” by Mary Norton
“Noonday Friends” by Mary Stolz
“Stella by Starlight” by Sharon M. Draper
“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak
“A High Five for Glenn Burke” by Phil Bildner
“The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton
“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley
“Mythology” by Edith Hamilton
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